Gravity, Geometry and Symmetry: a celebration for Pietro Fre’s 70’s

Friday 7 Oct 2022, 09:00 → 19:00 Europe/Zurich

Aula C (Dipartimento di Fisica - Università degli Studi di Torino)

This special day is an informal celebration of the career and scientific contributions  on "Gravity, Geometry and Symmetry" of our colleague and friend Pietro Frè, who has turned 70 and will retire in November 2022.

 

The scientific program includes talks by Ugo Bruzzo (SISSA, Trieste), Riccardo D'Auria (PoliTO, Torino), Dario Martelli (Unito, Torino), Hermann Nicolai (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam-Golm), Toine van Proeyen (KU Leuven), Augusto Sagnotti (SNS, Pisa), Mario Trigiante (PoliTO, Torino) and Alberto Zaffaroni (MiB, Milano). There will be time for few other short contributions by some of his collaborators/students/friends and concluding remarks by Pietro.

 

The talks will be streamed on Zoom (the link will be published later).

 

The registration is necessary for those who plan to attend in-person  and those who want to take part in the social dinner.

 

Please contact Anna Ceresole (INFN Turin), Leonardo Castellani (UPO Alessandria) or Carlo Angelantonj (Unito) if you need help to attend the event or you would like to leave a special note for Pietro.

1 How Geometric Supergravity was Born in Torino

Speaker: Riccardo D'Auria (Universita degli Studi di Torino)

DAuria_Fre2022.pdf

2 Reflections on Supergravity

Speaker: Hermann Nicolai (II. Institut fuer Experimentalphysik)

Nicolai_Fre2022.pdf

3 Pietro’s Supergravity - A Tale of Geometry

Speaker: Antoine August M Van Proeyen (KU Leuven (BE))

VanProeyen_Fre2022.pdf

4 A Tale of Homogeneous Spaces

Speaker: Alberto Zaffaroni

Zaffaroni_Fre2022.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

5 Ricci-flat Metrics on Canonical Bundles of Kaehler Surfaces

Speaker: Ugo Bruzzo (SISSA)

Bruzzo_Fre2022.pdf

6 String-Inspired Dynamics with Sharp Transitions

Speaker: Augusto Sagnotti (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN-Sezione di Pisa (IT))

Sagnotti_Fre2022.pdf

7 Supergravity, Geometry, AdS/CFT … and Pietro Fré

Speaker: Dario Martelli (UNITO)

Martelli_Fre2022.pdf

8 Embedded Symmetry

Speaker: Mario Trigiante (Politecnico of Turin)

Trigiante_Fre2022.pdf

9 Short voluntary interventions

10 Closing remarks by Pietro Fré

Speaker: Pietro Fré (UNITO)

SalutiPF.pdf