10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-11:30 Xi Yin: "On the UV completion of 6d super-Yang-Mills"
11:30-12:00 Discussion & group photo
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Dionysios Anninos: "de Sitter holography: Problems, progress, prospects"
14:30-15:00 Discussion
15:00-16:00 Kavli IPMU teatime
16:00-17:00 Daniel Grumiller: "Holography in three dimensions"
17:00-17:30 Discussion
17:30-18:00 Closing
Speaker
Xi Yin
Title
On the UV completion of 6d super-Yang-Mills
Abstract
I'll report on some recent progress in double scaled little string theory. I will present a nontrivial test of duality that brings together unitary methods in nonabelian gauge theory and technique in 2D conformal field theories (both rational and irrational). I will also discuss the structure of the perturbative expansion of 6d super-Yang-Mills theory and how it is completed in the UV.
Speaker
Dionysios Anninos
Title
de Sitter holography: Problems, progress, prospects
Abstract
We describe some of the challenges in formulating a theory of de Sitter space holographically. We discuss certain concrete realizations of the dS/CFT correspondence involving a bulk theory containing interacting light higher spin particles. Finally, we discuss properties of the cosmological Hartle-Hawking wavefunctional for such models.
Speaker
Daniel Grumiller
Title
Holography in three dimensions
Abstract
If the holographic principle is a true aspect of Nature then it should work beyond AdS/CFT. I discuss recent progress in generalizing AdS/CFT within three-dimensional toy models of spin-2 and higher spin. I focus particularly on flat space holography.
