String Theory Journal Club

The AGT correspondence relates N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories on 4-dimensional manifolds to Liouville field theory, a 2-dimensional conformal field theory. In this talk, I will survey some of the necessary ingredients like rigid N=2 supersymmetry on curved manifolds, supersymmetric localization, and amplitudes in Liouville theory, following which I will summarize some key results in AGT correspondence, including some relatively recent works establishing the correspondence for boundary states and loop operators in gauge theory. Link: meet.google.com/gbj-tmns-err