Name: 50 Years of the Veneziano Model: From Dual Models to Strings, M-theory and Beyond
Start: 2018-05-11T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-05-15T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI), Largo Enrico Fermi 2, Arcetri, Firenze

50 Years of the Veneziano Model: From Dual Models to Strings, M-theory and Beyond

from Friday, May 11, 2018 (8:00 AM) to Tuesday, May 15, 2018 (6:00 PM)

Monday, May 7, 2018
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Friday, May 11, 2018
9:00 AM (chair Alberto Lerda)
(chair Alberto Lerda)
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Registration

9:20 AM Opening

9:30 AM Fernando Quevedo: A Brief History of String Phenomenology/Cosmology.

10:30 AM Angel Uranga: D-brane Instanton Effects in String Theory.
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM (chair Marco Ademollo)
(chair Marco Ademollo)
11:30 AM - 1:10 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Gabriele Veneziano: The Beginning of a Fifty-years-old Adventure.

11:55 AM Peter Goddard: The Emergence of String Theory from the Dual Resonance Model.

12:20 PM André Neveu: The Dawn of Supersymmetry.

12:45 PM Richard Brower: The No Ghost Theorem -- Back to the Future
1:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM (chair Stefano Sciuto)
(chair Stefano Sciuto)
2:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM Andrea Cappelli: Presentation of the book "The birth of String Theory"

3:05 PM Michael Green: From Strings to Superstrings and Beyond.

3:30 PM Eliezer Rabinovici: Dualities, Dualities, Dualitities.

3:55 PM Costas Bachas: D-branes: A Tribute to Joe.
4:20 PM Aperitivo
Aperitivo
4:20 PM - 5:30 PM
5:30 PM (chair Roberto Casalbuoni)
(chair Roberto Casalbuoni)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

5:30 PM Gabriele Veneziano: "Spazio, tempo e materia attraverso un secolo di rivoluzioni"
Saturday, May 12, 2018
10:00 AM (chair Costas Bachas)
(chair Costas Bachas)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Luis Fernando Alday: The Analytic Conformal Bootstrap and Applications to Large N Theories.
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM (chair Costas Bachas)
(chair Costas Bachas)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Ferdinando Gliozzi: The Conformal Bootstrap Approach to Critical Phenomena.

12:00 PM Irene Valenzuela: Swampland Constraints on Field Distances and Naturalness.
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM (chair Eliezer Rabinovici)
(chair Eliezer Rabinovici)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Ashoke Sen: Developments in Soft Theorems.

3:00 PM Discussion session
6:30 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
6:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Monday, May 14, 2018
9:30 AM (chair Marco Billò)
(chair Marco Billò)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Zvi Bern: From the Veneziano Amplitude to the Double Copy.
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM (chair Marco Billò)
(chair Marco Billò)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Adi Armoni: Holographic Corrections to the Veneziano Amplitude.

11:30 AM Massimo Bianchi: Soft Corrections to Ultra-Planckian Scattering.

12:00 PM Nima Arkani-Hamed: Positive Geometry of Effective Field Theory and String Theory Scattering Amplitudes
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM (chair Paolo Di Vecchia)
(chair Paolo Di Vecchia)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Monica Guica: JT-bar Deformed CFTs and Their Holographic Dual.

2:30 PM Thibault Damour: High-energy Gravitational Scattering: from ACV to EOB.
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM (chair Paolo Di Vecchia)
(chair Paolo Di Vecchia)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Juan Maldacena: Traversable Wormholes.

4:30 PM Discussion session
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
9:30 AM (chair Michael Green)
(chair Michael Green)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Eric D'Hoker: Superstring Amplitudes and Effective Interactions.
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM (chair Michael Green)
(chair Michael Green)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Oliver Schlotterer: Heterotic- and Bosonic-String Amplitudes from Field Theories.

11:30 AM Martin Schnabl: Universal Solutions in Open String Field Theory Revisited.

12:00 PM Jeffrey Harvey: Hecke Operators and Rational Conformal Field Theory Characters.
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM (chair Rodolfo Russo)
(chair Rodolfo Russo)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Zohar Komargodski: From the Veneziano Amplitude to Planar Gauge Theories.
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM (chair Rodolfo Russo)
(chair Rodolfo Russo)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Alexander Zhiboedov: Finite Energy Sum Rules in CFTs

4:00 PM Hirosi Ooguri: Symmetry in Quantum Gravity.

4:30 PM Discussion session and closing