Lecturer:
External Lecturer:
G. Thompson
Course Type:
PhD Course
Academic Year:
2013-2014
Period:
October-May
Duration:
40 h
Description:
- Introduction to TFT by George Thompson (from 8 October to the end of November @ICTP, room H)
- Localization formulae on symplectic manifolds (Duistermaat-Heckman Theorem).
- Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Morse Theory.
- Topological Gauge theories in two and three dimensions.
- Reading course on *selected chapters* of the MIRROR SYMMETRY book (AMS editors Katz Klemm Hori Thomas Vafa Vakil Zaslow) (from November to May @SISSA or ICTP depending on the speaker)
- Topological sigma model.
- Calabi-Yau moduli spaces.
- Frobenius manifolds.
- Toric geometry, Gromov-Witten invariants, tt* geometry, mirror symmetry.
Research Group:
Location:
ICTP, Room H / Room D