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\newtheorem{prop}{Proposition} \newtheorem{cor}{Corollary} \newtheorem*{utheorem}{Theorem} \newtheorem*{ulemma}{Lemma} \newtheorem*{uprop}{Proposition} \newtheorem*{ucor}{Corollary} \theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{defn}{Definition} \newtheorem{example}{Example} \newtheorem*{udefn}{Definition} \newtheorem*{uexample}{Example} \theoremstyle{remark} \newtheorem{remark}{Remark} \newtheorem{note}{Note} \newtheorem*{uremark}{Remark} \newtheorem*{unote}{Note} %------------------------------------------------------------------- \begin{document} %------------------------------------------------------------------- \section*{Hisham Sati} Hisham Sati (\href{https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/science/faculty/hisham-ahmad-sati.html}{faculty page}) is working on [[non-perturbative effects|non-perturbative]] phenomena in [[string theory]]/[[M-theory]] using tools of [[cohomology]], [[homotopy theory]], [[algebraic topology]] and [[higher category theory]]. His thesis advisor was [[Michael Duff]]. Hisham Sati is an associate professor of mathematics at NYU Abu Dhabi. \begin{itemize}% \item \href{https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/science/faculty/hisham-ahmad-sati.html}{webpage} \end{itemize} From his \href{https://web.archive.org/web/20170811155442/http://www.mathematics.pitt.edu/person/hisham-sati}{cached Pitt faculty page}: \begin{quote}% My research is interdisciplinary and lies in the intersection of [[differential geometry]], [[algebraic topology]], and [[mathematical physics|mathematical/theoretical physics]]. I am mainly interested in geometric and topological structures arising from [[quantum field theory|quantum (topological) field theory]], [[string theory]], and [[M-theory]]. This includes [[orientation in generalized cohomology|orientations]] with respect to [[generalized cohomology theories]], and corresponding description via [[higher geometry|higher geometric]], [[topology|topological]], and [[category theory|categorical]] notions of [[bundles]]. \end{quote} \hypertarget{selected_talks}{}\subsection*{{Selected talks}}\label{selected_talks} \begin{itemize}% \item \emph{Geometric perspectives on topological action functionals}, talk at \emph{\href{http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~swilson/cunyworkshop14.html}{The CUNY Workshop on differential cohomology}}, New York, August 2014 (\href{http://videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu/videos/video/1802/}{video recording}) \end{itemize} \hypertarget{selected_publications}{}\subsection*{{Selected publications}}\label{selected_publications} \begin{itemize}% \item Hisham Sati, \emph{[[Geometric and topological structures related to M-branes]]}, part I, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 81 (2010), 181-236 (\href{http://arXiv.org/abs/1001.5020}{arXiv:1001.5020}), part \emph{II: Twisted $String$ and $String^c$ structures}, J. Australian Math. Soc. 90 (2011), 93-108 (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.5419}{arXiv:1007.5419}); part \emph{III: Twisted higher structures}, Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phys. 8 (2011), 1097-1116 (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1755}{arXiv:1008.1755}) \end{itemize} on [[cohomology]] and [[twisted cohomology]] structures in [[string theory]]/[[M-theory]]. See also \emph{[[twisted smooth cohomology in string theory]]}. \begin{itemize}% \item [[Igor Kriz]], [[Hisham Sati]], \emph{M-theory, type IIA superstrings, and elliptic cohomology}, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 8 (2004), no. 2, 345--394 (\href{http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.atmp/1091543172}{Euclid}, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404013}{arXiv:hep-th/0404013}) \end{itemize} on the [[Diaconescu-Moore-Witten anomaly]] interpreted in [[integral Morava K-theory]]: \begin{itemize}% \item [[Hisham Sati]], [[Craig Westerland]], \emph{Twisted Morava K-theory and E-theory} (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.3867}{arXiv:1109.3867}) (this is followed up on in remark 5.4.12 in [[Michael Hopkins|Hopkins]], [[Jacob Lurie|Lurie]], \emph{[[Ambidexterity in K(n)-Local Stable Homotopy Theory]]} ) \end{itemize} On [[F4]] and [[Cayley plane]]-[[fiber bundles]] in [[M-theory]]: \begin{itemize}% \item [[Hisham Sati]], \emph{$\mathbb{O}P^2$-bundles in M-theory}, Commun. Num. Theor. Phys 3:495-530,2009 (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4899}{arXiv:0807.4899}) \end{itemize} On mathematical foundations of [[quantum field theory]] and [[perturbation theory|perturbative]] [[string theory]]: \begin{itemize}% \item [[Hisham Sati]], [[Urs Schreiber]], \emph{[[schreiber:Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field and Perturbative String Theory]]}, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, \href{http://www.ams.org/bookstore?fn=20&arg1=pspumseries&ikey=PSPUM-83}{volume 83} AMS (2011) \item [[Hisham Sati]], [[Urs Schreiber]], [[Jim Stasheff]], \emph{[[schreiber:L-∞ algebra connections]]} in \emph{Quantum Field Theory}, Birkh\"a{}user (2009), 303-424, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-8736-5\_17 (\href{http://www.springerlink.com/content/p421153213548t31/}{publisher link}, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3480}{arXiv:0801.3480}) \item [[Hisham Sati]], [[Urs Schreiber]], [[Jim Stasheff]], \emph{[[schreiber:Twisted Differential String and Fivebrane Structures]]} Communications in Mathematical Physics October 2012, Volume 315, Issue 1, pp 169-213 (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4001}{arXiv:0910.4001}) \item H. S. , [[Urs Schreiber]], [[Jim Stasheff]] \emph{[[schreiber:Fivebrane structures]]} Rev. Math. Phys.21:1197-1240 (2009) (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0564}{arXiv:0805.0564}) \item [[Domenico Fiorenza]], H. S., [[Urs Schreiber]], \emph{[[schreiber:7d Chern-Simons theory and the 5-brane]]} (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5277}{arXiv:1201.5277}) \item [[Domenico Fiorenza]], [[Hisham Sati]] , [[Urs Schreiber]], \emph{[[schreiber:The moduli 3-stack of the C-field]]} (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2455}{arXiv:1202.2455}) \item [[Domenico Fiorenza]], [[Hisham Sati]] , [[Urs Schreiber]], \emph{[[schreiber:Extended higher cup-product Chern-Simons theories]]} Journal of Geometry and Physics, Volume 74, 2013, Pages 130--163 (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5449}{arXiv:1207.5449}) \item [[Domenico Fiorenza]], [[Hisham Sati]], [[Urs Schreiber]], \emph{[[schreiber:A higher stacky perspective on Chern-Simons theory]]} (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2580}{arXiv:1301.2580}) in Damien Calaque et al. (eds.) \emph{Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Field Theories} Springer 2014 \item [[Hisham Sati]], \emph{Framed M-branes, corners, and topological invariants}, J. Math. Phys. 59 (2018), 062304 (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1060}{arXiv:1310.1060}) (on the [[Hopf-Wess-Zumino term]] of the [[M5-brane]], [[rational Cohomotopy]] in the [[11d supergravity]] [[equations of motion]] and \ldots{}) \item [[Domenico Fiorenza]], H. S., [[Urs Schreiber]], \emph{[[schreiber:The brane bouquet|Super Lie n-algebra extensions, higher WZW models and super p-branes with tensor multiplet fields]]} (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5264}{arXiv:1308.5264}) \item [[Varghese Mathai]], [[Hisham Sati]], \emph{Higher abelian gauge theory associated to gerbes on noncommutative deformed M5-branes and S-duality}, J. Geom. Phys. 92:240-251, 2015 (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2257}{arXiv:1404.2257}) (on a [[non-commutative geometry]]-deformation of the [[self-dual higher gauge theory]] as it appears on the [[M5-brane]] [[worldvolume]], and its [[S-duality]]) \item H. S. , \emph{Ninebrane structures} (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7686}{arXiv:1405.7686}) (on [[ninebrane structures]]) \item [[John Lind]], [[Hisham Sati]], [[Craig Westerland]], \emph{A higher categorical analogue of topological T-duality for sphere bundles} (\href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06285}{arXiv:1601.06285}) (on [[spherical T-duality]]) \item [[Domenico Fiorenza]], [[Hisham Sati]], [[Urs Schreiber]], \emph{[[schreiber:T-Duality from super Lie n-algebra cocycles for super p-branes]]}, \href{http://www.intlpress.com/site/pub/pages/journals/items/atmp/content/vols/0022/0005/}{ATMP Volume 22 (2018) Number 5} (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06536}{arXiv:1611.06536}) \end{itemize} Discussion of [[twisted K-theory|twisted]] [[differential K-theory|differential]] [[topological K-theory|K-theory]] and its relation to [[D-brane charge]] in [[type II string theory]] (see also \href{D-brane#ReferencesKTheoryDescription}{there}): \begin{itemize}% \item Daniel Grady, [[Hisham Sati]], \emph{Ramond-Ramond fields and twisted differential K-theory} (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08843}{arXiv:1903.08843}) \end{itemize} Discussion of [[twisted K-theory|twisted]] [[differential K-theory|differential]] [[KO-theory|orthogonal]] [[topological K-theory|K-theory]] and its relation to [[D-brane charge]] in [[type I string theory]] (on [[orientifolds]]): \begin{itemize}% \item Daniel Grady, [[Hisham Sati]], \emph{Twisted differential KO-theory} (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09085}{arXiv:1905.09085}) \end{itemize} On ([[cohomotopy|co-]])[[homotopy theory|homotopical]] foundations of [[M-theory]]: \begin{itemize}% \item [[Domenico Fiorenza]], [[Hisham Sati]], [[Urs Schreiber]] \emph{[[schreiber:The rational higher structure of M-theory]]}, \emph{Proceedings of the \href{http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/lms/}{LMS-EPSRC Durham Symposium}:} \emph{\href{http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/lms/109/index.html}{Higher Structures in M-Theory}, August 2018}. Fortschritte der Physik, 2019 (\href{https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.201910017}{doi:10.1002/prop.201910017}, \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02834}{arXiv:1903.02834}) \item [[Domenico Fiorenza]], [[Hisham Sati]], [[Urs Schreiber]], \emph{[[schreiber:Twisted Cohomotopy implies M-theory anomaly cancellation]]} (\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10207}{arXiv:1904.10207}) \end{itemize} category: people \end{document}