# Confinement and 4-manifolds

- Institution: CERN
- Department: TH Theoretical Seminar
- Speaker: Sergei Prof. Gukov
- Year: 2014
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3007853)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In this talk I will survey a connection between two very challenging problems, one in physics and one in math. The physics problem involves quantitative understanding of confinement in a system with least amount of supersymmetry that has been studied so far and that has a wide range of applications, from semi-realistic string models to qualitatively new examples of gauge-gravity duality. Surprisingly, the rich physics of this system translates into incredibly rich mathematics of the only remaining unsolved case of the Poincare conjecture..

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## Lectures

1. [Confinement and 4-manifolds](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3007853/882e02d049e0), 1 h 12 min (CERN's player)