Mathew Bullimore 副教授学术报告
Title: Generalised symmetries and moduli stacks
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Mathew Bullimore
Affiliation: Durham University, U.K.
Time:16:00-17:00, Tuesday, 18th October, 2022 (UTC+8, Beijing Time)
Inviter: Marcus Sperling
Venue: Zoom Meeting
Abstract
In supersymmetric theories, global symmetries are encoded geometrically as isometry groups of moduli spaces of vacua. A natural question is therefore whether generalised symmetries such as higher-form and higher-group symmetries understood in a similar manner. I will introduce a refinement of the moduli space of vacua that captures the existence of topological sectors in the infrared and come equipped with actions of generalised symmetries. This will be explored in the context of Higgs and Coulomb branches of 3d N = 4 supersymmetric gauge theories.
About the Speaker
Mathew Bullimore is currently an associate professor of Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Durham University in U.K. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2012 and held postdoctoral appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Perimeter Institute and the University of Oxford, before moving to Durham University in 2017.
His research centers on algebraic, geometric and topological structures in supersymmetric quantum field theory and applications to symmetries and dualities.
More information could be found on his personal page: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/mathew-r-bullimore/
The seminar will be broadcasted online by Zoom.
Interested people are free to join, without registration in advance.
The Zoom info is
URL：https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3854420225?pwd=SXY4eWJKOTBFZWJDaE16aXpTamY1QT09
Meeting ID: 385 442 0225
Passcode: yauc