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
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
Coordinators: Lara Anderson, Rajesh Gopakumar, Thomas Hartman, and Xi Yin
Day of Apr 02, 2024
2024
Tuesday, Apr 02, 2024
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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
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10:30AM MORNING BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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12:30PM LUNCH BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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05:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Gurley Courtyard
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
Coordinators: Lara Anderson, Rajesh Gopakumar, Thomas Hartman, and Xi Yin
Week of Apr 01 - Apr 07, 2024
2024
Monday, Apr 01, 2024
No talks scheduled.
2024
Tuesday, Apr 02, 2024
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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
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10:30AM MORNING BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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12:30PM LUNCH BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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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
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05:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Gurley Courtyard
2024
Wednesday, Apr 03, 2024
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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
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10:30AM MORNING BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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12:30PM LUNCH BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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05:30PM RECEPTION
Gurley Courtyard
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06:00PM SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
Gurley Courtyard
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08:00PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Gurley Courtyard
2024
Thursday, Apr 04, 2024
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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
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10:30AM MORNING BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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12:30PM LUNCH BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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05:30PM RECEPTION
Gurley Courtyard
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06:00PM SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
Gurley Courtyard
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08:00PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Gurley Courtyard
2024
Friday, Apr 05, 2024
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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
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10:30AM MORNING BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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12:30PM LUNCH BREAK
Gurley Courtyard
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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
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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.