Remote Nordic HET seminar: Yifan Wang

Speaker: Yifan Wang

Title: Taming Defects in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills

Abstract: The four dimensional N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory hosts a rich family of defects that have broad implications for the structure of the theory as a fully-extended CFT. I will present recently developed non-perturbative approaches to defect observables in the SYM, including supersymmetric localization of defect networks, and bootstrap of integrable boundary states. I will also discuss applications of these methods to specific defect observables and comparisons with standard computations in IIB string theory on AdS_5 x S^5.