TTbar and Other Solvable Deformations of Quantum Field Theories: April 8 – 12, 2019

Organized by: Mark Mezei, Stefano Negro, Alexander Zamolodchikov, and Zohar Komargodski

The workshop will be devoted to the recent exciting developments in the investigation of irrelevant deformations in QFT. Solvable examples such as $T\bar{T}$-deformed two-dimensional QFTs and their generalizations have attracted attention across the whole spectrum of high energy theory. The purpose of the workshop is thus to bring together experts from the different fields of integrable field theories, conformal field theory and quantum gravity, in order to encourage the exchange of ideas, spur cross-subject collaborations and establish new directions. Given the variety of different approaches to the topic, the workshop will combine research talks with longer introductory lectures.

Talk Schedule


Time Title Speaker Location
9:30am Alexander Zamolodchikov SCGP 102
11:00am Coffee N/A Cafe
11:30am The JTbar deformation of two-dimensional CFTs”. Monica Guica N/A
12:30pm Lunch N/A Cafe
1:30pm TTbar and quantum mechanics Edgar Shaghoulian SCGP 102
2:30pm Highlights of TTbar in higher dimensions Jorrit Kruthoff SCGP 102
3:00pm Cookies & Tea N/A Cafe
4:00pm C-functions for TT-bar deformation Akikazu Hashimoto SCGP 102
4:30pm Leonardo Rastelli SCGP 102

Time Title Speaker Location
9:30am Herman Verlinde SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee N/A Cafe
11:00am From CDD Factors to TTbar via Integrability Andrea Cavaglia SCGP 102
11:30am Local Integrals of Motion and irrelevant perturbations of 2D Integrable Field Theories Riccardo Conti N/A
12:00pm Lunch N/A Cafe
1:00pm SCGP Weekly Talk: Roberto Tateo SCGP Weekly Talk: Roberto Tateo 102
2:30pm Marginal current-current deformations of 2D CFTs Vir Bulchandani SCGP 102
3:00pm Cookies & Tea N/A Cafe
4:00pm Deformations of QFTs and construction of models Gandalf Lechner SCGP 102

Time Title Speaker Location
9:30am TTbar and Supersymmetry Sav Sethi SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee N/A Cafe
11:00am TTbar deformed partition functions Shouvik Datta SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A Cafe
1:30pm Solving TTbar+JTbar using background gauge fields Bruno Le Floch SCGP 102
2:30pm Cookies & Tea N/A Cafe
3:30pm Sphere partition functions and cut-off AdS Pawel Caputa SCGP 102
4:00pm The local Callan Symanzik equation in TT deformed theories Vasudev Shyam SCGP 102

Time Title Speaker Location
9:30am TTbar Deformed Correlation Functions John Cardy SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee N/A Cafe
11:00am Field and String Theory Perspectives on TTbar and related theories. David Kutasov SCGP 102
12:00pm $T\bar{T}+J\bar{T}+T\bar{J}$ deformed $CFT_2$ from string theory Soumangsu B. Chakraborty N/A
12:30pm Lunch N/A Cafe
1:30pm Warping AdS with JTbar deformations: a toy model for Kerr/CFT Wei Song SCGP 102
2:00pm AdS3 strings in light-cone gauge from T-Tbar Alessandro Sfondrini N/A
2:30pm Ultraviolet deformations and AdS3/CFT2 Gaston Giribet N/A
3:00pm Cookies & Tea N/A Cafe
4:00pm TTbar as Simple Gravity Victor Gorbenko SCGP 102
5:00pm Panel SCGP 102

Time Title Speaker Location
9:30am Beyond TTbar Sergei Dubovsky SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee N/A Cafe
11:00am T T-bar and relevant deformations for dS holography Eva Silverstein SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A Cafe
3:00pm Cookies & Tea N/A Cafe