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Workshop

New Developments in AdS3/CFT2 Holography

Mar 20, 2017 - May 12, 2017



Abstract

Two of the key problems of modern theories of fundamental interactions are the under-standing of strongly coupled gauge theories and quantum gravity. Holographic duality, through the celebrated work of Maldacena, connects these two seemingly very different problems; it does so via a strong/weak correspondence, making it possible to infer the behavior of strongly coupled gauge theory from a weakly coupled theory of gravity and vice versa. This striking conjecture has fundamentally reshaped the way we think of gauge and gravity theories in the quantum regime.

A quantitative description of gauge/string duals with little or no supersymmetry would likely lead to a much better understanding of strongly coupled phenomena such as confinement or black-hole entropy, making their study an important goal of the community. However, a quantitative framework of generic dualities remains very ambitious. Instead, it may be useful to identify examples which have interesting dynamical behaviour that also retain some simplifying features that allow for a quantitative analysis.

The AdS3 /CFT2 duality is an ideal toy-model for such investigations. Since it has a relatively small amount of supersymmetry (half of the maximally supersymmetric AdS5 /CFT4 example) it allows for a rich dynamics. At the same time, AdS3 /CFT2 plays an important role in a variety of diverse problems in theoretical physics including the strong-coupling dynamics of two-dimensional gauge theories, dynamics of three-dimensional black-holes, quantum instanton moduli space of four-dimensional gauge theory, microscopic entropy counting in five-dimensional black-holes, higher-spin spin symmetries and integrable models, to name but a few. As a result, there are a number of approaches to understanding this duality, each with its own set of tools.

The principal aims of this workshop are:

 1. To review recent progress in AdS3 /CFT2. 

 2. To assemble a critical mass of leading international researchers in order to stimulate collaboration and inspire new developments. 

 3. To contribute to the research training of young researchers in Italy, Europe and world-wide.

 
Applications for the workshop and the school closed on October 31. Should you wish to submit a late application, please contact the organisers at  ggiworkshop17@gmail.com



Topics

- Gauge linear sigma models
- Two-dimensional conformal field theories
- Black holes
- Four-dimensional instantons
- Higher-spin symmetries
- Integrability

 



Organizers

 Jan de Boer, Amsterdam U. (Netherlands), Riccardo Borsato, NORDITA (Sweden), Matthias Gaberdiel, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Olof Ohlsson Sax, NORDITA (Sweden), Alessandro Sfondrini, ETH Zurich (Switzerland),Bogdan Stefanski, jr., London City U. (UK), David Tong, Cambridge U. (UK), Alessandro Torrielli, Surrey U. (UK)

 

 

 



Local organizer
cotrone@fi.infn.it

Contact
ggiworkshop17@gmail.com

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Talks
Date Speaker Title Type Useful Links
Mar 29, 2024 - 06:10 Efrat Gerchkovitz to be announced Seminar
Mar 20, 2017 - 11:00 Sumit Das Entanglement Scaling in Quantum Quenches Seminar
Mar 21, 2017 - 11:00 Per Kraus Into the bulk with conformal blocks Seminar
Mar 23, 2017 - 11:00 Chris Hull Strings, fields and geometry Seminar
Mar 23, 2017 - 14:30 David Tong On Particle-Vortex Duality Seminar
Mar 23, 2017 - 16:00 Massimo Bianchi On micro-state geometries of 4-d black-holes and their stringy origin Seminar
Mar 24, 2017 - 11:00 Takuya Okuda Supersymmetric vortex defects in two dimensions Seminar
Apr 03, 2017 - 11:00 Shlomo Razamat 2d dualities from 3d dualities Seminar
Apr 04, 2017 - 10:15 Efrat Gerchkovitz to be announced Seminar
Apr 04, 2017 - 11:30 Eva Llabres & Charlotte Sleight Spinning (geodesic) Witten diagrams Seminar
Apr 07, 2017 - 10:15 Ida Zadeh to be announced Seminar
Apr 07, 2017 - 11:30 Romuald Janik Gluing and wrapping: from the Octagon to the SFT vertex Seminar
Apr 19, 2017 - 11:00 Antal Jevicki Solving the SYK Model Seminar
Apr 20, 2017 - 11:00 Daniel Grumiller Soft Heisenberg hair on AdS3 Seminar
Apr 20, 2017 - 14:30 George Jorjadze SL(2,R) string in light-cone gauge Seminar
Apr 21, 2017 - 11:00 Bo Sundbord Profiles of stringy and higher spin black holes Seminar
Apr 26, 2017 - 11:00 Sergey Frolov Free field representation of the Zamolodchikov-Faddeev algebra and form factors of the SU(N) x SU(N) Principal Chiral Field model Seminar
Apr 27, 2017 - 11:00 Cheng Peng Vector models and generalized SYK models Seminar
Apr 27, 2017 - 14:30 Joris Raeyemaekers Multi-centered AdS3 solutions: from conformal blocks to W-branes Seminar
Apr 28, 2017 - 14:00 Ben Hoare 3d kappa-Poincare R-matrix and scattering in 3 dimensions Seminar
Apr 28, 2017 - 15:15 Marius de Leeuw One-point functions in AdS/CFT Seminar
May 08, 2017 - 11:00 Alexandre Belin Universality of Sparse d>2 Conformal Field Theory at Large N Seminar
May 09, 2017 - 11:00 Yunfeng Jiang Integrable defects and entanglement entropy Seminar
May 10, 2017 - 11:00 Sanjaye Ramgoolam Combinatorics and geometry of primary fields in free four dimensional CFTs Seminar
May 11, 2017 - 11:00 Danilo Diaz On holographic Weyl anomalies and Rényi entropy coefficients Seminar
May 12, 2017 - 11:00 Yuji Satoh A world-sheet approach to T-folds Seminar