Organized by Chris Herzog, Leonardo Rastelli, Martin Rocek, and George Sterman.
Dates: January 6-10, 2014
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Supergravity was discovered in 1976 and continues to be central for M-theory, string theory phenomenology, quantum properties of black holes, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. Applications have ranged from extensions of the Standard Model to supersymmetric black hole solutions and strongly coupled systems, with myriad implications for High Energy, Condensed Matter and Nuclear theory and experiment. The term supergravity has entered the discourse of theoretical physics, and each year hundreds of papers appear with “supergravity” in their titles and abstracts. The workshop, Aspects of Supergravity will be devoted to these exciting developments, as well as to some of their historical background.
The theory of supergravity was co-discovered at Stony Brook by Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, who turned 75 on October 26, 2013, and the workshop will celebrate this milestone birthday and Peter’s distinguished and ongoing career in theoretical physics. Peter has also made major contributions to Kaluza-Klein theory, which is central to many applications of supergravity, developed powerful techniques to study solitons in various dimensions, has been a major contributor to BRST methods, and was one of the first to investigate the quantum behavior of gravity and supergravity theories. All these topics are inter-related in deep and unexpected ways, and contribute to our understanding of fundamental aspects of physical law.
*All workshop talks and discussion periods will be held in the Simons Center Lecture Hall (Room 102)
*More information on the Della Pietra lecture on Thursday, January 9th, can be seen here. This talk will be held in Simons Center Auditorium (Room 103)
Aspects of Supergravity Workshop Schedule
| Time | Title | Presenters | Video |
| 9:00am | Breakfast/registration begins (9:00am – 10:00am) | SCGP Lobby and Cafe | |
| 10:00am | In heaven there is no beer; that’s why we drink it here! | Dan Freedman | video |
| 10:45am | Coffee Break | SCGP Cafe | |
| 11:00am | Rotating Black Holes and Duality | Riccardo D’Auria | video |
| 11:45am | Break | ||
| 12:00pm | QFT approach to a sustainable fisheries policy | Gustav Delius | video |
| 12:45pm | Lunch | SCGP Cafe | |
| 2:00pm | Applied Supergravity | Anna Ceresole | video |
| 2:45pm | Worldline approach to higher spin fields on (A)dS | Fiorenzo Bastianelli | video |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | SCGP Cafe | |
| 4:00pm | The Branes of Supergravity | Eric Bergshoeff | video |
| Time | Title | Presenters | Video |
| 9:00am | Breakfast begins (9:00am – 10:00am) | SCGP Cafe | |
| 10:00am | Lorentz invariant CPT violation and particle-antiparticle mass splitting | Kazuo Fujikawa | video |
| 10:45am | Coffee Break | SCGP Cafe | |
| 11:00am | Tensor Hierarchies from D=11 Supergravity | Hermann Nicolai | video |
| 11:45am | Break | ||
| 12:00pm | From strings to maximal supergravity and back with more surprises to come | Bernard Julia | video |
| 12:45pm | Lunch | SCGP Cafe | |
| 2:00pm | Entropy in higher spin theories | Jan de Boer | video |
| 2:45pm | Supersymmetric Janus solutions in maximal supergravities | Krzysztof Pilch | video |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | SCGP Cafe | |
| 4:00pm | Off-shell dimensional reduction | Bernard de Wit | video |
| Time | Title | Presenters | Video |
| 9:00am | Breakfast begins (9:00am – 10:00am) | SCGP Cafe | |
| 10:00am | Covariant Map between RNS and Pure Spinor Superstring Formalisms | Nathan Berkovits | video |
| 10:45am | Coffee Break | SCGP Cafe | |
| 11:00am | Integral Forms: from Superstrings to Supergravity | Pietro Grassi | video |
| 11:45am | Break | ||
| 12:00pm | Black holes in gauged supergravity and supersymmetry breaking | Stefan Vandoren | video |
| 12:45pm | Lunch | SCGP Cafe | |
| 2:00pm | Status of massive 3D gravity | Paul Townsend | video |
| 2:45pm | Anti-de Sitter space, Kaluza-Klein Theory and Condensed Matter | Koenraad Schalm | video |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | SCGP Cafe | |
| 4:00pm | Anomalies and central charges in N=2 theories | Robert Wimmer | video |
| Time | Title | Presenters | Video |
| 9:00am | Breakfast begins (9:00am – 10:00am) | SCGP Cafe | |
| 10:00am | R+R2 theory of Supergravity and inflaton potential | Sergio Ferrara | video |
| 10:45am | Coffee Break | SCGP Cafe | |
| 11:00am | Higher Spin Gauged Supergravity Theories | Ergin Sezgin | video |
| 11:45am | Break | ||
| 12:00pm | Non-perturbative aspects of the gauge/gravity correspondence | Alberto Lerda | video |
| 12:45pm | Lunch | SCGP Cafe | |
| 2:00pm | Understanding AdS/CMT: LG and vortices from ABJM/AdS4xCP3 | Horatiu Nastase | video |
| 2:45pm | Higgs boson decay into two photons in a strong magnetic field | Niels Nielsen | abstract video |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | SCGP Cafe | |
| 4:00pm | Aspects of the Early Days of Supergravity | Mark Fischler | video |
| 5:00pm | Wine and Cheese Reception for Della Pietra Lecture | SCGP Lobby | |
| 5:30pm | Della Pietra Lecture: “The Higgs particle” (Room 103) | Martinus Veltman | video |
| 7:00pm | Banquet | SCGP Cafe | |
| 7:30pm | Peter van Nieuwenhuizen’s After Dinner Speech | SCGP Cafe |
| Time | Title | Presenters | Video |
| 9:00am | Breakfast begins (9:00am – 10:00am) | SCGP Cafe | |
| 10:00am | Conformal field theory in momentum space | Kostas Skenderis | video |
| 10:45am | Coffee Break | SCGP Cafe | |
| 11:00am | Surprising Aspects of Quark-Gluon-Plasma due to Supergravity | Anton Rebhan | video |
| 11:45am | Break | ||
| 12:00pm | Einstein’s Fugu | Andrew Waldron | video |
| 12:45pm | Lunch | SCGP Cafe | |
| 2:00pm | Jets in strongly coupled plasmas | Diana Vaman | video |
| 2:45pm | A Walk on the Supersymmetric Worldsheet | Alexander Sevrin | video |
| 3:30pm | Tea Time | SCGP Cafe | |
| 4:00pm | Following SUSY Representation Theory from Adinkra Graphs to Riemann Surfaces | Jim Gates | video |
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