Thematic Year on Geometry of String Theory

“申请资金帮助在菲尔兹研究所举办弦理论几何研讨会”菲尔兹研究所从2005年2月至7月举办了一项关于弦理论几何的密集项目。该提案寻求从NSF获得1.5万美元的资金，以支持希望参与其中的美国年轻物理学家。研讨会将在为期一年的弦理论几何课程的第二学期进行。在这一时期，将集中研究该理论的物理方面，并认真尝试在数学家和物理学家之间发展真正的合作。该计划将致力于以弦理论为动机的数学科目，以及弦理论和相关物理领域的最新发展，这些领域对数学有很强的兴趣。该计划的目的是在继续推动理解弦/M理论的基础方面取得新的进展，并在涉及D-膜、BPS态和各种具有重要数学意义的二元性的丰富的新概念中促进新的进展。此外，它还将促进诸如派生范畴、椭圆上同调、几何朗兰兹对应、量子上同调、具有特殊完整的微分几何簇和特殊拉格朗日簇等数学领域之间的相互作用。该项目由物理学和国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

"Funding request to help organize a workshop on on the Geometry of String Theory at the Fields Institute" The Fields Institute is running an intensive program on the Geometry of String Theory from February through July of 2005. The proposal seeks funding of $15,000 from the NSF to support young American physicists who wish to participate. The workshop will be during the second semester of a year-long program on the geometry of string theory. There will be a concentration on physical aspects of the theory in this period and a serious attempt to develop real collaboration between mathematicians and physicists. The program will be devoted to mathematical subjects motivated by string theory and to recent developments in string theory and related physical fields which are of strong mathematical interest. The aim of the program is to foster new progress in the continuing drive towards understanding the foundations of string/M-theory, and in the wealth of new ideas involving D-branes, BPS states and various dualities which are of great mathematical importance. Further, it will foster interactions between such areas of mathematics as derived categories, elliptic cohomology, geometric Langlands correspondence, quantum cohomology, differential geometry varieties with special holonomy and of special Lagrangian varieties. This project is being jointly funded between Physics and the Office of International Science and Engineering.