Abelianization of Virasoro blocks and tau functions

Seminar: 
Quantum Topology and Field Theory
Event time: 
Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 4:30pm
Location: 
KT 801
Speaker: 
Andrew Neitzke
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

Abstract: I will explain a new scheme for construction of conformal blocks for the Virasoro algebra at central charge c=1. One application is a new recipe for producing isomonodromic tau functions. This scheme is joint work with Qianyu Hao. The talk is intended to be self-contained (you don’t have to know in advance what a conformal block or a tau function are).