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Brane tilings, M2-branes and Chern-Simons Theories
Mathematical Physics| Speaker: | Giuseppe Torri, Imperial College, London |
| Location: | 2240 MSB |
| Start time: | Thu, May 27 2010, 3:10PM |
Description
After a short review of supersymmetric Chern-Simons
theories and the role they have been playing recently in the AdS/CFT
correspondence, in my talk I will discuss the use of brane tilings to
investigate such theories. In particular, I will show how to study the
classical moduli space of Chern-Simons theories living on the
world-volume of M2-branes at toric singularities using the so-called
"fast forward algorithm". Finally, I will present some applications of
the brane tilings such as the study of toric duality for such gauge
theories and I will discuss an interesting family of Chern-Simons
theories whose moduli space can be built from Fano 3-folds