Seminar series
Date
Mon, 19 Nov 2018
Time
14:15 -
15:15
Location
L4
Speaker
Sergei Gukov
Organisation
Caltech
The goal of the talk will be to introduce a class of functions that answer a question in topology, can be computed via analytic methods more common in the theory of dynamical systems, and in the end turn out to enjoy beautiful modular properties of the type first observed by Ramanujan. If time permits, we will discuss connections with vertex algebras and physics of BPS states which play an important role, but will be hidden "under the hood" in much of the talk.