ITP Lecture Archive

Proseminar on Conformal Field Theory and String Theory – FS 2013

This proseminar in Theoretical Physics is coordinated by Prof. Matthias Gaberdiel

Times and Location

The proseminar presentations will be on mondays. Date and time of the talks can be found further down (see table).

Organisation

The topics are organized in two main parts: Part I deals with conformal field theory, in particular two-dimensional conformal field theory, while Part II is concerned with string theory. The topics labelled by [B] are more introductory and can also be done by Bachelor students. We have given a preliminary list of suggested references for each topic; for more specific guidance to the literature, please ask your project supervisor (see table below).

Criteria for obtaining a Testat, i.e. passing the module:

Each presentation should last just less than 60 minutes. Students are encouraged to use Keynote or Power Point for their presentation.

Each student has been assigned a research assistant at the Institute (see table below).

The students should contact their respective assistant at least six weeks before their talk to discuss logistics.

They should keep their assistant updated of their work at least once a week.

One week before their talk they are expected to have a draft of their report as well as a finished set of slides which they have to present to their tutor (the report can be handed in later and is not necessary for the talk).

More details can be found here
Topics
Talk

Date / Time
Location:
HPV G5

Student Tutor
PART I
Conformal Field Theory
     
The conformal group in various dimensions [B]

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4 March / 10.00
Henrik Dreyer
Andrey Lebedev
Basic properties of CFTs and examples [B]

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4 March / 11.30
Daniel Herr
Andrey Lebedev
Operator product expansions [B]

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4 March / 14.00
Pascal Debus
Jawei Mei
Statistical Mechanics and minimal models [B]

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11 March / 10.00
Paolo Molignini
Sebastian Schmidt
Basics of Lie theory [B]

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11 March / 11.30
Andreas Wieser
Peter Vrana
WZW models
11 March / 14.00
Julian Kern
Jawei Mei
Modular invariance and orbifolds [B]

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18 March / 10.00
Stefan Huber
Martin Fraas
Fusion Rules and the Verlinde Formula [B]

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25 March / 10.00
Stephanie Mayer
Matthias Gaberdiel
Boundary conformal field theory

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25 March / 11.30
Zhuli He
Adel Benlagra
Logarithmic conformal field theory

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8 April / 10.00
Fabio D'Ambrosio
Martin Fraas
From SLE to conformal field theory

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8 April / 11.30
Christoph Müller
Volkher Scholz
Entanglement entropy in conformal field theory [B]

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8 April / 14.00
Matthias Strodtkötter
Volkher Scholz
PART II
String Theory
     
Classical String Theory [B]

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15 April / 10.00
David Reutter
Kewang Jin
Light-cone quantisation of bosonic string [B]
15 April / 11.30


Kewang Jin
Low energy effective  actions from string theory

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29 April / 10.00
Sam Guns
Marius De Leeuw
Compactifiction on tori and T-duality [B]
29 April / 11.30
Florian Johne
Johannes Brödel
Superconformal Strings

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13 May / 10.00
Francesca Ferrari
Cristian Vergu
Superstrings

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13 May / 11.30
Imre Majer
Cristian Vergu
Fibonacci anyons and topological quantum computers [B]

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13 May / 14.00
Christos Charalambous
Alexei Soluyanov
The Heterotic String

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27 May / 10.00
Andrea Ferrari
Johannes Brödel
D-branes

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27 May / 11.30
Miguel Garcia
Kewang Jin
The Gauge/Gravity Correspondence

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27 May / 14.00
Kevin Ferreira
Cristian Vergu