Conference
Abu Dhabi Meeting on Theoretical Physics
January 08-12, 2023
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.
| 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 Council |
| Fernando 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, USA |
| Lisa 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, China |
| Ofer 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 |
| Host | Title and Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Ahmed Almheiri | Assistant Professor of Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Matthew Kleban | Professor of Physics; Chair of the Department of Physics, New York University |
| Sponsors |
|---|
| NYU Abu Dhabi |
| The UAE Space Agency |
| Organizers |
|---|
| The Division of Science, NYUAD |