This Workshop is the tenth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the fifteenth in the series Simons Summer Workshops. This year’s Summer Workshop will focus on strings and QFT without supersymmetry, including non-supersymmetric vacuum constructions in string theory, dualities in nonsupersymmetric theories in 3 and other dimensions, issues in connection with deSitter space and its stability, as well as bootstrap techniques which also apply to nonsupersymmetric contexts.
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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 be in the Simons Center Lobby 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.
*Speakers and titles will be added to the schedule throughout the workshop.
Simons Summer Talk and Events Workshop Schedule:
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| Monday, July 17 | |||
| 10:00am | Symmetry in Quantum Gravity and Other Swampland Conditions | Hirosi Ooguri | 102 |
| 11:00am | N/A | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Symmetry in Quantum Gravity and Other Swampland Conditions | Hirosi Ooguri | SCGP 102 |
| Tuesday, July 18 | |||
| 10:00am | Longitudinal string interactions and black hole dynamics | Eva Silverstein | 102 |
| 11:00am | N/A | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Longitudinal string interactions and black hole dynamics | Eva Silverstein | SCGP 102 |
| 5:30pm | Summer Concert Series | Early Bird Jazz Band | 103 |
| Wednesday July 19 | |||
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | |
| 11:00am | Dynamics of QCD in Four and Three Dimensions | Zohar Komargodski | Smith Point Beach |
| 3:00pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | |
| Thursday July 20 | |||
| 10:00am | Quantum de Sitter spacetime | David Lowe | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | N/A | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Quantum de Sitter spacetime | David Lowe | SCGP 102 |
| 7:00pm | N/A | Summer Workshop Party – Hosted by Martin Rocek and Ute Moll | 11 Shipyard Ln, Setauket- East Setauket, NY 11733, USA |
| Friday July 21 | |||
| 10:00am | Accessing the CFT Operator Spectrum at Large Global Charge | Domenico Orlando | SCGP 102 |
| 11:00am | N/A | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Accessing the CFT Operator Spectrum at Large Global Charge | Domenico Orlando | SCGP 102 |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location | |
| Monday, July 24 | ||||
| 10:00am | $T\bar{T}$ deformation, $NAdS_2$ holography and the QCD String | Sergei Dubovsky | 102 | |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe | |
| 11:30am | $T\bar{T}$ deformation, $NAdS_2$ holography and the QCD String | Sergei Dubovsky | 102 | |
| Tuesday, July 25 | ||||
| 10:00am | Complex-analytic conformal bootstrap | Dalimil Mazac | 102 | |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe | |
| 11:30am | Complex-analytic conformal bootstrap | Dalimil Mazac | 102 | |
| 5:30pm | Summer Concert Series | Andrew York | 103 | |
| Wednesday July 26 | ||||
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00am | 3X | Sergei Gukov | Smith Point Beach | |
| 3:00pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| Thursday July 27 | ||||
| 10:00am | AdS_2 / CFT_1 from AdS_4 / CFT_3 | Silviu Pufu | 102 | |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe | |
| 11:30am | AdS_2 / CFT_1 from AdS_4 / CFT_3 | Silviu Pufu | 102 | |
| 5:00pm | Screening of “Whispers of String Theory” | Ekaterina Eremenko | 103 | |
| 6:30pm | NA | Banquet hosted by Jim Simons at Avalon Park | Avalon Barn | |
| Friday July 28 | ||||
| 10:00am | Non-Supersymmetric Seiberg Dualities | Adi Armoni | 102 | |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe | |
| 11:30am | Non-Supersymmetric Seiberg Dualities | Adi Armoni | 102 | |
| 2:30pm | Warped Massive Gravity | Gregory Gabadadze | 102 | |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| Monday July 31 | |||
| 10:00am | Strongly Coupled Theories At Large Quantum Number | Simeon Hellerman | 102 |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Strongly Coupled Theories At Large Quantum Number | Simeon Hellerman | 102 |
| Tuesday August 1 | |||
| 10:00am |
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Keith Dienes | 102 |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am |
A Duality in Quantum Mechanics
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Jaume Gomis | 102 |
| 5:30pm | Summer Concert Series | Jose Conde, Ola Fresca | SCGP Gallery and Lobby |
| Wednesday August 2 | |||
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | |
| 11:00am | The long-range Ising model revisited: A new infrared duality | Leonardo Rastelli | Smith Point Beach |
| 3:00pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | |
| Thursday August 3 | |||
| 10:00am | Large N Tensor Models | Igor Klebanov | 102 |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Large N Tensor Models | Igor Klebanov | 102 |
| 5:00pm | NA | Banquet hosted by Luis Alvarez-Gaume | Simons Center Cafe |
| Friday August 5 | |||
| 10:00am | The eight field way | Shlomo Razamat | 102 |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | The eight field way | Shlomo Razamat | 102 |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| Monday August 7 | |||
| 10:00am |
Quantum teleportation through wormholes and the black hole interior
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Juan Maldacena | 102 |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Quantum teleportation through wormholes and the black hole interior | Juan Maldacena | 102 |
| Tuesday August 8 | |||
| 10:00am | Applications of the Average Null Energy Condition | Clay Cordova | 102 |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Applications of the Average Null Energy Condition | Clay Cordova | 102 |
| 2:00pm | Hidden hyperkahler symmetries and gravitational instantons of type D_k | Radu Ionas | 102 |
| 5:30pm | Summer Concert Series | Leon Livshin and Friends | 103 |
| Wednesday August 9 | |||
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | |
| 11:00am | Topological field theory and gapped phases of matter | Davide Gaiotto | Smith Point Beach |
| 3:00pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | |
| Thursday August 10 | |||
| 10:00am | Higher-dimensional analogs of the Jordan-Wigner transformation | Anton Kapustin | 102 |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Higher-dimensional analogs of the Jordan-Wigner transformation | Anton Kapustin | 102 |
| 6:30pm | NA | Banquet hosted by Michael Bershadsky | Bershadsky Residence |
| Friday August 11 | |||
| 10:00am | Traversable wormholes, and spacetime from entanglement | Daniel Jafferis | 102 |
| 11:00am | NA | Break | SCGP Cafe |
| 11:30am | Traversable wormholes, and spacetime from entanglement | Daniel Jafferis | 102 |
