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Thursday 25th
Sparks
Title: Equivariant localization in supergravity
Horowitz
Title: Breakdown of effective field theory near cool black holes
Martelli
Title: From wrapped branes to spindles
Abstract: I will share some recollections about my interactions and my scientific work with Jerome over a span of 24 years. From the "good old days" of wrapped branes and G-structures, to the present. I will also discuss some recent results revolving around spindles.
Sonner
Title: Double Holography
Abstract: I will describe ongoing work towards the quantum simulation of quantum matter within the HoloGraph consortium (UniGE-ETH-EPFL), which aims to create a holographic state of matter. The particular quantum simulation proposal I will describe utilises ultra cold atomic gases of fermions in a high-finesse optical cavity and is able to engineer random all-to-all two-body interactions, which appear as the fundamental building blocks of the SYK family of models, but also other spin-glass Hamiltonians of interest in many-body physics.
Douglas
Title: Numerical construction of $G_2$ metrics
Abstract: We discuss work in progress with Daniel Platt and Yidi Qi on producing explicit examples of the Joyce-Karigiannis construction of $G_2$ metrics. This requires finding nowhere vanishing harmonic $1$-forms on real loci of Calabi-Yau $3$-folds. We obtained approximate Ricci flat metrics and harmonic $1$-forms using machine learning techniques, and we made progress towards rigorously proving the existence of the corresponding exact solutions. We also survey related topics in numerical differential geometry.
Donos
Title: Nearly Critical Superfluids and Holography
Varela
Title: Jerome at 4+56 and Exceptional Spectroscopy
Friday 26th
Pantelidou
Title: Pseudospectrum of black holes in AdS
Dabholkar
Title: Quantum Entanglement in String Theory
Tong
Title: Monopole-Fermion Scattering is Weird
Abstract: If you throw a fermion at a monopole, then weird things happen.
Warner
Title: Emergent Geometries in Black- Hole Microstructure
Townsend
Title: Born on the edge (of causality)
Abtract: The Born-Infeld theory of nonlinear electrodynamics plays an important role in string theory, notably as part of the effective worldvolume theory for the D3-brane. It is a causal theory, in contrast to Born’s original theory which we now know is acausal (it will be explained why). This talk is mostly about the limits of Born-Infeld that are `marginally’ causal. They have zero Lagrangians but non-trivial dynamics (this will also be explained) and their wave solutions can propagate only within a 1-dimensional or 2-dimensional subspace of 3-space. The conformal Bialynicki-Birula electrodynamics is one example (which will be reviewed). Another is the ``extreme’’ limit of Born-Infeld, which becomes a novel strong-coupling limit in the D3-brane context.
Kim
Title: Thermodynamics of Accelerating Black Holes
Petrini
Title: What can generalised geometry say about N=1 4d SCFT’s
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