2021-04-12 NITheP Colloquium:
Prof Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Bose-Fermi Dualities in 3 spacetime dimensions
Abstract: Fermions and Bosons are irreducibly different from each other in four and more spacetime dimensions. This difference blurs out in 3 spacetime dimensions. This fact permits an interesting phenomenon. There is now substantial evidence that theories of Fermions (coupled to Chern Simons theories) actually describe the same physics as other theories of Bosons (also coupled to Chern Simons theories). I will review what is understood - and what is not - about this (at first sight surprising) equivalence.
Bio: Prof Minwalla completed his PhD at Princeton University in the year 2000. He is currently a Senior Professor in the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, a staff associate of ICTP (Trieste), and a member of the KITP advisory board. Prof Minwalla is an Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, of the World Academy of Sciences, and the Indian Academy of Sciences.
