Advances in Quantum Field Theory

25 Mar 2019, 09:00 → 5 Apr 2019, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

This 2-week long CERN TH Institute will concentrate on advances in our understanding of Quantum Field Theory. We plan to cover recent advances in bootstrap, entanglement, dualities and algebraic QFT. The workshop is expected to bring together experts from these different areas to share ideas, establish a common language, and chart a path forward for the field. We will provide a stimulating environment for discussions and for forming new collaborations. We plan to have a relaxed schedule with ample time for discussions.

Participation is by invitations only

Organisers : T. Hartman (Cornell), Z. Komargodski (Simons center & Weizmann Institute), A. Sever (CERN), A. Zhiboedov (CERN & Harvard)

Monday 25 March

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 11:30 An alternative to Feynman diagrams for CFT

Speaker: Fernando Alday

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 TBA

Speaker: Christopher Beem

15:00 → 16:00 Relative entropy in QFT

Speaker: Feng Xu

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

Tuesday 26 March

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 11:30 TTbar on torus and sphere

Speaker: Yunfeng Jiang (CERN)

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 TBA

Speaker: Monica Guica

15:00 → 16:00 TBA

Speaker: Zohar Komargodski

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

Wednesday 27 March

09:00 → 09:30 Coffee

09:30 → 11:00 Large N QFT

Speaker: Vladimir Rosenhaus

11:00 → 12:00 The Bound State Spectrum of 3D Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Eric Perlmutter

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Hydrodynamics of Entanglement

Speaker: Mark Mezei

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

Thursday 28 March

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 11:30 A look at Operator Algebras in Quantum Field Theory

Speaker: Roberto Longo

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Information-theoretic constraints in quantum field theory

Speaker: Nima Lashkari

15:00 → 16:00 Modular flow in chiral CFTs

Speaker: Stefan Hollands

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

Friday 29 March

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 11:30 Low-dimensional de Sitter gravity

Speaker: Kristan Jensen

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Bootstrapping Multiple Amplitudes

Speaker: Joao Penedones

15:00 → 16:00 Black hole formation in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev toy model of quantum gravity

Speaker: Spenta Wadia

Monday 1 April

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 11:30 Holey sheet, integrability!

Speaker: Shota Komatsu

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Large N Chern Simons coupled fermions in a background magnetic field

Speaker: Shiraz Minwalla

15:00 → 16:00 Oranges Stacking and Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Tom Hartman

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

Tuesday 2 April

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 11:30 Entanglement and irreversibility on the light-cone

Speaker: Gonzalo Torroba

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Genus one string amplitude from CFT

Speaker: Agnese Bissi

15:00 → 16:00 TTbar and quantum mechanics

Speaker: Edgar Shaghoulian

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

Wednesday 3 April

09:00 → 09:30 Coffee

09:30 → 11:00 On the S-matrix of Ising Field Theory in 1+1 dimensions

Speaker: Xi Yin

11:00 → 12:00 Old and new exact dualities

Speaker: Djordje Radicevic

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Bose Fermi Duality in 3 dimensions

Speaker: Shiraz Minwalla

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

Thursday 4 April

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 11:30 Light-ray operators and operator product expansions

Speaker: Petr Kravchuk

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Two dimensional nearly de Sitter gravity

Speaker: Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci

15:00 → 16:00 Eigenstate thermalization in 2d CFT and a scrambling phase transition

Speaker: Tarek Anous

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

Friday 5 April

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 11:00 TBA

Speaker: Simon Caron-Huot

11:00 → 12:00 Generalized Eigenstate Thermalization in 2d CFTs

Speaker: Anatoly Dymarsky

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch