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

11 May 2018, 08:00 → 15 May 2018, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI), Largo Enrico Fermi 2, Arcetri, Firenze

This conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Veneziano’s amplitude, which led to the development of string theory. It will give an opportunity to not only look back at the history of the subject but to survey the present and future status of the field.

The format of the meeting will include one day of historical talks. The other three days will include a number of talks by leading scientists devoted to various topics of current interest.

Registration will be possible on this web site starting from the 15th of December.

The list of speakers includes: L. F. Alday, N. Arkani-Hamed, A. Armoni, C. Bachas, Z. Bern, M. Bianchi, A. Cappelli, T. Damour,  E. D’Hoker, F. Gliozzi, P. Goddard, M.B. Green, M. Guica, J. Harvey, Z. Komargodski, J. Maldacena, A. Neveu,  H. Ooguri, F. Quevedo, E. Rabinovici, M. Schnabl, A. Sen, O. Schlotterer, A. Uranga, I. Valenzuela, G. Veneziano, A. Zhiboedov.

 

 

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Organizing commettee: C. Bachas, M. Billo', P. Di Vecchia, M. Green, A. Lerda, E. Rabinovici, R. Russo

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Friday, 11 May

09:00 → 11:00 Scientific session I: (chair Alberto Lerda)

09:00 Registration

09:20 Opening

09:30 Fernando Quevedo: A Brief History of String Phenomenology/Cosmology.

Slides Quevedo.pdf

10:30 Angel Uranga: D-brane Instanton Effects in String Theory.

Slides Uranga.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 13:10 Historical session: (chair Marco Ademollo)

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

Slides Veneziano.pdf

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

Slides Goddard.pdf

12:20 André Neveu: The Dawn of Supersymmetry.

Slides Neveu.pdf

12:45 Richard Brower: The No Ghost Theorem -- Back to the Future

Slides Brower.pdf

13:10 → 14:40 Lunch

Free time for lunch (not provided)

14:40 → 16:20 Historical session: (chair Stefano Sciuto)

14:40 Andrea Cappelli: Presentation of the book "The birth of String Theory"

Slides Cappelli.pdf

15:05 Michael Green: From Strings to Superstrings and Beyond.

Slides Green.pdf

15:30 Eliezer Rabinovici: Dualities, Dualities, Dualitities.

Slides Rabinovici.pdf

15:55 Costas Bachas: D-branes: A Tribute to Joe.

Slides Bachas.pdf

16:20 → 17:30 Aperitivo

17:30 → 18:30 Public Lecture: (chair Roberto Casalbuoni)

17:30 Gabriele Veneziano: "Spazio, tempo e materia attraverso un secolo di rivoluzioni"

Slides lezione_pubblica_veneziano.pdf

Saturday, 12 May

10:00 → 11:00 Scientific session II: (chair Costas Bachas)

10:00 Luis Fernando Alday: The Analytic Conformal Bootstrap and Applications to Large N Theories.

Slides Alday.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Scientific session II: (chair Costas Bachas)

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

Slides Gliozzi.pdf

12:00 Irene Valenzuela: Swampland Constraints on Field Distances and Naturalness.

Slides Valenzuela.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Scientific session II: (chair Eliezer Rabinovici)

14:00 Ashoke Sen: Developments in Soft Theorems.

Slides Sen.pdf

15:00 Discussion session

18:30 → 23:00 Social Dinner

Monday, 14 May

09:30 → 10:30 Scientific session III: (chair Marco Billò)

09:30 Zvi Bern: From the Veneziano Amplitude to the Double Copy.

Slides Bern.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Scientific session III: (chair Marco Billò)

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

Slides Armoni.pdf

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

Slides Bianchi.pdf

12:00 Nima Arkani-Hamed: Positive Geometry of Effective Field Theory and String Theory Scattering Amplitudes

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Scientific Session IV: (chair Paolo Di Vecchia)

14:00 Monica Guica: JT-bar Deformed CFTs and Their Holographic Dual.

Slides Guica.pdf

14:30 Thibault Damour: High-energy Gravitational Scattering: from ACV to EOB.

Slides Damour.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Scientific Session IV: (chair Paolo Di Vecchia)

15:30 Juan Maldacena: Traversable Wormholes.

Slides Maldacena.pdf

16:30 Discussion session

Tuesday, 15 May

09:30 → 10:30 Scientific session V: (chair Michael Green)

09:30 Eric D'Hoker: Superstring Amplitudes and Effective Interactions.

Slides D'Hoker.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Scientific session V: (chair Michael Green)

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

Slides Schlotterer.pdf

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

Slides Schnabl.pdf

12:00 Jeffrey Harvey: Hecke Operators and Rational Conformal Field Theory Characters.

Slides Harvey.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Scientific session VI: (chair Rodolfo Russo)

14:00 Zohar Komargodski: From the Veneziano Amplitude to Planar Gauge Theories.

Slides Komargoski.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Scientific session VI: (chair Rodolfo Russo)

15:30 Alexander Zhiboedov: Finite Energy Sum Rules in CFTs

Slides Zhiboedov.pdf

16:00 Hirosi Ooguri: Symmetry in Quantum Gravity.

Slides Ooguri.pdf

16:30 Discussion session and closing