ABJM and Matrix Models

This is the website for the course on ABJM and Matrix Models delivered by Professor Marcos Mariño from the Université de Genève.

The course will consist of six 90-minute lectures spread over three consecutive afternoons and will take place at different venues in the JCMB. There will be a break for tea at 3:30pm every afternoon.

Schedule of lectures

1. Wednesday, 16 March 2011
   Supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories with matter, I
   2pm, JCMB 5215 (iCal link)
   Video: .mov file
2. Wednesday, 16 March 2011
   Supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories with matter, II
   4pm, JCMB 5215 (iCal link)
   Video: .mov file
3. Thursday, 17 March 2011
   Supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories with matter, III
   2pm, JCMB 5326 (iCal link)
   Video: .mov file
4. Thursday, 17 March 2011
   Localizing path integrals to matrix models, I
   4pm, JCMB 6206 (iCal link)
   Video: .mov file
5. Friday, 18 March 2011
   Localizing path integrals to matrix models, II
   2pm, JCMB 5215 (iCal link)
   Video: .mov file
6. Friday, 18 March 2011
   Solving the ABJM matrix model
   4pm, JCMB 6301 (iCal link)
   Video: .mov file

Lecture Notes

There is a preliminary and unfinished set of lecture notes (PDF) together with some useful references.

Sponsors

Partial support for this activity comes from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council via the "String Theory Scotland" Standard Grant ST/G000514/1.