EMPG Journal Club on D-branes (2005-2006)

This year we will be studying the mathematics of D-branes from a variety of points of view.

Schedule

Unless otherwise stated, seminars take place on Mondays 3-5pm in MacLaurin T.01, in the Riccarton campus of Heriot-Watt University.

• Monday, 7 November 2005
  Michele Cirafici
  D-Branes in superstring theory, I
• Monday, 14 November 2005
  Michele Cirafici
  D-Branes in superstring theory, II
• Monday, 28 November 2005
  Michele Cirafici
  D-branes in superstring theory, III
• Monday, 5 December 2005
  Rui Reis
  Categories and K-(co)homology, I
• Monday, 12 December 2005
  Rui Reis
  Categories and K-(co)homology, II
• Monday, 9 January 2006
  Rui Reis
  Categories and K-(co)homology, III
• Monday, 16 January 2006
  Juanjo Manjarín
  D-branes and K-theory, I
• Monday, 30 January 2006
  Juanjo Manjarín
  D-branes and K-theory, II
• Monday, 6 February 2006
  Emily Hackett-Jones
  Branes in supergravity
• Monday, 13 February 2006
  Emily Hackett-Jones
  Introduction to calibrations
• Monday, 20 February 2006
  Michele Cirafici
  Topics in topological strings, I
• Monday, 27 February 2006
  Michele Cirafici
  Topics in topological strings, II
• Monday, 6 March 2006
  Michele Cirafici
  D-branes in Calabi-Yau manifolds: boundaries
• Monday, 20 March 2006
  Michele Cirafici and Rui Reis
  D-branes in Calabi-Yau manifolds, II
• Thursday, 6 April 2006
  Rui Reis
  D-branes in Calabi-Yau manifolds, III
• Thursday, 27 April 2006
  Rui Reis
  D-branes in Calabi-Yau manifolds, IV

References

This list will be updated periodically.

• Joe Polchinski, String theory
• Clifford Johnson, D-brane primer
• Richard Szabo, BUSSTEPP lectures on string theory
• Kasper Olsen and Richard Szabo, Constructing D-branes from K-theory
• Rui Reis and Richard Szabo, Geometric K-homology of flat D-branes
• Paul Aspinwall, D-branes in Calabi-Yau manifolds