Abstract

The workshop will be centred around the latest developments in Supergravity, that after four decades since its discovery keeps providing  new insights into String Theory, Physics beyond the Standard Model and Cosmology.

Recent exciting results on the structure of the early universe and quantum gravity call for a thorough investigation of supergravity scenarios that today can be confronted with experimental data in cosmology. The unexpected finiteness unveiled by quantum calculations hints to some underlying structure yet to be understood. We have a detailed knowledge on classifying possible actions of supergravity, but recent results have shown that the embedding tensor formalism allows more solutions than we would have expected. Moreover this concerns only actions with up to two space-time derivatives, while the plethora of possibilities for higher-derivative actions is yet to be explored. Solutions of supergravity equations are crucial in the context of gauge-gravity duality, and towards understanding the quantum properties of black holes and other extended objects. These also have deep connections to corners of modern mathematics, where techniques of localisation in supergravity allow to analyse the non perturbative quantum corrections to black hole entropy and to improve our understanding of supersymmetric field theories.

Topics

- Cosmological applications to inflationary scenarios in relation with new observational data.
- Exceptional structures of supergravity, exotic branes, and non-geometric fluxes.
- Extensions of presently-known supergravities, including higher-derivative, or Dirac--Born--Infeld actions.
- Quantum supergravity, including the conclusions to be drawn from  surprising finiteness results.
- Solutions of supergravity equations, including black holes and domain walls and implications for gauge-gravity dualities.
-Mathematical aspects of supergravity, including hidden symmetries and dualities.

Organizers

Eric Bergshoeff (Groningen U.), Anna Ceresole (INFN Turin), Gianguido DallAgata (Padua U.), Sergio Ferrara (CERN), Renata Kallosh (Stanford U.), Henning Samtleben (Lyon U. & ENS), Antoine Van Proeyen (KU Leuven)

Local organizer
seminara@fi.infn.it

Contact
toine@itf.fys.kuleuven.be

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Talks

Date	Speaker	Title	Type	Useful Links
Sep 06, 2016 - 15:00	Luca Martucci	Holographic Effective Field Theories	Seminar	Abstract Holographic Effective Field Theories Understanding strongly interacting theories is one of the main challenges of theoretical physics. In particular, the identification of the appropriate low-energy effective field theory associated with a given microscopic strongly interacting theory constitutes a fundamental problem. I will discuss how holography can be used to derive the effective field theories associated with a large family of strongly coupled four-dimensional superconformal theories. I will illustrate the general results by discussing in detail their application to the Klebanov-Witten model.
Sep 12, 2016 - 14:30	Sadik Deger	Intersections of S-branes in Supergravity Theories	Seminar
Sep 13, 2016 - 11:30	Alex Arvanitakis	Black hole thermodynamics, stringy dualities and Double Field Theory	Seminar
Sep 14, 2016 - 11:30	Daniel Butter	Conformal supergravity actions in four and six dimensions	Seminar
Sep 15, 2016 - 11:30	Fabio Zwirner	Minimal Higgs inflation in split supergravity	Seminar
Sep 16, 2016 - 11:30	Kellogg Stelle	New black holes and other solutions to higher derivative gravity	Seminar
Sep 19, 2016 - 14:30	Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli	On conformal supergravity and higher derivative invariants	Seminar
Sep 20, 2016 - 11:30	Massimo Porrati	Single-field Inflationary Models in Supergravity	Seminar		Slides
Sep 21, 2016 - 11:30	Alessandra Gnecchi	Electric-magnetic duality and thermodynamic properties of extremal black holes in gauged supergravity	Seminar
Sep 22, 2016 - 11:30	Fernando Quevedo	Revisiting soft SUSY breaking terms in IIB String Compactifications	Seminar
Sep 23, 2016 - 11:30	Sergei Kuzenko	Partial rigid supersymmetry breaking on curved backgrounds	Seminar
Sep 26, 2016 - 14:30	Joseph Novak	Minimal conformal supergravity invariants in six dimensions	Seminar
Sep 27, 2016 - 11:30	Paul Townsend	AdS particles and twistors	Seminar
Sep 28, 2016 - 11:30	Martin Cederwall	Manifest duality in superspace?	Seminar
Sep 29, 2016 - 11:30	Giuseppe Dibitetto	Universal Isolation in the AdS Landscape	Seminar
Sep 30, 2016 - 11:30	Gianluca Inverso	Doubled, exceptional and new extended field theories	Seminar
Oct 03, 2016 - 14:30	Daniel Waldram	Generalised geometry, supergravity and marginal deformations	Seminar
Oct 04, 2016 - 11:30	Mariana Graña	Beyond supergravity: compactifications of stringy size in double field theory	Seminar
Oct 05, 2016 - 11:30	Hadi Godazgar	Actions for conformal anomalies	Seminar
Oct 06, 2016 - 11:30	Fotis Farakos	Constrained superfields: what next?	Seminar
Oct 07, 2016 - 11:30	Joaquim Gomis	Carroll gravity	Seminar
Oct 10, 2016 - 14:30	Alberto Zaffaroni	Entropy counting for AdS4 black holes	Seminar
Oct 11, 2016 - 11:30	Igor Bandos	Spinor helicity formalism, tree superamplitudes and BCFW-type recurrent relations for 11D supergravity	Seminar
Oct 12, 2016 - 11:30	Emeri Sokatchev	LHC superspace and its applications	Seminar
Oct 13, 2016 - 11:30	Leonardo Castellani	The integral form of supergravity	Seminar
Oct 14, 2016 - 11:30	Franco Pezzella	Double field theory from double sigma model	Seminar
Oct 17, 2016 - 14:30	Andres Anabalon	Holographic equation of state in fluid/gravity duality	Seminar
Oct 18, 2016 - 11:30	Yolanda Lozano	Linear quivers and non-Abelian T-duality	Seminar
Oct 19, 2016 - 11:30	Mario Trigiante	Dualities in non-linear theories	Seminar
Oct 20, 2016 - 11:30	Diederik Roest	Supergravity directions for SUSY breaking and inflation	Seminar
Oct 21, 2016 - 11:30	Dmitri Sorokin	The Goldstino Brane, the Constrained Superfields and Matter in N=1 Supergravity	Seminar