Seminars & Lectures
| * TITLE | An introduction to Matrix Models and AGT conjecture. | ||||||
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| * DATE / TIME | 2013-03-20, 11am, 503 conference room | ||||||
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| Matrix models combine powerful computation techniques with a wide range of applications in physics and in mathematics. This introductory talk provides a short overview of the field, and present the main methods employed to solve the models. In a second part, the duality uncovered by Alday, Gaiotto and Tachikawa in 2009 is briefly reviewed. This unexpected connection between N=2 4d SUSY gauge theories and 2d conformal field theories is driving rapid progress in our understanding of non-perturbative QFTs. Finally, I will explain how (generalized) matrix models naturally fit into this framework and how they may be employed to derive concrete results. |
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