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# Topics in High-Energy Physics

## Started June '15

The purpose of this seminar is to familiarize its participants with developments in high-energy theory that have taken place over the last twenty years. Topics to be covered include: the AdS/CFT correspondence, D$$p$$-branes and geometric engineering, supersymmetric gauge theories, and dualities.

Each meeting will go on for an hour and a half. We meet (almost) every Thursday at 6:00 PM in Room 117.

### Talks

 Date Speaker Topic 4th November M $$\mathcal{N} =1$$ Theories 7th October Debangshu Mukherjee T-Duality for Open Strings and Gauge Fields in Compact Directions 23th September Debangshu Mukherjee T-Duality for Closed Strings 14th September Debangshu Mukherjee Introduction to D-Branes 2nd September M Seiberg-Witten: Instantons and the Elliptic Curve Solution 26st August Renjan John Monodromies And Massless States 21st August Renjan John Moduli Space and S-Duality II 7th August Pinaki Banerjee Witten's Prescription 29th July Pinaki Banerjee AdS Spaces 20th July Pinaki Banerjee Maldacena's Decoupling Argument: $$\mathcal{N}=4$$ SYM in Dimension Four and IIB Strings in $$\mathrm{AdS}_5 \times S^5$$ 16th July Pinaki Banerjee Review: Dualities in Field and String Theories 10th July Renjan John Moduli Space and S-Duality I 2th July Renjan John $$\mathcal{N} =2$$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory: The Action 4th June Renjan John $$\mathcal{N} =1$$ Superspace: Chiral and Vector Superfields