Mathematics and applications of branes in string and M-theory

Programme theme

M-theory is an 11-dimensional quantum theory of gravity which, in addition to gravitons and other particle-like excitations, includes extended objects known as membranes and five- branes. Though a complete definition of M-theory is not yet known, it is proposed as a nonperturbative formulation of superstring theory and as such is a compelling candidate for a unified theory of the fundamental particles and forces in Nature. Much has been learned about M-theory through its symmetries and its relation to supergravity and string theory and this has in turn led to important results in superstring theory and quantum gauge theory.

The nature and interactions of branes are key topics in string- and M-theory. Recently, quantum field theories to describe interacting membranes in M-theory have been proposed based on three-algebras and have led to exciting progress. On the phenomenological side, many particle physics models have been constructed using branes. However, key problems in the mathematics of multiple membranes and five-branes, as well as in the use of branes to model the real world, remain unresolved.

The basic themes addressed during the workshop will include:

String/M-theoretic geometry: properties of compactifications, classifications of solutions, dualities and their uses e.g. T-folds and U-folds, fermionic T-dualities and the incorporation of p-form fields to give novel effective geometries.
String/M-theoretic novel algebraic structures: Three-algebras, duality groups and higher exceptional groups such as E₁₀ and E₁₁
Brane physics: Quantisation of branes, field theories for multiple branes and their intersections. Attempts to define a fundamental theory of membranes.
Applications to strongly coupled field theory: The use of brane physics and the associated gauge/gravity duality for applications to strongly coupled systems such as nonperturbative quantum field theories and condensed matter systems etc
Applications to particle physics: The role of string compactifications in string phenomenology, brane constructions of the Standard Model and the combination with supersymmetry breaking.
Applications to Cosmology: The dynamics of branes in order to study early universe cosmology.

International Advisory Committee: Prof. J Harvey (Chicago), Prof. C Hull (Imperial), Prof. D Luest (Munich) and Prof. A Sen (Harish-Chandra)

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Preprints

Title	Year	Programme
A ${\it R}^4$ non-renormalisation theorem in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supergravity Authors: P Tourkine, Pierre Vanhove Download PDF	2011	BSM	21 October 2016
BSM/GCA redux: towards flatspace holography from non-relativistic symmetries Authors: Arjun Bagchi, R Fareghbal Download PDF	2011	BSM	21 October 2016
Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications Authors: BP Dolan, Richard Szabo Download PDF	2011	BSM	21 October 2016

Title

Year

Programme

A ${\it R}^4$ non-renormalisation theorem in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supergravity

Authors: P Tourkine, Pierre Vanhove

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2011

BSM

21 October 2016

BSM/GCA redux: towards flatspace holography from non-relativistic symmetries

Authors: Arjun Bagchi, R Fareghbal

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2011

BSM

21 October 2016

Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications

Authors: BP Dolan, Richard Szabo

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2011

BSM

21 October 2016

Workshops

BSMW01

Seminars

Wednesday 18th January 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Stefan Vandoren Universiteit Utrecht M5 branes, 4d/2d correspondence, and 5D SYM on a torus	Room 1

Thursday 19th January 2012
12:00 to 13:00	Nadav Drukker Imperial College London Generalized quark-antiquark potential of N=4 SYM at weak and strong coupling	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Jens Hoppe KTH - Royal Institute of Technology Fundamental Structures of M(brane) Theory	Room 1

Friday 20th January 2012
12:00 to 13:00	Jan Manschot Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn BPS Invariants of Rational Surfaces	Room 1

Wednesday 25th January 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Borun Chowdhury Universiteit van Amsterdam New instability of non-extremal black holes: spitting out supertubes	Room 1

Thursday 26th January 2012
12:00 to 13:00	Jihye Seo McGill University Singularity structure and massless dyons of pure N = 2, d = 4 theories with SU(r+1) and Sp(2r) gauge groups	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Jeff Harvey University of Chicago Permutation groups, Mock modular forms, K3 surfaces and Moonshine (I)	Room 1

Friday 27th January 2012
12:00 to 13:00	Jeff Harvey University of Chicago Permutation groups, Mock modular forms, K3 surfaces and Moonshine (II)	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Jeff Harvey University of Chicago Permutation groups, Mock modular forms, K3 surfaces and Moonshine (III)	Room 2

Tuesday 31st January 2012
14:00 to 15:00	Shuichi Yokoyama Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Chern-Simons Theories with Vector Matter	Room 2

Wednesday 1st February 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Douglas Smith University of Durham Chern-Simons and ABJM with Boundary	Room 2

Thursday 2nd February 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Seok Kim Seoul National University Instantons and M5-branes	Room 2
14:00 to 15:00	Kimyeong Lee Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) Yangian invariant scattering amplitudes in ABJM theory	Room 2

Tuesday 7th February 2012
12:00 to 13:00	Stephen Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Automorphic forms on SL(3) and higher rank groups	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Bernard Julia ENS - Paris From magics towards a "science" of exceptions	Room 1

Wednesday 8th February 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Jan Gutowski King's College London Novel geometries from supersymmetric near-horizon solutions	Room 1

Thursday 9th February 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Paul Cook King's College London One-dimensional solutions of M-theory	Room 1

Wednesday 15th February 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Eoin O Colgain Universidad de Oviedo Fermionic T-duality	Room 1

Thursday 16th February 2012
11:30 to 12:15	Jeong-Hyuck Park Sogang University Supersymmetric Double Field Theory: Stringy Reformulation of Supergravity	Room 1
14:00 to 14:45	Hadi Godazgar University of Cambridge M-theory dualities and generalised geometry	Room 1
15:00 to 15:45	E_d(d)xR^+ Generalised Geometry and 11D Supergravity	Room 1
16:00 to 17:00	Informal discussion session on generalised geometry	Discussion Room

Friday 17th February 2012
14:00 to 15:00	Ling Bao Chalmers University of Technology Gauge theory duality from M-theory and topological vertex	Room 1

Tuesday 21st February 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Masahito Yamazaki Princeton University Z[3d gauge theory]=Z[3-manifold]	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Sara Pasquetti Queen Mary University of London Factorization of N=2 theories partition functions on the squashed 3-sphere	Room 1

Wednesday 22nd February 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Pierre Vanhove IHES Automorphic properties of string theory amplitudes in various dimensions	Room 1

Thursday 23rd February 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Andreas Ronnie Gustafsson Seoul National University Enhanced ${\cal N}=8$ Supersymmetry of three-algebra ABJM Theory	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Christian Saemann Heriot-Watt University M-branes and loop spaces	Room 1

Wednesday 29th February 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Neil Barclay Copland Sogang University Double sigma models and double field theory	Room 1

Thursday 1st March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Costis Papageorgakis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey M2/M5 systems and 5d SYM	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Fluid-Gravity Duality at a Cutoff Surface	Room 1

Friday 2nd March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Richard Szabo Heriot-Watt University Instantons and Curve Counting	Room 1
15:00 to 16:00	Alessandro Tomasiello University of Milan - Bicocca Generalized structures of ten-dimensional supersymmetric solutions	Room 1

Tuesday 6th March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Yutaka Matsuo University of Tokyo A Non-Abelian Self-Dual Gauge Theory in 5+1 Dimensions	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Vijay Balasubramanian University of Pennsylvania Momentum space entanglement and renormalization in quantum field theory	Room 1

Wednesday 7th March 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Olaf Hohm Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München A geometry of non-geometric fluxes	Room 1

Thursday 8th March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Costas Bachas Laboratoire de Physique Théorique ENS AdS4/CFT3 and Quasi-localization of Gravity	Room 1
14:30 to 15:30	Martin Cederwall Chalmers University of Technology Searching for U-duality supermultiplets	Room 1

Tuesday 13th March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Amplitudes for Fivebranes	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Axel Kleinschmidt Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Potsdam Infinite discrete symmetries near singularities and modular forms	Room 1

Wednesday 14th March 2012
14:00 to 15:00	Bernard de Wit Universiteit Utrecht The 4D/5D connection, black holes and higher-derivative couplings	Room 1
18:30 to 19:30	String Theory, Duality and Art	Room 1

Thursday 15th March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Filippo Passerini Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin A review of localisation, moving to localisation in 5d theories (Journal Club)	Room 1

Tuesday 20th March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Daniel Louis Jafferis Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Supersymmetric sphere partition functions in three dimensions	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Shiroman Prakash Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Chern-Simons Vector Models	Room 1

Wednesday 21st March 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Michael Gutperle University of California, Los Angeles Holographic description of boundary and interface CFTs	Room 1

Thursday 22nd March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	James Sparks University of Oxford Gravity duals of supersymmetric gauge theories on curved manifolds	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Eric Bergshoeff University of Groningen New Results on Massive Gravity	Room 1

Tuesday 27th March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Fabio Riccioni INFN, Roma La Sapienza Branes and wrapping rules	Room 2
14:00 to 15:00	Anirban Basu Harish-Chandra Research Institute Supersymmetry constraints on the R^4 multiplet in type IIB on T^2	Room 2

Wednesday 28th March 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Francesco Benini Stony Brook University M2-branes at toric Calabi-Yau 4-fold singularities	Room 1

Thursday 29th March 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Uplifting the vacuum in Heterotic M theory	Room 2
14:00 to 15:00	Douglas Lundholm Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen) Zero-energy states in supermembrane matrix models	Room 2

Friday 30th March 2012
16:00 to 17:00	Chong-Sun Chu Durham University Nonabelian action of M5-branes	Room 1

Thursday 5th April 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Tomohisa Takimi Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Studies of the Nambu-brancket M5-brane theory	Room 2
16:00 to 17:00	Superstring perturbation theory revisited - a special Teleconference seminar	Room 1

Tuesday 10th April 2012
14:00 to 15:00	Måns Henningson Chalmers University of Technology (2,0) theory on (singular) circle fibrations	Room 2
16:00 to 17:00	Stefano Bolognesi Hebrew University of Jerusalem N^3 and Junctions in 6D (2,0) Theories	Room 2

Wednesday 11th April 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Superconformal models in six dimensions	Room 2

Thursday 12th April 2012
14:00 to 15:00	Harvendra Singh Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Uplifting 5D SYM to 6D and M5-branes	Room 2
16:00 to 17:00	Martin Wolf University of Surrey Contact instantons and twistor geometry	Room 2

Friday 13th April 2012
09:30 to 10:15	Paul Heslop University of Durham The correlator of four stress-tensor multiplets in N=4 SYM: Part 1. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS)	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:15 to 11:00	Vanishing superconformal indices and chiral symmetry breaking. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS)	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:15	The correlator of four stress-tensor multiplets in N=4 SYM: Part 2. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS)	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:15 to 13:00	Conformal Regge theory. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS)	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:00 to 14:45	Bootstrapping the N=2 superconformal index. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS)	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:45 to 15:30	Massimo Bianchi Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Higher spins, strings and holography. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS)	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:00 to 16:45	Elliptic hypergeometric integrals and superconformal indices. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS)	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:45 to 17:30	Conformal partial waves. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS)	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Tuesday 24th April 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Finn Larsen University of Michigan A CFT dual of General Black Holes	Room 1

Wednesday 25th April 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Koji Hashimoto RIKEN The Holographic Nucleus	Room 1
16:00 to 17:00	Sav Sethi University of Chicago The conformal anomaly of M5 branes	Room 1

Thursday 26th April 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Dmitri Sorokin Università degli Studi di Padova BLG model and M5-branes	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Chris Hull Imperial College London Double Field Theory and Duality	Room 1

Monday 30th April 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Kimyeong Lee Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) 5d Superconformal Index with Enhanced E-type Global Symmetry	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya University of Tokyo Soliton stars as holographic confined Fermi liquids	Room 1

Tuesday 1st May 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Diego Hofman Harvard University Solipsism in the dS static patch	Room 1

Wednesday 2nd May 2012
11:30 to 12:30	José Figueroa-O'Farrill University of Edinburgh Homogeneous M2 duals	Room 1

Thursday 3rd May 2012
13:00 to 14:00	Andrew Strominger Harvard University Progress in dS/CFT	Room 1

Tuesday 8th May 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Rajesh Gopakumar Harish-Chandra Research Institute Triality in Minimal Model Holography	Room 1

Wednesday 9th May 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Engineering Holographic Graphene	Room 1
16:00 to 17:00	Mukund Rangamani Durham University The Dirichlet problem in AdS and beyond	Room 1

Thursday 10th May 2012
14:00 to 15:00	5d gauge theories and AdS/CFT	Room 1

Monday 14th May 2012
14:00 to 15:00	Spenta Wadia Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Solving Chern-Simons theory with vector matter in the large N limit	Room 1

Tuesday 15th May 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Jerome Gauntlett Imperial College London Spatially modulated phases in AdS/CFT	Room 1

Wednesday 16th May 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Counting and construction of D-brane quantum states in AdS/CFT	Room 1

Thursday 17th May 2012
14:00 to 15:00	Cusp anomalous dimension in N=4 super Yang-Mills from integrability	Room 1

Tuesday 22nd May 2012
11:00 to 12:00	Ergin Sezgin Texas A&M University Superconformal field theories in 6D with non-abelian tensor-Yang-Mills couplings	Room 1

Wednesday 23rd May 2012
11:30 to 12:30	David Tong University of Cambridge Optical Conductivity from a Holographic Lattice	Room 1

Thursday 24th May 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Veronika Hubeny Durham University CFT probes of bulk geometry	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Michela Petrini Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris Generalised Geometry for non-relativistic backgrounds	Room 1

Friday 25th May 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Chrisopher Pope University of Cambridge AdS and Lifshitz Black Holes in Conformal and Einstein-Weyl Gravity	Room 1

Wednesday 6th June 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Marcus Berg Karlstad University Quantum Orientifold Effective Actions	Room 1

Thursday 7th June 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Radu Tatar University of Liverpool Yukawa Couplings in F-Theory Compactifications	Room 1

Tuesday 12th June 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Arthur Hebecker Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Fluxbrane Inflation and Moduli Stabilisation	Room 1

Wednesday 13th June 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Clifford Burgess Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Good things from brane back-reaction	Room 1

Thursday 14th June 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Gordon Kane University of Michigan String theory, the Higgs boson, Dark Matter and the LHC	Room 1

Wednesday 20th June 2012
11:30 to 12:30	Joseph Conlon University of Oxford On Transplanckian Excursions in de Sitter Space	Room 1

Mathematics and applications of branes in string and M-theory

Organisers

David Berman Queen Mary University of London
Joseph Conlon University of Oxford
Neil Lambert King's College London
Sunil Mukhi Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Fernando Quevedo Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Speakers

Costas Bachas Laboratoire de Physique Théorique ENS
Vijay Balasubramanian University of Pennsylvania
Ling Bao Chalmers University of Technology
Anirban Basu Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Francesco Benini Stony Brook University
Marcus Berg Karlstad University
Eric Bergshoeff University of Groningen
Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya University of Tokyo
Massimo Bianchi Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Stefano Bolognesi Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Clifford Burgess Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Martin Cederwall Chalmers University of Technology
Borun Chowdhury Universiteit van Amsterdam
Chong-Sun Chu Durham University
Joseph Conlon University of Oxford
Paul Cook King's College London
Neil Barclay Copland Sogang University
Bernard de Wit Universiteit Utrecht
Nadav Drukker Imperial College London
José Figueroa-O'Farrill University of Edinburgh
Jerome Gauntlett Imperial College London
Hadi Godazgar University of Cambridge
Rajesh Gopakumar Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Andreas Ronnie Gustafsson Seoul National University
Jan Gutowski King's College London
Michael Gutperle University of California, Los Angeles
Jeff Harvey University of Chicago
Koji Hashimoto RIKEN
Arthur Hebecker Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Måns Henningson Chalmers University of Technology
Paul Heslop University of Durham
Diego Hofman Harvard University
Olaf Hohm Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jens Hoppe KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Veronika Hubeny Durham University
Chris Hull Imperial College London
Daniel Louis Jafferis Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Bernard Julia ENS - Paris
Gordon Kane University of Michigan
Seok Kim Seoul National University
Axel Kleinschmidt Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Potsdam
Finn Larsen University of Michigan
Kimyeong Lee Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Douglas Lundholm Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
Jan Manschot Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn
Yutaka Matsuo University of Tokyo
Stephen Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Eoin O Colgain Universidad de Oviedo
Costis Papageorgakis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jeong-Hyuck Park Sogang University
Sara Pasquetti Queen Mary University of London
Filippo Passerini Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Michela Petrini Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris
Chrisopher Pope University of Cambridge
Shiroman Prakash Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Mukund Rangamani Durham University
Fabio Riccioni INFN, Roma La Sapienza
Christian Saemann Heriot-Watt University
Jihye Seo McGill University
Sav Sethi University of Chicago
Ergin Sezgin Texas A&M University
Harvendra Singh Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Douglas Smith University of Durham
Dmitri Sorokin Università degli Studi di Padova
James Sparks University of Oxford
Andrew Strominger Harvard University
Richard Szabo Heriot-Watt University
Tomohisa Takimi Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Radu Tatar University of Liverpool
Alessandro Tomasiello University of Milan - Bicocca
David Tong University of Cambridge
Stefan Vandoren Universiteit Utrecht
Pierre Vanhove IHES
Spenta Wadia Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Martin Wolf University of Surrey
Masahito Yamazaki Princeton University
Shuichi Yokoyama Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

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Mathematics and applications of branes in string and M-theory

Programme theme

Preprints

A ${\it R}^4$ non-renormalisation theorem in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supergravity

BSM/GCA redux: towards flatspace holography from non-relativistic symmetries

Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications

Workshops

Mathematical aspects of string and M-theory

Recent advances in scattering amplitudes

Condensed matter, black holes and holography

Branes and black holes (a London satellite meeting)

String phenomenology 2012

Seminars

Organisers

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Mathematics and applications of branes in string and M-theory

Programme theme

Preprints

A ${\it R}^4$ non-renormalisation theorem in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supergravity

BSM/GCA redux: towards flatspace holography from non-relativistic symmetries

Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications

Workshops

Mathematical aspects of string and M-theory

Recent advances in scattering amplitudes

Condensed matter, black holes and holography

Branes and black holes (a London satellite meeting)

String phenomenology 2012

Seminars

Organisers

Speakers

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