Contact Information
273 Altgeld Hall, MC-382
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Description
My primary research interests are in the area of algebraic geometry and its interaction with theoretical physics, especially string theories and supersymmetric field theories.
Education
Ph.D., Mathematics, Princeton University, 1980
Awards and Honors
Fellow, American Mathematical Society, 2013
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Physics
Special Advisor to the Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
External Links
Recent Publications
Choi, J., Van Garrel, M., Katz, S., & Takahashi, N. (2021). Log BPS numbers of log Calabi-Yau surfaces. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 374(1), 687-732. https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8234
Huang, M. X., Katz, S., & Klemm, A. (2021). Towards refining the topological strings on compact Calabi-Yau 3-folds. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(3), [266]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)266
Choi, J., van Garrel, M., Katz, S., & Takahashi, N. (2020). Local BPS Invariants: Enumerative Aspects and Wall-Crossing. International Mathematics Research Notices, 2020(17), 5450-5475. https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rny171
Katz, S., Kim, H. C., Tarazi, H. C., & Vafa, C. (2020). Swampland constraints on 5d N = 1 supergravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(7), [80]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)080
Jefferson, P., Katz, S., Kim, H. C., & Vafa, C. (2018). On geometric classification of 5d SCFTs. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(4), [103]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2018)103