Strings 2020

Session

Main Session

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29 Jun 2020, 14:00

Conveners

Main Session: Monday 2pm

• Amanda Weltman (University of Cape Town)

Main Session: Monday 5pm

• Joao Rodrigues (Wits University)

Main Session: Tuesday 2pm

• Leopoldo Pando-Zayas (Michigan)

Main Session: Tuesday 5pm

• Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech/Kavli IPMU)

Main Session: Wednesday 2pm

• Ofer Aharony (Weizmann)

Main Session: Wednesday 5pm

• Mariana Graña (Institut de Physique Théorique)

Main Session: Thursday 2pm

• Marika Taylor (Southhampton)

Main Session: Thursday 5pm

• Igor Klebanov (Princeton)

Main Session

• Nathan Berkovits (ICTP-SAIFR)

Main Session: Final Session

• Jeff Murugan (University of Cape Town)

3. Opening Address

Mamokgethi Phakeng (UCT Vice Chancellor)

29/06/2020, 14:00

2. Review: First results and potential African expansion of the Event Horizon Telescope

Roger Deane (University of Pretoria)

29/06/2020, 14:30

4. Deriving the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ Correspondence

Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS, Bangalore)

29/06/2020, 16:00

5. JT gravity with defects and 3D gravity

Henry Maxfield (UC Santa Barbara)

29/06/2020, 17:00

6. AdS/dCFT and integrable boundary states

Charlotte Kristjansen (Niels Bohr Institute)

29/06/2020, 18:00

7. Social Zoom

29/06/2020, 19:00

8. String Lamppost and the Swampland

Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)

30/06/2020, 14:00

9. D-instanton perturbation theory

Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

30/06/2020, 15:00

10. New holographic CFTs: finding the needle in the haystack

Alexandre Belin (CERN)

30/06/2020, 16:00

11. D-instanton Calculus in c=1 String Theory

Xi Yin (Harvard)

30/06/2020, 17:00

12. Simple Models of Evaporating Black Holes

Netta Engelhardt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

30/06/2020, 18:00

13. Review: Fractons for Field Theorists and Field Theory of Fractons

Nathan Seiberg (IAS)

01/07/2020, 14:00

14. Anomalies of SCFTs and geometric engineering in M-theory

Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins University)

01/07/2020, 15:30

15. Taming Defects in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills

Yifan Wang (Harvard)

01/07/2020, 17:00

16. Higher-Group Symmetry and Applications

Clay Cordova (Chicago)

01/07/2020, 18:00

18. Constraints on Tree Level Gravitational Scattering

Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR)

02/07/2020, 14:00

19. Asymptotic symmetries and celestial CFT

Andrea Puhm (Ecole Polytechnique)

02/07/2020, 15:00

20. Nonperturbative Mellin Amplitudes

Joao Penedones (IPT Lausanne)

02/07/2020, 16:00

21. A Mellin-Barnes Approach to Scattering in de Sitter Space

Charlotte Sleight (IAS)

02/07/2020, 17:00

22. Unitarity Methods in AdS/CFT

David Meltzer (Caltech)

02/07/2020, 18:00

23. Social Zoom / Inclusivity in String Theory

02/07/2020, 19:00

24. Review: Recent progress on the black hole information paradox

Juan Maldacena (IAS)

03/07/2020, 14:00

29. Black Hole Information Panel Discussion

Maldacena, Almheiri, Engelhardt, Mathur, Penington, Raju, Stanford, Strominger, Marolf, Perry (Moderator)

03/07/2020, 19:00

30. Vision: David Gross

03/07/2020, 21:00