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Nuno Romao (IHES) – Vortices as Fermionic Particles

Category
Geometry and Analysis
Date
@ MALL
Date
@ MALL, 16:30
Location
MALL
Notes
Unusual time
Speaker
Nuno Romao
Affiliation
IHES

Notes: Unusual time.

I will revisit some of the intriguing facts supporting the viewpoint that vortices quantise as fermionic (rather than bosonic) particles. One such fact is an analogue of Sen’s conjecture, for which a complete proof exists in the simplest setting of vortices in line bundles.