Agenda

Abu Dhabi Meeting on Theoretical Physics


Sunday, January 8, 2023

10:00-10:30amWelcome Coffee, Registration and Opening Remarks
10:30amFernando Quevedo
On the Hamiltonian Approach to Vacuum Transitions
11:00amYiming Chen
Estimating Global Charge Violating Amplitudes from Wormholes
11:30amMiguel Montero
Constraining Quantum Gravity via Cobordisms
12:00-1:00pmLunch Break
1:00pmDaniel Jafferis
Tensor Models for Approximate CFT2
1:30pmGabriel Cuomo
Charged Spinning Operators in CFTs: From Superfluids to Regge Theory
2:00pmHimanshu Khanchandani
Line Defects in Fermionic CFTs
2:45pmExcursion for Conference Speakers

Monday, January 9, 2023

9:30amAdam Levine
State Merging and the Quantum Extremal Surface Prescription
10:00amBartlomiej Czech
The Holographic Dual of Bulk Parallel Transport
10:30-11:00amCoffee Break
11:00amShota Komatsu
String Dual of Two-dimensional Yang-Mills and Symmetric Product Orbifold
11:30amOfer Aharony
Line-defect Renormalization Group Flow and Screening of Wilson Lines
12:00pmShai Chester
Pure Supergravity and the Conformal Bootstrap
12:30-1:30pmLunch Break
1:30pmMicha Berkooz
The Double Scaled SYK Model
2:00pmHenry Lin
Algebra and Geometry from Chords
2:30-3:00pmCoffee Break
3:00pmSergei Dubovsky
Hidden Symmetry of Vanishing Love
3:30pmRajesh Gopakumar
Deriving the Simplest Gauge-String Duality
4:15pmExcursion for Conference Speakers
8:30pmDinner for Conference Speakers

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

9:30amAdar Sharon
New Double-scaling Limits of Gamma-deformed \mathcal{N}=4 SYM
10:00amVictor Rodriguez
A Two-Dimensional String Cosmology
10:30-11:00amCoffee Break
11:00amBaurzhan Mukhametzhanov
Comments on Double-scaled SYK
11:30amLisa Randall
Ineffective Field Theory
12:00pmJorrit Kruthoff
The Power of Time
12:30-1:30pmLunch Break
1:30pmSpenta Wadia
Dynamics of Complete Black Hole Evaporation in 2-dim Gravity
2:00pmSubir Sachdev
Experiments on Graphene Flakes and Strange Metals: Insights from the SYK Model
2:30pmRifath Khan
Cauchy Slice Holographic Dictionary
3:00-3:30pmCoffee Break
3:30pmEliezer Rabinovici
On K Complexity
4:00pmAtish Dabholkar
Quantum Slow Roll
4:30pmShiraz Minwalla
Crossing in Chern Simons Matter Theories at Finite k
5:30pmTour of NYUAD Campus for Conference Speakers
6:30-8:00pmInstitute Talk: Uncovering the Underlying Structure of the Universe
8:30pmDinner Reception

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

9:30amVenkatesa Chandrasekaran
Algebras and Entropies in Semi-classical Gravity
10:00amViktor Gorbenko
Peculiarities of RG Flows in 2d O(n) Models
10:30amCoffee Break
11:00-11:30am          Mehrdad Mirbabayi
Probability Measure for Uptunneling on a Slow-roll Potential
11:30am-12:20pmHoor Al Maazmi
Special Presentation on the Emirates Mars Mission and the Mars Asteroid Belt
12:20-1:45pmLunch Break
1:45pmJinzhao Wang
Free Probability in Physics: From Master Fields to Gravity
2:15pm                            Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam
Restricted Quantum Focusing
2:45pmSuvrat Raju
The Hilbert Space of Quantum Gravity in de Sitter Space
3:30pm                Excursion for Conference Speakers       

Thursday, January 12, 2023

9:30amAshoke Sen
D-instanton Amplitudes in String Theory
10:00amAmr Ahmadain
The Off-shell Sphere Action: Perturbation Theory and Beyond
10:30-11:00amCoffee Break
11:00amSridip Pal
Automorphic Spectra and Conformal Bootstrap
11:30amAlejandra Castro Anich
Holographic CFTs
12:00-12:10pmConcluding Remarks
12:10-1:00pmLunch Break
2:30pmExcursion for Conference Speakers