Strings 2022

18 Jul 2022, 08:00 → 23 Jul 2022, 20:00 Europe/Vienna

Audimax (University of Vienna)

Monday 18 July

08:00 → 08:45 Registration

08:45 → 09:00 Opening Addresses

Speakers: Christof Gattringer, Regina Hitzenberger

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09:00 → 10:00 Review talks

09:00 The branes behind black holes

Speaker: Emil Martinec

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10:00 → 10:30 Invited talks

10:00 4d physics from 2d chiral correlators

Speaker: Natalie Paquette

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Invited talks

11:00 An Algebra of Observables for de Sitter Space

Speaker: Edward Witten

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11:30 Holographic Complexity and de Sitter Space

Speaker: Shira Chapman

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12:00 Complexity, chaos, and black holes

Speaker: Vijay Balasubramanian

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12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Review talks

14:00 $T\bar T$ deformations and holography: review and open questions

Speaker: Monica Guica

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15:00 → 15:30 Invited talks

15:00 A theory of the black hole interior

Speaker: Daniel Harlow

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15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Special talks: DM talk

16:00 Dark matter identification efforts

Speaker: Maxim Pospelov

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16:30 → 17:30 Invited talks

16:30 Consequences of No Global Symmetries in Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Tom Rudelius

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17:00 Small Cosmological Constants in String Theory

Speaker: Liam McAllister

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18:00 → 20:30 Reception & Poster session

Tuesday 19 July

09:00 → 10:00 Review talks

09:00 Randall-Sundrum Branes and Holography

Speaker: Andreas Karch

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10:00 → 10:30 Invited talks

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

Speaker: Amit Sever

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Invited talks

11:00 The emergence of space and time in holography

Speaker: Hong Liu

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11:30 Holography for Multi-Representation and Chiral Matter

Speaker: Nick Evans

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

Speaker: Luca Iliesiu

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12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Review talks

14:00 News from the higher D SQFT frontier

Speaker: Shlomo Razamat

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15:00 → 15:30 Invited talks

15:00 Black hole entropy functions and spinning spindles

Speaker: James Sparks

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15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Discussion sessions

16:00 Factorization and Ensembles

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

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16:00 Integrability and the Bootstrap

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

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16:00 Strings and the Real World

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

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19:00 → 21:30 Speakers' dinner

Wednesday 20 July

09:00 → 10:00 Review talks

09:00 Fluxes, holography and uses of Exceptional Generalized Geometry

Speaker: Daniel Waldram

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10:00 → 10:30 Invited talks

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

Speaker: Sara Pasquetti

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Invited talks

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

Speaker: Juan Maldacena

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11:30 Concrete Calculables in Quantum dS

Speaker: Dionysios Anninos

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12:00 AdS/CFT @ loop order

Speaker: Kostas Skenderis

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

Speaker: Mithat Ünsal

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13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 17:30 Optional afternoon program

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

19:00 → 21:30 Conference dinner

Thursday 21 July

09:00 → 10:00 Review talks

09:00 Recent developments in gauge-gravity duality applied to quantum many-body systems

Speaker: Umut Gürsoy

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10:00 → 10:30 Invited talks

10:00 Finding Gravity in Large N Theory Space

Speaker: Eric Perlmutter

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Invited talks

11:00 Top-Down Celestial Holograms

Speaker: Andrew Strominger

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11:30 Towards Positive Geometry of the massive S matrix

Speaker: Alok Laddha

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

Speaker: Ana-Maria Raclariu

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12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Review talks

14:00 Quantum information and spacetime

Speaker: Michael Walter

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15:00 → 16:00 Invited talks

15:00 Nonperturbative Amplituhedron Geometries

Speaker: Jaroslav Trnka

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15:30 Classical Physics from Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: David Kosower

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16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Gong Show

Gong Show recording

Prizes recording

Friday 22 July

09:00 → 10:00 Review talks

09:00 Black Hole Microstate Counting in AdS

Speaker: Francesco Benini

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10:00 → 10:30 Invited talks

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

Speaker: Zohar Komargodski

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Invited talks

11:00 Crossing symmetric dispersion relations

Speaker: Aninda Sinha

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11:30 From N=2 supersymmetry to adjoint QCD

Speaker: Emily Nardoni

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12:00 On towers of light states at infinite distance

Speaker: Seung-Joo Lee

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12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Invited talks

14:00 The Large-charge expansion

Speaker: Susanne Reffert

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14:30 Non-invertible Symmetry in Our Dimensions

Speaker: Kantaro Ohmori

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15:00 Generalised Symmetries from String Theory

Speaker: Iñaki García-Etxebarria

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15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:25 Concluding Session

Recording of the entire Conluding Session

16:00 GenHET

Speaker: Agnese Bissi

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16:20 BIMSA

Speaker: Shing-Tung Yau

16:25 Joe Polchinski Memoir

Speaker: Ahmed Almheiri

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16:30 Perspectives and Prospects

Speaker: Rajesh Gopakumar

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16:50 Perspectives and Prospects

Speaker: Hirosi Ooguri

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Recording of entire Conluding Session

19:00 → 20:00 Public talk by Netta Engelhardt [MIT]

Saturday 23 July

19:00 → 20:00 Colloquium by Andrew Strominger [Harvard U.]