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October 19 Session 1:
Chairperson: Suresh Govindarajan
(9 - 9:30 IST) Opening address by David Gross and
welcome speech by Bhaskar Ramamurthi (Director IIT Madras)
Zvi Bern (9:30 - 10:25 IST): Scattering Amplitudes as a Tool for Understanding Gravity
Aninda Sinha (10:40 - 11:20 IST): Rebooting the S-matrix bootstrap
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89823525730?pwd=OUFiZ0t0TUs1aUE2d21lOTlzcXRXZz09
Meeting ID: 898 2352 5730
Passcode: 133854
October 19 Session 2:
Chairperson: Jyotirmoy Bhattacharyya
Jerome Gauntlett (14:00 - 14:40 IST): Spatially Modulated and Supersymmetric Mass
Deformations of N=4 SYM
Elias Kiritsis (14:55 - 15:35 IST): Emergent gravity from hidden sectors and TT deformations
Rene Meyer (15:50 - 16:30 IST): Strongly Correlated Dirac Materials, Electron Hydrodynamics
& AdS/CFT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88526034540?pwd=YWJvSG5sUHprdE9nVEh0MmRwbWJVZz09
Meeting ID: 885 2603 4540
Passcode: 923154
October 19 Session 3:
Chairperson: Bindusar Sahoo
Chethan Krishnan (19:30 - 20:10 IST): Cosmic Censorship of Trans-Planckian Field Ranges in
Gravitational Collapse
Timm Wrase (20:25 - 21:05 IST): Misaligned SUSY in string theory
Thomas van Riet (21:20 - 22:00 IST): A de Sitter landscape and Russel's teapot
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85234529268?pwd=YzhzaWZNTHB5L3BkbmZqTE5yV3FRZz09
Meeting ID: 852 3452 9268
Passcode: 058458
October 20 Session 1:
Chairperson: Nabamita Banerjee
Rajesh Gopakumar (9:00 - 9:40 IST): Branched Covers and Worldsheet Localisation in AdS_3
Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci (9:55 - 10:35 IST): The gravitational path integral near extremality
Ayan Mukhopadhyay (10:50 - 11:30 IST): Analogue quantum black holes
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83134826006?pwd=R2RHYmkxUjBmdjRaZ3k3T3B1azZOUT09
Meeting ID: 831 3482 6006
Passcode: 133854
October 20 Session 2:
Chairperson: Koushik Ray
David Mateos (14:00 - 14:40 IST): Title TBA
Shiraz Minwalla (14:55 - 15:35 IST): Fermi seas from Bose condensates and a bosonic
exclusion principle in matter Chern Simons theories.
Sayantan Sharma (15:50 - 16:30 IST): The topological constituents of QCD at finite
temperature from the lattice
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85828832771?pwd=ZmR6T1lXTnEvR1I1dVl2SEd4WTVLUT09
Meeting ID: 858 2883 2771
Passcode: 923154
October 20 Session 3:
Chairperson: Dileep Jatkar
Cumrun Vafa (19:30 - 20:25 IST): Unifying Themes in the Swampland Program
Liam McAllister (20:40-21:20 IST): Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential
David Andriot (21:35 - 10:15 IST): Do classical de Sitter string backgrounds exist?
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85117954032?pwd=aXlGRC9WZWI5bngrNG1zanFkRmdNZz09
Meeting ID: 851 1795 4032
Passcode: 058458
October 21 Session 1:
Chairperson: Debashis Ghoshal
Ashoke Sen (9:00 - 9:55 IST): Cutting Rules and Unitarity (Violation) in D-instanton Amplitudes
Gautam Mandal (10:10 - 10:50 IST): Title TBA
Spenta Wadia (11:05 - 11:45 IST): Title TBA
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81719746748?pwd=QnZ1R1hMeXZOdmwxK3JoS0g2a0k0UT09
Meeting ID: 817 1974 6748
Passcode: 133854
October 21 Session 2:
Chairperson: Amitabh Virmani
Vishnu Jejjala (14:00 - 14:40 IST): Machine learning as a discovery tool in hep-th
Matteo Baggioli (14:55 - 15:35 IST): Phases, phasons & phase relaxation in holography and
EFTs
Bidisha Chakrabarty (15:50 - 16:30 IST): Out of time ordered effective dynamics of a quartic
oscillator
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86477047072?pwd=cElQQ1I2TDR0ME9lVk9yM1NacnMxZz09
Meeting ID: 864 7704 7072
Passcode: 923154
October 21 Session 3:
Chairperson: Ayan Mukhopadhyay
Daniel Jafferis (19:30 - 20:10 IST): Inside the hologram
Raghu Mahajan (20:25 - 21:05 IST): The entropy of Hawking radiation
Sameer Murthy (21:20 - 22:00 IST): Title TBA
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85813869726?pwd=cHFUQzVQY0ZrTi94aFlqQU84cXJ2QT09
Meeting ID: 858 1386 9726
Passcode: 058458
October 22 Session 1:
Chairperson: Prithvi Narayan
Sunil Mukhi (9:00 - 9:55 IST): Classifying RCFT through Modularity, Holomorphy and Positivity
Sujay Ashok (10:10 - 10:50 IST): Surface Defects from Fractional Branes
Sachin Jain (11:05 - 11:45 IST): Momentum space correlation function and higher-spin
equation
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89680996500?pwd=Rmp3SEdEbTJieEZxdWdrMjdmdW5pQT09
Meeting ID: 896 8099 6500
Passcode: 133854
October 22 Session 2:
Chairperson: Arnab Kundu
Andrea Puhm (14:00 - 14:40 IST): A Double Copy for Celestial Amplitudes
Daniel Grumiller (14:55 - 15:35 IST): Lower-dimensional holography
Sean Hartnoll (15:50 - 16:30 IST): The classical interior of black holes in holography
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88213419498?pwd=UTZveXNaSmI1ekdkOCttN1pVQzVNQT09
Meeting ID: 882 1341 9498
Passcode: 923154
October 22 Session 3:
Chairperson: K Narayan
Nathan Seiberg (19:30 - 20:25 IST): Fractons: going beyond standard QFT
Zohar Komargodski (20:40 - 21:20 IST): Title TBA
David Tong (21:35 - 10:15 IST): Comments on Chiral Fermions
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86390887784?pwd=TnU5NTdXbS9JR1VlSHNRSnZxbTBpdz09
Meeting ID: 863 9088 7784
Passcode: 058458
October 23 Session 1:
Chairperson: Subho Roy
Thomas Rudelius (9:00 - 9:40 IST): The Landscape of Swampland Conjectures
Keshav Dasgupta (9:55 - 10:35 IST): Constructing de Sitter space in string theory
Alok Laddha (10:50 - 11:30 IST): Polytopes and Scattering amplitudes
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83584601859?pwd=TllkNTZ1TXN0bzFYeEtFYWIxbGdOdz09
Meeting ID: 835 8460 1859
Passcode: 133854
October 23 Session 2:
Chairperson: Arpan Bhattacharyya
Tadashi Takayanagi (14:00 - 14:55 IST): AdS/BCFT, Entanglement Wedges and Wedge
Holography
Costas Bachas (15:10 IST - 15:50 IST): Microscopic Planck Branes and Massive Gravity
Shouvik Datta (16:05 IST - 16:45 IST): 2d conformal blocks
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83761499675?pwd=ZnFkR2VOOThwamhHSjlUS3o3MDhTdz09
Meeting ID: 837 6149 9675
Passcode: 923154
October 23 Session 3:
Chairperson: Prabha Mandayam
Brian Swingle (19:30 - 20:25 IST): Chaos in Quantum Electrodynamics
Shira Chapman (20:40-21:20 IST): Energy Reflection and Transmission at 2D Holographic
Interfaces
Pratik Rath (21:35 - 10:15 IST): The Page curve for Reflected Entropy
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88602116741?pwd=VzVESmZtOE5JcTJoWVF4MEZjbEE0Zz09
Meeting ID: 886 0211 6741
Passcode: 058458
October 19 October 20 October 21 October 22 October 23
Session 1 Chairperson:
Chairperson:
Chairperson: Chairperson: Chairperson:
Suresh Nabamita Debashis Prithvi Subho Roy
Govindarajan Banerjee Ghoshal Narayan
9:00-11:30
IST Opening Rajesh Ashoke Sen # Sunil Mukhi Thomas
address ** Gopakumar # Rudelius
Zvi Bern # Gustavo Turiaci Gautam Sujay Ashok Keshav
Mandal Dasgupta
Aninda Sinha Ayan Spenta Wadia Sachin Jain Alok Laddha
Mukhopadhyay
Session 2 Chairperson:
Chairperson:
Chairperson:
Chairperson: Chairperson:
Jyotirmoy Koushik Ray Amitabh Arnab Kundu Arpan
Bhattacharya Virmani Bhattacharyya
14:00-16:30
IST Jerome David Mateos Vishnu Jejjala Andrea Tadashi
Gauntlett Puhm Takayanagi #
Elias Kiritsis Shiraz Minwalla Matteo Daniel Costas Bachas
Baggioli Grumiller
Rene Meyer Sayantan Bidisha Sean Shouvik Datta
Sharma Chakrabarty Hartnoll
Session 3 Chairperson:
Chairperson: Chairperson: Chairperson: Chairperson:
Bindusar Dileep Jatkar Ayan K Narayan Prabha
Sahoo Mukhopadhyay Mandayam
19:30-22:00
IST Chethan Cumrun Vafa # Daniel Jafferis Nathan Brian Swingle
Krishnan Seiberg # #
Timm Wrase Liam McAllister Raghu Zohar Shira
Mahajan Komargodski Chapman
Thomas van David Andriot Sameer Murthy David Tong Pratik Rath
Riet
** - Opening address by Prof. David Gross
and welcome speech by Bhaskar Ramamurthi (Director IIT Madras)
#- Indicates hour long talks, all other talks will be 45 minutes long
Please note that IST = UTC + 5:30
Abstracts:
Day 1 (October 19)
Zvi Bern: Scattering Amplitudes as a Tool for Understanding Gravity
Abstract: TBA
Aninda Sinha : Rebooting the S-matrix bootstrap
Abstract: TBA
Jerome Gauntlett: Spatially Modulated and Supersymmetric
Mass Deformations of N=4 SYM
Abstract: TBA
Elias Kiritsis: Emergent gravity from hidden sectors and TT deformations
Abstract: We investigate emergent gravity extending the paradigm of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The
emergent graviton is associated to the (dynamical) expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor. We
derive the general effective description of such dynamics, and apply it to the case where a hidden theory
generates gravity that is coupled to the Standard Model.
In the linearized description, generically, such gravity is massive with the presence of an extra scalar degree of
freedom. The propagators of both the spin-two and spin-zero modes are positive and well defined.
The associated emergent gravitational theory is a bi-gravity theory, as
is (secretly) the case in holography.
The background metric on which the QFTs are defined, plays the role of dark energy and the emergent theory
has always as a solution the original background metric.
The background metric yields also a dark energy contribution.
In the case where the hidden theory is holographic, the overall description yields a higher-dimensional bulk
theory coupled to a brane.
The effective graviton on the brane has four-dimensional characteristics both in the UV and IR and is always
massive.
Rene Meyer: Strongly Correlated Dirac Materials, Electron Hydrodynamics & AdS/CFT
Abstract: TBA
Chethan Krishnan: Cosmic Censorship of Trans-Planckian Field Ranges in
Gravitational Collapse
Abstract: TBA
Timm Wrase: Misaligned SUSY in string theory
Abstract: Non-supersymmetric string theory configurations have received relatively little attention in the string
phenomenology community. However, such non-supersymmetric string theory setups might provide interesting
and new testing grounds for the swampland program. Given the non-observation of supersymmetry at the LHC
they might also give us insight into how our own universe works. I will review the idea of misaligned (or
asymptotic) supersymmetry, which denotes the following perplexing fact: String theories without any spacetime
supersymmetry lead to finite values for the 1-loop corrected cosmological constant and can give rise to
vanishing supertraces. I will exemplify how and why this happens in two examples: an anti-Dp-brane on top of
an Op-plane and for the heterotic SO(16)xSO(16) string theory.
Thomas van Riet: A de Sitter landscape and Russel's teapot
Abstract: TBA
Day 2 (October 20)
Rajesh Gopakumar: Branched Covers and Worldsheet Localisation in AdS_3
Abstract: TBA
Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci: The gravitational path integral near extremality
Abstract: TBA
Ayan Mukhopadhyay: Analogue quantum black holes
Abstract: TBA
David Mateos: Title TBA
Abstract: TBA
Shiraz Minwalla: Fermi seas from Bose condensates and a bosonic exclusion
principle in matter Chern Simons theories.
Abstract: We generalize previous results for the thermal free energy of bosonic and fermionic large $N$ Chern-
Simons theories with fundamental matter, to values of the chemical potential larger than quasiparticle thermal
masses. We present a simple explicit formula for the occupation number for a quasiparticle state of any given
energy and charge as a function of the temperature and chemical potential. This formula is a generalization to
finite 't Hooft coupling of the famous result of Bose-Einstein statistics, and implies the following exclusion
principle for Chern Simons coupled bosons: the total number of bosons occupying any single state cannot
exceed the Chern Simons level. Specializing to zero temperature, we construct the phase diagrams of these
theories as a function of chemical potential and the UV parameters. The phase diagram includes a Bose
condensed phase runaway instability of free theories at large chemical potential is cured by the bosonic
exclusion principle. This phase is the bosonic dual of the Fermi sea.
Sayantan Sharma: The topological constituents of QCD at finite temperature
from the lattice
Abstract: TBA
Cumrun Vafa: Unifying Themes in the Swampland Program
Abstract: TBA
Liam McAllister: Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential
Abstract: TBA
David Andriot: Do classical de Sitter string backgrounds exist?
Abstract: TBA
Day 3 (October 21)
Ashoke Sen: Cutting Rules and Unitarity (Violation) in D-instanton Amplitudes
Abstract: TBA
Gautam Mandal: Title TBA
Abstract: TBA
Spenta Wadia: Title TBA
Abstract: TBA
Vishnu Jejjala: Machine learning as a discovery tool in hep-th
Abstract: Machine learning provides a new tool for analyzing Big Data and Small Data in mathematics and
theoretical physics. In this talk, I discuss two case studies. The first predicts the volume of the knot complement
of hyperbolic knots from the Jones polynomial. The second predicts the masses of baryons such as the proton
and neutron from knowledge only of the meson spectrum and distinguishes between different composition
hypotheses for exotic QCD resonances. Both investigations point to the existence of new analytic formulae.
Matteo Baggioli: Phases, phasons & phase relaxation in holography and EFTs
Abstract: TBA
Bidisha Chakrabarty: Out of time ordered effective dynamics of a quartic oscillator
Abstract: Recently the connection of Out of Time Ordered Correlators (OTOCs) to scrambling, quantum chaos,
thermalisation etc has been realised. With the increasing interest in OTOCs, it will be useful to develop a
systematic prescription to compute them. In this talk I will discuss techniques of effective theory to compute
OTOCs in open quantum systems. In particular, I will focus on the problem of a quantum Brownian particle
interacting with a dissipative bath composed of two sets of harmonic oscillators via cubic coupling. Integrating
out the bath’s degrees of freedom, we get an effective theory of the particle that is in general non-local in time.
However for appropriate choice of distributions of bath oscillators, all the bath correlators decay exponentially
fast at late times. Hence after the decay of the bath correlators has set in, one can write down a suitable 1-PI
effective action of the particle which is temporally local. The correlators computed from the microscopic theory
evolve the same way as the correlators computed from this 1-PI effective action. If the bath has microscopic
time-reversal invariance and thermality, it imposes constraints on the 1-PI effective action. These constraint
relations between the effective couplings of 1-PI action are OTO generalisations of the well-known Onsager-
Casimir reciprocal relations and fluctuation-dissipation relations. Combining these relations, the non-
Gaussianity of the thermal noise gets related to the thermal jitter in the damping constant of the Brownian
particle.
Daniel Jafferis: Inside the hologram
Abstract: TBA
Raghu Mahajan: The entropy of Hawking radiation
Abstract: TBA
Sameer Murthy: Title TBA
Abstract: TBA
Day 4 (October 22)
Sunil Mukhi: Classifying RCFT through Modularity, Holomorphy and Positivity
Abstract: TBA
Sujay Ashok: Surface Defects from Fractional Branes
Abstract: TBA
Sachin Jain: Momentum space correlation function and higher-spin equation
Abstract: TBA
Andrea Puhm: A Double Copy for Celestial Amplitudes
Abstract: TBA
Daniel Grumiller: Lower-dimensional holography
Abstract: TBA
Sean Hartnoll: The classical interior of black holes in holography
Abstract: TBA
Nathan Seiberg: Fractons: going beyond standard QFT
Abstract: TBA
Zohar Komargodski: Title TBA
Abstract: TBA
David Tong: Comments on Chiral Fermions
Abstract: TBA
Day 5 (October 23)
Thomas Rudelius: The Landscape of Swampland Conjectures
Abstract: TBA
Keshav Dasgupta: Constructing de Sitter space in string theory
Abstract: TBA
Alok Laddha: Polytopes and Scattering amplitudes
Abstract: TBA
Tadashi Takayanagi: AdS/BCFT, Entanglement Wedges and Wedge Holography
Abstract: TBA
Costas Bachas: Microscopic Planck Branes and Massive Gravity
Abstract: TBA
Shouvik Datta: 2d conformal blocks
Abstract: TBA
Brian Swingle: Chaos in Quantum Electrodynamics
Abstract: TBA
Shira Chapman: Energy Reflection and Transmission at 2D Holographic Interfaces
Abstract: Scattering from conformal interfaces in two dimensions is universal in that the flux of reflected and
transmitted energy does not depend on the details of the initial state. In this talk I will present a gravitational
calculation of the energy reflection and transmission coefficients for interfaces with thin-brane holographic
duals. I will demonstrate that the result for the reflection coefficient depends monotonically on the tension of
the dual string anchored at the interface, and obeys the lower bound recently derived from the ANEC in
conformal field theory. I will describe how to recover the boundary CFT limit from this calculation.
Pratik Rath: The Page curve for Reflected Entropy
Abstract: TBA
