This is a pedagogical lecture which explains how, using brane
configurations in string theory, one can construct a quiver gauge
theory that characterizes moduli spaces of vortices.
Links:
[1] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3238
[3] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/4192