Topological Strings

books

Chern-Simons Theory, Matrix Models, and Topological Strings
by Marcos Marino (208 pages, Oxford University Press, 2005)

reviews

Geometry As Seen By String Theory
by Hirosi Ooguri (0901.1881 [hep-th], 29 pages, 2 figures)

Cargese lectures on string theory with eight supercharges
by Monica Guica, Andrew Strominger (0704.3295, 30 pages, 7 figures)
These lectures give an introduction to the interrelated topics of Calabi-Yau compactification of the type II string, black hole attractors, the all-orders entropy formula, the dual (0,4) CFT, topological strings and the OSV conjecture.

Lectures on Black Holes, Topological Strings and Quantum Attractors
by Boris Pioline (hep-th/0607227, 103 pages, 8 figures)

Introduction to Topological String Theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds (link to PDF)
by Albrecht Klemm (126 pages)
lecture given at Algebraic Geometry & Topological Strings at Lisbon in 2005

A mini-course on topological strings
by Marcel Vonk (hep-th/0504147, 120 pages, 17 figures)

Topological strings and their physical applications
by Andrew Neitzke, Cumrun Vafa (hep-th/0410178, 82 pages, 20 figures)

Les Houches lectures on matrix models and topological strings
by Marcos Marino (hep-th/0410165, 63 pages, 8 figures, minor corrections)

Chern-Simons Theory and Topological Strings
by Marcos Marino (hep-th/0406005, 46 pages, 25 figures)