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. In the context of the seminar, we have included a series of ‘What is...?’-talks.
What is...?
Seminar
- Winter Semester 2024/2025: Separation of Variables
- Summer Semester 2024: Generalized Geometry and Homological Methods
- Winter Semester 2023/2024: Knot Homology
- Summer Semester 2023: Topological symmetries in quantum field theory
- Winter Semester 2022/2023: Vertex operator algebras and topological field theories from twisted QFTs in 3d and 4d
- Summer Semester 2022: Cluster algebras II: Applications in integrable models, geometry and SUSY QFT
- Winter Semester 2021/22: Cluster algebras
- Summer Semester 2021: Stability conditions
- Winter Semester 2020/21: Supersymmetry, geometric structures and twistor space methods
- Summer Semester 2020: Topological phases of matter, matrix product states, and tensor categories
- Winter Semester 2019/20: JT gravity and Mirzakhani's recursion
- Summer Semester 2019: Integrable PDEs, Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and free fermion conformal field theory
- Winter Semester 2018/19: Disc (E_k) algebras in TQFT and SUSY QFT
- Summer Semester 2018: Flat connections and geometric quantisation
- Winter Semester 2017/18: Slightly more advanced topics in conformal field theory
- Summer Semester 2017: Hitchin Systems, Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Wall Crossing
- Winter Semester 2016/17: Conformal field theory
- Summer Semester 2016: Defining Quantum Field Theories
- Winter Semester 2015/16: Global observables in abelian gauge field theories
- Summer Semester 2015: Chern-Simons theory, three-manifold invariants and topological strings
- Winter Semester 2014/15: Non-compact groups, quantum groups, and some applications in TFT and CFT
- Summer Semester 2014: The Hitchin integrable systems
- Winter Semester 2013/14: Quantum groups and integrability
- Summer Semester 2013: Topological Quantum Field Theory and Four- Manifolds
- Winter Semester 2012/13: Hilbert Schemes of Points on Surfaces
- Summer Semester 2012: Equivariant Cohomology and Instanton Counting
- Winter Semester 2011/12: Categories, D-Branes, and Stability
- Summer Semester 2011: Fukaya category and related subjects
- Winter Semester 2010/11: Topological conformal field theory
- Summer Semester 2010: Deformation Theory
- Summer Semester 2009: F-theory
- Winter Semester 2008/09: Renormalization Hopf algebras and combinatorial groups
- Summer Semester 2008: Holonomy groups
- Winter Semester 2007/08: The Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism
- Summer Semester 2007: Differential geometry of supermanifolds
- Winter Semester 2006/07: The geometric Langlands conjecture
- Summer Semester 2006: Special Geometry and Hitchin functionals
- Winter Semester 2005/06: Tensor Categories in Mathematical Physics
- Summer Semester 2005: The Casimir effect; generalized geometry
- Winter Semester 2004/05: Rozansky-Witten invariants and derived categories; T-duality with fluxes and non-commutative tori
- Summer Semester 2004: Spin structures and Morita equivalence; Twisted K-Theory
- Winter Semester 2003/04: Special geometry; nearly Kähler manifolds and their applications in supergravity; Introduction to non-commutative geometry and deformation quantization
- Summer Semester 2003: Quantum mechanics and quantum field theory at finite temperature; Gerbes