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Research Training Group 1670 (2011-2020, completed)

The quest for a unified theory of quantum theory and gravity has long been an important source of inspiration for mathematics. The advent of string theory with its need for a much broader mathematical treatment has brought a new quality to this interaction. In fact, string theory not only continues to suggest challenging and surprising mathematical conjectures, the string-theoretic viewpoint also links areas of mathematics that were previously considered largely unrelated.

The Research Training Group 1670 has offered from 2011-2020 a structured doctoral training on mathematical and mathematical physics topics in this context. A special emphasis was on acquiring literacy in QFT and string theory to be able to study original physics sources and to assess them properly. The Research Training Group ended after its maximal funding period on March 31, 2020.

The program built on an established and very lively collaboration of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Hamburg with the II. Institute of Theoretical Physics and the DESY Theory Group within the Center of Mathematical Physics. We also cooperated with the Emmy-Noether group ``Building Blocks of Physical Theories from the Geometry of Quantization and BPS states'' (head: Murad Alim)


Past events:
02-06 March 2020
University of Hamburg
Generalized geometry and applications
20-21 February 2020
University of Hamburg
RTG 1670 Concluding Colloquium
25-28 November 2019
University of Hamburg
BPS states, topological recursion, exact WKB and abelianisation
26-30 August 2019
University of Hamburg
Summerschool: Algebraic Structures in Quantum Field Theory
21 June 2019
University of Hamburg
10th Northern German Differential Geometry Day
25 April 2019
Department of Mathematics
Bremen-Hamburg-Kiel Seminar on algebra
05 April 2019
University of Hamburg
RTG alumni event 2019
19-20 March 2019
University of Hamburg
Kickoff meeting of the Cluster of Excellence “Quantum Universe”
18-21 February 2019
University of Hamburg
Preparatory workshop on "Higher Structures in Algebra, Geometry, Topology, and Quantum Field Theory"
10-14 September 2018
University of Hamburg
Higgs Bundles in Mathematics and Physics
3-6 September 2018
University of Hamburg
Ricci flow, mean curvature flow and related singular flows
9-12 April 2018
University of Hamburg and DESY
Women at the intersection of mathematics and theoretical physics
19-23 March 2018
University of Hamburg
Field equations on Lorentzian space-times
7-9 February 2018
University of Hamburg
Meeting on non-semisimple TFT and logarithmic CFT
8-9 December 2017
University of Hamburg
Quantum Physics meets Mathematics
24 – 28 July 2017
University of Hamburg
Stringmath 2017
17 – 21 July 2017
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
Summer School "Pre-StringMath Summer School"
8-9 June 2017
University of Hamburg
Lessons from conformal field theory
17 March 2017
University of Hamburg
RTG alumni event 2017
19-20 January 2017
Department of Mathematics
North German Algebraic Geometry Seminar
24 November 2016
Department of Mathematics
Bremen-Hamburg-Kiel Seminar on algebra
28 October 2016
Department of Mathematics
Berlin-Hamburg Seminar on symplectic geometry
26 September 2016
Departments of Mathematics and Physics
Colloquium in memoriam Rudolf Haag
19 – 23 September 2016
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
Summer School "Geometric Flows and the Geometry of Space-time"
29 March – 2 April 2016
DESY Hamburg
String Steilkurs Part I: Introduction to String Theory
18 - 19 Feb 2016
University of Hamburg
Women's Career Day 2016
11 Nov 2015
DESY, Hamburg (Bldg.99, SR I-II)
Scientific Career and Parenthood
02 - 04 Sep 2015
University of Hamburg
Summer School “String Topology and Rational Homotopy Theory”
20 - 31 July 2015
DESY, Hamburg
String Steilkurs - Part II: “Advanced Topics in String Theory”
20 - 21 Feb 2015
University of Hamburg
Women's Career Day 2015
16 – 20 Feb 2015
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
Workshop "Infinite-dimensional Structures in Higher Geometry and Representation Theory"
20 Nov 2014
DESY, Hamburg
Information and discussion evening: Scientific Career and Parenthood
WS 14/15, Tue 14-15h
DESY, Hamburg
Families & Careers in Physics
8 – 12 Sept 2014
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
Workshop "Special Geometric Structures in Mathematics and Physics"
21 – 25 July 2014
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
Summer School "Quantum groups and integrability – Algebraic, analytic and geometric aspects"
27-28 Jun 2014
DESY, Hamburg (Bldg.99, SR IV/V)
Women and Leadership
7-8 Feb 2014
DESY, Hamburg (Bldg.1b, SR4a/b)
Women's Career Day
07 Nov 2013
DESY, Hamburg
Information and discussion evening: Scientific Career and Parenthood
12 – 16 Aug 2013
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
Summer School on Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry and Physics
7 – 9 Aug 2013
DESY, Hamburg
Workshop "Introduction to the algebraic geometry and application in physics"
14 June 2013
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
4th Northern German Differential Geometry Day
2 – 6 April 2013
DESY Hamburg
String Steilkurs Part I: Introduction to String Theory
26 – 28 March 2013
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
Workshop "HYPER": Workshop focussed on the interchange of ideas on the geometry of the hypermultiplet moduli space in Calabi-Yau string compactifications
13 – 15 Feb 2013
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
Workshop on Field Theories with Defects
WS 12/13, Tue 13:15-14:15h
DESY, Hamburg
Families & Careers in Physics
10 – 14 Sep 2012
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
Summer School on Differential Geometry and Supersymmetry
27 – 31 Aug 2012
Center for Mathematical Physics, Hamburg
New Perspectives in Topological Field Theories
30 Jul – 1 Aug 2012
DESY, Hamburg
Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistical Mechanics
15 Jun 2012
University of Kiel
3rd Northern German Differential Geometry Day
5, 8, 12, 15 and 19 Jun 2012
RTG seminar room in the DKRZ, Hamburg
Mini course on Temperley-Lieb categories
29, 30 and 31 May and 1 Jun 2012
DESY, Hamburg
Lecture series on Elliptic Hypergeometric Functions and their applications
3 – 4 May 2012
Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg
North German Algebraic Geometry Seminar (NoGAGS)
5 Oct 2011
University of Hamburg, Main Building
Opening Ceremony RTG 1670
August 20-26, 2011
Departments of Mathematics
Workshop on Symplectic Field Theory V
Impressum  | last modified 14 Jan 2020