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2011 Arnold Sommerfeld School

Algebraic Geometry for String Theorists

10.10.2011 – 14.10.2011

The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics will host a PhD school on ''Algebraic Geometry for String Theorists'' in the period October 10-14.

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Lectures:

  • Ugo Bruzzo (SISSA): Algebraic geometry for physicists [Videos 1-3]
  • James Gray (LMU): Algebraic geometry and N=1 string compactifications [Videos 1-3]
  • Albrecht Klemm (Bonn): Mirror symmetry, the closed string point of view [Videos 1-3]
  • Dave Morrison (UCSB): Singularities in string theory [Videos 1-3]
  • Balazs Szendroi (Oxford): Mirror symmetry and D-branes [Videos 1-3]

Program

List of participants

School Picture

Further reading

 

Organizers

Thomas Grimm, Michael Haack, Robert Helling and Martijn Wijnholt

 

Application

Please send a short email to asc_school11@physik.lmu.de indicating your affiliation, full name and professional status (postdoc, PhD student, ...), before September 1.

 

Venue

Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics
Theresienstr. 37
80333 München

Lecture hall: A348/349 (3rd floor)

Reachable by underground (take line U3 or U6 to stop Universität or line U2 to stop Theresienstraße) and by tram (take line 27 to stop Pinakotheken).

 

Some cheap hostels

We have compiled an (incomplete) list of low budget hostels and dorms in the center of Munich:

 

Hotels close to the ASC

An equally incomplete list of hotels close to the ASC: