Seminar series
Date
Mon, 25 Oct 2010
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Ron Reid-Edwards
Organisation
Oxford
In 2009 Gaiotto and Maldacena demonstrated that the challenge of finding gravitational descriptions of N=2 superconformal field theories could, under certain circumstances, be reduced to a simple two-dimensional electrostatics problem. In this talk I will review their work and discuss recent progress in finding and interpreting such solutions in string and M-theory.