International Conference on String Field Theory and Related Aspects VII

11 May 2015, 08:00 → 15 May 2015, 19:25 Asia/Shanghai

ChengDu, China

The International Conference on String Field Theory and Related Aspects VII will be held during 11~15 May 2015 at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Sichuan University (CTP-SCU), Chengdu, China. The conference is devoted to the latest results in string field theory as well as in related fields, such as higher spin theory and double field theory. It is the seventh successive annual conference in the series initiated in 2008. The conference will be preceded by the satellite Introductory School on String Field Theory and Higher Spin Theory during 4~8 May, intended to provide introductory courses for graduate students and young researchers.

Time

• 5/4 - 8: Introductory School on String Field Theory and Higher Spin Theory (preSFT2015)
• 5/11 - 15: International Conference on String Field Theory and Related Aspects VII (SFT2015)

Venue

• Lecture Hall 220 of Physics Building, Sichuan University (Wangjiang Campus) (preSFT2015)
• Lecture Hall of Kehuayuan Hotel, Sichuan University (Wangjiang Campus) (SFT2015)

Host

Center for Theoretical Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Sichuan University.

International Coordinators

• Lars BRINK (Chalmers U. Tech., Goethenburg, Sweden)
• Marc HENNEAUX (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
• Hermann NICOLAI (AEI, Potsdam, Germany)
• Ashoke SEN (HRI, Allahabad, India)

Local Organizing Committee

Tianjun LI, Xiao LIU, Bo NING, Dimitri POLYAKOV (Chair), Zheng SUN, Peng WANG, Haitang YANG.

Sponsors

• Sichuan University
• National Natural Science Foundation of China

Previous SFT Conferences

• SFT2014 - SISSA, Trieste (Italy)
• SFT2012 - IAS, Jerusalem (Israel)
• SFT2011 - Inst. Physics ASCR, Prague (Czech Republic)
• SFT2010 - YITP, Kyoto (Japan)
• SFT2009 - Steklov Math. Inst., Moskow (Russia)
• SFT2008 - ASC, Munich (Germany)

 

Monday, 11 May

09:00 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 09:45 Opening and Welcome address

09:45 → 10:45 New Cosmological Background with Dynamical String Tension

Speaker: Itzhak Bars (USC, Los Angeles, USA)

Slides 0511_1_Itzhak_Bars.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:15 Symmetries and Feynman Rules for Ramond Sector in WZW-type Superstring Field Theory

Speaker: Hiroshi Kunitomo (YITP, Kyoto U., Kyoto, Japan)

Slides 0511_2_Hiroshi_Kunitomo.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Dimensional regularization of light-cone gauge superstring field theory and multiloop amplitudes

Speaker: Nobuyuki Ishibashi (Tsukuba U., Tsukuba, Japan)

Slides 0511_3_Nobuyuki_Ishibashi.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Ramond equations of motion in superstring field theory

Speaker: Theodore Erler (ASC, Munich U., Munich, Germany)

Slides 0511_4_Theodore_Erler.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:30 Multibrane Solutions and Chan-Paton Factors

Speaker: Tomohiko Takahashi (Nara Women's U., Nara, Japan)

Slides 0511_5_Tomohiko_Takahashi.pdf

17:30 → 18:10 Black Holes and Tachyon Condensation

Speaker: Huiquan Li (Yunnan Observ.-CAS, Kunming, China)

Slides 0511_6_Huiquan_Li.pdf

Tuesday, 12 May

09:30 → 10:30 1PI effective string field theory

Speaker: Ashoke Sen (HRI, Allahabad, India)

Slides 0512_1_Ashoke_Sen.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 The $A_\infty$ structure from the Berkovits formulation of open superstring field theory

Speaker: Yuji Okawa (Tokyo U., Tokyo, Japan)

Slides 0512_2_Yuji_Okawa.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Defects in OSFT

Speaker: Martin Schnabl (Inst. Phys. ASCR, Prague, Chech Republic)

Slides 0512_3_Martin_Schnabal.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Tachyon vacuum on a separated brane/anti-brane system

Speaker: Carlo Maccaferri (Turin U. and INFN, Turin, Italy)

Slides 0512_4_Carlo_Maccaferri.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:30 Towards UV complete SFT based theory of gravity

Speaker: Alexei Koshelev (VUB, Brussel, Belgium)

Slides 0512_5_Alexei_Koshelev.pdf

17:30 → 18:10 L-infinity relations in WZW-like string field theory

Speaker: Hiroaki Matsunaga (YITP, Kyoto U., Kyoto, Japan)

Slides 0512_6_Hiroaki_Matsunaga.pdf

Wednesday, 13 May

08:00 → 18:00 FULL-DAY EXCURSION

Thursday, 14 May

09:30 → 10:30 Aspects of Abelian and Discrete Gauge Symmetries in F-Theory Compactifications

Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn, Philadelphia, USA)

Slides 0514_1_Mirjam_Cvetic.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 What is string theory?

Speaker: Soo-Jong Rey (SNU, Seoul, Korea)

14:00 → 15:00 Invariant Functionals in Higher-Spin Theory

Speaker: Mikhail Vasiliev (LPI, Moscow, Russia)

Slides 0514_3_Mikhail_Vasiliev.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Partition function of free conformal higher spin theory

Speaker: Xavier Bekaert (Tours U., Tours, France)

Slides 0514_4_Xavier_Bekaert.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:30 Mixed-symmetry multiplets and higher-spin curvatures

Speaker: Dario Francia (SNS, Pisa, Italy)

Slides 0514_5_Dario_Francia.pdf

17:30 → 18:10 Generalized Higher Spin Algebras

Speaker: Karapet Mkrtchyan (SNU, Seoul, Korea)

Slides 0514_6_Karapet_Mkrtchyan.pdf

18:30 → 20:30 BANQUET

Friday, 15 May

09:30 → 10:30 Renyi entropy in AdS3/CFT2 correspondence

Speaker: Bin Chen (Peking U., Beijing, China)

Slides 0515_1_Bin_Chen.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 $\phi^3$ theory on the lattice

Speaker: Michael Kroyter (Tel Aviv U., Tel Aviv, Israel)

Slides 0515_2_Michael_Kroyter.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Asymptotic symmetries of higher-spin gauge theories: the metric approach

Speaker: Andrea Campoleoni (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)

Slides 0515_3_Andrea_Campoleoni.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Higher Spins and Matter Interactions in Dimension Three

Speaker: Massimo Taronna (AEI, Potsdam, Germany)

Slides 0515_4_Massimo_Taronna.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:30 Equivalence of the open/close string descriptions

Speaker: Haitang Yang (Sichuan U., Chengdu, China)

Slides 0515_5_Haitang_Yang.pdf

17:30 → 18:10 Exact Supersymmetric Renyi entropy of 3d and 4d SCFTs and its precise holographic dual

Speaker: Yang Zhou (Tel Aviv U., Tel Aviv, Israel)

Slides 0515_6_Yang_Zhou.pdf

18:10 → 18:25 Thanks and Concluding Remarks