Symmetry Webinar | Manifest and Hidden Symmetries in Field and String Theories
Symmetry Webinar | Manifest and Hidden Symmetries in Field and String Theories
Part of the MDPI Symmetry Webinars series
gauge symmetries, spontaneous breaking, diffeomorphisms, BRST symmetries, emerging symmetries, higher spin symmetries, anomalies
Welcome from the Chair
7th Symmetry Webinar
Manifest and Hidden Symmetries in Field and String Theories
The idea of symmetry is the polar star in theoretical physics model. Symmetries may be local or global and may be manifest in a certain range of energy while other symmetries are not evident but instead hidden (approximate or spontaneously broken). Gauge symmetry is the basis of the standard model, and symmetry under diffeomorphisms is a fundamental requirement in general relativity. Based on these cornerstones, any attempt to construct a theory that describes all the fundamental interactions is bound to come across the question of what the most basic (hidden or manifest) symmetry in nature is. Other specific symmetries constitute the backbone of extremely active research fields, such as conformal symmetry or asymptotic symmetries in gravitational problems. This webinar aims to provide a comprehensive view of the most recent research on symmetries, meaning newly discovered or newly proposed symmetries; new aspects of standard symmetries; symmetry breakings; Ward identities and their anomalies; and, finally, the phenomenological applications thereof.
Date: 3 August 2022
Time: 9:00 am CEST | 3:00 am EDT | 3:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 850 2836 6609
Webinar Secretariat: symmetry.webinar@mdpi.com
Chair
Graduated at Padova University in 1969. INFN researcher until 1987. Professor of Field Theory at SISSA since. Research Activity: Conformal field theories and OPE in 4D. Geometry of gauge theories. BRST symmetry in gauge theories. Anomalies in gauge and gravity theories, in supersymmetric theories, and in superstring theories and their cancellation. Effective field theories of the superstring in 10D. Conformal covariance and conformal field theories over Riemann surfaces. Toda field theories and exchange algebra. Integrability and conformal invariance: conformal affine Toda field theories. 2D gravity matrix models and integrable hierarchies. Topological field theories. Supersymmetric integrable hierarchies. Anomalies in theories with branes. Matrix string theories. Noncommutative field theories and strings. String field theory and tachyon condensation. Black holes and string theory. Conformal field theory. Published 140 articles, 35 proceedings, 12 lecture notes. Long term visits: University of Massachusetts and Center for Theoretical Physics MIT, Boston (USA); CERN, Geneva (Switzerland); LPTHE, Paris (France); IFT, Sao Paulo; CBPF, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil); RIMS and YITP, Kyoto; KEK, Tsukuba (Japan).
Invited Speakers
Department of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
Senior scientist & PI at University of Vienna (permanent). Visiting professor, CUNY New York 2012. Postdoc positions at University of Vienna and Universite de Paris-Sud Orsay. Assistant professor, LMU Munich 1997-2004. Habilitation in theoretical physics 2003. Ph.D. in physics, UC Berkeley 1997.
I.E. Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia,
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region, Russia
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, was awarded the I.E. Tamm Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Pomeranchuk Prize. Graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University in 1975. Place of work — Lebedev Physical Institute of RAS (Moscow), Principal Researcher, Head of the Laboratory of Quantum Field Theory. Member of the editorial board of the journals "UFN" and "ECHAYA", member of the Scientific Council of FIAN, member of the Dissertation Academic Council of FIAN. Author of more than 140 scientific papers. List of publications on the site http://www.mathnet.ru/rus/person20588
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Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CEST |
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Chair Prof. Dr. Loriano Bonora Chair Introduction |
9:00 - 9:10 am |
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Dr. Harold Steinacker Emergent Gravity and Higher Spin From the Iib Matrix Model |
9:10 - 9:30 am |
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Prof. Dr. Mikhail A. Vasiliev Locality and Spin-Locality in Higher-Spin Theory |
9:30 - 9:50 am |
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Prof. Dr. Loriano Bonora Elusive Anomalies |
9:50 - 10:10 am |
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Q&A |
10:10 - 10:25 am |
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Closing of Webinar Chair Prof. Dr. Loriano Bonora |
10:25 - 10:30 am |
Webinar Content
Relevant SI
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Loriano Bonora
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2022
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