Workshop / School

June 4 - 8, 2012

Modern representation theory interacts with many different domains of mathematics and theoretical physics. It provides tools and receives questions and ideas from these disciplines. The core of this workshop is formed by minicourses, accessible to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, given by leading specialists who use representation theory in high energy physics, combinatorics, geometry and topology. There will be exercise/discussion sessions and a few further talks.

The workshop will include the following minicourses:

Niklas Beisert (ETH Zürich):
Quantum Algebra from the AdS/CFT duality

Philippe Di Francesco (CEA, Saclay):
Integrable Combinatorics

David Hernandez (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris):
Quantum affine algebras and categorifications

Valerio Toledano Laredo (Northeastern University, Boston):
Trigonometric connections, Yangians and quantum loop algebras

Vladimir Turaev (Indiana University, Bloomington):
Graded categories and topological quantum field theories

• Abstracts of the talks