what's happening
Organising Integrability, Dualities and Deformations,
NORDITA, Stockholm, September 2025.
Lewis Cole joined the group as a new Postdoctoral Research Associate in January 2025!
Presentation with Q&A on materials and their properties with Key Stage 1 students,
Newburgh C of E Primary School, Wigan, Online, November 2024.
Organising Exact approaches to low-supersymmetry AdS/CFT,
SCGP, Stony Brook, October 2024.
Diamonds of integrable models,
Workshop on Noncommutative and Generalized Geometry in String theory, Gauge theory and Related Physical Models,
Corfu Summer Institute, September 2024.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
An introduction to 4d Chern-Simons and related theories,
Integrability in low-supersymmetry theories, Hotel Palazzo Filisio, Trani, July 2024.
Blackboard lectures.
Integrability, Dualities and Deformations,
Swansea University, July 2024.
Gauging the diamond: integrable coset models from twistor space,
LT Cole, RA Cullinan, B Hoare, J Liniado, DC Thompson,
JHEP 2412 (2024) 202, [arXiv:2407.09479].
Trigonometric and elliptic deformations of strings on AdS3 backgrounds,
Quantum Field and String Theory Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, June 2024.
Blackboard talk.
Trigonometric and elliptic deformations of strings on AdS3 backgrounds,
Workshop on Integrable Sigma-Models, ETH Zurich, May 2024.
Blackboard talk.
Ana Retore organising Workshop on Integrable Sigma-Models,
ETH Zurich, May 2024.
Integrable sigma models and the string worldsheet,
Fundamental Challenges in Theoretical Physics (COST Action 22113 Kick-off Meeting), University of Padua, May 2024.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Presentation with Q&A and feedback session on science and experiments with early Key Stage 2 students,
Southbank International School, Online, April - May 2024.
Inequivalent light-cone gauge-fixings of strings on AdSn × Sn backgrounds,
R Borsato, S Driezen, B Hoare, AL Retore, FK Seibold,
Phys. Rev. D109 (2024) 106023, [arXiv:2312.17056].
Elliptic deformations of the AdS3 × S3 × T4 string,
B Hoare, AL Retore, FK Seibold,
JHEP 2404 (2024) 042, [arXiv:2312.14031].
Exact approaches on the string worldsheet,
S Demulder, S Driezen, B Knighton, G Oling, AL Retore, FK Seibold, A Sfondrini, Z Yan,
J. Phys. A57 (2024) 423001, [arXiv:2312.12930].
Diamonds of integrable deformations,
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Seminar, University of Hertfordshire, December 2023.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Integrable deformations from twistor space,
LT Cole, RA Cullinan, B Hoare, J Liniado, DC Thompson,
SciPost Phys. 17 (2024) 008, [arXiv:2311.17551].
INI Network Support for the Mathematical Sciences grant awarded,
intdualdef, January 2024 - December 2025.
Towards a quadratic Poisson algebra for the subtracted classical monodromy of Symmetric Space Sine-Gordon theories,
F Delduc, B Hoare, M Magro,
J. Phys. A57 (2024) 06540, [arXiv:2309.15722].
Diamonds of integrable deformations,
New Perspectives in Conformal Field Theory and Gravity (DESY Theory Workshop), DESY Hamburg, September 2023.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Organising fpuk Meeting,
Durham University, August 2023.
Organising Integrability, Dualities and Deformations,
Durham University, July 2023.
The D3(2) spin chain and its finite-size spectrum,
H Frahm, S Gehrmann, RI Nepomechie, AL Retore,
JHEP 2311 (2023) 095, [arXiv:2307.11511].
Organising Young Researchers Integrability School and Workshop,
Durham University, July 2023.
Claire de Korte joined the group in June 2023 for an undergraduate research project supervised by Ana Retore!
Presentation with Q&A and feedback session on science and experiments with early Key Stage 2 students,
Southbank International School, Online, April - May 2023.
Geometry: How maths helps us do physics,
Maths Unbounded, Durham University, Durham, March 2023.
Integrable deformations of Z2 and Z4 permutation cosets,
Quantum Field and String Theory Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, March 2023.
Blackboard talk.
Provocation presentation with Q&A on being a theoretical physicist with late Key Stage 2 students.
Southbank International School, London, Online, February 2023.
Geometry: How maths helps us do physics,
Durham University International Study Centre, Stockton, February 2023.
Supersphere non-linear sigma model on the lattice,
The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, University of Bonn, August 2022.
I Costa, V Forini, B Hoare, T Meier, A Patella, JH Weber,
PoS LATTICE2022 (2023) 367, [arXiv:2212.11586].
Bi-η and bi-λ deformations of ℤ4 permutation supercosets,
B Hoare, N Levine, FK Seibold,
JHEP 2304 (2023) 024, [arXiv:2212.08625].
Integrable deformations of Z2 and Z4 permutation cosets,
Fields, Strings, and Geometry Seminar, University of Surrey, November 2022.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Rashad Hamidi joined the group as a new PhD student in November 2022!
Flag integrable models and generalized graded algebras,
M de Leeuw, RI Nepomechie, AL Retore,
JHEP 2306 (2023) 113, [arXiv:2210.06495].
Integrability in String Theory,
Durham Maths Research Day, Durham University, September 2022.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Integrable deformations and quantum corrections,
Integrability in String, Field, and Condensed Matter Theory, KITP, Santa Barbara, September 2022.
A recording can be found ↪ here.
Ana Retore joined the group as a new Postdoctoral Research Associate in September 2022!
Organising Talking Integrability: Spins, Fields, and Strings,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, August 2022.
Organising Integrability, Dualities and Deformations,
Humboldt University Berlin, August 2022.
Integrable supersymmetric deformations of AdS3 × S3 × T4,
B Hoare, FK Seibold, AA Tseytlin,
JHEP 2209 (2022) 018, [arXiv:2206.12347].
Geometry: How maths helps us do physics,
Durham University International Study Centre, Durham, June 2022.
Integrable deformations of Z2 and Z4 permutation cosets,
QFT, Strings and Beyond Seminar, ETH Zurich, May 2022.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Presentation with Q&A and feedback session on science and experiments with early Key Stage 2 students,
Southbank International School, Online, April - May 2022.
The relation between Yang-Baxter deformations and perturbations of gauged WZW models,
Mathematical Physics Seminar, University of York, February 2022.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
The relation between Yang-Baxter deformations and perturbations of gauged WZW models,
North British Mathematical Physics Seminar, Durham University, November 2021.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Ryan Cullinan joined the group as a new PhD student in October 2021!
Integrable deformations of sigma models,
B Hoare,
J. Phys. A55 (2022) 093001, [arXiv:2109.14284].
Yang-Baxter deformations of the Principal Chiral Model plus Wess-Zumino term,
Workshop on New Developments in Quantum Gravity and String Theory, Corfu Summer Institute, Online, September 2021.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Organising Integrability, Dualities and Deformations,
University of Santiago de Compostela, August 2021.
Integrable Deformations of Sigma Models,
Integrability, Dualities and Deformations School, Hospedería San Martín Pinario, Santiago de Compostela, August 2021.
Recordings can be found ↪ here.
Notes can be found ↪ here.
Ben Smith joined the group in June 2021 for an undergraduate research project!
Yang-Baxter deformations of the Principal Chiral Model plus Wess-Zumino term,
Quantum Field and String Theory Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, February 2021.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Integrability in String Theory,
CPT Colloquium, Durham University, Online, February 2021.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Sigma models with local couplings: a new connection between integrability and RG flow,
Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Online, November 2020.
Slides can be found ↪ here.
Dual description of η-deformed OSp sigma models,
M Alfimov, B Feigin, B Hoare, A Litvinov,
JHEP 2012 (2020) 040, [arXiv:2010.11927].
Integrability, Dualities and Deformations Seminar Series,
Online, Autumn 2020 & Spring 2021.