Strong fields, integrability and strings

Programme theme

Two central theories in modern theoretical physics are gauge fields and strings. Quantum gauge fields form the basis of the standard model of elementary particle physics, and are also rich mathematically - indeed, a rigorous derivation of their spectrum is one of the Clay Institute's seven millennium prize problems in mathematics. String theory potentially unifies quantum physics with gravity, and has offered a rich vein of mathematical exploration for over thirty years. Right from the early days, when string theory was envisaged as a model of strongly interacting particles, and more recently exemplified in the AdS/CFT correspondence, it has been clear that there is a close and rather mysterious relationship between the two.

The programme starts with some open issues in QCD, the gauge theory of quarks and gluons. Both conceptual issues such as dynamical mass generation and color confinement, and phenomenological ones such as properties of the quark-gluon plasma studied in ultra-relativistic ion collisions and the nature of matter at high baryon density, can be tackled by a variety of non-perturbative approaches involving lattice simulations, the properties of topologically non-trivial solutions of the Yang-Mills field equations, or random matrix models.We then consider more theoretical questions, in particular involving supersymmetry and large-rank gauge groups, where pure N = 1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories (SYM) are directly connected with QCD. The increased analytic control offered by such models coupled with new techniques based on duality symmetries have enabled many exciting new, exact results in recent years, including bounds on transport coefficients which may potentially inform RHIC phenomenology. The same ideas, for varying degrees of supersymmetry, naturally recur in matrix models and string theory, and lead on to the central theme of the programme, the gauge/string correspondence. A recent feature of this has been the ubiquitous appearance of 'integrability', the exact solubility of certain classical and quantum models. Integrability appears on both sides of the AdS/CFT correspondence, with spin-chain techniques enabling the calculation of anomalous dimensions in the N = 4 SYM which match string states which are those of classical integrable systems, while the hidden symmetries of the full AdS string sigma models are yet to be unravelled. Another important recent development is the reformulation of weakly-coupled Yang-Mills theory as a string theory in twistor space, leading to a resurgence in the application of string-inspired techniques to perturbative calculations in gauge theories.

The programme thus encompasses a broad sweep of interests and techniques, from strong-interaction phenomenology and lattice simulation through theoretical aspects of gauge fields and strings to integrability. In our view there has never been a more fertile time for workers from different ranges of this spectrum to interact and exchange ideas and insight. The programme will be supplemented by workshops on Deconfinement in QCD (in August) and Integrability and the gauge/string correspondence (December) and a school on Gauge fields and strings (September).

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Preprints

Title	Year	Programme
Determination of $ {\it F_\pi} $ from distributions of Dirac operator eigenvalues with imaginary density Authors: Poul H Damgaard, Gernot Akemann Download PDF	2007	SIS
Hadron spectrum in a two-colour baryon-rich medium Authors: Simon Hands, P Sitch, JI Skullerud Download PDF	2007	SIS
Gauge symmetry and supersymmetry of multiple M2-branes Authors: N Lambert, J Bagger Download PDF	2007	SIS
Electron fractionalization for two-dimensional Dirac fermions Authors: C Hou, R Jackiw, C Mudry, S Pi, ET Al, C Chamon Download PDF	2007	SIS
Strings on conifolds from strong coupling dynamics: quantitative results Authors: SA Hartnoll, David Berenstein Download PDF	2007	SIS
On T-duality and integrability for strings on AdS backgrounds Authors: R Ricci, Arkady Tseytlin, M Wolf Download PDF	2007	SIS
Algebra of transfer-matrices and Yang-Baxter equations on the string worldsheet in $AdS$$_5$ x $S$$^5$ Authors: Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Andrei Mikhailov Download PDF	2007	SIS
Quenched mesonic spectrum at large $N$ Authors: C Pica, Luigi Del Debbio, Biagio Lucini, A Patella Download PDF	2007	SIS
Pohlmeyer reduction of $AdS$$_5$ x $S^5$ superstring sigma model Authors: Arkady Tseytlin, Maxim Grigoriev Download PDF	2007	SIS
Rho meson condensation at finite isospin chemical potential in a holographic model for QCD Authors: Kasper Peeters, J Sonnenschein, M Zamaklar, Ofer Aharony Download PDF	2007	SIS
Spinning superstrings at 2-loops: strong-coupling corrections to dimensions of large-twist SYM operators Authors: Arkady Tseytlin, Radu Silviu Roiban Download PDF	2007	SIS
Nonlinear fluid dynamics from gravity Authors: Veronika Hubeny, S Minwalla, Mukund Rangamani, S Bhattacharyya Download PDF	2007	SIS
Heavy quarkonium in any channel in resummed hot QCD Authors: Mikko Laine, M Vepsalainen, Y Burnier Download PDF	2007	SIS
Mastering the master space Authors: A Hanany, Yang-Hui He, Alberto Zaffaroni, D Forcella Download PDF	2007	SIS
On the supergravity description of boost invariant conformal plasma at strong coupling Authors: A Buchel, Michal P. Heller, Romuald Janik, P Benincasa Download PDF	2007	SIS
Supergravitations from one loop perturbative $N$ = 4 SYM Authors: Maciej Trzetrzelewski, Romuald Janik Download PDF	2007	SIS
Boundary spectra in superspace sigma-models Authors: Volker Schomerus, T Creutzig, T Quella Download PDF	2007	SIS
Higher representations on the lattice: perturbative studies Authors: MT Frandsen, H Panagopoulos, Francesco Sannino, Luigi Del Debbio Download PDF	2007	SIS
Mesonic quasinormal modes of the Sakai-Sugimoto model at high temperature Authors: Edward Threlfall, Nicholas John Evans Download PDF	2007	SIS
Quantum giant magnons Authors: Konstantin Zarembo Download PDF	2007	SIS
The diagonal cosets of the Heisenberg Group Authors: G D'apollonio, T Quella Download PDF	2007	SIS
Cohomological gauge theory, quiver matrix models and Donaldson-Thomas theory Authors: A Sinkovics, Richard Szabo, M Cirafici Download PDF	2007	SIS
Principal chiral model on superspheres Authors: T Quella, Volker Schomerus, V Mitev Download PDF	2007	SIS

Workshops

SISW01

Seminars

Wednesday 25th July 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Simon Hands Simulating Dense Matter	Room 1

Thursday 26th July 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Radu Tatar University of Liverpool Metastable Vacua and Complex Deformations	Room 1

Friday 27th July 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Jacobus Verbaarschot State University of New York Phases of QCD, Spectral Flow and Random Matrix Theory	Room 1

Tuesday 31st July 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Thermal Spectral Functions and Holography	Room 1

Wednesday 1st August 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Supergroups and disordered Dirac fermions	Room 1

Thursday 2nd August 2007
11:00 to 12:00	David Tong University of Cambridge Berry's phase and AdS/CFT	Room 1

Wednesday 8th August 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Ken Intriligator University of California, San Diego Aspects of dynamical supersymmetry breaking and metastable vacua	Room 2

Thursday 9th August 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Ofer Aharony University of California, Irvine and Weizmann Institute of Science Holographic models of (de)confinement and of chiral symmetry breaking and restoration	Room 2

Friday 10th August 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Herbert Neuberger Progress on QCD at an infinite number of colours	Room 2

Tuesday 14th August 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Kei-Ichi Kondo Chiba University Non-linear change of variables for the Yang-Mills theory: extracting gauge-invariant topological defects responsible for quark confinement	Room 1

Wednesday 15th August 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Tabletop AdS/CFT	Room 1

Thursday 16th August 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Mikhail Stephanov University of Illinois Holographic QCD	Room 1

Friday 17th August 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Kim Splittorff Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen Microscopic integrability and strong dense fields	Room 1

Tuesday 28th August 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Arkady Vainshtein University of Minnesota Highly excited states, linear regge trajectories and chiral symmetry in QCD and AdS/QCD	Room 2

Wednesday 29th August 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Large AdS black holes from fluid dynamics	Room 1

Thursday 30th August 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Prem Kumar University of Wales, Swansea Commuting saddles of thermal N=4 SYM on $S^3$: from weak to strong coupling	Room 1

Friday 31st August 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Pietro Antonio Grassi Recent developments in pure spinor string theory	Room 1

Monday 3rd September 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Entropy of non-extremal black holes in AdS/5	Room 2

Tuesday 4th September 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Mukund Rangamani Durham University Entanglement entropy and the AdS/CFT correspondence	Room 2

Wednesday 5th September 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Kasper Peeters Hot and dense holographic mesons	Room 2

Thursday 6th September 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Luigi Del Debbio University of Edinburgh Lattice simultions beyond QCD: large-N results and future perspectives	Room 2

Friday 7th September 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Stefano Bolognesi Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen Skyrmions in higher representation theories	Room 2
14:00 to 15:30	Valentin V Khoze Durham University New ideas and new results in supersymmetry breaking	No Room Required

Tuesday 11th September 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Stephen Hsu University of Oregon Curved space, monsters and black hole entropy	Room 1

Wednesday 12th September 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Integrability in N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills	Room 1

Thursday 13th September 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Giuseppe Policastro Stringy corrections to supergravity	Room 1

Friday 14th September 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Pierre van Baal Calorons with non-trivial holonomy	Room 1

Thursday 27th September 2007
14:00 to 15:00	Valentin V Khoze Durham University New ideas and new results in supersymmetry breaking	Room 1

Friday 28th September 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Veronika Hubeny Durham University Merging ergospheres and the universality conjecture	Room 2

Monday 1st October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Alberto Zaffaroni The chiral ring structure of SUSY gauge theories	Room 1

Tuesday 2nd October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Baryonic moduli spaces and counting chiral operators	Room 1

Wednesday 3rd October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Christopher Hull Imperial College London Twistor strings, gauge theory and gravity	Room 1

Thursday 4th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Yang-Hui He Triadophilia: a special corner of the landscape	Room 1

Friday 5th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Singularities of the magnon S-matrix	Room 1

Monday 8th October 2007
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	Room 1
18:00 to 18:45	Wine and Beer Reception	Room 1

Tuesday 9th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Simon Catterall Syracuse University Recent developments in lattice supersymmetry	Room 1
14:00 to 15:30	So Matsuura Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen Relations among supersymmetric lattice gauge theories	Room 1

Wednesday 10th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Arkady Tseytlin Imperial College London Cusp anomalous dimension from quantum string theory in AdS5 x S5	Room 1

Thursday 11th October 2007
14:00 to 15:30	Quark confinement and other mysteries of the strong nuclear force	Room 1

Monday 15th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Peter Orland City University of New York Near-integrability in 2+1D Yang-Mills theory	Room 1

Tuesday 16th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Chong-Sun Chu University of Durham A proposal on the time-dependent AdS/CFT correspondances and null-singularity	Room 1

Wednesday 17th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Scattering amplitudes via AdS/CFT	Room 1

Thursday 18th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Supersymmetric AdS black holes	Room 1

Friday 19th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Biagio Lucini University of Wales, Swansea Mesons at large N	Room 1

Tuesday 23rd October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Alessandro Torrielli Acclarogen Limited Yangian doubles and AdS/CFT	Room 1

Wednesday 24th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Zn orbifold and magnon states of the N=4 SYM spin chain	Room 1

Thursday 25th October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Jonathan Mark Evans University of Cambridge Holographic QCD and hadronization	Room 1

Tuesday 30th October 2007
11:00 to 12:00	Matthew James Strassler The physics of the pomeron at strong 't Hooft coupling	Room 1

Wednesday 31st October 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Thomas Klose Princeton University Quantum integrability of AdS string theory: factorized scattering in the near-flat limit	Room 1

Thursday 1st November 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Tristan McLoughlin Tests of the AdS/CFT S-matrix	Room 1

Friday 2nd November 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Timothy Hollowood University of Wales, Swansea The solution to the faster-than-light puzzle	Room 1

Monday 5th November 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Modeling multiple M2-branes	Room 1

Tuesday 6th November 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Branes, anti-branes and Brauer alegebras	Room 1
14:00 to 15:30	Twistor approaches to supergravity	Room 1

Wednesday 7th November 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Kenichi Konishi Non-Abelian BPS vortices in SO(N) gauge theories - clarifying non-Abelian duality and confinement	Room 1

Thursday 8th November 2007
11:00 to 12:30	Black hole deconstruction	Room 1

Monday 12th November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Frank Ferrari Topics in N=1 super Yang-Mills: phases and Galois groups; open from closed strings; the microscopic approach to N=1	Room 1
14:00 to 15:15	Konstantinos Zoubos Birkbeck, University of London MHV rules and pure Yang-Mills at one loop	Room 1

Tuesday 13th November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	David Berenstein University of California, Santa Barbara Strings on conifolds from strong coupling I	Room 1
14:00 to 15:15	David Berenstein University of California, Santa Barbara Strings on conifolds from strong coupling II	Room 1

Wednesday 14th November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Cesar Gomez Universidad Autonoma de Madrid AdS/YM integrability and the Ising Model	Room 1

Thursday 15th November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Oisin Aengus Padraig Mac Conamhna Imperial College London Spacetime singularity resolution by M-theory fivebranes: AdS solutions, incomplete special holonomy metrics and CFTs	Room 1

Friday 16th November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Hedgehog black holes and the deconfinement transition	Room 1

Monday 19th November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Abhishek Agarwal Aspects of strongly coupled 2+1D Yang-Mills	Room 1

Wednesday 21st November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Conformal field theories with supergroup symmetry	Room 1

Thursday 22nd November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Toby Wiseman Imperial College London Towards lattice simulation of the gauge theory duals to black holes and hot strings	Room 1

Friday 23rd November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Charles Young University of Durham Covariant Fock space for kappa-deformed quantum field theories	Room 1

Tuesday 27th November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	The interplay between supergravity and closed-string theory	Room 1

Wednesday 28th November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Volker Schomerus Duality in curved backgrounds	Room 1

Thursday 29th November 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Gabriele Travaglini Queen Mary University of London From amplitudes to Wilson loops	Room 1

Tuesday 4th December 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Pedro Vieira CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Bosonic dualities in the Bethe ansatz	Room 1

Wednesday 5th December 2007
11:30 to 12:45	Supergroups for disordered Dirac fermions: the quantum Hall transition	Room 1

Strong fields, integrability and strings

Organisers

Nick Dorey
Simon Hands
Niall MacKay University of York

Speakers

Abhishek Agarwal
Ofer Aharony University of California, Irvine and Weizmann Institute of Science
David Berenstein University of California, Santa Barbara
Stefano Bolognesi Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen
Simon Catterall Syracuse University
Chong-Sun Chu University of Durham
Luigi Del Debbio University of Edinburgh
Jonathan Mark Evans University of Cambridge
Frank Ferrari
Cesar Gomez Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Pietro Antonio Grassi
Simon Hands
Yang-Hui He Acclarogen Limited
Timothy Hollowood
Stephen Hsu University of Oregon
Veronika Hubeny Durham University
Christopher Hull Queen Mary University of London
Ken Intriligator
Valentin V Khoze Durham University
Thomas Klose Princeton University
Kei-Ichi Kondo Chiba University
Kenichi Konishi
Prem Kumar University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Biagio Lucini University of Wales, Swansea
Oisin Aengus Padraig Mac Conamhna Imperial College London
So Matsuura Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen
Tristan McLoughlin
Herbert Neuberger
Peter Orland City University of New York
Kasper Peeters University of Cambridge
Giuseppe Policastro
Mukund Rangamani Durham University
Volker Schomerus
Kim Splittorff Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen
Mikhail Stephanov University of Illinois
Matthew James Strassler
Radu Tatar University of Liverpool
David Tong Acclarogen Limited
Alessandro Torrielli Acclarogen Limited
Gabriele Travaglini Queen Mary University of London
Arkady Tseytlin Imperial College London
Arkady Vainshtein University of Minnesota
Pierre van Baal
Jacobus Verbaarschot State University of New York
Pedro Vieira CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris
Toby Wiseman University of Cambridge
Charles Young University of Durham
Alberto Zaffaroni
Konstantinos Zoubos Birkbeck, University of London

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Strong fields, integrability and strings

Programme theme

Preprints

Determination of $ {\it F_\pi} $ from distributions of Dirac operator eigenvalues with imaginary density

Hadron spectrum in a two-colour baryon-rich medium

Gauge symmetry and supersymmetry of multiple M2-branes

Electron fractionalization for two-dimensional Dirac fermions

Strings on conifolds from strong coupling dynamics: quantitative results

On T-duality and integrability for strings on AdS backgrounds

Algebra of transfer-matrices and Yang-Baxter equations on the string worldsheet in $AdS$$_5$ x $S$$^5$

Quenched mesonic spectrum at large $N$

Pohlmeyer reduction of $AdS$$_5$ x $S^5$ superstring sigma model

Rho meson condensation at finite isospin chemical potential in a holographic model for QCD

Spinning superstrings at 2-loops: strong-coupling corrections to dimensions of large-twist SYM operators

Nonlinear fluid dynamics from gravity

Heavy quarkonium in any channel in resummed hot QCD

Mastering the master space

On the supergravity description of boost invariant conformal plasma at strong coupling

Supergravitations from one loop perturbative $N$ = 4 SYM

Boundary spectra in superspace sigma-models

Higher representations on the lattice: perturbative studies

Mesonic quasinormal modes of the Sakai-Sugimoto model at high temperature

Quantum giant magnons

The diagonal cosets of the Heisenberg Group

Cohomological gauge theory, quiver matrix models and Donaldson-Thomas theory

Principal chiral model on superspheres

Workshops

Exploring QCD: deconfinement, extreme environments and holography

Gauge fields and strings

Spitalfields day

Integrability and the gauge/string correspondence

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Strong fields, integrability and strings

Programme theme

Preprints

Determination of $ {\it F_\pi} $ from distributions of Dirac operator eigenvalues with imaginary density

Hadron spectrum in a two-colour baryon-rich medium

Gauge symmetry and supersymmetry of multiple M2-branes

Electron fractionalization for two-dimensional Dirac fermions

Strings on conifolds from strong coupling dynamics: quantitative results

On T-duality and integrability for strings on AdS backgrounds

Algebra of transfer-matrices and Yang-Baxter equations on the string worldsheet in $AdS$$_5$ x $S$$^5$

Quenched mesonic spectrum at large $N$

Pohlmeyer reduction of $AdS$$_5$ x $S^5$ superstring sigma model

Rho meson condensation at finite isospin chemical potential in a holographic model for QCD

Spinning superstrings at 2-loops: strong-coupling corrections to dimensions of large-twist SYM operators

Nonlinear fluid dynamics from gravity

Heavy quarkonium in any channel in resummed hot QCD

Mastering the master space

On the supergravity description of boost invariant conformal plasma at strong coupling

Supergravitations from one loop perturbative $N$ = 4 SYM

Boundary spectra in superspace sigma-models

Higher representations on the lattice: perturbative studies

Mesonic quasinormal modes of the Sakai-Sugimoto model at high temperature

Quantum giant magnons

The diagonal cosets of the Heisenberg Group

Cohomological gauge theory, quiver matrix models and Donaldson-Thomas theory

Principal chiral model on superspheres

Workshops

Exploring QCD: deconfinement, extreme environments and holography

Gauge fields and strings

Spitalfields day

Integrability and the gauge/string correspondence

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