String Theory Seminar  

19/11/2002, 17:00 — 18:00 — Room P4.35, Mathematics Building
S. Prem Kumar, University of Wales Swansea

The Connection between Matrix Models and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, I

This is the first of a series of three lectures on the connection between matrix models and supersymmetric gauge theories recently proposed by Dijkgraaf and Vafa. I will review in this lecture many aspects of the low energy dynamics of N=1 and N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories (such as the calculus of the effective superpotential, the Seiberg-Witten solution, etc.) that will be important in the following lectures.