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Joint Math/Physics Seminar

The joint math/physics seminar meets Monday 12:30-13:45 in LGRT 419B with speakers alternating between math and physics. For questions contact Franz Peditinfo-icon (pedit@math.umass.edu). The overall motto for the seminar is best summarized by Galileo Galilei:

    Philosophy is written in that gigantic book which is perpetually open in front of our eyes (I allude to the universe), but no one can understand it who does not strive beforehand to learn the language and recognize the letters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its letters are geometrical figures, and without these means it is humanly impossible to understand any of it; without them, all we can do is to wander aimlessly in an obscure labyrinth.

Date Speaker Title
Mon. 2/13
Ben Heidenreich
UMass Amherst Physics

Quantum field theories, strong coupling, and duality

Wed. 2/22
Ben Heidenreich
UMass Amherst Physics

Quantum field theories, strong coupling, and duality: Introduction Part 2

Mon. 2/27
Ben Heidenreich
Umass Amherst Physics

Quantum field theories, strong coupling, and duality: Introduction Part 2

Mon. 3/6
Bela Nelson
UMass Amherst Math&Stat

An introduction to super Lie algebras and supersymmetry

Tue. 3/7
Niklas Garner
University of Washington

Aspects of 3d N=4 QFT: part I

Wed. 3/8
Niklas Garner
University of Washington

Aspects of 3d N=4 QFT: Part II

Mon. 3/20
Lorenzo Sorbo
UMass Amherst Physics

Supersymmetry: motivation, one simple example, and some implications

Mon. 2/13

Quantum field theories, strong coupling, and duality

Ben Heidenreich
UMass Amherst Physics
Mon. 3/6

An introduction to super Lie algebras and supersymmetry

Bela Nelson
UMass Amherst Math&Stat
Tue. 3/7

Aspects of 3d N=4 QFT: part I

Niklas Garner
University of Washington
Wed. 3/8

Aspects of 3d N=4 QFT: Part II

Niklas Garner
University of Washington