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PRESENTATIONS

Quantitative Finance

 

Jul 2016  Managing Inventory with Proportional Transaction Costs 

             9th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Manhattan, NY, USA.

Sep 2015 Managing Inventory with Proportional Transaction Costs

             7th General Advanced Mathematical Methods in Finance, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Feb 2015 Optimal Trading with Alpha Predictors, 

             Geneva, Switzerland.  PDF

Physics

Jul 2013  Exact Results for Line Operators and Dualities

           APCTP Focus Program on Liouville, Integrability and Branes (9), APCTP, Pohang, Korea.

Jun 2013  3d & 5d Gauge Theory Partition Functions as q-deformed CFT Correlators
             37th Johns Hopkins Workshop “New Perspectives in String Theory”, KAST and Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.                    PDF

May 2013  3d & 5d Gauge Theory Partition Functions as q-deformed CFT Correlators
              CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.  PDF

Mar 2013  3d & 5d Gauge Theory Partition Functions as q-deformed CFT Correlators

             Nonperturbative Dynamics in Gauge and String Theories, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. 

Feb 2013  Exact Results for Line Operators in Supersymmetric Theories, 

             Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. 

Dec 2012 Exact Results in Supersymmetric Gauge Theory on Compact Manifolds,

             VIII Avogadro Meeting on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge theories, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. 

Nov 2012 Gauge theory, Line Operators and Dualities

             GeNeZiSS String Theory Meeting, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.  PDF

Nov 2012 Gauge theory, Line Operators and Dualities

             CERN Theory Group Retreat 2012, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.  PDF

Sep 2012  Vortex Loop Operators in Supersymmetric 3d Theories

              II Workshop on Geometric Correspondences of Gauge Theories, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

Mar 2012  Wilson Loops in N = 2 Gauge Theories, Matrix Models and Holography, 

              PAFT, Vietri sul Mare, Italy.  PDF

Mar 2012   A Review of Supersymmetric Localization,

             Mathematics and Applications of Branes in String and M-theory, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences,

             Cambridge, U.K. 

Mar 2012 Wilson Loops in N=2 Gauge Theories, Matrix Models and Holography 

             King’s College London, Department of Mathematics, London, U.K.  PDF

Feb 2012 Wilson Loops in N=2 Gauge Theories, Matrix Models and Holography

             Common Trends in Gauge Fields, Strings and Integrable Systems, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden.  PDF

Jan 2012 Wilson Loops in N=2 Gauge Theories, Matrix Models and Holography

             Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Mathematics, Berlin, Germany.   

Nov 2011 Wilson Loops in N=2 Gauge Theories, Matrix Models and Holography

             Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy.  

Sep 2011 Wilson Loops in N=2 Gauge Theories, Matrix Models and Holography

             Geometric Correspondences of Gauge Theories, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.  

Aug 2011 Higher Rank AGT and Non-Local Operator

             Nonperturbative Effects and Dualities in QFT and Integrable Systems, KITP, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.  PDF

Apr 2011 (de)Tails of Toda CFT,

            Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.  PDF

Feb 2011 (de)Tails of Toda CFT,

            Nordic String Theory Meeting 2011, Berlin, Germany.  PDF

Oct 2010 Gauge Theory Non-Local Operators from 2d Conformal Field Theories, 

            Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom.  PDF

Sep 2010  Affine sl(N ) Conformal Blocks from N = 2 SU(N ) Gauge Theories,  

             DESY Theory Workshop 2010, Hamburg, Germany.  PDF

Sep 2010 Gauge Theory Non-Local Operators from 2d Conformal Field Theories, 

             CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.  PDF

Aug 2010  Affine sl(N ) Conformal Blocks from N = 2 SU(N ) Gauge Theories, 

             Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada.  

Apr 2010  Gauge Theory Wilson Loops and Conformal Toda Field Theory, 

             Departament ECM and ICCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.  PDF

Mar 2010 Gauge Theory Wilson Loops and Conformal Toda Field Theory,  

             Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Berlin, Germany.   

May 2009  On Holographic Non-Local Operators and Multiple M2-Branes Theories 

              PhD defence, Watreloo, Canada.  PDF

Dec 2008  M2-brane Physics,

             IV Avogadro Meeting on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge theories, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.  

Jul 2007   Holographic Wilson Loops,

            Les Houches 2007 (Session LXXXVII), String Theory and the Real World, From particle physics to astrophysics,

            Ecole de Physique des Houches, Les Houches, France.  PDF

May 2007 Holographic Wilson Loops,

             University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, U.S.A.  PDF

May 2006  Holographic Wilson Loops,

             Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.  

Jul 2005    Non-Relativistic String Theory: Introduction and Classical Solutions,

             Summer School on Strings, Gravity and Cosmology, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada.  

Feb 2005  Non-Relativistic String Theory: Introduction and Classical Solutions, 

             K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.  

Complex Networks

Jan 2009 The von Neumann Entropy of Networks,

             Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.  PDF

Jan 2009 The von Neumann Entropy of Networks

            2nd ICC Winter Workshop on Complexity in Social Systems, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal.  PDF

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