JimFest: April 13-15, 2022

Participant List Workshop Schedule

Please join us for an exciting week at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics! 


April 13-15, 2022 – JimFest Scientific Workshop

JimFest is a celebration of world-renowned theoretical physicist, S. James Gates, Jr. 

Prof. Jim Gates is the Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at Brown University. He is an advocate for education, diversity, and research in his field. The workshop will center on Prof. Gates, as well as talks with other workshop participants and guest speakers. Please see the full talk schedule below.


Talk Schedule

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:00am Welcome
Luis Alvarez-Gaume
SCGP 102
9:05am Uses of (0,4) superspace
Martin Rocek
SCGP 102
9:45am Gauge Symmetry Constraints in Consistent Quantum Gravity
Mirjam Cvetic
SCGP 102
10:25am My Favourite Supermultiplet Christopher Hull
Zoom
11:05am Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:20am Electromagnetic interactions of Supergravity supermultiplet
Konstantinos Koutrolikos
SCGP 102
12:00pm TBD
Ed Witten
SCGP 102
12:40pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
2:00pm Observable Emission from Circular Equatorial Kerr Orbiters
Delilah Gates
SCGP 102
Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am On TTbar deformations and supersymmetry
Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli
Zoom
10:10am Conformal higher spins and AdS (super)projectors
Sergei Kuzenko Zoom
10:50am TBD
Ulf Lindstrom
Zoom
11:30am Machine Learning in Mathematical Sciences
Sergei Gukov SCGP 102
12:15pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:45pm K_2 and Quantum Curve
Charles Doran
SCGP 102
2:25pm From Virasoro to Thomas-Whitehead
Vincent Rodger
SCGP 102
3:05pm Laurent Mirror Models Tristan Hubsch
SCGP 102
3:45pm Break N/A SCGP Cafe
4:05pm TBD
Leopoldo Pando-Zayas
SCGP 102
4:45pm A Walk Down Memory Lane: The Life and Research of Jim Gates, 2006 – present, as Told From This Speaker’s Perspective
Stiffler 
SCGP 102
6:00pm Dinner N/A SCGP Cafe
Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:00am Exact results for an STU-model
Bernard de Wit
SCGP 102
9:40am Flat Space Holography
John Schwarz
SCGP 102
10:20am Break N/A SCGP Cafe
10:50am TBD
Delilah Gates and Sylvester Gates III
SCGP 102
11:35am TBD
Jim Gates SCGP 102
12:35pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe


April 12, 2022 – Della Pietra Special Event: Celebrating Science in a Fractured Society

Special panel discussion that will focus on science in a fractured society. What do we do to bring more of our society into the scientific conversation? How do we spark life-long appreciation for the sheer joy of “finding things out”? How do we raise awareness that either we are all part of the solution or we face an unsettling future? All of these questions and more will be discussed with a stellar panel.

To view more details about this event, the participants and their backgrounds, and to register to attend the event, please visit our dedicated page: Celebrating Science in a Fractured Society.