Holography, strings
and other fun things

This is a two-week programme to be held at IIT Kanpur and BITS Goa from Feb 12-23, 2024.

This page contains the details of the Kanpur leg. For the Goa leg, please look here. 

External Participants for the IITK Leg

Programme

The IITK leg of the workshop would feature a short course by Jelle Hartong (4 lectures, details below) and talks by external and internal participants. Below is a tentative schedule. 

Monday February 12

11.00 am to 12.00 pm: Masazumi Honda "Applications of Quantum Computation to High Energy Physics"

12:00 pm to 03:00 pm: Lunch

03.00 pm to 03.30 pm: Sayan Kumar Das "Holographic entanglement entropy in hydrodynamic systems and continuous phase transitions"

03:30 pm to 04:00 pm: Coffee

04.00 pm to 05.00 pm: Diptarka Das "Chaotic and Thermal Aspects in the String S-Matrix"

Tuesday February 13

11.00 am to 12.30 pm: Jelle Hartong (Lecture 1)

12:30 pm to 02:30 pm: Lunch

02.30 pm to 03.30 pm: Ashish Shukla "Beyond Drude transport in hydrodynamic metals"

03:30 pm to 04:00 pm: Coffee

04.00 pm to 04.30 pm: Sachin Grover "Duality defects in D_n type Niemeier lattice CFTs"

04.30 pm to 05.00 pm: Dibakar Roychowdhury TBA 

Wednesday February 14

11.00 am to 12.30 pm: Jelle Hartong (Lecture 2)

12:30 pm to 02:30 pm: Lunch

02.30 pm to 03.00 pm: Himanshu Chourasia "Reflected entropy in a BCFT on a black hole background"

03.00 pm to 03.30 pm: Sabyasachi Maulik:  "Log temperature correction to near-extremal rotating black hole in AdS"

03:30 pm to 04:00 pm: Coffee

04.00 pm to 05.00 pm:  Aritra Banerjee TBA


08:00 pm: Conference dinner. 

Thursday February 15

11.00 am to 12.30 pm: Jelle Hartong (Lecture 3)

12:30 pm to 02:00 pm: Lunch

02.00 pm to 03.00 pm: Emil Have "A coupling prescription for post-Newtonian corrections in Quantum Mechanics"

03.00 pm to 03.30 pm: Hemanth Rathi "Carrollian Born-Infeld Electrodynamics"

03:30 pm to 04:00 pm: Coffee

04.00 pm to 05.00 pm: Shiroman Prakash "Explorations in dS/CFT"

Friday February 16

10.15 am to 11.15 am: Nilay Kundu

11.15 am to 11.30 am: Coffee

11.30 am to 1.00 pm: Jelle Hartong (Lecture 4)

1.00 pm: Lunch.

Lecture series: Beyond Lorentzian physics

Prof. Jelle Hartong 

University of Edinburgh UK.  

Lecture 1: Introduction to non-Lorentzian geometry


Lecture 2: 1/c expansions of general relativity


Lecture 3: Introduction to Non-Lorentzian string theory


Lecture 4: Carroll geometry and its applications

Practical Information

Getting from Lucknow airport to IIT Kanpur

Many of you are arriving at the Lucknow airport and in view of the many different anticipated timings, we are not arranging any pick up. You can take a cab directly from the airport and arrive at IIT Kanpur.  The journey takes about two hours. The price should be around 3000 INR (plus toll taxes). 

If you feel more comfortable about cab drivers associated with IITK directly, you can book with them directly. The numbers are given below. We have told them about the workshop and external participants. The arrangements are completely between you and the cab drivers. Just let them know you are coming for a conference organised by Arjun Bagchi. 

Phone numbers of cab drivers associated with IIT Kanpur

Mahesh Yadav: +919935038221.
Mahendra Yadav: +917753827412. 

Getting from Kanpur airport to IIT Kanpur

Kanpur has a new airport with daily flights from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. For those of you taking your flights directly to Kanpur, you can get a cab to IIT Kanpur. The journey should be about 40 minutes and the price of the cab about 1000 INR. Again feel free to call one of the cab drivers associated with IITK. 

Once you reach IIT Kanpur

External participants are housed either in the Main guest house (VH-1) or in the International guest house (VH-2). Please take your cab to VH-1 first to check where you are. If required, ask the cab to drop you off to VH-2. 

Venue

The venue for the conference would be the "big class room" in the PBCEC just beside main guest house. All the talks (unless otherwise announced) would be held there. 


Food

Breakfast would be arranged at the guest house you are in. 

We would have lunch in the main guest house.  

Dinners we leave at your discretion. There are a lot of little joints and canteens all over the campus which serve good food. You can also have dinner at the guest house. But you will need to inform the staff there before lunch time on the same day. 


Local Phone numbers 

If any one requires help of people on campus, we are obviously here to help you. Here are a few numbers you can keep handy. These are all members of the string theory group.

Priyadarshini: +91-8763600829
Taniya: +91-7047753368
Ritankar: +91-7388794698.
Saikat: +91-8335937245
Arjun: +91-7991445530.