Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Gravity

2024-05-13 09:00 2024-05-31 Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Gravity
Organizing Committee:
  • Lorenz Eberhardt (Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam)
  • Dalimil Mazáč (Institut de Physique Théorique - CEA Saclay)
  • Eric Perlmutter (Institut de Physique Théorique - CEA Saclay)
  • Ida Zadeh (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics)

 

Program Manager: Francesca Sconfienza
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The broad goal of this program is to advance our understanding of quantum gravity...

Organizing Committee:
  • Lorenz Eberhardt (Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam)
  • Dalimil Mazáč (Institut de Physique Théorique - CEA Saclay)
  • Eric Perlmutter (Institut de Physique Théorique - CEA Saclay)
  • Ida Zadeh (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics)

 

Program Manager: Francesca Sconfienza

The broad goal of this program is to advance our understanding of quantum gravity starting from nothing more than basic physical principles, such as unitarity, symmetry and causality, by harnessing the AdS/CFT Correspondence and the bootstrap approach of large N conformal field theories. With attention to the question of possible uniqueness of string theory among putative theories of quantum gravity, it is in this holographic sense that we will explore the ''Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Gravity'': what features of quantum gravity can be rigorously defined by way of AdS/CFT, and leveraged to classify the space of theories that actually exist?

This program will place extra emphasis on low-dimensional holography, which sharpens both the physical puzzles and the mathematical tools used to solve them. There will be three main themes:

1) String amplitudes and AdS3/CFT2
2) 3D quantum gravity and holography
3) Bootstrap and the space of holographic conformal field theories

Paramount to the program's format is an emphasis on generation of new ideas, with approximately one blackboard talk per day and plenty of time for discussions.

Provisional List of Participants:

  • Ofer                     Aharony
  • Luis                       Apolo
  • Bruno                   Balthazar
  • Connor                Behan
  • Alex                      Belin
  • Nathan                Benjamin
  • Agnese                Bissi
  • Alejandra            Castro
  • Jeevan                 Chandra
  • Scott                    Collier
  • Jan                        de Boer
  • Andrea                 Dei
  • Gabriele              Di Ubaldo
  • Matthew             Dodelson
  • Tolya                    Dymarsky
  • Giulia                   Fardelli
  • Liam                     Fitzpatrick
  • Rajesh                  Gopakumar
  • Felix                     Haehl
  • Thomas               Hartman
  • Johan                   Henriksson
  • Luca                     Iliesiu
  • Daniel                  Jafferis
  • Kristan                 Jensen
  • Alex                      Kanargias
  • Christoph            Keller
  • Bob                      Knighton
  • David                   Kolchmeyer
  • Shota                   Komatsu
  • Nico                     Kovensky
  • Per                        Kraus
  • Ying-Hsuan         Lin
  • Raghu                  Mahajan
  • Emil                      Martinec
  • Marco                  Meineri
  • Beatrix                 Muehlmann
  • Sridip                    Pal
  • Boris                    Post
  • Volker                  Schomerus
  • Joao                     Silva
  • David                   Simmons-Duffin
  • Wei                      Song
  • Julian                   Sonner
  • Yiannis                 Tsiares
  • Irene                    Valenzuela
  • Erik                       Verlinde
  • Herman               Verlinde
  • Jakub                   Vosmera
  • Cynthia                Yan
  • Shunyu                 Yao
  • Sasha                   Zhiboedov