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KITP Program: What is String Theory? Weaving Perspectives Together
(Jan 8 - Apr 19, 2024)
Coordinators: Lara Anderson, Rajesh Gopakumar, Mukund Rangamani and Xi Yin
Scientific Advisors: Juan Maldacena, Ashoke Sen and Edward Witten

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Time Speaker Title
1/09, 10:00am Cumrun Vafa
Harvard
The Swampland Program[Video]
1/10, 1:30pm Cumrun Vafa
Harvard
Swamplandish Predictions for our Universe[Video]
1/11, 10:00am Nathan Berkovits
IFT-UNESP
On the Equivalence of the Pure Spinor and RNS Formalisms[Video]
1/12, 1:30pm Eric Perlmutter
IPhT-CEA Saclay
What is N? On the Large Scale Structure of CFT Space[Video]
1/16, 10:00am Shiraz Minwalla
TIFR
New entropy formulae from supersymmetric (and nonsupersymmetric) 'Grey Galaxies'[Video][CC]
1/17, 1:30pm All participants Discussion: What is string theory?[Video]
1/18, 10:00am Igor Klebanov
Princeton
QCD_2 with an Adjoint Majorana Fermion[Video]
1/19, 1:30pm Aron Wall
Cambridge
Discussion: Off-shell strings[Video]
1/22, 12:15pm Rajesh Gopakumar
ICTS
What String Theory Is - A Perspective [Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
1/22, 1:30pm All participants Meet and Greet
1/23, 10:00am Thomas Grimm
Utrecht Univ
Tameness and Complexity in Field and String Theory[Video]
1/24, 1:30pm Matthias Gaberdiel
ETH Zurich
Discussion: Integrability in AdS3[Video]
1/25, 10:00am Minjae Cho
Princeton
Describing some string backgrounds using string field theory[Video]
1/26, 1:30pm Gary Shiu
Wisconsin
Discussion: Euclidean axion wormholes in string theory[Video]
1/26, 4:00pm David Gross
KITP
The Beginnings of String Theory
1/29, 1:30pm All participants Meet and greet
1/30, 10:00am Juan Maldacena
IAS
Three point amplitudes and soft factors in matrix theory[Video][CC]
1/31, 1:30pm Juan Maldacena
IAS
Introduction to gravitational holography[Video]
2/01, 10:00am Damian Van De Heisteeg
Harvard
Discussion on swampland conjectures[Video]
2/01, 1:30pm Juan Maldacena
IAS
Discussion: Gravitational Holography[Video]
2/02, 1:30pm Victor Rodriguez
Princeton
What is 2d string theory? Recent developments[Video]
2/05, 1:30pm All participants Meet and Greet
2/06, 10:00am Henry Lin
Stanford
Progress on double scaled (supersymmetric-) SYK[Video]
2/07, 1:30pm James Gray
Virginia Tech
Challenges and progress in N=1 compactifications[Video]
2/08, 10:00am Shota Komatsu
CERN
Matrix (String) Theory at Finite N[Video]
2/08, 1:30pm Henry Lin
(Stanford U)
Ahmed Almheiri
(NYU AD)
Discussion on symmetries of double scaled SYK, quantum deformations of quantum groups/algebras and quantum spaces.[Video]
2/09, 1:30pm Manki Kim
MIT
Discussion: progress and problems in string phenomenology[Video]
2/14, 1:30pm Andy Strominger
Harvard
Celestial holography: past, present and future[Video]
2/15, 10:00am Shreya Vardhan
Stanford
Lessons for quantum gravity from quantum chaos[Video]
2/15, 1:30pm Andy Strominger
Harvard
Celestial holography: past, present and future[Video]
2/16, 2:30pm Ying-Hsuan Lin
Harvard
Recent explorations of BPS states in holography[Video]
2/20, 10:00am Iosif Bena
CEA Saclay
Physics at the horizon: Mind the cap[Video]
2/21, 1:30pm Steve Shenker
Stanford
Discussion: Open questions in non-perturbative string theory[Video]
2/22, 10:00am Andrea Puhm
Univ. of Amsterdam
The correspondence between rotating black holes and fundamental strings[Video]
2/23, 1:30pm Ted Erler
FZU-CAS
Classical solutions in bosonic open string field theory[Video]
2/26, 1:30pm Liam McAllister
Cornell
Quantum Gravity in our Universe[Video]
2/27, 10:00am Liam McAllister
Cornell
Future Compactifications[Video][CC]
2/28, 1:30pm Evita Verheijden
Harvard
Cryptographic Censorship[Video]
2/29, 10:00am Nikolay Bobev
KU Leuven
A Holographic Triptych at Large N[Video][CC]
2/29, 1:30pm Ted Erler
FZU-CAS
Discussion on analytic solutions of open string field theory[Video]
3/01, 1:30pm Oliver Schlotterer
Uppsala Univ
Updates on string perturbation theory: CFT and integration at different genus[Video]
3/01, 4:00pm Chris Hull
Imperial College
What was string theory? The story of the string duality revolution[Video]
3/04, 1:30pm All participants Meet and Greet
3/05, 10:00am Alex Maloney
McGill Univ.
The AdS_3/CFT_2 Correspondence and Disordered Conformal Field Theory[Video]
3/06, 1:30pm Jonathan Heckman
Univ. of Penn
Discussion on Generalized Symmetries and String Theory[Video]
3/07, 10:00am Ashoke Sen
ICTS
Why do we need string field theory?[Video][CC]
3/08, 1:30pm Bruno Balthazar
U. Chicago
Small Black Holes in String Theory[Video]
3/11, 1:30pm Miguel Montero
Harvard
Alternatives to de Sitter in String Theory[Video]
3/11, 2:30pm Rashmish Mishra
Harvard
Confinement, Holography, and the Early Universe [Video]
Particle Theory Initiative x STRINGS24
3/12, 10:00am Irene Valenzuela
CERN
From string dualities to towers of states and low energy implications[Video]
3/12, 11:00am Rudin Petrossian-Byrne
ICTP
Portraits of landscapes, from the IR [Video]
Particle Theory Initiative x STRINGS24
3/13, 1:30pm Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech
Discussion on Interfaces of string theory, particle theory, and cosmology[Video]
3/14, 10:00am Grant Remmen
NYU
Multiparticle Factorization and String Amplitudes [Video]
Particle Theory Initiative x STRINGS24
3/14, 11:00am Naomi Gendler
Cornell
The Hierarchical Axiverse[Video]
3/15, 1:30pm Isabel Garcia Garcia
U Washington
Discussion on Vacuum decay [Video]
Particle Theory Initiative x STRINGS24
3/18, 1:30pm All participants Meet and greet
3/19, 10:00am Donald Marolf
UCSB
On wormholes and ensembles: Lessons from the gravitational path integral[Video]
3/20, 1:30pm Edward Mazenc
ETH Zurich
Deriving Gauge/String Dualities: Strings from Feynman Diagrams & Open-Closed-Open Triality[Video]
3/21, 10:00am Sunny Itzhaki
Tel Aviv Univ.
When Strings Surprise[Video]
3/21, 1:30pm Ashoke Sen
ICTS
How to build and use a string field theory[Video][CC]
3/22, 1:30pm Marcus Spradlin
Brown
Some updates on the amplitudes program[Slides][Video][CC]
3/25, 1:30pm All participants Meet and greet
3/26, 10:00am Matthew Headrick
Brandeis Univ.
Pythons and holographic complexity[Video]
3/27, 1:30pm Ruben Minasian
CEA Saclay
Heterotic torsional backgrounds[Video][CC]
3/28, 10:00am Joe Minahan
Uppsala Univ.
Two-dimensional Yang-Mills as a string theory[Video]
3/28, 1:30pm Ashoke Sen
ICTS
String Theory in Rolling Tachyon Vacuum[Video]
4/01, 10:00am Henry Maxfield
Stanford
Non-perturbative effects in the gravitational Hilbert space[Video]
4/02-4/05 Conference: Spacetime and String Theory
4/08, 1:30pm All participants Meet and Greet
4/09, 10:00am Suvrat Raju
ICTS
Massive particles at spatial infinity[Video]
4/10, 1:30pm Douglas Stanford
Stanford
Discussion on the typical state firewall problem[Video]
4/11, 10:00am Emil Martinec
Chicago
Fivebrane finding-s[Slides][Video][CC]
4/12, 1:30pm Aninda Sinha
IISc
A new representation of the Veneziano amplitude and the narrow resonance bootstrap[Video][CC]
4/16, 10:00am Gary Horowitz
UCSB
Breakdown of effective field theory near cool black holes[Video][CC]
4/17, 1:30pm Victor Luca Iliesiu
(Stanford)
Ashoke Sen
(ICTS)
Roberto Emparan
(ICC Univ. Barcelona)
Discussion on black hole microstates[Video][CC]
4/18, 10:00am Xi Yin
Harvard
Tachyon-dilaton eschatology and diffeomorphism in string field theory[Video]
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