Conference
Abu Dhabi Meeting on Theoretical Physics
January 08-12, 2023, 9:00AM
NYU Abu Dhabi
Past Event
By Invitation
Interested scholars please contact katie.stanworth@nyu.eduThe recent research effort in theoretical physics has somewhat fragmented into several focus areas with diminishing levels of crosstalk between them. These areas include:
- the study of the mathematical structure of scattering amplitudes
- the holographic duality between quantum gravity and strongly coupled field theories
- connections between random matrix theory and the gravity path integral
- the conformal bootstrap
- the swampland program
Overlapping between these areas opens questions, including; the factorization problem imposed by spacetime wormholes; the weak gravity conjecture that requires the existence of particles with a large enough charge to mass ratio; finding gravitational solutions to the conformal bootstrap, and many more.
This conference will bring together world leading experts in the various subfields of theoretical physics to discuss these open problems. It will lead to fruitful collaborations across subfields, and potentially result in important publications representing significant advances in our understanding of fundamental physics.
The recent research effort in theoretical physics has somewhat fragmented into several focus areas with diminishing levels of crosstalk between them. These areas include:
- the study of the mathematical structure of scattering amplitudes
- the holographic duality between quantum gravity and strongly coupled field theories
- connections between random matrix theory and the gravity path integral
- the conformal bootstrap
- the swampland program
Overlapping between these areas opens questions, including; the factorization problem imposed by spacetime wormholes; the weak gravity conjecture that requires the existence of particles with a large enough charge to mass ratio; finding gravitational solutions to the conformal bootstrap, and many more.
This conference will bring together world leading experts in the various subfields of theoretical physics to discuss these open problems. It will lead to fruitful collaborations across subfields, and potentially result in important publications representing significant advances in our understanding of fundamental physics.
- Participants
- Hosts
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- Organizers
Participant Title and Affiliation Adam Levine Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, MIT, USA Adar Sharon Postdoctoral Scholar, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, USA Ahmed Almheiri Assistant Professor of Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi Alejandra Castro Anich Faculty, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK Amr Ahmadain Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK Arvin Shahbazi Moghaddam Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, USA Ashoke Sen Professor of Physics, International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India Atish Dabholkar Director, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy Bartek Czech Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing Baurzhan Mukhametzhanov Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell University, USA Cumrun Vafa Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Harvard University, USA Daniel L. Jafferis Professor of Physics, Harvard University, USA David Gross Permanent Member and Holder of the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics; Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; 2004 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Eliezer Rabinovici Emeritus Professor of Physics (Leon H. and Ada G. Miller Chair), The Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem;
President, CERN CouncilFernando Quevedo. Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK Gabriel Cuomo Postdoctoral Researcher, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, USA Henry Lin Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, USA Himanshu Khanchandani Postdoctoral Associate, NYU, USA Hoor Al Maazmi Space Science Researcher, UAE Space Agency, UAE Igor Klebanov Professor of Physics, Princeton University, USA Jinzhao Wang Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, USA Jorrit Kruthoff Postdoctoral Researcher, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA Juan Maldacena Carl P. Feinberg Professor, School of Natural Sciences,
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USALisa Randall Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Harvard University, USA Matthew Kleban Professor of Physics; Chair of the Department of Physics, New York University, USA Mehrdad Mirbabayi Research Scientist, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy Micha Berkooz Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Miguel Montero Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University, USA Nima Arkani-Hamed Faculty and Director, Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey;
Director, Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP), Beijing, ChinaOfer Aharony Samuel Sebba Professorial Chair of Pure and Applied Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Pratik Rath Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Rajesh Gopakumar Theoretical Physicist and Director, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India Rifath Khan Ph.D Scholar in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK Robert Myers Director; BMO Financial Group Isaac Newton Chair in Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada Sergei Dubovsky Professor Of Physics, New York University, USA Shai Chester Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University, USA Shiraz Minwalla Faculty, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India Shota Komatsu Researcher, Department of Theoretical Physics, CERN, Switzerland Spenta Wadia Infosys Homi Bhabha Chair Professor and Founding Director, International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India
Sridip Pal Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA Subir Sachdev Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Harvard University, USA Suvrat Raju Professor of Physics, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru Venkatesa Chandrasekaran Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA Victor Rodriguez Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, USA Victor Gorbenko Professor and Head, Laboratory for Theoretical Fundamental Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Yiming Chen Graduate Student, Princeton University, USA