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KITP Conference: Gravity from algebra: modern field theory methods for holography
(Jan 23-26, 2023)
Coordinators: Ofer Aharony, Agnese Bissi, Leonardo Rastelli, and Alexander Zhiboedov

Monday, Jan 23, 2023

8:50am Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
9:00am Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins) Non-invertible symmetry, holography, and branes[Video][CC]
9:45am Lorenz Eberhardt (IAS) 3d Gravity and Teichmueller TQFT[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Shota Komatsu (CERN) Non-holographic holography[Video][CC]
11:45am Natalie Paquette (Washington) Top-down topological holography and twists on twistor space[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Thomas Hartman (Cornell) Holographic tensor networks in 2d CFT[Slides][Video][CC]
2:45pm Kristan Jensen (Victoria U) Isometric evolution in de Sitter gravity[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Shai Chester (Harvard) Scale Separation and the Conformal Bootstrap[Slides][Video][CC]
4:45pm Francesco Aprile (U Complutense) Loops and Strings in AdS5xS5[Video][CC]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Jan 24, 2023

9:00am Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR) Crossing Symmetry in Matter Chern Smons theories at finite N and k[Video][CC]
9:45am Sameer Murthy (Kings College London) Finite-N holography: supersymmetry and modularity in gravity[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Alessandro Tomasiello (UNIMIB) Bounds on spin-two KK masses[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am Thomas Van Riet (KU Leuven) Extreme AdS(/CFT?)[Slides][Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Alejandra Castro (Cambridge) Designing Gravitational Theories via Symmetric Product Orbifolds[Slides][Video][CC]
2:45pm Nikolay Bobev (KU Leuven) Large N Partition Functions, Holography, and Black Holes[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis) Towards characterizing the holographic entropy cone[Slides][Video][CC]
4:45pm Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS) What we can learn from being Free and Tensionless[Slides][Video][CC]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Jan 25, 2023

9:00am Irene Valenzuela (CERN) Reducing the Distance between the Swampland and the Bootstrap[Video][CC]
9:45am Eric Perlmutter (IPhT-CEA Saclay) Holographic Prescriptions for Scale Separation Anxiety[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Pedro Vieira (Perimeter/ICTP-SAIFR) Huge Operators in Holography - From Bananas to Doors[Video]
11:45am Jorrit Kruthoff (Stanford) The power of time[Video]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Douglas Stanford (Stanford) Fake geometry from algebra[Video]
2:45pm Julian Sonner (Geneva) Matrix models for ETH and random CFT[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Henry Maxfield (Stanford) Non-relativistic physics in AdS and its CFT dual[Video][CC]
4:45pm Victor Luca Iliesiu (Stanford) Indices from the gravitational path integral[Video][CC]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Jan 26, 2023

9:00am Alex Belin (U Milan) Holographic CFTs and Strongly Coupled AdS Matter[Video][CC]
9:45am Clifford Johnson (USC) The Distribution of Ground States in JT Gravity from Random Matrix Models.[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Clay Córdova (U Chicago) Comments on Symmetry Breaking and Weak Gravity[Video][CC]
11:45am David Simmons Duffin (Caltech) CFT, Spin's Statistics, and All That[Video]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Andrea Puhm (Polytechnique) Celestial imprint of bulk geometries[Video]
2:45pm Simon Caron Huot (McGill U) An eye for the bulk[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm

CONFERENCE END) SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location (See Registration Desk BEFORE THURSDAY to sign up.)