April 30, 2025
  • Algebra seminar: Nik Garner (Oxford) - On BRST Complexes of Graded Unitary Vertex Operator Algebras

    April 30, 2025  9:30 am - 10:30 am

    Abstract: Vertex operator algebras (VOAs) arise in many corners of supersymmetric quantum field theory. One particularly influential instance is in four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs), whereby the VOA is realized as the cohomology of a suitable supercharge. Unitarity of the underlying SCFT imposes strong constraints on the structure of the resulting VOAs; ongoing work of Ardehali, Beem, Lemos, and Rastelli proposes that four-dimensional unitarity is realized in the VOA via a notion they call graded unitarity.

    In this talk, I will review this notion and describe structural aspects of the chain complexes underlying relative semi-infinite cohomology (alias: BRST complexes) of graded unitary VOAs. We will see that these BRST complexes share a striking resemblance to the de Rham complexes of compact Kähler manifolds. I will finish with several consequences of this observation, e.g. the formality of these relative semi-infinite cohomologies as in the work of Deligne, Griffiths, Morgan, and Sullivan on the de Rham cohomology of compact Kähler manifolds. This is based on work in progress with C. Beem.

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  • Algebra seminar: Marc Technau (Graz) - TBA

    April 30, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am

    Abstract: TBA

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  • EMPG Pre-seminar

    April 30, 2025  1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
    7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK

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  • EMPG Seminar: Emma Albertini (Imperial)

    April 30, 2025  2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
    7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK

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  • EMPG Seminar: Greger Torgrimsson (Umea)

    April 30, 2025  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK

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May 7, 2025
  • Algebra seminar: Francesco Costantino () - TBA

    May 7, 2025  9:30 am - 10:30 am

    Abstract - TBA

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  • EDGE Seminar: Daniil Mamaev (LSGNT) - TBA

    May 7, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    TBA

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May 14, 2025
  • EDGE Seminar: Abigail Ward (University of Cambridge) - TBA

    May 14, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    TBA

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Luuk Stehouwer (Dalhousie) - TBA

    May 14, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.45

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May 21, 2025
  • EDGE Seminar: Sebastian Haney (Columbia University) - TBA

    May 21, 2025  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Luca Giovenzana (University of Sheffield)

    May 21, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

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