senior research fellow
theoretical physics group
institute of mathematical sciences
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.
| 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 |