Strings 2022

Jul 18, 2022, 8:00 AM → Jul 23, 2022, 8:00 PM Europe/Vienna

Audimax (University of Vienna)

Mon, July 18

8:00 AM → 8:45 AM Registration

8:45 AM → 9:00 AM Opening Addresses

Speakers: Christof Gattringer, Regina Hitzenberger

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9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Review talks

9:00 AM The branes behind black holes

Speaker: Emil Martinec

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10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Invited talks

10:00 AM 4d physics from 2d chiral correlators

Speaker: Natalie Paquette

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10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Invited talks

11:00 AM An Algebra of Observables for de Sitter Space

Speaker: Edward Witten

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11:30 AM Holographic Complexity and de Sitter Space

Speaker: Shira Chapman

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12:00 PM Complexity, chaos, and black holes

Speaker: Vijay Balasubramanian

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12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Review talks

2:00 PM $T\bar T$ deformations and holography: review and open questions

Speaker: Monica Guica

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3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Invited talks

3:00 PM A theory of the black hole interior

Speaker: Daniel Harlow

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3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Special talks: DM talk

4:00 PM Dark matter identification efforts

Speaker: Maxim Pospelov

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4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Invited talks

4:30 PM Consequences of No Global Symmetries in Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Tom Rudelius

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5:00 PM Small Cosmological Constants in String Theory

Speaker: Liam McAllister

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6:00 PM → 8:30 PM Reception & Poster session

Tue, July 19

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Review talks

9:00 AM Randall-Sundrum Branes and Holography

Speaker: Andreas Karch

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10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Invited talks

10:00 AM Line Operators in Chern-Simons-Matter Theories and Bosonization in Three Dimensions

Speaker: Amit Sever

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10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Invited talks

11:00 AM The emergence of space and time in holography

Speaker: Hong Liu

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11:30 AM Holography for Multi-Representation and Chiral Matter

Speaker: Nick Evans

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12:00 PM From statistical mechanics to microstate counting for extremal and near-extremal black holes

Speaker: Luca Iliesiu

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12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Review talks

2:00 PM News from the higher D SQFT frontier

Speaker: Shlomo Razamat

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3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Invited talks

3:00 PM Black hole entropy functions and spinning spindles

Speaker: James Sparks

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3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Discussion sessions

4:00 PM Factorization and Ensembles

Speakers: Julian Sonner (chair), Alexandre Belin, Lorenz Eberhardt, Alexander Maloney, Olga Papadoulaki

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4:00 PM Integrability and the Bootstrap

Speakers: Joe Minahan (chair), Agnese Bissi, Shai Chester, Nikolay Gromov, Shota Komatsu

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4:00 PM Strings and the Real World

Speakers: Cumrun Vafa (chair), Chethan Krishnan, Miguel Montero, Thomas Van Riet

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7:00 PM → 9:30 PM Speakers' dinner

Wed, July 20

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Review talks

9:00 AM Fluxes, holography and uses of Exceptional Generalized Geometry

Speaker: Daniel Waldram

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10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Invited talks

10:00 AM Dualities from dualities: sequential deconfinement & the mirror dualisation algorithm

Speaker: Sara Pasquetti

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10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 1:00 PM Invited talks

11:00 AM What happens when you look at supersymmetric black holes for a long time?

Speaker: Juan Maldacena

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11:30 AM Concrete Calculables in Quantum dS

Speaker: Dionysios Anninos

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12:00 PM AdS/CFT @ loop order

Speaker: Kostas Skenderis

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12:30 PM Adiabatic continuity, anomaly preserving compactifications, and confinement in Yang-Mills theory

Speaker: Mithat Ünsal

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1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 5:30 PM Optional afternoon program

For possible afternoon program activities please look in the "Outdoor activities" for more information.

7:00 PM → 9:30 PM Conference dinner

Thu, July 21

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Review talks

9:00 AM Recent developments in gauge-gravity duality applied to quantum many-body systems

Speaker: Umut Gürsoy

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10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Invited talks

10:00 AM Finding Gravity in Large N Theory Space

Speaker: Eric Perlmutter

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10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Invited talks

11:00 AM Top-Down Celestial Holograms

Speaker: Andrew Strominger

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11:30 AM Towards Positive Geometry of the massive S matrix

Speaker: Alok Laddha

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12:00 PM Celestial amplitudes from flat space limits of AdS Witten diagrams

Speaker: Ana-Maria Raclariu

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12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Review talks

2:00 PM Quantum information and spacetime

Speaker: Michael Walter

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3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Invited talks

3:00 PM Nonperturbative Amplituhedron Geometries

Speaker: Jaroslav Trnka

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3:30 PM Classical Physics from Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: David Kosower

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4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee break

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Gong Show

Gong Show recording

Prizes recording

Fri, July 22

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Review talks

9:00 AM Black Hole Microstate Counting in AdS

Speaker: Francesco Benini

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10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Invited talks

10:00 AM Line Defects in QFT: an Entropy Function, Conformality, and Constraints from Symmetries

Speaker: Zohar Komargodski

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10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Invited talks

11:00 AM Crossing symmetric dispersion relations

Speaker: Aninda Sinha

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11:30 AM From N=2 supersymmetry to adjoint QCD

Speaker: Emily Nardoni

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12:00 PM On towers of light states at infinite distance

Speaker: Seung-Joo Lee

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12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Invited talks

2:00 PM The Large-charge expansion

Speaker: Susanne Reffert

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2:30 PM Non-invertible Symmetry in Our Dimensions

Speaker: Kantaro Ohmori

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3:00 PM Generalised Symmetries from String Theory

Speaker: Iñaki García-Etxebarria

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3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 5:25 PM Concluding Session

Recording of the entire Conluding Session

4:00 PM GenHET

Speaker: Agnese Bissi

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4:20 PM BIMSA

Speaker: Shing-Tung Yau

4:25 PM Joe Polchinski Memoir

Speaker: Ahmed Almheiri

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4:30 PM Perspectives and Prospects

Speaker: Rajesh Gopakumar

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4:50 PM Perspectives and Prospects

Speaker: Hirosi Ooguri

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Recording of entire Conluding Session

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Public talk by Netta Engelhardt [MIT]

Sat, July 23

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Colloquium by Andrew Strominger [Harvard U.]