Going to the other side …. in algebra, topology, and maybe physics

Inspired by Eugene Wigner’s reflections on the ‘unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences,’ this talk is about the surprising and pervasive role of a peculiar phenomenon that, a priori, seemed to have no reason to exist. Yet, it emerges across many different areas of mathematics and theoretical physics, including:
● the Kazhdan-Lusztig correspondence
● quantum invariants of 3-manifolds
● the study of 2d (0,2) boundary conditions in 3d N=2 theories
● resurgent analysis
Although each of these fields approaches the phenomenon from a different perspective, the results align in striking and unexpected ways.

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97784644596

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