IGAP Geometry and Physics Seminar Tomorrow

[Christian]

Dear everyone,

This is a reminder for tomorrow's "Geometry and Physics" webinar, you 
can find all of the relevant information below.

See you there,

The Organizers (Francesco Benini, Giulio Bonelli, Christian Copetti, 
Pavel Putrov and Alessandro Tanzini)

On 2/23/21 2:38 PM, Christian wrote:
>
> Dear everyone,
>
> We are happy to announce the beginning of an IGAP Mathematical Physics 
> webinar series for this semester.
>
> The opening webinar will take place on *Tuesday March 2nd at 14:30*:
>
> Speaker: Nikolay Bobev (Leuven)
>
> Title: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Higher-Derivative 
> Supergravity in AdS_4 Holography
>
> Abstract:
>
> I will describe the four-derivative corrections to four-dimensional 
> N=2 minimal gauged supergravity and show that they are controlled by 
> two constants. Interestingly, the solutions of the equations of motion 
> in the two-derivative theory are not modified by the higher-derivative 
> corrections. I will use this to arrive at a general formula for the 
> regularized on-shell action for any asymptotically locally 
> AdS_4 solution of the theory and show how the higher-derivative 
> corrections affect black hole thermodynamic quantities in a universal 
> way. I will employ these results in the context of holography to 
> derive new explicit results for the subleading corrections in the 
> large N expansion of supersymmetric partition functions on various 
> compact manifolds for a large class of three-dimensional SCFTs arising 
> from M2- and M5-branes. I will also briefly discuss possible 
> extensions and generalizations of these results.
>
> The meeting will be on Zoom at the following coordinates:
>
> https://sissa-it.zoom.us/j/85656889691?pwd=dmJMMDAvZXpXSHRPRDVLWW5IUDBadz09 
> <https://sissa-it.zoom.us/j/85656889691?pwd=dmJMMDAvZXpXSHRPRDVLWW5IUDBadz09>
>
> or
>
> Meeting ID: 856 5688 9691
>
> Passcode: IGAPMathPh
>
> See you there,
>
> The Organizers (Francesco Benini, Giulio Bonelli, Christian Copetti, 
> Pavel Putrov and Alessandro Tanzini)
>