Integrability in String and Gauge Theories; AdS/CFT Duality and its Applications

May 31, 2010, 8:00 AM → Jul 9, 2010, 6:00 PM Europe/Stockholm

Giuseppe Policastro (ENS Paris), Joseph Minahan (Uppsala University), Konstantin Zarembo (ENS Paris), Lisa Freyhult (Uppsala University), Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Institute, Mumbai)

The program has two main themes. The first is on integrability in N = 4 gauge theories, where there has been remarkable progress over the last six years. The scientific goal of this part of the program is to bring together leaders in the field in order to attack the many remaining problems in the subject. The core participants for the program are expected to be specialists in integrability, gauge theories and/or string theory, fostering an environment to aid in the search for new directions in N = 4 gauge theories and other theories that have an underlying integrable structure. The 2010 conference on Integrability in Gauge and String Theories (IGST2010) will be held at the program site from 28 June to 2 July.

The second part of the program is on AdS/CFT duality and its applications. The goal of this part of the program is further advance the exciting developments that have taken place with regard to quark-gluon plasmas, non-relativistic CFTs, hydrodynamics, and possible applications to condensed matter systems.

An objective of the program is to support interaction between the two main themes. It is anticipated that specialists from each group will be simultaneously present, allowing for the exchange of new ideas between the two groups.

Tuesday, June 1

1 Anisotropic Lifschitz scaling in string/M-theory

Speaker: Paolo Benincasa

Wednesday, June 2

2 Unitarity constraints on the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density

Speaker: Ramy Brustein

Slides eta-s-stockholm-10.ppt

Thursday, June 3

3 Application of AdS/CFT to high energy scattering in QCD

Speaker: Yoshitaka Hatta

Slides Nordita.ppt

Friday, June 4

4 Transport coefficients in generic higher derivative gravity - I

Speaker: Nabamita Banerjee

5 Transport coefficients in generic higher derivative gravity - II

Speaker: Suvankar Dutta

Slides nearhorizon.pdf

Monday, June 7

6 Species, Strings and the UV completeness of Gravity

Speaker: Cesar Gomez (UMA, Madrid)

Slides Documento_Cesar_Gomez.pdf

7 Probing Holographic Superfluids with Solitons

Speaker: Sean Nowling (U. of Helsinki)

Slides nowling.pdf

Tuesday, June 8

8 Integrability and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence

Speaker: Bogdan Stefanski (City University London)

9 Black holes as effective fluids on dynamical worldvolumes

Speaker: Niels Obers (Niels Bohr Institut)

Wednesday, June 9

10 The spectrum of anomalous dimensions in N=4 Yang-Mills and BFKL

Speaker: Rafael Hernandez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Slides hernandez.pdf

Thursday, June 10

11 Oscillations in holographic non fermi liquids

Speaker: Diego Hofman (Harvard University)

Friday, June 11

12 AC transport during a holographic Hall transition

Speaker: Esko Keski-Vakkuri (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

Slides esko.pdf

13 String Theory approach to nonequilibrium dynamics of strongly coupled systems

Effective field theory approach to non-equilibrium dynamics is an old concept. I explain how a relation between strongly coupled gauge theories and gravity arises in String Theory and allows to construct this non-equilibrium effective field theory from first principles. I discuss the computation of the shear and bulk viscosities in a large class of strongly interacting plasmas and comment on the ongoing experimental efforts to measure this quantity at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Speaker: Alex Buchel (Perimeter Institute)

Slides buchel.pdf

Monday, June 14

14 How does the string in flat space-time know about curved space-time

Speaker: Paolo Di Vecchia

Slides DiVecchia.pdf

15 An Exceptional Algebraic Description of the AdS/CFT Yangian Symmetry

Speaker: Takuya Matsumoto

Slides matsumoto.pdf

Tuesday, June 15

16 Deep Inelastic Scattering in Conformal QCD

Speaker: Miguel Costa

Slides talkMCosta.pdf

17 Continuous Hawking-Page transitions in Einstein-scalar gravity, the gauge-spin model correspondence and holographic superfluids

Speaker: Umut Gursoy

Wednesday, June 16

18 Higher derivative gravity and AdS/CFT

Speaker: Andrei Parnachev

Thursday, June 17

19 Relativistic and Nonrelativistic Flows: Experimental Predictions

Speaker: Yaron Oz

Friday, June 18

20 Holographic Yang-Mills Hydrodynamics from 5D Dilaton-Gravity

Speaker: Liuba Mazzanti

Slides liuba.pdf

21 Langevin dynamics of heavy quarks in non-conformal 5D Holography

Speaker: Francesco Nitti

Slides nitti.pdf

Monday, June 21

22 Finite-size correction for the beta-deformed SYM theory

Speaker: Changrim Ahn

Tuesday, June 22

23 Nucleons and Holography

Speaker: Ismail Zahed (Stony brook University)

24 Yangian symmetry and bound states in AdS/CFT boundary scattering

Speaker: Rafael Nepomechie

Wednesday, June 23

25 Effective actions for high energy processes in gauge theories and gravity

Speaker: Lev LIPATOV

26 Informal discussion on the Y-system and TBA in AdS/CFT

Thursday, June 24

27 A supermatrix model for ABJM theory

Speaker: Nadav Drukker

28 Scattering amplitudes: overview and recent developments

Speaker: Amit Sever

Friday, June 25

29 Graphene

Speaker: Gordon Semenoff

30 anomalous dimension and combinatorics

Speaker: Stefan Zieme (AEI, Potsdam)

Monday, July 5

31 Transfer matrices, T functions and spin chains

Speaker: Dr Dmytro Volin (Penn State University)

Tuesday, July 6

32 One-loop spectroscopy of three-point functions in N=4 SYM

Speaker: Dr Jan Plefka (Humboldt University)

Wednesday, July 7

33 Static Length Scales of ABJM and N=4 SYM Plasmas

Abstract: We discuss thermodynamic aspects of ABJM theory at finite temperature using the gravity description. We compute various static length scales of ABJM plasma in a strongly coupled regime. For this, we consider the CP3 compactification of the type IIA supergravity down to four dimensions, and identify all the low-lying bosonic modes up to masses corresponding to the operator dimension 3 together with all the remaining CP3 invariant modes. We find the true mass gap, the Debye screening mass and the corresponding dual operators to be probed in the field theory side. We compare these results with those of N=4 SYM plasma.

Speaker: Prof. Dongsu Bak (University of Seoul)

34 Semiclassical strings exactly

Semiclassical quantization of rotating superstrings in AdS5xS5 background has played in recent years a key role both in checking the AdS/CFT duality and in building the tools necessary to describe the integrable structures that underly it.   I describe the exact quantization of a nontrivial spinning string configuration  at leading semiclassical (1-loop) order and extract information on the strong coupling structure of operator dimensions in the dual gauge theory.

Speaker: Valentina Forini (AEI Potsdam)

Thursday, July 8

35 A short review of the mirror TBA

Speaker: Dr Ryo Suzuki (Trinity College, Dublin)

36 TBA

Speaker: Dr Adam Rej (Imperial College, London)