String-Math 2013

美国石溪的西蒙斯几何与物理中心将于2013年6月17日至21日举办弦数学会议。（http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/events/event-pages/string-math-2013）这是String-Math系列会议的第三届年会。会议的主要目标是将致力于弦理论相关思想的数学家和物理学家聚集在一起。弦理论和量子场论贡献了一系列深刻的思想，这些思想产生了全新的数学领域，使旧的数学领域焕发了活力。对于数学来说，弦理论一直是许多重要灵感的来源，从四流形中的Seiberg-Witten理论，到代数几何中的枚举几何和Gromov-Witten理论，到结理论中的Jones多项式的研究，到辛拓扑的进展，到几何朗兰兹规划的最新进展以及衍生代数几何和n范畴理论的发展。在另一个方向上，数学为物理学家提供了强大的工具，从解决或分析关键偏微分方程的强大的微分几何技术，到环几何，到k理论和d膜中的衍生范畴，到对Calabi-Yau流形和弦紧化的分析，到模形式和其他算术技术的使用。由于他们的相互作用，在这两个领域获得的结果的深度，力量和新颖性确实令人难以置信。弦数学是一年一度的会议，它的成立是为了反映在弦理论和数学的界面上最重要的进展。弦理论试图建立一个数学模型来描述所有四种基本力和所有形式的物质。它假设该理论的基本对象是一维物体——“弦”，基本粒子（即电子和夸克）是基本弦的振荡。特别地，弦理论旨在调和引力，即广义相对论和量子力学，后者是描述其他三种力的形式主义。弦理论在本质上是非常数学化的，它的发展是基于现代数学的进步，并激发了许多最近的数学发展。弦数学会议的主要目标是将致力于弦理论相关思想的数学家和物理学家聚集在一起。到目前为止，在这两个学术领域之间的弦理论界面上工作的数学家和物理学家的数量正在迅速增加。这种影响是双向的，数学技术和思想对弦理论的重大进展做出了至关重要的贡献。继前两届String-Math系列会议的成功召开之后，2013年String-Math会议预计将对该领域产生重大影响，并成为弦相关数学领域最新技术的记录。

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA is hosting a String-Math 2013 conference in June 17-21, 2013. (http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/events/event-pages/string-math-2013) This is a third annual meeting of String-Math series of conferences. The main goal of the conference is to bring together mathematicians and physicists who work on ideas related to string theory. String theory, as well as quantum field theory, has contributed a series of profound ideas which gave rise to entirely new mathematical fields and revitalized older ones. For mathematics, string theory has been a source of many significant inspirations, ranging from Seiberg-Witten theory in four-manifolds, to enumerative geometry and Gromov-Witten theory in algebraic geometry, to work on the Jones polynomial in knot theory, to advances in symplectic topology, to recent progress in the geometric Langlands program and the development of derived algebraic geometry and n-category theory. In the other direction, mathematics has provided physicists with powerful tools, ranging from powerful differential geometric techniques for solving or analyzing key partial differential equations, to toric geometry, to K-theory and derived categories in D-branes, to the analysis of Calabi-Yau manifolds and string compactifications, to the use of modular forms and other arithmetic techniques. The depth, power and novelty of the results obtained in both fields thanks to their interaction is truly mind boggling. String-Math is the annual conference that was founded to reflect the most significant progress at the interface of string theory and mathematics.String theory is the attempt to build a mathematical model which describes all four fundamental forces and all forms of matter. It assumes that the fundamental objects of the theory are one-dimensional objects - "strings" with elementary particles (i.e., electrons and quarks) being oscillations of fundamental strings. In particular, string theory aims to reconcile gravity, i.e., general relativity, with quantum mechanics which is the formalism in which the other three forces are described. String theory is very mathematical in nature and its development was based on advances in modern mathematics and inspired many recent developments in mathematics. The main goal of the String-Math conference is to bring together mathematicians and physicists who work on ideas related to string theory. By now there is a large and rapidly growing number of both mathematicians and physicists working at the string-theoretic interface between the two academic fields. The influence flows in both directions, with mathematical techniques and ideas contributing crucially to major advances in string theory. Following the success of first two meetings of String-Math series the conference String-Math 2013 is expected to have a major impact on the field and to serve as a record of the state of the art in string-related mathematics.