4th PRIN Meeting "String Theory as a bridge between Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity"

19 Oct 2023, 11:00 → 20 Oct 2023, 17:15 Europe/Rome

Room 1.01, first floor, Building D (Sapienza University of Rome)

Paolo Pani (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Leonardo Gualtieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Fabio Riccioni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

This is the 4th meeting of the PRIN Network "String Theory as a bridge between Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity", bringing together the nodes of Sapienza,  SISSA, Turin, Tor Vergata.

Thursday, 19 October

13:55 → 14:00 Welcome and goal

14:00 → 15:30 SISSA Unit

Convener: Giulio Bonelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:00 The tune of Love and a near-zone symmetry resolution

Speaker: Panos Charalambous

PRIN_Sapienza_PanagiotisCharalambous.pdf

14:45 Breaking lower form symmetries

Speaker: Eduardo Garcia Valdecasas

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Tor Vergata Unit

Convener: Massimo Bianchi (ROMA2)

16:00 Instantons, AGT and the PN expansion for gravitational waves

Speaker: Francesco Fucito (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

roma_prin_2023.pdf

16:30 Coleman-De Luccia bubbles in AdS

Speaker: Giuseppe Dibitetto

17:00 Chaotic behaviour in string scattering

Speaker: Massimo Bianchi (ROMA2)

MBTalkStringChaos.pdf

17:30 → 18:15 Discussion

18:15 → 19:00 PRIN Network Meeting

20:00 → 23:00 Workshop dinner at "La Gattabuia"

Directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/hGvPCMu1woFJtGBy7

Walk to POLICLINICO Metro station, take B line to CIRCO MASSIMO station, and then walk through Circo Massimo, across the river, and finally to the restaurant (1.3km, 19min).

We will meet there at 8pm sharp!

Friday, 20 October

09:00 → 10:30 Sapienza Unit

Convener: Leonardo Gualtieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:00 Off-shell Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Fabio Riccioni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

TalkFabioRiccioni.pdf

09:45 Model-agnostic phenomenology of black-hole microstates

Speaker: Paolo Pani (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

PhenoFuzz.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Turin Unit

Convener: Marialuisa Frau (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:00 Open-Closed Duality in String Field Theory.

Speaker: Carlo Giovanni Maccaferri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

ROMA-CARLO-PRIN23.pdf

12:00 String theory on time-dependent orbifolds: from breakdown to breakthrough?

Speaker: Andrea Arduino

Pres_Roma.pdf

12:30 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 16:00 Discussion & Short Contributed Talks

16:00 → 16:15 Goodbye!