Name: Aspects of Higher Spin Theory
Start: 2016-05-23T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-05-25T18:35:00+02:00
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA)

Aspects of Higher Spin Theory

from Monday, 23 May 2016 (08:00) to Wednesday, 25 May 2016 (18:35)

Monday, 23 May 2016

09:00 Matthias Gaberdiel: "The structure of the stringy symmetry algebra"
"The structure of the stringy symmetry algebra"
09:00 - 09:45
Room: E.0.11

09:45 Soo Jong Rey: “(Partially) Massless and Massive Higher Spins from Anti-de Sitter Waveguide”
“(Partially) Massless and Massive Higher Spins from Anti-de Sitter Waveguide”
09:45 - 10:30
Room: E.0.11

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: E.0.11

11:00 Alejandra Castro: "Higher Spin Black Holes"
"Higher Spin Black Holes"
11:00 - 11:45
Room: E.0.11

11:45 Sasha Zhiboedov: “The S-matrix Bootstrap and The Leading Regge Trajectory”
“The S-matrix Bootstrap and The Leading Regge Trajectory”
11:45 - 12:30
Room: E.0.11

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30

14:30 Slava Didenko: "Invariant functionals and charges in HS theory"
"Invariant functionals and charges in HS theory"
14:30 - 15:00
Room: E.0.11

15:00 Nicolas Boulanger: "Duality in gravity and higher-spin gauge theory"
"Duality in gravity and higher-spin gauge theory"
15:00 - 15:30
Room: E.0.11

15:30 Eric Perlmutter: "Bootstrapping the Space of Higher Spin Theories"
"Bootstrapping the Space of Higher Spin Theories"
15:30 - 16:00
Room: E.0.11

16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Room: E.0.11

16:30 Tristan McLoughlin: Conformal Higher Spins and Twistor Actions
Conformal Higher Spins and Twistor Actions
16:30 - 17:00
Room: E.0.11
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

09:00 Xavier Bekaert: “Conformal vs Gauge Symmetry of (Partially) Massless Fields”
“Conformal vs Gauge Symmetry of (Partially) Massless Fields”
09:00 - 09:45
Room: E.0.11

09:45 Arkady Tseytlin: "On higher string scattering in flat space"
"On higher string scattering in flat space"
09:45 - 10:30
Room: E.0.11

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: E.0.11

11:00 Antal Jevicki: "Bi-Local Holography in Low Dimensions "
"Bi-Local Holography in Low Dimensions "
11:00 - 11:45
Room: E.0.11

11:45 Glenn Barnich: “Finite BMS transformations”
“Finite BMS transformations”
11:45 - 12:30
Room: E.0.11

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30

14:30 Joris Raeymaekers: "Coupling matter to the higher spin square"
"Coupling matter to the higher spin square"
14:30 - 15:00
Room: E.0.11

15:00 Zhenya Skvortsov: "On the structure of higher-spin interactions"
"On the structure of higher-spin interactions"
15:00 - 15:30
Room: E.0.11

15:30 Xi Yin: Carving out 2D superconformal field theories
Carving out 2D superconformal field theories
15:30 - 16:00
Room: E.0.11

16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: E.0.11

16:30 Andrea Campoleoni: "Hamiltonian derivation of higher-spin charges"
"Hamiltonian derivation of higher-spin charges"
16:30 - 17:15
Room: E.0.11

19:30 Conference Dinner

19:30 - 22:00
Room: Bachmaier Hofbräu
Wednesday, 25 May 2016

09:00 Marc Henneaux: "Twisted Self-Duality and SO(2) Electric-Magnetic Duality for Gravity and Higher Spin Gauge Fields"
"Twisted Self-Duality and SO(2) Electric-Magnetic Duality for Gravity and Higher Spin Gauge Fields"
09:00 - 09:45
Room: E.0.11

09:45 Ergin Sezgin: “Frobenius-Chern-Simons Gauge Theory”
“Frobenius-Chern-Simons Gauge Theory”
09:45 - 10:30
Room: E.0.11

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: E.0.11

11:00 Rob Leigh: "The Exact RG and Holographic Higher Spin Theories"
"The Exact RG and Holographic Higher Spin Theories"
11:00 - 11:45
Room: E.0.11

11:45 Murat Gunaydin: "Quasiconformal Approach to Higher Spin Algebras, their Deformation and Supersymmetric Extensions”
"Quasiconformal Approach to Higher Spin Algebras, their Deformation and Supersymmetric Extensions”
11:45 - 12:30
Room: E.0.11

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30

14:30 Simone Giombi: "Anomalous dimensions in CFT with weakly broken higher spin symmetry"
"Anomalous dimensions in CFT with weakly broken higher spin symmetry"
14:30 - 15:00
Room: E.0.11

15:00 Massimo Taronna: "Cubic interactions in higher-spin theory from CFT"
"Cubic interactions in higher-spin theory from CFT"
15:00 - 15:30
Room: E.0.11

15:30 Charlotte Sleight: "Quartic interactions in higher-spin theory from CFT"
"Quartic interactions in higher-spin theory from CFT"
15:30 - 16:00
Room: E.0.11

16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: E.0.11

16:30 Misha Vasiliev: Current Interactions, Locality and Holography of Nonlinear Higher-Spin Equations
Current Interactions, Locality and Holography of Nonlinear Higher-Spin Equations
16:30 - 17:15
Room: E.0.11

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