Iberian Strings 2015

27 May 2015, 09:00 → 29 May 2015, 20:35 Europe/Madrid

Salamanca (Spain)

Juan L. Manes, Kerstin Elena Kunze (University of Salamanca (ES)), Miguel Angel Vazquez Mozo (University of Salamanca (ES))

The Iberian Strings 2015 Workshop is the 6th edition of the Iberian Strings series. The meeting aims at bringing together the community of physicist working in Portugal and Spain (though not exclusively) on various aspects of string theory, gauge theories, and gravity.

This year's Workshop will take place in Salamanca (Spain) from 27 to 29 May, 2015 at the University of Salamanca.

Invited speakers

• Cedric Deffayet (IAP, Paris)
• Henrik Johansson (CERN)
• Joan Simon (U. Edinburgh)

Previous Iberian Strings meetings took place in

• Palencia, 2014
• Lisbon, 2013
• Bilbao, 2012
• Valencia, 2011
• Porto, 2010

Scientitfic Advisory Committee:

• Luis Álvarez-Gaumé (CERN)
• Miguel Costa (U.Porto)
• Carlos Herdeiro (U. Aveiro)
• Gabriel Lopes-Cardoso (IST, Lisbon)
• Esperanza López (IFT UAM-CSIC)
• Yolanda Lozano (U. Oviedo)
• Javier Mas (U. Santiago)
• Tomás Ortín (IFT UAM-CSIC)

Local Organizing Committee:

• Kerstin Kunze (U. Salamanca)
• Juan L. Mañes (U. Basque Country)
• Miguel Á. Vázquez-Mozo (U. Salamanca)

Sponsors:                     

Wednesday, 27 May

09:30 Registration and welcome

1 Geometry, Entanglement and Scrambling

Speaker: Joan Simon (U. Edimburgh)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Simon.pdf

2 Rigid supersymmetry and notions of holomorphy in five dimensions

Speaker: Johannes Schmude (U. Oviedo)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Schmude.pdf

3 Deformations of Special Geometry and the Holomorphic Anomaly Equation

Speaker: Gabriel Cardoso (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Cardoso.pdf

12:00 Coffee break

4 New AdS/CFT duals through non-Abelian T-duality

Speaker: Yolanda Lozano (U. Oviedo)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Lozano.pdf

5 Higher Rank Wilson Loops in the N=2 SU(N)xSU(N) Conformal Quiver

Speaker: Benjo Fraser (U. Athens)

13:30 Lunch break

6 Holographic Wilsonian Flows of Renormalizable Theories

Speaker: Francisco Javier Martínez LIzana (U. Granada)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Lizana.pdf

7 The Quantum Effective Action of Non-Relativistic Field Theories

Speaker: Mario Herrero-Valea (IFT UAM/CSIC, Madrid)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Herrero-Valea.pdf

17:00 Coffee break

8 Holographic Bifundamental Superfluids

Speaker: Daniel Arean (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Arean.pdf

9 Classical Spinning Strings in AdS3/CFT2

Speaker: Juan Miguel Nieto (U. Complutense, Madrid)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Nieto.pdf

Thursday, 28 May

10 Topics in Massive Gravity

Speaker: Cédric Deffayet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris & IHES, Paris)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Deffayet.pdf

11 Cold Non-Relativistic Hyperscaling Violating Holographic Matter

Speaker: Jarkko Järvelä (U. Helsinki)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Jarvela.pdf

12 Resurgence in Topological Strings and Matrix Models

Speaker: Ricardo Couso Santamaria (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Couso-Santamaria.pdf

12:00 Coffee break

13 Holographic Three-Dimensional YM with Compresible Matter

Speaker: Christiana Pantelidou (U. Barcelona)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Pantelidou.pdf

14 Non-Abelian Black Holes in N=1, d=5 Supergravity

Speaker: Pedro F. Ramírez (IFT UAM-CSIC, Madrid)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Ramirez.pdf

15 On Wilson-'t Hooft Lines in Theories of Class S

Speaker: Michele Cirafici (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Cirafici.pdf

14:00 Lunch break

16 F-theory on Almost-Kähler Manifolds

Speaker: Carlos Shahbazi (IphT-CEA Saclay)

17 Quantum Corrections to Unimodular Gravity

Speaker: Sergio González-Martín (IFT UAM-CSIC, Madrid)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Gonzalez_Martin.pdf

18 Probing Conformal Field Theories

Speaker: Bartomeu Fiol (U. Barcelona)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Fiol.pdf

17:30 Coffee break

19 Disordered Holographic Superfluids

Speaker: Ignacio Salazar (U. de la Plata)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Salazar_Landea.pdf

20 Charge Localization and Brane Intersections

Speaker: Mario Araujo (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Araujo.pdf

19:30 Presentation of the book “Antimateria, Magia y Poesía” by José Edelstein and Andrés Gomberoff. The book will be presented by José Edelstein at Librería Hydria (Plaza de la Fuente 17, Salamanca)

Friday, 29 May

21 Yang-Mills-Einstein Supergravity from Gauge Theory

Speaker: Henrik Johansson (CERN, Geneva)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Johansson.pdf

22 Soft and Hard Pomeron in AdS/QCD

Speaker: Marko Djuric (U. Porto)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Djuric.pdf

23 Double Soft Limits from Asymptotic Symmetries

Speaker: Eduardo Conde Pena (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Conde_Pena.pdf

12:00 Coffee break

24 Anomalies, Chern-Simons Terms and Black Hole Entropy

Speaker: Tatsuo Azeyanagi (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Azeyanagi.pdf

25 On-Shell Diagrammatics and the Perturbative Structure of Planar Gauge Theories

Speaker: Paolo Benincasa (IFT UAM-CSIC, Madrid)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Benincasa.pdf

26 Position Space Analysis of the AdS (In)stability Problem

Speaker: Matthew Lippert (U. Amsterdam)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Lippert.pdf

14:00 Lunch break

27 Causality Constraints on the Graviton 3-Point Coupling

Speaker: José Edelstein (U. Santiago de Compostela)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Edelstein.pdf

28 Causality and positivity of energy in AdS/CFT

Speaker: Xián O. Camanho (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationphysik, Golm)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Camanho.pdf

29 Corner Contributions to Holographic Entanglement Entropy

Speaker: Pablo Bueno (IFT UAM-CSIC, Madrid)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Bueno_Gomez.pdf

17:30 Coffee break

30 Massive Gauge Fields and Anomalous Transport in Holography

Speaker: Amadeo Jiménez (IFT UAM-CSIC, Madrid)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Jimenez.pdf

31 Hydrodynamics of p-Wave Superconductors

Speaker: Raul Arias (Centro Atómico de Bariloche)

Slides Iberian_Strings2015_Arias.pdf