Downloadable Schedules by Week:
*Speakers and titles will be added to the schedule throughout the workshop.
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
All talks will be held in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall (Room 102).
Breakfast will be served daily from 9:00am-10:00am in the Simons Center Cafe, 2nd floor.
Lunch will be served from 12:00pm-2:00pm in the Simons Center Cafe, 2nd floor.
Tea time will either be in the Simons Center Lobby or on the patio outside of the Art Gallery (weather permitting) at 3:30pm.
Wednesdays
The talk will be at Smith Point Beach (please see transportation website).
Lunch will be served at Smith Point Beach around 12:30pm.
Simons Summer Talk and Events Workshop Schedule:
Conformal bootstrap and mixed correlators
| Monday 7/20 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Introduction to the conformal bootstrap | Agnese Bissi | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Tuesday 7/21 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Periodic Table of 6D SCFTs | Jonathan Heckman | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 5:30pm | Wine and Cheese Reception | Lobby | ||
| 6:00pm | Musical Performance | Jazz Quartet – Frank Bellucci, John Marshall, Steve Salerno and Keenan Zach | 103 | video |
| Wednesday 7/22 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00pm | Realization and classification of 1+1D CFT via 2+1D FQH states | Xiao-Gang Wen | Smith Point Beach | video |
| 3:30pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| Thursday 7/23 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | The N=2 Superconformal Bootstrap | Pedro Liendo | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 6:30pm | Banquet at Martin Rocek’s Residence | Rocek Residence | ||
| Friday 7/24 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | The Holographic Entropy Cone | Bogdan Stoica | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Monday 7/27 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Introduction to Class-S and Tinkertoys | Jacques Distler | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Tuesday 7/28 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Gauge theories on 6d soliton strings | Seok Kim | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 5:30pm | Wine and Cheese Reception | Lobby | ||
| 6:00pm | Musical Performance | Ray Anderson’s Organic Quartet – Ray Anderson, Tommy Campbell, Steve Alerno, and Gary Versace | 103 | |
| Wednesday 7/29 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00am | The (2, 0) superconformal bootstrap | Leonardo Rastelli | Smith Point Beach | video |
| 3:30pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| 6:30pm | Banquet at Michael Bershadsky’s Residence | Bershadsky Residence | ||
| Thursday 7/30 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Six-dimensional CFT’s with holographic duals | Alessandro Tomasiello | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Friday 7/31 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Conformal bootstrap and QCD chiral phase transition | Yu Nakayama | 102 | part 1 part 2 slides |
| Monday 8/3 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Conformal bootstrap and mixed correlators | Alessandro Vichi | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Tuesday 8/4 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 11:30am | Anomalies, RG Flows, and the a-theorem in 6d — Part I | Thomas Dumitrescu | 102 | video |
| 2:30pm | ADE Little String Theory on a Riemann Surface | Mina Aganagic | 102 | video |
| 5:30pm | Wine and Cheese Reception | Lobby | ||
| 6:00pm | Musical Performance | Leon Livshin | 103 | video |
| Wednesday 8/5 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00am | Anomalies, RG Flows, and the a-theorem in 6d — Part II | Clay Cordova | Smith Point Beach | video |
| 3:30pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| Thursday 8/6 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | CFTs with O(N) and Sp(N) symmetry and Higher Spins in (A)dS Space | Igor Klebanov | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 6:00pm | Avalon Workshop Party | Avalon Park and Preserve | ||
| Friday 8/7 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Searching for a bulk point | Juan Maldacena | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Monday 8/10 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Deconstructing Conformal Blocks in 4D CFT | Marco Serone | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Tuesday 8/11 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Entanglement and Locality in AdS/CFT | Hirosi Ooguri | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 5:30pm | Wine and Cheese Reception | Lobby | ||
| 6:00pm | Musical Performance | Stony Brook Music Department String Quartet | 103 | |
| Wednesday 8/12 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00am | Anomalies, Conformal Manifolds, and Spheres | Nathan Seiberg | Smith Point Beach | video |
| 3:30pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| Thursday 8/13 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | The Temperature of a Pure State in CFT | Jared Kaplan | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 6:30pm | Banquet at John Morgan’s Residence | Morgan Residence | ||
| Friday 8/14 | ||||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Three-Dimensional Bosonization from Supersymmetry | Ran Yacoby | 102 | part 1 part 2 |