The Ninth New England String Meeting

Brown University

Friday, April 24, 2020

The Ninth New England String Meeting will be a small, regional one-day conference open to all students, postdocs and faculty.  

It will be held by Zoom.  The meeting number is 406-881-086; you can join by clicking (registration closed).  Please use your real full name when connecting.

You can also watch the livestream if you are unable to connect on Zoom. 

The videos and slides will be posted on this web page after the conference ends.

The meeting is open to all, but it will be helpful to us if you please register by clicking here if you plan to tune in.  

Schedule

10:00 am      Juan Maldacena (IAS), "Comments on Magnetic Black Holes" (slides, video)

10:50 am      Mirjam Cvetic (U Penn), "Constraints on Standard Models in F-theory" (slides, video)

11:40 am      Break

1:00 pm        Netta Engelhardt (MIT), “Models of Black Hole Evaporation” (slides, video)

1:50 pm        Herman Verlinde (Princeton), "ER=EPR, Replica Wormholes and a New Holographic Conjecture" (slides, video)

2:40 pm        Break

3:00 pm        Matthew Headrick (Brandeis), "Bit threads for Multiple Regions" (slides, video)

3:50 pm        Xi Yin (Harvard), "D-instantons and the Non-perturbative Completion of c=1 String Theory" (slides, video)

4:40 pm        Davide Gaiotto (Perimeter Institute), "Twisted M-theory and Holography" (slides, video)

Zoomganizers

Anders Schreiber, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich