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.
