2024 Les Houches Summer School: Quantum Geometry
Summer course on Quantum Geometry at Les Houches: Courses on Mathematical Methods for Gravity, Gauge Theories and Non-Perturbative Physics.
- Chern-Simons theory
- BPS geometry
- Gauge Theory and Quantum Geometry
- Topological strings
Program
Mathematical Methods (29 Jul > 02 Aug)
- I. Aniceto (U Southampton)
Introduction to resurgence and applications - M. Bertola (Concordia)
Riemann surfaces and Theta functions - V. Bouchard (U Alberta)
Topological recursion - A. Giacchetto (ETHZ) and D. Lewański (U Trieste)
Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
Gravity (05 > 09 Aug)
- C. Johnson (UCSB)
2D gravity and matrix models - C.-C. M. Liu (Columbia)
A-model topological string theory - G. J. Turiaci (U Washington)
Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity
Gauge Theories (12 > 16 Aug)
- S. Gukov (Caltech)
Chern–Simons theory - A. Neitzke (Yale)
BPS geometry - N. Nekrasov (Stony Brook)
Gauge theory invitation to quantum geometry
Non-Perturbative Physics (19 > 23 Aug)
- K. Iwaki (U Tokyo)
Exact WKB method and Painlevé equation - L. Hollands (Heriot–Watt)
Non-perturbative Seiberg–Witten geometry - M. Mariño (U Geneva)
Non-perturbative topological strings
Lecture notes to be uploaded.