The next meeting of the Joint Seminar of Analysis, Geometry and Topology Department will be held on April 28, 2015 at 14:00 in Room 478 of IMI.

A talk on:

An invitation to String Theory

will be delivered by Prof. Radoslav Rashkov.

Everybody is invited.

Abstract. Superstring theory is supposed to serve as the most successful theory unifying all the fundamental interactions in Nature. In this talk I'll present basic concepts of (super) String theory and I'll review some of the recent developments as well. First I'll give a very brief overview of the Physics origin of String theory and its development over the years. Next I'll introduce the main ingredients of the theory and their properties. In many aspects String theory can be thought of as a mixture of Physics and Mathematics. The last part of the talk is devoted to mathematical aspects of String theory and mathematical tools used there. I'll conclude with some applications and open issues.