(PAST EVENT)

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst held its first annual Physical Mathematics of Quantum Field Theory Summer School during the week of August 1 - 5, 2022.



Location

Integrative Learning Center, Room S131. You can find a UMass Amherst campus map here.

Speakers

1. Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania - Supermoduli

2. Angela Gibney, University of Pennsylvania - On Vector Bundles of Conformal Blocks on the Moduli Space of Curves from Representations of Vertex Operator Algebras
*Lecture 1: Introduction to the week and moduli of curves
*Lecture 2: Vertex operator algebras
*Lecture 3: Sheaves of coinvariants and their properties
*Lecture 4: Open problems
Lecture notes are available here.

3. Natalie Paquette, University of Washington - Twisted Theories and Koszul Duality

4. Du Pei, University of Southern Denmark and CMSA, Harvard - Invariants of Manifolds from 6d QFTs

Conference Photo

You can find a photo of the praticipants taken at the school here.

Schedule

Schedule available here.

Travel Information

For practical information on travel to UMass to attend the summer school, see here.

Registration

Due to the volume of applications we have reached our maximum capacity, and registration is now closed.

Organizers of the 2022 Summer School:
Chris Elliott: celliott@math.umass.edu
Owen Gwilliam: gwilliam@math.umass.edu
Matteo Lotito: mlotito@umass.edu