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Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna
| Geometric Langlands duality and physics |
| Speaker: | Karl-Georg Schlesinger (University of Vienna) |
| Abstract: | We review the approach to the geometric Langlands program for algebraic curves via S-duality of an N=4 supersymmetric four dimensional gauge theory, initiated by Kapustin and Witten in 2006. We sketch some of the central further developments. Placing this four dimensional gauge theory into a six dimensional framework, as advocated by Witten, holds the promise to lead to a formulation which makes geometric Langlands duality a manifest symmetry (like coavariance in differential geometry). Furthermore, it leads to an approach toward geometric Langlands duality for algebraic surfaces, reproducing and extending the recent results of Braverman and Finkelberg. |
| Date: | Tue, 04.05.2010 |
| Time: | 12:30 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th Floor, Large Seminar Room |
| Contact: | Theo Adaktylos, David Burke, Andreas Gabriel, Niklas Johansson & Christoph Spengler |
| Modulare Lokalisierung in der Quantenfeldtheorie, II |
| Speaker: | Bernhard Reiter (Univ. Wien) (Fakultät für Physik) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen des Seminars für Mathematische Physik |
| Date: | Tue, 04.05.2010 |
| Time: | 14:15 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Erwin Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock |
| Contact: | J. Yngvason |
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