Start time: June 16, 2016

Ends on:  June 17, 2016

Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Venue: IFT-UNESP

Organizers and Speakers:

• Nathan Berkovits (ICTP-SAIFR & IFT-UNESP, Brazil) – Untwisting the pure spinor formalism
• Vyacheslav Futorny (IME-USP, Brazil) – Gelfand-Tsetlin representation for gl(n)

Speakers:

• Yuly Billig (Carleton U., Canada) – Representation theory of Lie algebra of vector fields on a torus
• Jethro van Ekeren (UFF, Brazil) – Classification and construction of simple vertex algebras
• Laurent Freidel (Perimeter, Canada) – On the non-commutative geometry of compactified string
• Pedram Hekmati (IMPA, Brazil) – D-branes in orientifolds
• Reimundo Heluani (IMPA, Brazil) – On higher 1 point functions on the torus
• Martin Kruczenski (Purdue U., USA) – Wilson loops and minimal area surfaces in hyperbolic space
• Andrei Mikhailov (IFT-UNESP, Brazil) – BV formalism and string amplitudes
• Cristian Ortiz (IME-USP, Brazil) – Morita equivalence of vector bundles
• Pedro Vieira (Perimeter, Canada & ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil) – Bootstrapping massive quantum field theories
• Elizaveta Vishnyakova (IME-USP, Brazil) – Geometrization of graded manifolds
• Jorge Zanelli (CECS, Chile)
• Jian Zhang (IME-USP, Brazil) – Quantum determinants and quantum Pfaffians

Description:

This two-day workshop will include seminars by mathematicians and physicists on topics of mutual interest. It will precede the 31st International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics which will be held in Rio de Janeiro from June 19-25.

There will be no application form for this activity and everyone is welcome to participate. For more information, send email to secretary@ictp-saifr.org .

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Workshop Program: updated on June 15

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VISA Information: Due to the Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro from August 5- 21 some nationalities (USA, Canada, Japan, and Australia) will be exempt from tourist visas from June 1 to September 19, 2016.