Talks and Presentations
M-theory on the Spindle
- Date: October 21, 2024
- Venue: University of Milan
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Slides: Link
- Abstract: Presentation for my doctorate defense. Based on the paper BBBW on the Spindle.
Cardy Matches Bethe on the Surface
- Date: June 24, 2024
- Venue: University of Hamburg & International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
- Location: Hamburg, Germany & Trieste, Italy
- Slides: Link
- Abstract: My poster contribution to the String Math 2024, held at ICTP and for Strings and Geometry 2024 in Hamb urg. The poster is based on my paper Cardy Metches Bethe on the Surface: a Tale of a Brane and a Black Hole.
BBBW on The Spindle
- Date: April 24, 2024
- Venue: International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) & CERN
- Location: Trieste, Italy & Geneva, Switzerland
- Slides: Link
- Abstract: My poster contribution to the Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics, held at ICTP and for Strings 2024 in Geneva. The poster is based on my paper BBBW on The Spindle.
Spindly M5
- Date: September 30, 2023
- Venue: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Location: Haifa, Israel
- Slides: Link
- Abstract: Spindles provide an interesting geometry for studying compactifications, where supersymmetry is preserved in a non-trivial way. In this talk I will give a review of my recent work on the effective 2d SCFTs living on M5-branes wrapped on product geometry of a Riemann surface with a Spindle. We provide a check of the AdS/CFT correspondence for these theories by matching the 2d central charge from the anomaly polynomial with the one found from the supergravity solution.
Non-invertible symmetries and holography
- Date: November 23, 2022
- Venue: University of Milan
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Abstract: Journal club on the paper on non-invertible self duality defects of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM in holography.
Supersymmetric dualities in three dimensions
- Date: September 30, 2022
- Venue: University of Milan
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Slides: Link
- Abstract: General talk for PhD students on recent developements of supersymmetric dualities in three dimensions. In particular, I discussed the results we obtained for chiral SQCD-like theories with Chern-Simmons levels in three dimensions obtained by real mass flow from non-chiral theories. These theories also had tensor matter which interacted through a $D$-type superpotential $W=\text{Tr} X Y^2+\text{Tr} X^{n+1}$. The dualitied were checked by means equivariant localization on the squashed $3$-sphere partition function.
