[math-ias] Reminder: TODAY Informal HET Seminar at IAS - Mario Martone - 1:45 PM

[Lisa Fleischer]

*Informal High Energy Theory Seminar, **Thursday, December 8, 2016

“Understanding the Landscape of N=2 Superconformal Field Theories”

* Location: Bloomberg Hall Physics Library

Time: 1:45 PM

Speaker(s): Mario Martone, Cornell University

*Description:* In this talk I will argue that a systematic 
classification of 4d N=2 superconformal field theories is possible 
through a careful analysis of the geometry of their Coulomb branches. I 
will carefully describe this general framework and then carry out the 
classification explicitly in the rank-1, that is one complex dimensional 
Coulomb branch, case. We find that the landscape of rank-1 theories is 
still largely unexplored and make a strong case for the existence of 
many new rank-1 SCFTs, almost doubling the number of theories already 
known in the literature. The existence of 4 of them has been recently 
confirmed using alternative methods and others have an enlarged N=3, 
supersymmetry.

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Lisa Fleischer
Academic Assistant
School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-734-8215
lisa at ias.edu

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