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Organizers: Stefan Vandoren, Bernard de Wit, Eduard Looijenga, Jan Stienstra 

Joint Mathematics-Physics Seminars


 
2010  
28 May D. Zagier ( MPI-Bonn ) Mock modular forms and quantum black holes
A. Dabholkar ( U. Pierre et Marie Curie, Jussieu ) The dark side of number theory ( Quantum black holes and mock modular forms )
2009  
27 February A. Dancer (Oxford, U.K.) Ricci solitons with large symmetry group
M. Zabzine (Uppsala, Sweden) Generalized geometry and chiral de Rham complex
   
2008 G. Segal: Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Field Theory
23 May C. Schweigert: Bundle gerbes and surface holonomy
   
2007  
7 December A. Klemm (Bonn Univ.): Topological string, modularity and matrix models
  L. Hollands (UvA): Topological strings as D-modules
- slides of the talk -
 
13 April V. Cortes (Univ. Hamburg): Cones over pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
  J. Stienstra (UU): Geometric structures related to AdS/CFT
 
2006  
24 November V. Mathai (University of Adelaide): T-duality in a background H-flux
  E. Verlinde (UvA): Strings, Symmetric Products and the Elliptic Genus
 
19 May S. Natanson (Independent University Moscow): Topological strings and Hurwitz numbers of seamed surfaces
H. Nicolai (MPI, Golm): The hyperbolic Kac Moody algebra E10: searching for a fundamental symmetry in physics
 
3 February
 		 L. Hoevenaars (UU): Special Kahler geometry and Frobenius manifolds
S. Vandoren (UU): Quaternionic manifolds from special Kahler