Prof. Dr. Gaëtan Borot
Institute for Mathematics
& Institute for Physics
Institute for MathematicsChair in Mathematical Physics:
Mathematical aspects of QFT and strings
+ Research group webpage
+ Recent publications
Interests: enumerative geometry, quantum
algebra/topology/geometry, topological recursion,
integrability, moduli spaces, algebraic structures, random matrix theory, combinatorics, science outreach.
Email: gaetan.borot@hu-berlin.de
Address: Johann-von-Neumann-Haus, Rudower Chaussee 25
Office: Office 1.333 (Haus 1, 3rd floor, right corridor)
Phone: (030) 2093 45479
Secretary: Kristina Schulze, schulze@math.hu-berlin.de
SHK-Stellenauschreibung: Bewerbungszeit jetzt (16. Sept.-7. Okt. 2022), 2 Jahre-Einstellung ab Oktober 2022, siehe Ausschreibung hier. Es ist vorhergesehen, dass die studentische Hilfskraft in WiSe 22/23 bei "Analysis I für Studierende in der Physik" mitwirkt.
IMP-Bachelor: Vorsitzender des Prüfungsauschusses und der Kommission für Lehre und Studium, Studienberatung, Email: imp-pa-vorsitz.math@hu-berlin.de
Teaching and seminars
- Online research seminar
Algebra, Geometry & Physics
Tuesdays 2.00-3.00pm
- Contact Kristina Schulze if you want to be on the mailing list.
- HU students can validate 2SWS/semester by regular attendance + writing a report on one talk of their choice during the semester. - Bachelor and master projects
- SoSe 2022
- ♦ Bachelor/master level
Mathematische Methoden der Physik
♦ Master reading group:
Mathematics of conformal field theory - WiSe 2022
- ♦ Bachelor
Analysis I für PhysikerInnen - SoSe 2023
- ♦ Master level:
Differentialgeometrie II - Former teaching
Upcoming talks
Archive of talks (sometimes slides and videos)
Resources
- Slides of the online reading group on Stability conditions and DT theory (Spring 2020).
- A list of mathematical results that came out of topological recursion, that can also serve as bibliography guide (be welcome to propose me updates or corrections). Latest version 2018
- Video recordings of the Geometric recursion learning seminar (Winter 2018/2019, MPIM)
- Lecture notes of a mini-course in Toulouse (May 2017): Topological recursion and geometry, math-ph/1705.09986, published in Rev. Math. Phys. (2020)
- Lecture notes of a mini-course at CIMPA summer school, Ulanbataar: Introduction to random matrix theory, math.PR/1710.10792, published in Mong. J. Math. 20 1 (2016) 5-52. For a brief history of mathematics in Mongolia, see the article by Ninjbat Uuganbaatar.
- Lecture notes for a mini-course A walk through the woods of integrability at Hannover University, June 2015
- Lecture notes for a master course on Random matrix theory, Bonn University, Winter 2014/2015
- Lecture notes by Alice Guionnet for her mini-course on Schwinger-Dyson equations, topological expansions and random matrices at Columbia, Aug. 2017.
- Video recordings of mini-courses at a MPIM workshop in Fall 2014:
- Jorgen E. Andersen, The Hitchin connection and the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT
- Bertrand Eynard, Topological recursion and moduli spaces - Video recordings of a Masterclass on topological recursion by Bertrand Eynard and Nicolas Orantin, at QGM Aarhus, January 2013.
Events
I list here announcements I received.
Below, events I plan to take part to
Workshop: Universalité et gas de Coulomb, 7-10 Nov. 2022, IHP, Paris
(Org) CIMPA school: Crossroads of representation theory, geometry and higher structures, 13-26 Mar. 2023, Puerto Madryn.
OIST Workshop: Invitation to combinatorics, recursion and resurgence, 10-14 Apr. 2023, Okinawa.
(Org) KMPB Spring school: 3 Facets of Gravity, 8-12 May 2023, HU Berlin.
(Org) Summer school: Enumerative geometry, quantisation and moduli spaces, 4-10 September 2023, CIME, Cetraro.
(Org) Workshop: Non-commutative geometry meets topological recursion, BIRS Hangzhou, postponed to 2024.