Abu Dhabi Meeting on Theoretical Physics

Conference

WHEN January 8-12, 2023
WHERE NYU Abu Dhabi WHO NYU Abu Dhabi Institute By Invitation Interested scholars please contact katie.stanworth@nyu.edu

The recent research effort in theoretical physics has somewhat fragmented into several focus areas with diminishing levels of crosstalk between them. These areas include:

- the study of the mathematical structure of scattering amplitudes
- the holographic duality between quantum gravity and strongly coupled field theories
- connections between random matrix theory and the gravity path integral
- the conformal bootstrap
- the swampland program

Overlapping between these areas opens questions, including; the factorization problem imposed by spacetime wormholes; the weak gravity conjecture that requires the existence of particles with a large enough charge to mass ratio; finding gravitational solutions to the conformal bootstrap, and many more.

This conference will bring together world leading experts in the various subfields of theoretical physics to discuss these open problems. It will lead to fruitful collaborations across subfields, and potentially result in important publications representing significant advances in our understanding of fundamental physics.

  • Participant Title and Affiliation
    Adam Levine Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, MIT, USA
    Adar Sharon Postdoctoral Scholar, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, USA
    Ahmed Almheiri Assistant Professor of Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi
    Alejandra Castro Anich Faculty, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
    Amr Ahmadain Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
    Arvin Shahbazi Moghaddam Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, USA
    Ashoke Sen Professor of Physics, International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India
    Atish Dabholkar Director, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy
    Bartek Czech Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing
    Baurzhan Mukhametzhanov Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell University, USA
    Cumrun Vafa Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Harvard University, USA
    Daniel L. Jafferis Professor of Physics, Harvard University, USA
    David Gross Permanent Member and Holder of the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics; Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; 2004 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
    Eliezer Rabinovici Emeritus Professor of Physics (Leon H. and Ada G. Miller Chair), The Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem;
    President, CERN Council
    Fernando Quevedo.     Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
    Gabriel Cuomo Postdoctoral Researcher, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, USA
    Henry Lin Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, USA
    Himanshu Khanchandani Postdoctoral Associate, NYU, USA
    Hoor Al Maazmi Space Science Researcher, UAE Space Agency, UAE
    Igor Klebanov Professor of Physics, Princeton University, USA
    Jinzhao Wang Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, USA
    Jorrit Kruthoff Postdoctoral Researcher, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
    Juan Maldacena Carl P. Feinberg Professor, School of Natural Sciences,
    The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
    Lisa Randall Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Harvard University, USA
    Matthew Kleban Professor of Physics; Chair of the Department of Physics, New York University, USA
    Mehrdad Mirbabayi Research Scientist, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy
    Micha Berkooz Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
    Miguel Montero Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University, USA
    Nima Arkani-Hamed Faculty and Director, Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey;
    Director, Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP), Beijing, China
    Ofer Aharony Samuel Sebba Professorial Chair of Pure and Applied Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
    Pratik Rath Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
    Rajesh Gopakumar Theoretical Physicist and Director, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India
    Rifath Khan Ph.D Scholar in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
    Robert Myers Director; BMO Financial Group Isaac Newton Chair in Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
    Sergei Dubovsky Professor Of Physics, New York University, USA
    Shai Chester Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University, USA
    Shiraz Minwalla Faculty, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
    Shota Komatsu Researcher, Department of Theoretical Physics, CERN, Switzerland
    Spenta Wadia Infosys Homi Bhabha Chair Professor and Founding Director, International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India
    Sridip Pal Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA
    Subir Sachdev Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Harvard University, USA
    Suvrat Raju Professor of Physics, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru
    Venkatesa Chandrasekaran Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
    Victor Rodriguez Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, USA
    Victor Gorbenko Professor and Head, Laboratory for Theoretical Fundamental Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
    Yiming Chen Graduate Student, Princeton University, USA

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