M-Theory and Mathematics: Classical and Quantum Apects
The interaction between mathematics and physics has been increasingly thriving, leading to novel discoveries and perspectives. A deep goal of theoretical physics is to unify the four fundamental forces of nature, described by quantum field theory and general relativity. Einstein spent many years on this quest. While his attempts were not successful, his pursuit was certainly worthwhile and the mantle is being carried today by researchers from modern perspectives. Interestingly, mathematics has been playing an increasingly important role in this quest, allowing to probe deeper by studying emerging structures, classical and quantum.
Title: D-instanton amplitudes in string theory
Speaker: Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Institute, India)
Title: A non-Lorentzian View of the M5-brane
Speaker: Neil Lambert (Kings College, UK)
Title: Universal accelerating cosmologies from 10d supergravity
Speaker: Dimitrios Tsimpis (University of Lyon, France)
Day 2 - January 13, 2023
Title: T-duality for loop spaces, or equivalently for the 1D sigma model
Speaker: Varghese Mathai (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Title: Graded T-duality with H-flux for 2d sigma models
Speaker: Fei Han, National University of Singapore
Title: Geometric and Non-Geometric T-duality with Higher Bundles
Speaker: Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland)
Title: Exact Renormalisation Group and statistical Inference
Speaker: David Berman (Queen Mary University of London)
Title: Machine-Learning Mathematical Structures
Speaker: Yang-Hui He (University of Oxford)
Title: An introduction to decomposition
Speaker: Eric Sharpe, Virginia Tech University
Day 3 - January 14, 2023
Title: D-branes and doubled geometry
Speaker: Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland)
Title: Charges and Duality in Gravity
Speaker: Chris Hull (Imperial College London)
Title: Correspondences of Quantum L-infinity Algebras (BV-theories)
Speaker: Branislav Jurco (Charles University, Prague )
Title: Matrix Quantization of Classical Nambu Brackets and Super p-Branes
Speaker: Meer Ashwinkumar (The University of Tokyo)
Title: Non-invertible symmetry, holography and branes
Speaker: Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Day 4 - January 15, 2023
Title: M-theory and matter via twisted equivariant differential (TED) K-theory
Speaker: Hisham Sati (New York University, Abu Dhabi)
Title: Topological Quantum Gates from M-Theory
Speaker: Urs Schreiber (New York University, Abu Dhabi)
Title: The E_k symmetry of dimensional reductions of M-theory
Speaker: Alexander Voronov (University of Minnesota, USA)
Title: Exceptional super Yang-Mills in 27 + 3 and worldvolume M-theory
Speaker: Alessio Marrani (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
Title: Derived n-plectic geometry: towards non-perturbative BV-BFV quantisation and M-theory
Speaker: Luigi Alfonsi (University of Hertfordshire, UK)