International workshop “Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography”(April 3-7), Public Lecture (April 8)

Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography

This workshop aims to bring together experts in various fields who are interested in quantum gravity using various approaches, and look for new directions of research. The keywords include quantum gravity, holography, and numerical simulation.

Date:
April 3(Mon)-7(Fri), 2017
Public Lecture: April 8(Sat)
Venue:
Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan
Website:
https://sites.google.com/site/kyotoquantumgravity2017/

Invited Speakers

David Berenstein (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Pavel Buividovich (University of Regensburg)
Simon Catterall (Syracuse University)
Ippei Danshita (Kyoto University)
Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)
Frank Ferrari (Universite libre de Bruxelles)*
Koji Hashimoto (Osaka University)
Michal Heller (Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam)
Shinji Hirano (University of the Witwatersrand)*
Dan Kabat (Lehman College, CUNY)
Yuji Okawa (University of Tokyo)
Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech/IPMU)
Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN)
Joao Penedones (Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne)
Enrico Rinaldi (Brookhaven/RIKEN)
Dan Roberts (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)*
Paul Romatschke (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Andreas Schaefer (University of Regensburg)
Herman Verlinde (Princeton University)
Toby Wiseman (Imperial College)
*: to be confirmed

Organizers

Adam Brown (Stanford), Valentina Forini (Humboldt U., Berlin), Guy Gur-Ari (Stanford), Masanori Hanada (YITP/Hakubi Center), Yasuaki Hikida (YITP), Goro Ishiki (Tsukuba), Jun Nishimura (KEK), Masaki Shigemori (QMUL/YITP), Tadashi Takayanagi (YITP)

Sponsors

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University
This workshop is also supported as a priority issue (Elucidation of the fundamental laws and evolution of the universe) to be tackled by using Post ‘K’ Computer.

Public Lecture (in Japanese)

Date:
13:00~15:00, April 8(Sat), 2017
Venue:
Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan
Capacity:
140
Target:
Above high school student
Sponsors:
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, Priority issue (Elucidation of the fundamental laws and evolution of the universe) to be tackled by using Post ‘K’ Computer
Registration:
free

Registration: (in Japanese), deadline April 2

Speakers

Oguri
Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech/IPMU)

Hashimoto
Koji Hashimoto (Osaka University)

Nishimura
Jun Nishimura (KEK/Sokendai)

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