Alessandro D'Adda memorial day

Friday 11 Nov 2022, 09:15 → 19:25 Europe/Rome

Aula C (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino)

09:15 → 19:25 Rethinking the contributions of Alessandro: part I

Convener: Stefano Sciuto

09:15 Welcome and foreword

Speakers: Angelo Rivetti (I.N.F.N. Turin), Emily and/or Oliver D'Adda, Ermanno Vercellin (Unito)

09:30 Alessandro D'Adda: a not at all ordinary man

Speaker: Riccardo D'Auria (PoliTo)

09:55 The first adventure in string theory with Alessandro

I tell the story of a very unusual collaboration called "Ademollo et al." or better "il supergruppo" in which former students and young collaborators of Sergio Fubini and Tullio Regge, including
Alessandro, in the early 70's joined their efforts to transform the dual resonance model into a full-fledged string theory.

Speaker: Ferdinando Gliozzi (Unito)

10:20 Memories of Alessandro

Speaker: Paolo Di Vecchia

10:45 Sharing memories

11:00 → 11:30 Coffe break

11:30 → 13:00 Rethinking the contributions of Alessandro: part II

Convener: Lorenzo Magnea

11:30 From Regge calculus to D'Adda calculus: the contribution of Alessandro to quantum gravity and matrix models

Speaker: Michele Caselle (Unito)

11:55 Sapporo-Torino collaboration for lattice supersymmetry

I would like to talk about the summary of our collaboration
with Alessandro D’Adda for lattice supersymmetry developed
in last 20 years.

Speaker: Noburu Kawamoto (Sapporo)

12:20 Super Yang-Mills on Lattice with Link Approach and Numerical Simulations

Speaker: Issaku Kanamori (Riken)

12:45 Sharing memories

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:45 Rethinking the contributions of Alessandro: part III

Convener: Marco Billo'

14:30 Covariant hamiltonian supergravity

Speaker: Leonardo Castellani (UPO)

14:55 Theoretical (kind of) physics of the brain

Speaker: Stefano Panzeri (Hamburg)

15:20 From dual amplitudes to string field theory… and back

I give a brief overview on recent results in string field theory (SFT) concerning infrared divergent string amplitudes. SFT is constructed in such a way that it reproduces string amplitudes when these are finite. When these are divergent on the other hand, the amplitudes computed from SFT are finite and unambiguous. These amplitudes capture fundamental quantities like vacuum energy shifts and allow to make firm statements about background independence in string theory.
I take the opportunity to point to historical papers from Alessandro and collaborators which pioneered several topics I discuss.

Speaker: Carlo Maccaferri (Unito)

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 16:40 Rethinking the contributions of Alessandro: part iv

Convener: Anna Ceresole

16:15 Alessandro's photographic work

Speakers: Paolo Grinza, Silvia Vaulà