Workshop: AdS/CFT and quantum gravity

September 14-16, 2015

Program

 

Monday, September 14, 2015

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:00
Alexander Maloney
(McGill University)
Geometric microstates for the three dimensional black hole?
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Daniel Harlow
(Princeton University)
Wormholes, emergent gauge fields, and the weak gravity conjecture
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:30
Kristan Jensen
(Stony Brook University)
Entanglement and monotonicity in boundary QFT
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Gim Seng Ng
(McGill University)
Holographic entanglement for Chern-Simons terms
Abstract
12:00 - 12:30
Keshav Dasgupta
(McGill University)
de Sitter space in string theory and quantum corrections
Abstract
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Xi Dong
(Stanford University)
Holographic formulation of Renyi entropies
14:30 - 15:00
Curtis Asplund
(Columbia University)
Quenches in AdS3/CFT2
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Fernando M. Pastawski
(California Institute of Technology)

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6254

16:00 - 17:00
Nikita Nekrasov
(IHÉS)
BPS/CFT correspondence - Part I
Abstract

 

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:00
Shamit Kachru
(Stanford University)
Comments on chiral CFTs and gravity
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Beni Yoshida
(California Institute of Technology)
Order parameter for chaos
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Michal P. Heller
(Perimeter Institution for Theoretical Physics)
Entanglement holography
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:00
Hirosi Ooguri
(California Institute of Technology)
Entanglement and bulk locality
12:00 - 12:30
Michael Walter
(Stanford University)
The holographic entropy cone
12:30 - 13:00
Shaun Maguire
(California Institute of Technology)
Indra's wormholes: a mathematical tour of multiboundary wormholes

13:00 - 14:30
Lunch break

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6254

14:30 - 15:30
Nikita Nekrasov
(IHÉS)
BPS/CFT correspondence - Part II
Abstract

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

16:00 - 16:30
Simon Ross
(University of Durham)
Multiboundary wormholes, entanglement and high temperatures
16:30 - 17:00
Henry D. Maxfield
(McGill University)
Higher genus partition functions in 3d gravity
17:00 - 17:30
Nima Lashkari
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Quantum Fisher metric in field theory and gravity
Abstract

 

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:00
Patrick Hayden
(Stanford University)
Random tensor networks as models of holographic states
10:00 - 10:30
James Sully
(Stanford University)
Kinematic Space and Tensor Networks
10:30 - 11:00
Bartek Czech
(Stanford University)
On tensor network quotients and black holes
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:00
Aron Wall
(Institute for Advanced Study)
Focussing of entropy
Abstract
12:00 - 12:30
Sebastian Fischetti
(Imperial College London)
No-Go theorems on hole-ographic bulk reconstruction
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Ida Zadeh
(Brandeis University)
Higgsing the stringy higher spin symmetry
14:30 - 15:00
Alexandre Belin
(Stanford University)
Permutation orbifolds: exploring the landscape of theories of quantum gravity in $AdS_3$
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Ian A. Morrison
(McGill University)

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6254

16:00 - 17:00
Nikita Nekrasov
(IHÉS)
BPS/CFT correspondence - Part III
Abstract

17:00
Discussion