Confinement and QCD Strings: November 10 – 12, 2025

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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.

Talk Schedule


Time Title Speaker Location
8:30AM Registration and Breakfast SCGP Lobby
8:50AM Workshop Introduction and Announcements Raju Venugopalan and Zohar Komargodski SCGP 102
Session I Chair Igor Klebanov 
9:15AM Comments on the mechanisms of confinement Tin Sulejmanpasic SCGP 102
9:45AM  QCD-like theories on R2xT2 via center-vortex semi-classics Yuya Tanizaki SCGP 102
10:15AM Factorizing Defects from Generalized Pinning Fields Fedor Popov SCGP 102
10:45AM Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
Session II Chair Zohar Komargodski
11:15AM Holography in Chern-Simons-Matter theories Davide Gaiotto SCGP 102
11:45AM Uplifting Partial String Amplitudes Christian Jepsen SCGP 102
12:15PM Worldsheet for generalized Veneziano Amplitudes Shota Komatsu SCGP 102
12:45PM Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
Session III Chair Sergey Dubovsky
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
Session IV Chair Raju Venugopalan
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
8:30AM Breakfast SCGP Cafe
Session I Chair Michele Caselle
9:15AM Lattice insights into the Worldsheet Axion Andreas Athenodorou SCGP 102
9:45AM Meson spectrum and low-energy constants in large-N QCD Claudio Bonanno SCGP 102
10:15AM Overview of lattice results at finite T Peter Petreczky SCGP 102
10:45AM Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
Session II Chair Ian Moult
11:15AM QCD-gravity double copy in Regge asymptotics Himanshu Raj SCGP 102
11:45AM Probing deconfined QCD matter with heavy quarks Bruno Scheihing SCGP 102
12:15PM Quantum entanglement of a color flux tube on the lattice Sergey Syritsyn SCGP 102
12:45PM Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
Session III Chair Ross Dempsey
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
Session IV Chair Ofer Aharony
4:00PM Comments on Adjoint QCD2 with an Adjoint Dirac Fermion Luigi Tizzano SCGP 102
4:30PM Analytical tools for 2D large-N_c QCD 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 Comments on Dyonic QED Maria Neuzil SCGP 102
5:30PM The Junction between QCD Strings Siwei Zhong SCGP 102
6:30 Conference Banquet N/A SCGP Cafe

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30AM Breakfast SCGP Cafe
Session I Chair  Mithat Unsal
9:15AM Instantons, sphalerons and all that in scalar QFT with minimal and extended supersymmetries: tunneling in topologically nontrivial ground states Misha Shifman SCGP 102
9:45AM Magnetic Vortex Strings and their excitations in Seiberg-Witten-like duals of confining gauge theories in 3+1 dimensions Thomas Dumitrescu SCGP 102
10:15AM Explorations of Yang-Mills theory on T^2xR^2 with twisted boundary conditions Georg Bergner SCGP 102
10:45AM Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
Session II Chair  Arkady Vainshtein
11:15AM Symmetry Transmutation Sahand Seifnashri SCGP 102
11:45AM Junctions and anomaly matching Shi Chen SCGP 102
12:15PM Bosonization versus the Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem Aleksey Cherman SCGP 102
12:45PM Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe