Workshop on String Theory and related areas to be held at IIT Kanpur from September 18-22, 2023
Invited Participants
Aritra Banerjee (BITS Pilani)
Shamik Banerjee (NISER Bhubaneswar)
Rudranil Basu (BITS Goa)
Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya (IIT Kharagpur)
Shankhadeep Chakrabortty (IIT Ropar)
Sachin Jain (IISER Pune)
Arnab Kundu (SINP Kolkata)
Mangesh Mandlik (IIT ISM Dhanbad)
Amin Nizami (Ashoka U)
Shiroman Prakash (Dayalbagh Institute, Agra)
Shubho Roy (IIT Hyderabad)
Debajyoti Sarkar (IIT Indore)
Bindusar Sahoo (IISER Thiruvananthapuram)
Nilakash Sorokhaibam (Tezpur U)
Sept 18 (Monday)
12.30 pm - 02.30 pm: Lunch
02.30 pm - 03.30 pm: Bindusar Sahoo - Superconformal approach to N=4 supergravity
03.30 pm - 04.00 pm: Coffee
04.00 pm - 05.00 pm: Nilakash Sorokhaibam - The arrow of time without quantum chaos
05.00 pm - 06.00 pm: Open Discussions
Sept 19 (Tuesday)
10.00 am - 11.00 am: Shamik Banerjee - Celestial holography
11.00 am - 11.30 am: Coffee
11.30 am - 12.30 pm: Rudranil Basu - Carroll connecting flat-space and flat-bands
12.30 pm - 02.30 pm: Lunch
02.30 pm - 03.30 pm: Aritra Banerjee - Carroll from Current-Current deformations
03.30 pm - 04.00 pm: Coffee
04.00 pm - 05.00 pm: Mangesh Mandlik - Tensionless Tales: Vacua, Critical Dimensions and Spectra
05.00 pm - 06.00 pm: Discussions: Flat space, symmetries, IR physics and holography.
Sept 20 (Wednesday)
10.00 am - 11.00 am: Arnab Kundu - CFT, Dynamics & Holography
11.00 am - 11.30 am: Coffee
11.30 am - 12.30 pm: Debajyoti Sarkar - Black holes and wormholes in semiclassical gravity
12.30 pm - 02.30 pm: Lunch
02.30 pm - 03.30 pm: Amin Nizami - Krylov construction and complexity for Floquet dynamics
03.30 pm - 04.00 pm: Coffee
04.00 pm - 05.00 pm: Discussions: Entanglement, Chaos in QFTs/CFTs and holography.
08.00 pm - 11.00 pm: Conference Dinner.
Sept 21 (Thursday)
10.00 am - 11.00 am: Sachin Jain - Solving Chern-Simon matter theory correlator exactly
11.00 am - 11.30 am: Coffee
11.30 am - 12.30 pm: Shiroman Prakash - Emergent Supersymmetry at Large N
12.30 pm - 02.30 pm: Lunch
02.30 pm - 03.30 pm: Jyotirmoy Bhattacharyya - Non-relativistic limit of susy Chern-Simons-matter theories
03.30 pm - 04.00 pm: Coffee
04.00 pm - 05.00 pm: Shubho Roy - CFT reconstruction of local bulk operators in half-Minkowski space
05.00 pm - 06.00 pm: Discussions: Chern Simons Matter theories.
Sept 22 (Friday)
10.00 am - 11.00 am: Shankhadeep Chakrabortty - Holographic thermal correlators
11.00 am - 11.30 am: Coffee
11.30 am - 12.30 pm: TBA
12.30 pm - 12.45 pm: Concluding remarks
12.45 pm - 02.30 pm: Lunch
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 Diptarka Das, Nilay Kundu and 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
All external participants are housed in the Main guest house (VH-1). Please take your cab to VH-1.
Venue
The venue for the conference would be the "big class room" in the PBCEC just beside main guest house. All the talks would be held there.
Food
Breakfast would be arranged at the main guest house. The talks start from 10 am and the breakfast will be served till 9-45 am.
We would also 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.
Debangshu: 9884337754
Priyadarshini: 8093710635
Sabyasachi: 8116484058
Ritankar: 7388794698.
Saikat: 8335937245
Himanshu: 8385052166
Vinayak: 7318019218
Taniya: 7047753368
Diptarka: +916291801702 , Nilay: +919004111609 , Arjun: +917991445530.