Representation Theory in Mathematics and Physics
Workshop / School
June 4 - 8, 2012
Modern representation theory interacts with many different domains of mathematics and theoretical physics. It provides tools and receives questions and ideas from these disciplines. The core of this workshop is formed by minicourses, accessible to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, given by leading specialists who use representation theory in high energy physics, combinatorics, geometry and topology. There will be exercise/discussion sessions and a few further talks.
The workshop will include the following minicourses:
Niklas Beisert (ETH Zürich):
Quantum Algebra from the AdS/CFT duality
Philippe Di Francesco (CEA, Saclay):
Integrable Combinatorics
David Hernandez (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris):
Quantum affine algebras and categorifications
Valerio Toledano Laredo (Northeastern University, Boston):
Trigonometric connections, Yangians and quantum loop algebras
Vladimir Turaev (Indiana University, Bloomington):
Graded categories and topological quantum field theories
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