The Yangian and 4d gauge theory

RTG Graduate Research Seminar, Fall 2018.

A detailed syllabus can be found here. The seminar occurs on Tuesdays. The location for the seminar will alternate between Room 2-139 at MIT at 4:10 PM and Hastings 118 at Northeastern at 4 PM. For the precise time and location by week see the detailed schedule below.

Schedule

11 September 2018:  Introduction and outline of the seminar. Speaker: Brian Williams. Time/location: 4:30 PM / MIT 2-139.

18 September 2018: An introduction to factorization algebras. Speaker: Brian Williams (notes by Ryan Mickler and Brian). Time/location: 4:10 PM / MIT 2-139.

25 September 2018: Koszul duality and Hopf algebras. Speaker: Yuchen Fu. Time/location: 4:30 PM / Hastings 118 (Northeastern campus map).

2 October 2018: Four-dimensional Chern-Simons theory. Speaker: Daniil Kalinov. Time/location: 4:10 PM / MIT 2-139 .

9 October 2018: An introduction to the classical BV formalism. Speaker: Kai Xu. Time/location: 4:30 PM / Hastings 118 (Northeastern)

16 October 2018: Renormalization and quantum BV. Speaker: Kai Xu. Time/location: 4:10 PM / MIT 2-139.

23 October 2018: The quantum 4d gauge theory and an outline of the proof. Speaker: Brian Williams. Time/location: 4:30 PM / Hastings 118 (Northeastern). Note: Owen Gwilliam will be speaking on quantum groups related to Chern-Simons at Northeastern at 10:30 AM. Our seminar will be the at the usual time/place.

30 October 2018: Filtered Koszul duality. Speaker: Dmytro Matvieievskyi. Time/location: 4:10 PM / MIT 2-139.

6 November 2018: The Yangian quantum group and Drinfeld’s uniqueness theorem. Speaker: Daniil KalinovTime/location: 4:30 PM / Hastings 118 (Northeastern).

13 November 2018: Proof of the main theorem. Speaker: James Ladouce. Time/location: 4:10 PM / MIT 2-139.

20 November 2018: NO SEMINAR

27 November 2018: NO SEMINAR

3 December 2018: R-matrices from four dimensional factorization algebras. Speaker: Brian Williams. Time/location: 4:10 PM / MIT 2-139.