Date: Thursday Nov. 8, 2018 at 4pm
Location: TBA, Rice University
Title: String Theory, String Field Theory, and Minimal Area Metrics
Speaker: Barton Zwiebach (MIT)
Abstract
In the last few years, we are finally in the possesion of field theories of all versions of superstring theory. I will review this accomplishment and discuss the algebraic underpinning, based on L_\infty algebras, and the geometric underpinning, based on metrics of minimal area.
Tags: theory