Spacetime and String Theory

Coordinators: Lara Anderson, Rajesh Gopakumar, Thomas Hartman, and Xi Yin

String theory encompasses a wide range of perspectives on the nature of spacetime, from qubit models of black hole information to the string worldsheet. This conference will aim for a new synthesis of the field that builds on recent progress on the role of quantum information, new top-down techniques in string compactification and string field theory, and growing evidence for precise holographic dualities beyond anti-de Sitter space. The focus will be on bridging the divide between the IR and the UV. We will explore recent progress in non-perturbative string theory and stringy constraints on effective field theory, and develop the connections between the gravitational path integral, higher topologies, and entanglement, from low energy to the string scale.


Confirmed speakers include:

Alejandra Castro

Shai Chester

Ashoke Sen

Chi-Ming Chang

Eva Silverstein

Hiroshi Ooguri

Jake McNamara

Jonathan Heckman

Jonathan Sorce

Juan Maldacena

Kasia Budzik

Manki Kim

Martin Schnabl

Micha Berkooz

Mukund Rangamani

Naomi Gendler

Sameer Murthy

Scott Collier

Sebastian Mizera

Shreya Vardhan

Shu-Heng Shao

Tadashi Takayanagi

Veronika Hubeny

Luca Iliesiu

Victor Rodriguez

Wati Taylor

Xi Dong

Zohar Komargodski

Ricardo Schiappa

Wei Li


2024

Tuesday, Apr 02, 2024

  • Chair: Thomas Hartman (Cornell) 08:50AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 08:50AM Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • 09:00AM Eva Silverstein (Stanford) Algorithmic proposal for a timelike-boundary dual of dS_3 with matter
    • 09:45AM Sameer Murthy (King's College London) Gravitational index of the heterotic string
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Jacob McNamara (Caltech) Cobordism, ER = EPR, and the Sum Over Topologies
    • 11:45AM Victor Rodriguez (Princeton) The Virasoro Minimal String
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 02:00PM Scott Collier (CTP) A new 2d string theory/matrix model duality
    • 02:45PM Naomi Gendler (Harvard) Universality in the Axiverse
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 04:00PM Ashoke Sen (ICTS) Supersymmetric index of small black holes
    • 04:45PM Jonathan Sorce (MIT) Comments on black hole entropy in Lorentz signature
  • 05:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Monday, Apr 01, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Tuesday, Apr 02, 2024

  • Chair: Thomas Hartman (Cornell) 08:50AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 08:50AM Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • 09:00AM Eva Silverstein (Stanford) Algorithmic proposal for a timelike-boundary dual of dS_3 with matter
    • 09:45AM Sameer Murthy (King's College London) Gravitational index of the heterotic string
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Jacob McNamara (Caltech) Cobordism, ER = EPR, and the Sum Over Topologies
    • 11:45AM Victor Rodriguez (Princeton) The Virasoro Minimal String
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 02:00PM Scott Collier (CTP) A new 2d string theory/matrix model duality
    • 02:45PM Naomi Gendler (Harvard) Universality in the Axiverse
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 04:00PM Ashoke Sen (ICTS) Supersymmetric index of small black holes
    • 04:45PM Jonathan Sorce (MIT) Comments on black hole entropy in Lorentz signature
  • 05:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Wednesday, Apr 03, 2024

  • Chair: Roberto Emparan (ICC Univ. Barcelona) 09:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 09:00AM Juan Maldacena (IAS) Three point functions and soft factors in the BFSS matrix model for M-theory
    • 09:45AM Chi Ming Chang (Tsinghua Univ.) Black Holes from Supercharge Cohomology
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech) Distance Conjecture in AdS3/CFT2
    • 11:45AM Sebastian Mizera (IAS) String amplitudes: Dotting the i's and curling the epsilons
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Spenta Wadia (ICTS) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 02:00PM Zohar Komargodski (SCGP) Semi Classical Physics at Large Quantum Numbers
    • 02:45PM Manki Kim (CTP) Theoretical challenges in string phenomenology
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 04:00PM Tadashi Takayanagi (YITP) Entropic g-theorem and Holography
    • 04:45PM Shai Chester (Imperial College) Bootstrapping string theory
  • 05:30PM RECEPTION Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 06:00PM SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 08:00PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Thursday, Apr 04, 2024

  • Chair: Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich) 09:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 09:00AM Jonathan Heckman (Univ. of Penn) Symmetries Approach to Non-Supersymmetric String Backgrounds
    • 09:45AM Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis) The power of marginal independence
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Inst.) The double scaled SYK model: Quantum chaos and Non-commutative geometry
    • 11:45AM Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis) Superstring partition functions in AdS3
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Emil Martinec (U. Chicago) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 02:00PM Washington Taylor (MIT) Beyond F-theory
    • 02:45PM Alejandra Castro (Cambridge) The light we can see: Extracting black holes from weak Jacobi forms
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 04:00PM Xi Dong (UCSB) Type I von Neumann algebras from bulk path integrals: Understanding RT without AdS/CFT
    • 04:45PM Martin Schnabl (IAS) Exploring 2D CFT's via String Field Theory
  • 05:30PM RECEPTION Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 06:00PM SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 08:00PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Friday, Apr 05, 2024

  • Chair: Xi Yin (Harvard) 09:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 09:00AM Shu Heng Shao (Stony Brook) Non-invertible symmetries from lattice GSO
    • 09:45AM Shreya Vardhan (Stanford) Hydrodynamic pictures for entanglement growth in chaotic quantum many-body systems
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Kasia Budzik (Perimeter Inst.) B-model Twisted Holography
    • 11:45AM Luca Iliesiu (UC Berkeley) On the evaporation history of charged black holes
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Xi Yin (Harvard) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion

    • 02:00PM Ricardo Schiappa (Univ. of Lisbon) A Resurgence of Negativity in Large N Duality
    • 02:45PM Wei Li (ITP-CAS) Progress in BPS algebras
  • 03:30PM CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location.(See Registration Desk BEFORE FRIDAY to sign up.) Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Saturday, Apr 06, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Sunday, Apr 07, 2024

No talks scheduled.