Symmetry Webinar | Manifest and Hidden Symmetries in Field and String Theories

On Wednesday 3 August 2022, MDPI and the journal Symmetry held the seventh webinar in the Symmetry series, titled "Manifest and Hidden Symmetries in Field and String Theories". The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend.

The introduction was given by the chair of the webinar, Prof. Dr. Loriano Bonora. of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy.

The first presentation was given by Dr. Harold Steinacker, from the Department of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria. His presentation focused on Emergent Gravity and Higher Spin From the Iib Matrix Model.

Our second speaker was Prof. Dr. Mikhail A. Vasiliev, from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia. His presentation was titled "Locality and Spin-Locality in Higher-Spin Theory".

Our final speaker was the chair, Prof. Dr. Loriano Bonora, with his presentation "Elusive Anomalies". His research interests include 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.

There was a Q+A session after each speaker, and a general discussion at the end of the webinar. These were moderated by the chair. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Symmetry, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.