Physics on the Riviera 2015

Europe/Rome
Grand Hotel Villa Balbi

Grand Hotel Villa Balbi

Viale Rimembranza 1 - Sestri Levante
Description

Physics on the Riviera 2015:
an isthmus between high energy and condensed matter theoretical physics

Photo credits: C. Biggio

This Conference will bring together experts working on recent developments in diverse areas of theoretical physics - from condensed matter to particle physics, quantum gravity and string theory - with the aim of sharing complementary perspectives on fundamental issues in physics, identify common ideas and methods and further contribute to cross-fields fertilization.

The program will include talks by invited speakers as well as presentations by registered participants. On the 17th evening, Prof. J. Zinn-Justin will deliver a special talk in honor of Prof. Carlo Becchi, on the occasion of his becoming Professor Emeritus of the University of Genova. 

Speakers include: A. Donos (Durham University), G. Policastro (Ecole Normale, Paris), A. Pomarol (IFAE, Barcelona), L. Rastelli (Stony Brook), S. J. Rey (Seul University), E. Tonni (SISSA), J. Zaanen (Universiteit Leiden), A. Zaffaroni (Università di Milano Bicocca), J. Zinn-Justin (IPhT, Saclay), F. Zwirner (Università di Padova). 


Organizing committee: C. Biggio, C. Imbimbo, N. Maggiore, N. Magnoli, G. Ridolfi.

Organizing secretariat: E. Carnevali, D. Ferraro.
 
Participants
    • Registration
    • ZAFFARONI: "Aspects of three dimensional gauge theories"
      slides
    • CAPPELLI: "Field Theory Description of Topological States of Matter"
      slides
    • PALUMBO: "Holography and Cartan Geometry in Topological Superconductors"
      slides
    • 10:40
      Coffee Break
    • TONNI: "Aspects of entanglement of/between disjoint regions in CFT and holography ''
      slides
    • BIGAZZI: "Theta Dependence in Holographic Yang-Mills''
      slides
    • RUSSO: "Large N from localization and large N from Seiberg and Witten''
      slides
    • ZAANEN: "Strange metals, entanglement and black holes''
      slides
    • BAGGIOLI: "Solid Applications of Massive Gravity''
      slides
    • AREAN: "Holographic Disorder-Driven Superconductor-Metal Transition''
      slides
    • 16:40
      Coffee Break
    • RASTELLI: "The (2,0) superconformal bootstrap''
      slides
    • CASELLE: "Hagedorn spectrum and thermodynamics of SU(N) Yang-Mills theories''
      slides
    • MACCAFERRI: "D-branes in open string field theory: classical solutions and topological defects''
      slides
    • DONOS: "Black holes, Stokes flows and DC transport at strong coupling''
      slides
    • CASTELLANI: "Hodge dual on supermanifolds and supersymmetric actions''
      slides
    • GRASSI: "Integral Forms and Applications''
      slides
    • 10:40
      Coffee Break
    • KONISHI: "Geometry and Dynamics of a 4D - 2D Coupled NonAbelian Gauge-Soliton-Vortex Systems''
    • SERONE: "Classifying and Deconstructing Tensor Correlators in 4D CFTs''
      slides
    • POLICASTRO: ``Boost-invariant flow on non-conformal plasmas''
      slides
    • PENATI: "Fermionic T-dualities in superstring models"
      slides
    • GIUSTO: "Holography for Black Hole Microstates''
      slides
    • 16:40
      Coffee Break
    • ZINN-JUSTIN: "The discovery of the Higgs boson: a confirmation and a problem" --- Special Session in honor of Carlo Becchi, on the occasion of his becoming Professor Emeritus of the University of Genova

      Special Session in honor of Carlo Becchi, on the occasion of his becoming
      Professor Emeritus of the University of Genova

      slides
    • ONOFRI: "The sausage model and the Ricci flow"
      slides
    • SAGNOTTI: "High-scale susy breaking: clues for the low-l CMB?"
      slides
    • Cocktail
    • ZWIRNER: "Supergravity models for inflation''
      slides
    • YOKOZAKI: "Seminatural Gauge Mediation from Product Group Unification''
      slides
    • MUSSO: "Anatomy of SUSY breaking holographic RG flows''
      slides
    • 10:40
      Coffee Break
    • POMAROL: "Dynamical relaxation to critical points: A new approach to the hierarchy problem''
      slides
    • GIUDICE: "Higgs criticality and the stability of the universe''
      slides
    • REY: "Gravity Dual of StronIy Coupled Isopin Fluid''