Double Scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model: From Gravity to Many-Body Quantum Chaos – May 11-15, 2026

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Organized by:

  • Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Institute)
  • Barbara Dietz (Institute for Basic Science)
  • Yiyang Jia (Weizmann Institute)
  • Henry Lin (Princeton University
  • Jacobus Verbaarschot (Stony Brook University)

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has proved to be a fertile ground for many areas of modern physics such as black holes, holography, condensed matter physics and many-body quantum chaos. In recent years, considerable progress has been made on the double-scaled limit of the SYK model (DSSYK), which is generic to a large class of p-local systems and beyond, and can be solved with great precision using combinatorial tools. New frontiers that emerged include noncommutative spacetimes and quantum groups, new “fake geometries” and negative distances in the bulk, and suggestions for the quantum nature of de Sitter gravity. All of the above topics are under active research by leading experts from different physics communities. We bring them together by for a one-week workshop at the SCGP to pursue further advancement in these research fields.

Talk Schedule


Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Chaos in de Sitter and quantum mechanics Vladimir Narovlansky SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Fluctuating hydrodynamics of the SYK lattice Mark Mezei SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:00pm Large fluctuations in the large-N limit Jonah Kudler-Flam SCGP 102
2:30pm A toy hologram leads to  toy standard model Leonard Susskind SCGP 102/ZOOM
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm A JT/KPZ correspondence Masataka Wanatabe SCGP 102
4:30pm dS^4 Metamorphis Beatrix Muhlman SCGP 102

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am The soft mode of DSSYK and 3D near-de Sitter gravity Herman Verlinde SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Towards a worldline hologram of three dimensional dS Andreas Blommaert SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
12:00pm Group Photo N/A SCGP Lobby
2:30pm Periodic orbit theory in a class of classically-chaotic systems (hopefully) dual to JT and Airy quantum gravity Juan-Diego Urbina SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm An overview of topological recursion in random matrices Betrand Eynard SCGP 102

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am RMT Models to solve the Quantum Information Paradox Mario Kieburg SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Chaos and universality in the dissipative SYK model Lucas Sa SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:00pm Dissipation as a Resource: From Transient to Steady-State Chaos Lea Santos SCGP 102
2:30pm ETH matrix model for DSSYK Kazumi Okuyama SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm Symmetry in Non-Hermitian Quantum Many-Body Systems: From the Classification of PT-Symmetric Quantum Chaos to Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions Yin Can SCGP 102

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Heavy-Tailed Distributions — Invitation to a new Double-Scaled SYK Model Budhaditya Bhattacharjee SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am c=1 strings as a matrix integral Scott Collier SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:00pm Emergent States and Algebras from Double-Scaling Limit of Pure States in SYK Jiuci Xu SCGP 102
2:30pm Chaos and the Berry curvature of BPS microstates Ohad Mamroud SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm Renormalization group flows of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model Damian Galante SCGP 102
4:30pm Double Scaled Tensor Model Fedor Popov SCGP 102
6:00pm Banquet Dinner N/A SCGP Cafe

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Non-commutative geometry of the DSSYK model Mikhail Isachenkov SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am q-Askey deformations of Double-Scaled SYK Sergio Aguilar SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:00pm The Hartle–Hawking state and quantum mechanics for de Sitter observers Ying Zhao SCGP 102
2:30pm Bouncing off stringy singularities Matthew Dodelson SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm Quantum Symmetry and Geometry in DSSYK Jeremy van der Heijden SCGP 102