The New New Math of String Theory

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Earlier this year Mina Aganagic co-organized a Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) program on New Topological Structures in Physics to encourage collaborations between mathematicians and physicists working on problems such as String Theor ...
Earlier this year, Mina Aganagic co-organized a Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) program on New Topological Structures in Physics to encourage collaborations between mathematicians and physicists working on problems such as String Theory.

At the beginning of the last century, Albert Einstein posited a now famous theory that forever linked geometry and fundamental physics. According to general relativity, spacetime is curved, and that curvature affects the behavior of matter, and vice versa.


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