This proseminar in Theoretical Physics is coordinated by Prof. Matthias Gaberdiel
The proseminar presentations will be on mondays. Date and time of the talks can be found further down (see table).
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).
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).
Topics |
Talk | Student | Tutor |
PART I Conformal Field Theory |
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The conformal group in various dimensions [B] |
4 March / 10.00 |
Henrik Dreyer |
Andrey Lebedev |
Basic properties of CFTs and examples [B] |
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] |
11 March / 10.00 |
Paolo Molignini |
Sebastian Schmidt |
Basics of Lie theory [B] |
11 March / 11.30 |
Andreas Wieser |
Peter Vrana |
WZW models |
11 March / 14.00 |
Julian Kern |
Jawei Mei |
Modular invariance and orbifolds [B] |
18 March / 10.00 |
Stefan Huber |
Martin Fraas |
Fusion Rules and the Verlinde Formula [B] |
25 March / 10.00 |
Stephanie Mayer |
Matthias Gaberdiel |
Boundary conformal field theory |
25 March / 11.30 |
Zhuli He |
Adel Benlagra |
Logarithmic conformal field theory |
8 April / 10.00 |
Fabio D'Ambrosio |
Martin Fraas |
From SLE to conformal field theory |
8 April / 11.30 |
Christoph Müller |
Volkher Scholz |
Entanglement entropy in conformal field theory [B] |
8 April / 14.00 |
Matthias Strodtkötter |
Volkher Scholz |
PART II String Theory |
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Classical String Theory [B] |
15 April / 10.00 |
David Reutter |
Kewang Jin |
Light-cone quantisation of bosonic string [B] |
15 April / 11.30 |
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Kewang Jin |
Low energy effective actions from string theory |
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 |
13 May / 10.00 |
Francesca Ferrari |
Cristian Vergu |
Superstrings |
13 May / 11.30 |
Imre Majer |
Cristian Vergu |
Fibonacci anyons and topological quantum computers [B] |
13 May / 14.00 |
Christos Charalambous |
Alexei Soluyanov |
The Heterotic String |
27 May / 10.00 |
Andrea Ferrari |
Johannes Brödel |
D-branes |
27 May / 11.30 |
Miguel Garcia |
Kewang Jin |
The Gauge/Gravity Correspondence |
27 May / 14.00 |
Kevin Ferreira |
Cristian Vergu |