Sung-Soo Kim  教授学术报告

Title: New perspective on S-folds of 5d SCFTs

Speaker: Sung-Soo Kim（金晟洙）

Affiliation: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）

Time: 16:00-17:00, Friday, April 17th, 2026 (UTC+8, Beijing Time)

Venue: Zoom Meeting (ID: 385 442 0225; Passcode: yauc)

Inviter: Hai Lin（林海）

Abstract

We present a novel viewpoint on S-folds of 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs). The S-folding involves both a spatial quotient and an SL(2,Z) transformation on 5-branes in Type IIB string theory simultaneously. Focusing on the illustrative case of Z_2 S-folds, we analyze some physical observables and, in particular, construct the associated Seiberg-Witten curves. Our results reveal intriguing connections between the properties of these S-folds and recent developments in the understanding of orientifold planes, offering deeper insight into the role of discrete symmetries in 5d SCFTs.

Speaker

Sung-Soo Kim is a professor in the School of Physics at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Florida and worked at Chalmers University of Technology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and KIAS before joining UESTC. His research interests focus on non-perturbative aspects of supersymmetric gauge theories using their brane constructions arising from string and M-theory.

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