Name: Strings 2020
Start: 2020-06-29T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-07-03T22:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Strings 2020

from Monday, June 29, 2020 (2:00 PM) to Friday, July 3, 2020 (10:30 PM)

Monday, June 29, 2020
2:00 PM Main Session: Monday 2pm
Monday 2pm
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Opening Address - Mamokgethi Phakeng (UCT Vice Chancellor)

2:30 PM Review: First results and potential African expansion of the Event Horizon Telescope - Roger Deane (University of Pretoria)

4:00 PM Deriving the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ Correspondence - Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS, Bangalore)
5:00 PM Main Session: Monday 5pm
Monday 5pm
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM JT gravity with defects and 3D gravity - Henry Maxfield (UC Santa Barbara)

6:00 PM AdS/dCFT and integrable boundary states - Charlotte Kristjansen (Niels Bohr Institute)

7:00 PM Social Zoom
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
2:00 PM Main Session: Tuesday 2pm
Tuesday 2pm
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM String Lamppost and the Swampland - Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)

3:00 PM D-instanton perturbation theory - Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

4:00 PM New holographic CFTs: finding the needle in the haystack - Alexandre Belin (CERN)
5:00 PM Main Session: Tuesday 5pm
Tuesday 5pm
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM D-instanton Calculus in c=1 String Theory - Xi Yin (Harvard)

6:00 PM Simple Models of Evaporating Black Holes - Netta Engelhardt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
2:00 PM Main Session: Wednesday 2pm
Wednesday 2pm
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Review: Fractons for Field Theorists and Field Theory of Fractons - Nathan Seiberg (IAS)

3:30 PM Anomalies of SCFTs and geometric engineering in M-theory - Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins University)
5:00 PM Main Session: Wednesday 5pm
Wednesday 5pm
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Taming Defects in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills - Yifan Wang (Harvard)

6:00 PM Higher-Group Symmetry and Applications - Clay Cordova (Chicago)
8:00 PM Public Session
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Contributions

8:00 PM Public Talk: The hidden geometry of spacetime - Shamit Kachru (Stanford)
Thursday, July 2, 2020
2:00 PM Main Session: Thursday 2pm
Thursday 2pm
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Constraints on Tree Level Gravitational Scattering - Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR)

3:00 PM Asymptotic symmetries and celestial CFT - Andrea Puhm (Ecole Polytechnique)

4:00 PM Nonperturbative Mellin Amplitudes - Joao Penedones (IPT Lausanne)
5:00 PM Main Session: Thursday 5pm
Thursday 5pm
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM A Mellin-Barnes Approach to Scattering in de Sitter Space - Charlotte Sleight (IAS)

6:00 PM Unitarity Methods in AdS/CFT - David Meltzer (Caltech)

7:00 PM Social Zoom / Inclusivity in String Theory
Friday, July 3, 2020
2:00 PM Main Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Review: Recent progress on the black hole information paradox - Juan Maldacena (IAS)
3:30 PM Black Hole Information: Special Session
Special Session
3:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Holographic null infinity and the information paradox in flat space - Suvrat Raju (ICTS)

4:10 PM Celestial Holography - Andrew Strominger (Harvard)

4:50 PM The VECRO hypothesis - Samir Mathur (Ohio State)

5:30 PM Replica Wormholes and the Black Hole Interior - Geoff Penington (Stanford)

6:10 PM Comments on replica wormholes - Douglas Stanford (Stanford)
7:00 PM Main Session: Final Session
Final Session
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Contributions

7:00 PM Black Hole Information Panel Discussion - Maldacena Almheiri Engelhardt Mathur Penington Raju Stanford Strominger Marolf Perry (Moderator)

9:00 PM Vision: David Gross

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