Organized by Igor Klebanov, Zohar Komargodski, Raju Venugopalan
The workshop will cover a range of topics related to confining gauge theories, and non-perturbative QFT more broadly. Topics will include aspects of lattice gauge theory models, corrections to the Nambu-Goto action and the S-matrix bootstrap for confining strings, generalized symmetries on the lattice and in the continuum, and search for integrable 2D gauge theories. More phenomenological topics in hadronic physics will also be highlighted, including the physics of confining string junctions, shock wave collisions in QCD, energy correlators at colliders, 3-D distributions of partons, and phase diagrams at finite temperature and density. The workshop will also include aspects of quantum information science and quantum computing. This workshop is a satellite workshop of the Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings; it will be followed by the Collaboration Annual Meeting in New York City on November 13-14, 2025.
Time |
Title |
Speaker |
Location |
9:00AM |
Comments on the mechanisms of confinement |
Tin Sulejmanpasic |
SCGP 102 |
9:30AM |
QCD-like theories on R2xT2 via center-vortex semi-classics |
Yuya Tanizaki |
SCGP 102 |
10:00AM |
TBA |
Fedor Popov |
SCGP 102 |
10:30AM |
Coffee Break |
N/A |
SCGP Cafe |
11:00AM |
Holography in Chern-Simons-Matter theories |
Davide Gaiotto |
SCGP 102 |
11:30AM |
Uplifting Partial String Amplitudes |
Christian Jepsen |
SCGP 102 |
12:00PM |
Worldsheet for generalized Veneziano Amplitudes |
Shota Komatsu |
SCGP 102 |
12:30PM |
Lunch |
N/A |
SCGP Cafe |
2:00PM |
3d Ising Field Theory |
Emanuel Katz |
SCGP 102 |
2:30PM |
Yang-Lee Quantum Criticality in Various Dimensions |
Gregory Tarnopolsky |
SCGP 102 |
3:00PM |
Interacting conformal line defect for free theories |
Christopher Herzog |
SCGP 102 |
3:30PM |
Coffee Break |
N/A |
SCGP Cafe |
4:00PM |
What do deconfined strings look like? |
Rob Pisarski |
SCGP 102 |
4:30PM |
An update on the Yang-Mills Flux Tube in AdS |
Barak Gabai |
SCGP 102 |
5:00PM |
Beyond the Tensionless Limit |
Beat Nairz |
SCGP 102 |
Time |
Title |
Speaker |
Location |
9:00AM |
Lattice insights into the Worldsheet Axion |
Andreas Athenodorou |
SCGP 102 |
9:30AM |
Meson spectrum and low-energy constants in large-N QCD |
Claudio Bonanno |
SCGP 102 |
10:00AM |
Overview of lattice results at finite T |
Peter Petreczky |
SCGP 102 |
10:30AM |
Coffee Break |
N/A |
SCGP Cafe |
11:00AM |
QCD-gravity double copy in Regge asymptotics |
Himanshu Raj |
SCGP 102 |
11:30AM |
Probing deconfined QCD matter with heavy quarks |
Bruno Scheihing |
SCGP 102 |
12:00PM |
Quantum entanglement of a color flux tube on the lattice |
Sergey Syritsyn |
SCGP 102 |
12:30PM |
Lunch |
N/A |
SCGP Cafe |
2:00PM |
Gauge-invariant PEPS for pure Z_2 Gauge theory and its entanglement |
Etsuko Itou |
SCGP 102 |
2:30PM |
Confinement and string-breaking in quantum simulations of truncated lattice gauge theories |
Thorsten Zache |
SCGP 102 |
3:00PM |
Thermalization in 1+1-D systems using tensor networks |
Michal Heller |
SCGP 102 |
3:30PM |
Coffee Break |
N/A |
SCGP 102 |
4:00PM |
Comments on Adjoint QCD2 with an Adjoint Dirac Fermion |
Luigi Tizzano |
SCGP 102 |
4:30PM |
Meson mass spectrum in the ‘t Hooft model |
Pavel Meshcheriakov |
SCGP 102 |
4:45PM |
Ginzburg-Landau description of non-unitary minimal models |
Andrei Katsevich |
SCGP 102 |
5:00PM |
Hints of non-invertible symmetries on the lattice |
Benjamin Søgaard |
SCGP 102 |
5:15PM |
TBA |
Maria Neuzil |
SCGP 102 |
5:30PM |
TBA |
Siwei Zhong |
SCGP 102 |
6:30 |
Conference Banquet |
N/A |
SCGP Cafe |
Time |
Title |
Speaker |
Location |
9:00AM |
Instantons, sphalerons and all that in scalar QFT with minimal and extended supersymmetries: tunneling in topologically nontrivial ground states |
Misha Shifman |
SCGP 102 |
9:30AM |
Magnetic Vortex Strings and their excitations in Seiberg-Witten-like duals of confining gauge theories in 3+1 dimensions |
Thomas Dumitrescu |
SCGP 102 |
10:00AM |
Explorations of Yang-Mills theory on T^2xR^2 with twisted boundary conditions |
Georg Bergner |
SCGP 102 |
10:30AM |
Coffee Break |
N/A |
SCGP Cafe |
11:00AM |
Lattice Hamiltonians for 1+1d Chiral Gauge Theories Speaker: Sahand Sheifansari |
Sahand Sheifansari |
SCGP 102 |
11:30AM |
TBA |
Si Chen |
SCGP 102 |
12:00PM |
TBA |
Aleksey Cherman |
SCGP 102 |
12:30PM |
Lunch |
N/A |
SCGP Cafe |
