Integrability, Dualities and Deformations

by Prof. Alessandro Sfondrini (University of Padova)

Monday 8 Sept 2025, 15:00 → 16:30 Europe/Stockholm

Lecture room 32 (Albano Building 4)

Albano Building 4:  - Auditorium 32 (2 floors down from Presse Buro)

Please follow the Campus map or Google map to find the building.

 

zoom link : https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/67259623527?pwd=bjG5PbKdb4chVtyQsyPS0a3kUTFLYy.1

Meeting ID: 672 5962 3527
Passcode: 987538
 

Fika will be served after the colloquium talk.

 

Abstract: 

 The theory of integrable models provides an approach to study quantum strings on curved backgrounds where worldsheet-CFT approaches fail, and to extract their planar spectrum and other observables. Remarkably, this includes many backgrounds crucial for our understanding of AdS/CFT. Recently, it has been understood that the space of integrable geometries is much larger than one could have imagined. This has implications for holography, supergravity, and integrability itself.

The colloquium is given as part of the Nordita Program Integrability, Dualities and Deformations.

The program Integrability, Dualities and Deformations which will run at NORDITA in the next two weeks will provide an overview of the most recent developments in this field. This colloquium aims at providing a pedagogical introduction to the field without assuming familiarity with integrability.

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