Seminar Quantum Physics and Geometry

The seminar takes place biweekly on Thursdays at 2pm before the colloquium. The location alternates between the DESY and the Geomatikum.

Topics

• Summer term 2013: Topological Quantum Field Theory and Four- Manifolds
  
  
• Winter term 2012/13: Hilbert Schemes of Points on Surfaces
  
  
• Summer term 2012: Equivariant Cohomology and Instanton Counting
  
  
• Winter term 2011/12: Categories, D-Branes, and Stability
  
  
• Summer term 2011: Fukaya category and related subjects
  
  
• Winter term 2010/11: Topological conformal field theory
  
  
• Summer term 2010: Deformation Theory
  
  
• Summer term 2009: F-theory
  
  
• Winter term 2008/09: Renormalization Hopf algebras and combinatorial groups
  
  
• Summer term 2008: Holonomy groups
  
  
• Winter term 2007/08: The Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism
  
  
• Summer term 2007: Differential geometry of supermanifolds
  
  
• Winter term 2006/07: The geometric Langlands conjecture
  
  
• Summer term 2006: Special Geometry and Hitchin functionals
  
  
• Winter term 2005/06: Tensor Categories in Mathematical Physics
  
  
• Summer term 2005: The Casimir effect; generalized geometry
  
  
• Winter term 2004/05: Rozansky-Witten invariants and derived categories; T-duality with fluxes and non-commutative tori
  
  
• Summer term 2004: Spin structures and Morita equivalence; Twisted K-Theory
  
  
• Winter term 2003/04: Special geometry; nearly Kähler manifolds and their applications in supergravity; Introduction to non-commutative geometry and deformation quantization
  
  
• Summer term 2003: Quantum mechanics and quantum field theory at finite temperature; Gerbes