SMS scnews item created by Leo Tzou at Wed 16 Nov 2016 1535
Type: Seminar
Modified: Wed 16 Nov 2016 1611
Distribution: World
Expiry: 15 Feb 2017
Calendar1: 25 Nov 2016 1430-1530
CalLoc1: Carslaw 373
CalTitle1: Moore-Tachikawa conjecture and chiral algebras of class S
Auth: leo@121.209.16.59 (ltzo2369) in SMS-WASM

Joint Colloquium: Tomoyuki Arakawa -- Moore-Tachikawa conjecture and chiral algebras of class S

Motivated by the string theory, Moore and Tachikawa conjectured in 2011 the existence of
two-dimensional topological quantum field theories associated with symplectic
varieties.  In my lecture I will talk about a possible solution to this conjecture via
vertex algebras which are a priori nothing to do with the conjecture.