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String Theory: Past and Present
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:00 to 09:30 Shiraz Minwalla Black Hole Dynamics at Large D
   
09:30 to 10:00 Sumit Das Scaling in Quantum Quench: from Holography to Lattices
   
10:00 to 10:30 Hirosi Ooguri Fun with K3
   
10:30 to 11:00 -- Tea break
11:00 to 11:30 David Gross The Large SpeNta Limit
 
11:30 to 12:00 Subir Sachdev Disordered Metals without Quasiparticles, and Charged Black Holes
   
12:00 to 12:30 Igor Klebanov Random Tensor Models and Melonic Large N Limits
   
12:30 to 13:00 Satya Majumdar Top Eeigenvalue of a Random Matrix: Tracy-Widom Distribution and Third Order Phase Transition
   
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
14:30 to 15:00 Avinash Dhar Scientific Contributions of Spenta Wadia
   
15:00 to 15:20 R. Shankar Physics at Different Length Scales
   
15:20 to 15:40 Sanjay Jain Growth Dynamics and Size Fluctuations of Bacterial Cells
   
15:40 to 16:00 Gautam Mandal Coadjoint Orbits and Liouville Bulk Dual
   
16:00 to 16:30 -- Tea break
16:30 to 16:50 Anirvan Sengupta High-dimensional Statistics and Large-SpeNta Expansion (OR) One can go only so far from Home
   
16:50 to 17:10 Justin David Spectral Sum Rules for Conformal Field Theories in Arbitrary Dimension
   
17:10 to 17:30 Pallab Basu Non-Integrability in String Backgrounds
   
17:45 to 19:00 -- Friends - Reminiscences of Spenta
   
19:00 to 20:00 -- Banquet Speeches and Reminiscences at SpentaFest
 
Thursday, 12 January 2017
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:00 to 09:30 Tadashi Takayanagi AdS from Path-integrals in CFT
   
09:30 to 10:00 Matthew Headrick A New Perspective on Holographic Entanglement
   
10:00 to 10:30 Sandip Trivedi Anisotropic Geometries, Viscosity and Cold Atoms
   
10:30 to 11:00 -- Tea Break
11:00 to 11:30 Andrew Strominger Conformal Symmetry of Flat Space Scattering
 
11:30 to 12:00 Suvrat Raju The Information Paradox and Complementarity
   
12:00 to 12:30 Elias Kiritsis Exotic RG Flows from Holography
   
12:30 to 13:00 K. S. Narain Real Topological String Amplitudes
   
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
14:30 to 15:00 Sunil Mukhi Cosets and Analogue Monsters in Rational CFT
   
15:00 to 15:30 Ashoke Sen The Story of Two $i\epsilon$
   
15:30 to 16:00 Michael Green Hadronic Strings: Old and New
   
16:00 to 16:30 -- Tea Break
16:30 to 17:00 Atish Dabholkar Weyl Anomalies and Cosmology
   
17:00 to 17:30 Bum-Hoon Lee On the Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes
   
18:00 to 19:00 -- Concert by the Percussion Ensemble - Tala Tarangini
19:00 to 21:00 -- Dinner
Friday, 13 January 2017
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:00 to 09:30 Nima Arkani-Hamed S-Matrix Theory for Massive Higher Spins and the Challenge of UV Completion
 
09:30 to 10:00 Aninda Sinha Conformal Bootstrap in Mellin Space
   
10:00 to 10:30 Fernando Quevedo On Nilpotent Superfields in IIB String Compactifications
   
10:30 to 11:00 -- Tea break
11:00 to 11:30 Marcos Marino Free Fermions, Strings, and the 1/N Expansion
   
11:30 to 12:00 Shiroman Prakash The Large N Limit of Chern Simons Vector Models: Past and Present
   
12:00 to 12:30 Eliezer Rabinovici A Holographic View of Singularities
   
12:30 to 13:00 R. Loganayagam Issues in Open EFT
   
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
14:30 to 15:00 Kimyeong Lee Higher Dimensional Field Theories
   
15:00 to 15:30 Tamiaki Yoneya Covariantized M(atrix) Theory
   
16:00 to 16:30 -- Tea Break