Agenda

Abu Dhabi Meeting on Theoretical Physics


Sunday, January 8, 2023

10:00-10:30am Welcome Coffee, Registration and Opening Remarks
10:30am Fernando Quevedo
On the Hamiltonian Approach to Vacuum Transitions
11:00am Yiming Chen
Estimating Global Charge Violating Amplitudes from Wormholes
11:30am Miguel Montero
Constraining Quantum Gravity via Cobordisms
12:00-1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00pm Daniel Jafferis
Tensor Models for Approximate CFT2
1:30pm Gabriel Cuomo
Charged Spinning Operators in CFTs: From Superfluids to Regge Theory
2:00pm Himanshu Khanchandani
Line Defects in Fermionic CFTs
2:45pm Excursion for Conference Speakers

Monday, January 9, 2023

9:30am Adam Levine
State Merging and the Quantum Extremal Surface Prescription
10:00am Bartlomiej Czech
The Holographic Dual of Bulk Parallel Transport
10:30-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am Shota Komatsu
String Dual of Two-dimensional Yang-Mills and Symmetric Product Orbifold
11:30am Ofer Aharony
Line-defect Renormalization Group Flow and Screening of Wilson Lines
12:00pm Shai Chester
Pure Supergravity and the Conformal Bootstrap
12:30-1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30pm Micha Berkooz
The Double Scaled SYK Model
2:00pm Henry Lin
Algebra and Geometry from Chords
2:30-3:00pm Coffee Break
3:00pm Sergei Dubovsky
Hidden Symmetry of Vanishing Love
3:30pm Rajesh Gopakumar
Deriving the Simplest Gauge-String Duality
4:15pm Excursion for Conference Speakers
8:30pm Dinner for Conference Speakers

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

9:30am Adar Sharon
New Double-scaling Limits of Gamma-deformed \mathcal{N}=4 SYM
10:00am Victor Rodriguez
A Two-Dimensional String Cosmology
10:30-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am Baurzhan Mukhametzhanov
Comments on Double-scaled SYK
11:30am Lisa Randall
Ineffective Field Theory
12:00pm Jorrit Kruthoff
The Power of Time
12:30-1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30pm Spenta Wadia
Dynamics of Complete Black Hole Evaporation in 2-dim Gravity
2:00pm Subir Sachdev
Experiments on Graphene Flakes and Strange Metals: Insights from the SYK Model
2:30pm Rifath Khan
Cauchy Slice Holographic Dictionary
3:00-3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm Eliezer Rabinovici
On K Complexity
4:00pm Atish Dabholkar
Quantum Slow Roll
4:30pm Shiraz Minwalla
Crossing in Chern Simons Matter Theories at Finite k
5:30pm Tour of NYUAD Campus for Conference Speakers
6:30-8:00pm Institute Talk: Uncovering the Underlying Structure of the Universe
8:30pm Dinner Reception

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

9:30am Venkatesa Chandrasekaran
Algebras and Entropies in Semi-classical Gravity
10:00am Viktor Gorbenko
Peculiarities of RG Flows in 2d O(n) Models
10:30am Coffee Break
11:00-11:30am           Mehrdad Mirbabayi
Probability Measure for Uptunneling on a Slow-roll Potential
11:30am-12:20pm Hoor Al Maazmi
Special Presentation on the Emirates Mars Mission and the Mars Asteroid Belt
12:20-1:45pm Lunch Break
1:45pm Jinzhao Wang
Free Probability in Physics: From Master Fields to Gravity
2:15pm                             Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam
Restricted Quantum Focusing
2:45pm Suvrat Raju
The Hilbert Space of Quantum Gravity in de Sitter Space
3:30pm                 Excursion for Conference Speakers       

Thursday, January 12, 2023

9:30am Ashoke Sen
D-instanton Amplitudes in String Theory
10:00am Amr Ahmadain
The Off-shell Sphere Action: Perturbation Theory and Beyond
10:30-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am Sridip Pal
Automorphic Spectra and Conformal Bootstrap
11:30am Alejandra Castro Anich
Holographic CFTs
12:00-12:10pm Concluding Remarks
12:10-1:00pm Lunch Break
2:30pm Excursion for Conference Speakers