June 21 - July 2, 2021 | ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo
Schedule
Opening and Closing Talks
- Atish Dabholkar – Opening Remarks – Video
- Hirosi Ooguri – Summary Talk
Review Talks
- Ofer Aharony – Effective strings
- Alfredo Guevara – Amplitudes and general relativity – Video – PDF
- Shota Komatsu – Integrability in AdS/CFT
- Sabrina Pasterski – Celestial amplitudes
- Leonardo Rastelli – Bootstrap, EFTs and dispersion relations – Video – PDF
- Oliver Schlotterer – String amplitudes
- Shu-Heng Shao – Symmetries and their generalizations in topological phases of matter
- Stephen Shenker – Black holes, wormholes, long times and ensembles – Video – PDF
- Irene Valenzuela – Swampland – Video – PDF
Discussion Sessions
- João Penedones and Alexander Zhiboedov – S-matrix bootstrap – Video – PDF
- David Gross and Gabriele Veneziano – High energy limit of string theory – Video – PDF
- Yuji Okawa and Barton Zwiebach – Achievements, progress and open questions in string field theory – Video – PDF
- Juan Maldacena and Samir Mathur – Structure of black hole microstates – Video – PDF
- Mirjam Cvetic and Gary Shiu – String universality, particle physics and cosmology – Video – PDF Gary – PDF Mirjam
- Daniel Baumann and Eva Silverstein – Cosmology and string theory – Video – PDF Eva – PDF Daniel
- Shamit Kachru and Fernando Quevedo – De Sitter constructions from string theory – Video – PDF Shamit – PDF Fernando
- Netta Engelhardt and Rob Myers – Black hole information problem – Video
- Jan de Boer and Douglas Stanford – Ensemble averages and wormholes
- Sergei Dubovsky and Igor Klebanov – QCD string
- Michael Douglas and Fabian Ruehle – Artificial intelligence and string theory
- Miranda Cheng, Chiara Nappi, Shruti Paranjape and Silvia Penati – 4 generations of women in string theory
- Freddy Cachazo and Lionel Mason – Worldsheet approaches to field theory amplitudes
- Rajesh Gopakumar and Xi Yin – Proving dualities
- Vladimir Kazakov and Gregory Korchemsky – Lessons from integrability
- Nathan Seiberg and Xiao-Gang Wen – New phases of matter
- Nima Arkani-Hamed and Lance Dixon – Particle physics challenges
- Andy Strominger and Tomasz Taylor – Celestial holography
- Michael Green, John Schwarz and Edward Witten – Some perspectives on string theory
Research Talks
- Lara Anderson – Progress on string compactifications
- Simon Caron-Huot – Causality constraints and gravity – Video – PDF
- Horacio Casini – Generalized symmetries, algebras and entropy
- Frank Coronado – Ten dimensional symmetry of N=4 SYM correlators
- Kevin Costello – Integrable theories in four dimensions from twistors
- Mykola Dedushenko – Theory-changing interfaces and quantum algebras
- Lorenz Eberhardt – Summing over geometries in string theory
- Matthias Gaberdiel – The string dual of free N=4 SYM
- Jaume Gomis – Infrared phases of 2d QCD
- Mariana Graña – The tadpole problem – Video – PDF
- Alba Grassi – A geometric approach to black hole spectral theory
- Kristan Jensen – Wormholes and black hole microstates in AdS/CFT – Video
- Clifford Johnson – Quantum gravity microstates from Fredholm determinants – Video
- Zohar Komargodski – Higher central charges and gapped boundary
- Alex May – Bulk causal features and boundary correlation in AdS/CFT – Video – PDF
- John McGreevy – Mean string field theory: Landau-Ginzburg theory for one-form symmetries
- Thomas Mertens – Liouville and JT quantum gravity – holography and matrix models – Video – PDF
- Sebastian Mizera – Subtle points about saddle points in the S-matrix theory – Video – PDF
- Shiraz Minwalla – The Hilbert space of large N Chern-Simons matter theories – Video – PDF
- Jeff Murugan – On the quantum supremacy of SYK and operator growth on networks – Video
- Sameer Murthy – Black holes in AdS5 and phases of 4d SYM – Video – PDF
- Leopoldo Pando-Zayas – Logarithmic corrections to the entropy of AdS black holes – Video – PDF
- Geoff Penington – QES without a bath: finding pythons in unexpected places – Video
- Roger Penrose
- Pavel Putrov – Spin-cobordisms, surgeries, and fermionic modular bootstrap
- Mukund Rangamani – Real-time holography, replicas, and open quantum systems – Video – PDF
- Sakura Schafer-Nameki – Higher-form symmetries in string/M-theory
- Ashoke Sen – D-instanton contribution to string amplitudes – Video – PDF
- Xavier Siemens – Results from the NANOGrav search for nanohertz gravitational waves and cosmic strings
- Dam Thanh Son – Some new developments in fractional quantum Hall effect
- Yuji Tachikawa – On global anomalies of heterotic string theories
- Gregory Tarnopolsky – Operator spectrum and spontaneous symmetry breaking in SYK-like models – Video – PDF
- Gonzalo Torroba – Hyperbolic compactification of M-theory and de Sitter quantum gravity – Video – PDF
- Cumrun Vafa – Finiteness, compactness, desert, and the swampland – Video
- Anastasia Volovich – Recent developments in N=4 Yang-Mills amplitudes
- Congkao Wen – Exact results and modular invariance of integrated correlators in N=4 SYM
- Ying Zhao – Diagnosing collisions in the interior of a wormhole – Video – PDF
Gong Show Talks
Poster Session
