Strings 2022

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

Audimax (University of Vienna)

Monday, 18 July

1 Registration

2 Opening Addresses

Speakers: Christof Gattringer, Regina Hitzenberger

Recording

Review talks

3 The branes behind black holes

Speaker: Emil Martinec

Recording

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Invited talks

4 4d physics from 2d chiral correlators

Speaker: Natalie Paquette

Recording

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10:30 Coffee break

Invited talks

5 An Algebra of Observables for de Sitter Space

Speaker: Edward Witten

Recording

Slides_Witten.pdf

6 Holographic Complexity and de Sitter Space

Speaker: Shira Chapman

Recording

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7 Complexity, chaos, and black holes

Speaker: Vijay Balasubramanian

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12:30 Lunch

Review talks

8 $T\bar T$ deformations and holography: review and open questions

Speaker: Monica Guica

Recording

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Invited talks

9 A theory of the black hole interior

Speaker: Daniel Harlow

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15:30 Coffee break

Special talks: DM talk

10 Dark matter identification efforts

Speaker: Maxim Pospelov

Recording

Slides_Pospelov.pdf

Invited talks

11 Consequences of No Global Symmetries in Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Tom Rudelius

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12 Small Cosmological Constants in String Theory

Speaker: Liam McAllister

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Reception & Poster session

Tuesday, 19 July

Review talks

13 Randall-Sundrum Branes and Holography

Speaker: Andreas Karch

Recording

Slides_Karch.pdf

Invited talks

14 Line Operators in Chern-Simons-Matter Theories and Bosonization in Three Dimensions

Speaker: Amit Sever

Recording

Slides_Sever.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

Invited talks

15 The emergence of space and time in holography

Speaker: Hong Liu

Recording

Slides.pdf

16 Holography for Multi-Representation and Chiral Matter

Speaker: Nick Evans

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17 From statistical mechanics to microstate counting for extremal and near-extremal black holes

Speaker: Luca Iliesiu

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12:30 Lunch

Review talks

18 News from the higher D SQFT frontier

Speaker: Shlomo Razamat

Recording

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Invited talks

19 Black hole entropy functions and spinning spindles

Speaker: James Sparks

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15:30 Coffee break

Discussion sessions

20 Factorization and Ensembles

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

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21 Integrability and the Bootstrap

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

Recording

Slides_Chester.pdf

22 Strings and the Real World

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

Recording

23 Speakers' dinner

Wednesday, 20 July

Review talks

24 Fluxes, holography and uses of Exceptional Generalized Geometry

Speaker: Daniel Waldram

Recording

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Invited talks

25 Dualities from dualities: sequential deconfinement & the mirror dualisation algorithm

Speaker: Sara Pasquetti

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10:30 Coffee break

Invited talks

26 What happens when you look at supersymmetric black holes for a long time?

Speaker: Juan Maldacena

Recording

Slides_Maldacena.pdf

27 Concrete Calculables in Quantum dS

Speaker: Dionysios Anninos

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28 AdS/CFT @ loop order

Speaker: Kostas Skenderis

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29 Adiabatic continuity, anomaly preserving compactifications, and confinement in Yang-Mills theory

Speaker: Mithat Ünsal

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13:00 Lunch

30 Optional afternoon program

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

31 Conference dinner

Thursday, 21 July

Review talks

32 Recent developments in gauge-gravity duality applied to quantum many-body systems

Speaker: Umut Gürsoy

Recording

Slides_Gursoy.pdf

Invited talks

33 Finding Gravity in Large N Theory Space

Speaker: Eric Perlmutter

Recording

Slides_Perlmutter.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

Invited talks

34 Top-Down Celestial Holograms

Speaker: Andrew Strominger

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35 Towards Positive Geometry of the massive S matrix

Speaker: Alok Laddha

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Slides_Laddha.pdf

36 Celestial amplitudes from flat space limits of AdS Witten diagrams

Speaker: Ana-Maria Raclariu

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Slides_Raclariu.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Review talks

37 Quantum information and spacetime

Speaker: Michael Walter

Recording

Slides_Walter.pdf

Invited talks

38 Nonperturbative Amplituhedron Geometries

Speaker: Jaroslav Trnka

Recording

Slides_Trnka.pdf

39 Classical Physics from Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: David Kosower

Recording

Slides_Kosower.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

Gong Show

Gong Show recording

Prizes recording

Friday, 22 July

Review talks

40 Black Hole Microstate Counting in AdS

Speaker: Francesco Benini

Recording

Slides_Benini.pdf

Invited talks

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

Speaker: Zohar Komargodski

Recording

Slides_Komargodski.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

Invited talks

42 Crossing symmetric dispersion relations

Speaker: Aninda Sinha

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Slides_Sinha.pdf

43 From N=2 supersymmetry to adjoint QCD

Speaker: Emily Nardoni

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Slides_Nardoni.pdf

44 On towers of light states at infinite distance

Speaker: Seung-Joo Lee

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Slides_Lee.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Invited talks

45 The Large-charge expansion

Speaker: Susanne Reffert

Recording

Slides_Reffert.pdf

46 Non-invertible Symmetry in Our Dimensions

Speaker: Kantaro Ohmori

Recording

Slides_Ohmori.pdf

47 Generalised Symmetries from String Theory

Speaker: Iñaki García-Etxebarria

Recording

Slides_Garcia.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

Concluding Session

Recording of the entire Conluding Session

48 GenHET

Speaker: Agnese Bissi

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49 BIMSA

Speaker: Shing-Tung Yau

50 Joe Polchinski Memoir

Speaker: Ahmed Almheiri

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51 Perspectives and Prospects

Speaker: Rajesh Gopakumar

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52 Perspectives and Prospects

Speaker: Hirosi Ooguri

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Recording of entire Conluding Session

53 Public talk by Netta Engelhardt [MIT]

Saturday, 23 July

54 Colloquium by Andrew Strominger [Harvard U.]