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\section*{Cumrun Vafa}

Cumrun Vafa is a [[string theory|string theorist]] at Harvard.

\begin{itemize}%
\item \href{https://www.cumrunvafa.org/}{personal webpage}


\item \href{http://physics.harvard.edu/~vafa/}{institute website}


\item \href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumrun_Vafa}{Wikipedia entry}



\end{itemize}
\hypertarget{selected_talks}{}\subsection*{{Selected talks}}\label{selected_talks}

On [[mirror symmetry]], [[topological string theory]] and a [[mysterious duality]]:

\begin{itemize}%
\item [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{Mirror symmetry}, Talk at \href{http://theory.caltech.edu/conf2000/}{String Theory at the Millennium}, Caltech, January 2000 (\href{http://www.theory.caltech.edu/conf2000/Vafa/fs1.html}{slides html})

\end{itemize}
On [[topological string theory]]:

\begin{itemize}%
\item [[Andrew Neitzke]], [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{Topological strings and their physical applications}, talk at \href{http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/conf/simonsworkII/}{Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics 2004} (\href{http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0410178}{hep-th/0410178})


\item \emph{\href{http://www.icts.res.in/lecture/1/details/1632/}{Strings, and the magic of extra dimensions}}, public talk at \href{http://www.icts.res.in/home/}{ICTS}, Bangalore, June 2013 (\href{http://www.icts.res.in/media/uploads/Lecture/Slides/Cumrun%20Vafa.pdf}{pdf slides}, \href{http://www.icts.res.in/media/uploads/Lecture/Slides/Cumrun%20Vafa.pdf}{video})


\item \emph{F-theory, Black holes and topological strings}, talk at \href{https://www.ift.uam-csic.es/en/content/f-theory-black-holes-and-topological-strings}{ift 2018}, (\href{https://workshops.ift.uam-csic.es/files/221/Vafa.pdf}{pdf}, \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmri3ke8Q-g}{recording})



\end{itemize}
\hypertarget{SelectedWritings}{}\subsection*{{Selected writings}}\label{SelectedWritings}

On [[D0-D4-brane bound states]]:

\begin{itemize}%
\item [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{Instantons on D-branes}, Nucl. Phys. B463 (1996) 435-442 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9512078}{arXiv:hep-th/9512078})

\end{itemize}
with emphasis to the resulting [[configuration spaces of points]], as in

\begin{itemize}%
\item [[Cumrun Vafa]], [[Edward Witten]], Section 4.1 of: \emph{A Strong Coupling Test of S-Duality}, Nucl. Phys. B431:3-77, 1994 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9408074}{arXiv:hep-th/9408074})

\end{itemize}
On [[electric-magnetic duality]]:

\begin{itemize}%
\item [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{Geometric Origin of Montonen-Olive Duality}, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 1:158-166, 1998 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9707131}{arXiv:hep-th/9707131})

\end{itemize}
On a [[mysterious duality]]:

\begin{itemize}%
\item [[Amer Iqbal]], [[Andrew Neitzke]], [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{A mysterious duality}, (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111068}{arXiv:hep-th/0111068})

\end{itemize}
On [[M-theory on S1/G\_HW times H/G\_ADE]] and [[D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT]]:

\begin{itemize}%
\item Michele Del Zotto, [[Jonathan Heckman]], [[Alessandro Tomasiello]], [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{6d Conformal Matter}, JHEP02(2015) 054 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6359}{arXiv:1407.6359})

\end{itemize}
On the [[KK-compactification]] of [[D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT]] (on [[M5-branes]]) to [[D=4 N=1 super Yang-Mills]]:

\begin{itemize}%
\item Ibrahima Bah, Christopher Beem, Nikolay Bobev, Brian Wecht, \emph{Four-Dimensional SCFTs from M5-Branes} (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0303}{arXiv:1203.0303})


\item Shlomo S. Razamat, [[Cumrun Vafa]], Gabi Zafrir, \emph{$4d$ $\mathcal{N} = 1$ from $6d (1,0)$}, J. High Energ. Phys. (2017) 2017: 64 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09178}{arXiv:1610.09178})


\item Ibrahima Bah, [[Amihay Hanany]], Kazunobu Maruyoshi, Shlomo S. Razamat, Yuji Tachikawa, Gabi Zafrir, \emph{$4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ from $6d$ $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ on a torus with fluxes} (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04740}{arXiv:1702.04740})


\item Hee-Cheol Kim, Shlomo S. Razamat, [[Cumrun Vafa]], Gabi Zafrir, \emph{E-String Theory on Riemann Surfaces}, Fortsch. Phys. (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02496}{arXiv:1709.02496})


\item Hee-Cheol Kim, Shlomo S. Razamat, [[Cumrun Vafa]], Gabi Zafrir, \emph{D-type Conformal Matter and SU/USp Quivers}, JHEP06(2018)058 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00620}{arXiv:1802.00620})


\item Hee-Cheol Kim, Shlomo S. Razamat, [[Cumrun Vafa]], Gabi Zafrir, \emph{Compactifications of ADE conformal matter on a torus}, JHEP09(2018)110 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07620}{arXiv:1806.07620})


\item Shlomo S. Razamat, Gabi Zafrir, \emph{Compactification of 6d minimal SCFTs on Riemann surfaces}, Phys. Rev. D 98, 066006 (2018) (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09196}{arXiv:1806.09196})


\item Jin Chen, Babak Haghighat, Shuwei Liu, Marcus Sperling, \emph{4d N=1 from 6d D-type N=(1,0)} (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00536}{arXiv:1907.00536})



\end{itemize}
On the [[KK-compactification]] of [[D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT]] (on [[M5-branes]]) to [[D=5 super Yang-Mills theory]]:

\begin{itemize}%
\item Lakshya Bhardwaj, Patrick Jefferson, Hee-Cheol Kim, Houri-Christina Tarazi, [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{Twisted Circle Compactification of 6d SCFTs} (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11666}{arXiv:1909.11666})

\end{itemize}
On [[E-strings]]:

\begin{itemize}%
\item Babak Haghighat, Guglielmo Lockhart, [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{Fusing E-string to heterotic string: $E + E \to H$}, Phys. Rev. D 90, 126012 (2014) (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0850}{arXiv:1406.0850})


\item Joonho Kim, Seok Kim, Kimyeong Lee, Jaemo Park, [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{Elliptic Genus of E-strings}, JHEP 1709 (2017) 098 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2324}{arXiv:1411.2324})


\item Abhijit Gadde, Babak Haghighat, Joonho Kim, Seok Kim, Guglielmo Lockhart, [[Cumrun Vafa]], \emph{6d String Chains}, JHEP 1802 (2018) 143 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04614}{arXiv:1504.04614})



\end{itemize}
\hypertarget{related_lab_entries}{}\subsection*{{Related $n$Lab entries}}\label{related_lab_entries}

\begin{itemize}%
\item [[string theory]]


\item [[F-theory]],

\begin{itemize}%
\item [[F'-theory]]


\item [[duality between M/F-theory and heterotic string theory]]



\end{itemize}

\item [[E-string]]


\item [[Gopakumar-Vafa duality]]


\item [[Brandenberger-Vafa mechanism]]


\item [[topological string]]

\begin{itemize}%
\item [[A-model]], [[B-model]]

\end{itemize}

\item [[black holes in string theory]]


\item [[geometric engineering of quantum field theory]]


\item [[mirror symmetry]]


\item [[6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT]]


\item [[wall crossing]]


\item [[landscape of string theory vacua]]


\item [[mysterious duality]]


\item [[weak gravity conjecture]]


\item [[grand unified theory]]


\item [[topological M-theory]]


\item [[discrete torsion]]


\item [[Landau-Ginzburg model]]


\item [[bosonization]]


\item [[orbifold]]


\item [[flux compactification]]


\item [[moduli stabilization]]


\item [[E-string]]


\item [[cosmic censorship hypothesis]]


\item [[little string theory]]


\item [[fractional D-brane]]


\item [[conifold transition]]


\item [[string phenomenology]]


\item [[Riemann theta function]]


\item [[axion]]


\item [[enhanced gauge symmetry]]


\item [[quiver gauge theory]]


\item [[Kaluza-Klein monopole]]


\item [[universal exceptionalism]]


\item [[M-theory on G2-manifolds]]


\item [[Hitchin functional]]


\item [[self-dual higher gauge theory]]


\item [[duality in physics]]


\item [[Khovanov homology]]


\item [[zeta function of an elliptic differential operator]]


\item [[ADE classification]]


\item [[theta function]]


\item [[7-dimensional supergravity]]


\item [[NS5-brane]]


\item [[N=2 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory]]


\item [[topologically twisted D=4 super Yang-Mills theory]]


\item [[U-duality]]


\item [[TCFT]]


\item [[confinement]]



\end{itemize}
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