Pre-strings 2019 Leuven

2 Jul 2019, 08:00 → 5 Jul 2019, 17:30 UTC

Irish College, Leuven

Introduction

The pre-Strings 2019 workshop will bring together researchers interested in string theory and related topics. It is organized in conjunction with the Strings 2019 conference in Brussels.

The goal of the workshop is to provide an overview of important recent developments in string theory, quantum field theory, holography, supergravity and their applications.
There will be five comprehensive review lectures which will set the stage for research talks that summarize the state of the art.

Review speakers

• Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)
• Sameer Murthy (King's College)
• Eran Palti (Max Planck Institute, Munich)
• Silviu Pufu (Princeton University)
• Alessandro Tomasiello (Milano Bicocca)

Invited speakers include:

• Senarath de Alwis (University of Colorado)
• Dyonisios Anninos (King's College)
• Pablo Cano (IFT, Madrid)
• Gianguido Dall'Agata (University of Padua)
• Lorenzo Di Pietro (Perimeter Institute)
• Lorenz Eberhardt (ETH)
• Simeon Hellerman (Kavli IPMU)
• Kiril Hristov (INRNE, BAS)
• Ling-Yan Hung (Fudan University)
• Madalena Lemos (CERN)
• Yolanda Lozano (University of Oviedo)
• Dario Martelli (King's College London)
• Onkar Parrikar (University of Pennsylvania)
• Andrea Puhm (CPHT, École Polytechnique)
• Balt van Rees (Durham University)
• Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin)
• Julian Sonner (University of Geneva)
• Chiara Toldo (CPHT, École Polytechnique)
• David Turton (University of Southampton)
• Irene Valenzuela (Cornell University)

Organizing committee

Nikolay Bobev, Thomas Hertog, Toine Van Proeyen, Thomas Van Riet, Bert Vercnocke (ITF, KU Leuven)

International Advisory Committee

Riccardo Argurio (ULB), Alejandra Castro (University of Amsterdam), Ben Craps (VUB), Frederik Denef (Columbia University/KU Leuven), Henriette Elvang (University of Michigan), Jaume Gomis (Perimeter Institute), Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS-TIFR), Mariana Graña (IPhT, Saclay), Igor Klebanov (Princeton University),  Joseph Minahan (Uppsala University), Jeff Murugan (University of Cape Town), Yuji Tachikawa (Kavli IPMU), Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam)

 

 

Tuesday 2 July

Registration

1 Review talk - How macroscopic black holes teach us about microscopic string theory: 1. From supergravity to modular symmetry

Speaker: Sameer Murthy (King's College)

LeuvenPreStringsTalk1MurthyPublic.pdf

10:00 Coffee

2 Review talk - Progress in supergravity

Speaker: Alessandro Tomasiello (Milano Bicocca)

Alessandro-Tomasiello.pdf

3 Technical talk - Strings, branes, and black holes

Speaker: David Turton (University of Southampton)

David-Turton.pdf

12:00 Lunch

4 Technical talk - The Swampland at the boundary of field space

Speaker: Irene Valenzuela (Cornell University)

talk_valenzuela.pdf

5 Technical talk - Conformally soft gravitons

Speaker: Andrea Puhm (CPHT, École Polytechnique)

Puhm.pdf

15:00 Coffee

6 Technical talk - Supersymmetric black holes in AdS4 with rotation

Speaker: Kiril Hristov (INRNE, BAS)

KirilHristov.pdf

7 Technical talk - Are KKLT and LVS in the Swamp?

Speaker: Senarath de Alwis (University of Colorado)

DeAlwis.pdf

8 Technical talk - Filling the boundary: NUTs and Bolts of AdS holography

Speaker: Chiara Toldo (CPHT, École Polytechnique)

prestrings19TOLDO.pdf

17:30 reception

Wednesday 3 July

9 Review talk - Correlation functions in strongly-coupled SCFTs

Speaker: Silviu Pufu (Princeton University)

LeuvenReviewPufu.pdf

10:00 Coffee

10 Review talk - How macroscopic black holes teach us about microscopic string theory: 2. Black holes in AdS5 and the asymptotic growth of states of SCFT4

Speaker: Sameer Murthy (King's College)

MurthyTalk2Public2019.pdf

11 Review talk - Correlation functions in strongly-coupled SCFTs

Speaker: Silviu Pufu (Princeton University)

LeuvenReviewPufu.pdf

12:30 Lunch

12 Review talk - Progress in supergravity

Speaker: Alessandro Tomasiello (Milano Bicocca)

Alessandro-Tomasiello.pdf

15:30 Coffee

13 Technical Talk - alpha’ corrections to heterotic black holes

Speaker: Pablo Cano (IFT, Madrid)

Pablo_Cano.pdf

14 Technical Talk - Sphere partition functions and de Sitter space

Speaker: Dyonisios Anninos (King's College)

Anninos.pdf

Thursday 4 July

15 Review talk - Recent Developments in the Swampland

Speaker: Eran Palti (Max Planck Institute, Munich)

eran_palti_PreStrings19.pdf

10:00 Cofee

16 Review talk - Holography & Entanglement

Speaker: Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)

Hubeny.pdf

17 Technical talk - Soft modes from black hole microstates

Speaker: Onkar Parrikar (University of Pennsylvania)

Parrikar_Slides.pdf

12:00 Lunch

18 Technical talk - Extremization principles in AdS/CFT and supersymmetric black holes

Speaker: Dario Martelli (King's College London)

Martelli.pdf

19 Technical talk - p-adic CFT is a tensor network -- in fact a Wilson line network

Speaker: Ling-Yan Hung (Fudan University)

Ling_Yan_Hung.pdf

15:00 Coffee

20 Technical talk - Recent applications of duality to holography

Speaker: Yolanda Lozano (University of Oviedo)

Lozano.pdf

21 Technical talk - The Worldsheet Dual of the Symmetric Product CFT

Speaker: Lorenz Eberhardt (ETH)

Eberhardt.pdf

22 Technical talk - The S-matrix bootstrap and QFT in AdS

Speaker: Balt van Rees (Durham University)

vanRees.pdf

Friday 5 July

23 Review talk - Holography & Entanglement

Speaker: Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)

Hubeny.pdf

10:00 Coffee

24 Review talk - Recent Developments in the Swampland

Speaker: Eran Palti (Max Planck Institute, Munich)

Eran_Palti_prestrings_2019.pdf

25 Technical talk - ’t Hooft anomalies and the holomorphy of supersymmetric partition functions

Speaker: Lorenzo Di Pietro (Perimeter Institute)

LorenzoDiPietro.pdf

12:00 Lunch

26 Technical talk - Adding defects to the 4d N=2 superconformal bootstrap

Speaker: Madalena Lemos (CERN)

madalena_lemos_prestrings.pdf

27 Technical talk - Precision correlation functions at large R-charge

Speaker: Simeon Hellerman (Kavli IPMU)

Simeon.pdf

15:00 Coffee

28 Technical Talk - Moduli in supergravity and transitions to non-geometry

Speaker: Gianguido Dall'Agata (University of Padua)

Gianguido.pdf

29 Technical talk - Branes and the Swampland

Speaker: Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin)

GaryShiu.pdf

30 Technical talk - Comments on pure states in 2D CFT and the SYK model

Speaker: Julian Sonner (University of Geneva)

SonnerLeuven2019.pdf