Friday November 22, 2019

9:30am - 6:00pm

Elebash Recital Hall at The Graduate Center, CUNY

Quantum field theory (QFT) is a universal language underlying theoretical physics, from the Standard Model of particle physics to condensed matter phenomena. At present, a central challenge is to chart the total space of QFTs, including those that are strongly coupled. The Bootstrap approach to this problem is based on the remarkable fact that the space of QFTs can be characterized using solely general principles such as symmetries and basic properties of quantum mechanics. This workshop will be devoted to the most exciting new developments in this field, ranging from surveying the space of CFTs to applications to quantum gravity.

9:30 AM Coffee and bagels

10:00 AM The Analytic Bootstrap, Sphere Packing and Quantum Gravity Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook)

11:30 AM Coffee

12:00 PM Charting the Landscape of 3d CFTs David Poland (Yale)

1:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM Instantons in O(N) Vector Models and in N = 4 SYM Silviu Pufu (Princeton)

4:00 PM Coffee

4:30 PM Quantum Gravity and Bulk Reconstruction Jared Kaplan (Johns Hopkins)

Register here.

Download event flier here.
Download Full Series PDF here.
Organized by Sebastian Franco, sfranco@ccny.cuny.edu.