Mathematics/Physics Seminar 2000-2001




The Mathematics / Physics seminar at the University of Pennsylvania is held
every Wednesday from 2:00 p.m. to 3 p.m. in room 4C4, David Rittenhouse Laboratory.


Seminars


September 20: M. Douglas, Rutgers University D-Branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds


September 27: T. Lubensky, U. Penn Topological Defects in Condensed Matter.


October 4: M. Stern, Duke University A bound state update.


October 11: S. Gukov, Caltech String compactification of Calabi-Yau fourfolds.


October 18: R. Plesser, Duke University D-branes, Discrete Torsion, and the McKay Correspondence.


October 25: D.E. Diaconescu , I.A.S. Topological aspects of M theory.


November 1: E. Zaslow, NorthWestern U. Geometry of the mirror symmetry functor.


November 8: I. M. Singer , M.I.T. Hermitian line bundles in string theory. The talk is canceled due to illness.


November 15: D. Freed, University of Texas-Austin K-theory and the Green-Schwarz mechanism.


November 29: B. Andreas, Harvard University D-branes on elliptic Calabi-Yau and Mirror symmetry The talk is canceled due to illness.


January 24: J. Distler , U. of Texas at Austin Torsion D-branes in Nontopological Phases


January 31: B. Mc Coy , SUNY at Stony Brook


February 1, 9 AM, 4C8: R. Brylinski , Penn State U. Equivariant quantization of cotangent bundles.

(Supported by the Penn School of Arts and Sciences Trustees' Women's Council's Fund to Encourage Women.)


February 13, 2N36, 1:45-2:45, E. Sharpe, Duke U. Recent developments in string orbifolds.

Special High Energy Theory seminar. Note different time and location.


February 21: R. Pandharipande, Caltech Some question on cycles on the moduli space of curves.


February 28: P. R. Horja, I.A.S Derived category automorphisms from mirror symmetry.

The talk is canceled due to illness.


March 7: B. Acharya

The Physics and Mathematics of Special Holonomy Manifolds:
Higher Dimensional Gauge Theory and Mirror Symmetry.


April 11: C. Bartocci, Universita' di Genova Fourier Mukai transform and Hyperkaehler geometry.


April 18: P. Aspinwall, Duke University The Derived Category and Zero-Brane Stability





A Math/Physics collaboration (workshop at ITP/USCB).




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