Seminar on Arithmetic Geometry and Quantum Field Theory

2020-2021


Organizers: Jeff Harvey and Minhyong Kim; 

Time/Duration: Wednesdays, 20:00 London time, approximately 30 weeks per year; 

The talks are as follows.


Title: Relative Langlands Duality


Title: Background on periods and L-functions


Title: Nonalgebraic attractor points on higher-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds


Title: An introduction to the Langlands correspondence


An Introduction to the Langlands Correspondence, Part II


Title: Symplectic constructions for l-adic local systems and their deformations


Title: Conformal Field Theories with Sporadic Group Symmetry


Title: Algebraic structure of boundary conditions in (T)QFT


Title: Algebraic structure of boundary conditions in (T)QFT, Part II


Title: Arithmetic field theories with finite coefficients


Title: On the rationality of MUMs and 2-functions


Title: Defects, boundaries and monads in Betti quantum geometric Langlands


Title: Physical Discretization and Arithmetic Geometry


Title: Arithmetic Topology and Chiral Algebras


Title: Toward Geometric Foundations for Arithmetic Field Theories


Title: Categorification of the Langlands correspondence and Iwasawa theory


Title: Chern-Simons theory on cylinders and generalized Hamilton-Jacobi actions


Title: Symplectic, or mirrorical, look at the Fargues-Fontaine curve


Title: Quantum modular forms from three-manifolds


Online Mini-Conference on the Geometric Langlands Correspondence

Dates: 13 January to 17 February, 2021

Description/Timeline: This virtual conference will extend over 6 weeks with one talk per week. We will start out with a three-week mini-course by Sam Raskin, Nick Rosenblyum, and Dennis Gaitsgory. This will be followed by lectures by Edward Witten, Edward Frenkel, and David Kazhdan. If you are not on the regular mailing list for the seminar on arithmetic geometry and quantum field theory but would like to attend this conference, write to Minhyong Kim.


The talks are as follows.


Title: Geometric Langlands for l-adic sheaves



Title: Spectral decomposition in geometric Langlands


Title: Automorphic forms as categorical trace


Title: Branes, Quantization, and Geometric Langlands


Title: An analytic version of the Langlands correspondence for complex curves


Title: A proposal of a categorical construction of the algebraic version of L2(BunG)

Date: 17 February, 2021, 18:00 GMT (CHANGE OF TIME!)

Speaker: David Kazhdan (Hebrew)

Materials: Video, Slides


Title: Counting half and quarter BPS states - and their geometric counterparts


Title: Higher Galois closures


Title :Multiple Zeta Values in Deformation Quantization


Title: Modularity of (rational) flux vacua


Title: Conformal blocks and factorisable sheaves


Title: Local geometric Langlands and roots of unity


Title: Factorizable sheaves and local systems of conformal blocks


Title: The Bezrukavnikov-Finkelberg-Schechtman theory from the point of view of Geometric Langlands


Lecture Series at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (Online Seminar)


Talk 1: Operators and higher categories in quantum field theory 

I. A complete mathematical definition of quantum field theory does not yet exist. Following the example of quantum mechanics, I will indicate what a good definition in terms could look like. In this good definition, QFTs are defined in terms of their operator content (including extended operators), and the collection of all operators is required to satisfy some natural properties.

II. After reviewing some classic examples, I will describe the construction of Noether currents and the corresponding extended symmetry operators.

III. One way to build topological extended operators is by "condensing" lower-dimensional operators. The existence of this condensation procedure makes the collection of all topological operators into a semisimple higher category.

IV. Topological operators provide "noninvertible higher-form symmetries". These symmetries assign charges to operators of complementary dimension. This assignment is a version of what fusion category theorists call an "S-matrix".

V. The Tannakian formalism suggests a way to recognize higher gauge theories. It also suggests the existence of interesting higher versions of super vector spaces with more exotic tangential structures.


Talk 2: The Mathematical Foundations of Topological Quantum Computation: Anyons, Braids and Categories


Talk 3: Geometric Eisenstein series and the Fargues-Fontaine curve I, II, III, IV 


Talk 4: A mathematical approach towards Coulomb branches of 3d SUSY gauge theories and related topics


Talk 5: Topics in Field Theory and Topological Phases of Matter