Higher-Spin Theory and Duality

2 - 27 May 2016

Johanna Erdmenger, Simone Giombi, Igor Klebanov, Ivo Sachs, Mikhail Vasiliev

Week 1 open
Date Time Sessions
Monday
2 May
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from 15:30

17:00
Check in

Talk: Andrei Barvinski
Conformal higher spin fields in cosmology and holographic duality
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk or Discussion Round

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration

Wine & Cheese
Tuesday
3 May
10:00



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Talk: Roberto Bonezzi
An action for matter coupled higher spins in three dimensions
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk or Discussion Round

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Wednesday
4 May
10:00




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from 15:30
Talk: Bengt Nilsson
The Cotton equation for the coupled spin 2
- spin 3 subsystem of the 3d conformal higher spin theory
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Alexey Sharapov
Presymplectic structures for massless HS fields
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Thursday
5 May
  Public Holiday
(Ascension Day)
Friday
6 May
10:00



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from 15:30
Talk: Dmitri Sorokin
Correlation Functions of Sp(2n) Invariant Higher-Spin Systems
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Joseph Buchbinder
Harmonic superspace formulation of six-dimensional tensor hierarсhy:
classical and quantum aspects
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Week 2 open
Date Time Sessions
Monday
9 May
from 9:00

10:00



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from 15:30

17:00
Check in

Talk: Konstantin Alkalaev
Classical conformal blocks and AdS/CFT correspondence
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Shailesh Lal
One Loop Test of Free SU(N) Adjoint Model Holography
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration

Wine & Cheese
Tuesday
10 May
10:00



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Talk: Andrew Waldron
Renormalized Volume
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Simon Lyakhovich
Involutive form of field equations and consistency of interactions
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Wednesday
11 May
10:00



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from 15:30
Talk: Stefan Fredenhagen
Limits of two-dimensional conformal field theories
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Rakibur Rahman
The Role of Mixed-Symmetry Fields
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Thursday
12 May
10:00




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Talk: Igor Bandos
Higher dimensional higher spin theories, exceptional field theoris and particle mechanics in enlarged superspaces
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Evgeny Ivanov
An interplay between Off- and on-shell harmonic
superspaces in 6D gauge theories
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Friday
13 May
10:00


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Talk: Maxim Grigoriev
Presymplectic structures and intrinsic Lagrangians
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Tomas Procházka
W symmetry, topological vertex and affine Yangian
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Week 3 open
Date Time Sessions
Monday
16 May
  Public Holiday
(Whitsun / Pentecost)
Tuesday
17 May
10:00


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17:00
Talk: Euihun Joung
Colored gravity and its asymptotic symmetry (Blackboard talk)

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Daniel Grumiller
Higher spin Rindler holography
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration

Wine & Cheese
Wednesday
18 May
10:00



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Talk: Anastaios Petkou
The σCFTs
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Yaakov Neiman
Higher-spin gravity is non-gravitational
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Thursday
19 May
10:00




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Talk: Moshe Moshe
U(N) D=3 Matter Coupled to Chern-Simons field. Spontaneous Breaking of Scale Invariance,
AdS/CFT correspondence and Fermion-Boson Dual Mapping
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Igor Klebanov
O(N), GN, QED and AdS/CFT
Slides

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Friday
20 May
10:00



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Talk: Yurii Zinoviev
Towards the Fradkin-Vasiliev formalism in three dimensions
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Talk: Ricardo Troncoso
(Higher spin) gravity on AdS3 and the (Boussinesq) KdV hierarchy
Abstract

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration
Week 4 open
Date Time Sessions
Monday
23 May
from 9:00
 
Topical Workshop
"Aspects of Higher Spin Theory"
Seminar room E011 at MPA, Garching
Tuesday
24 May
from 9:00



19:30
Topical Workshop
"Aspects of Higher Spin Theory"
Seminar room E011 at MPA, Garching

Conference Dinner
Bachmaier Hofbräu, Munich
Wednesday
25 May
from 9:00 Topical Workshop
"Aspects of Higher Spin Theory"
Seminar room E011 at MPA, Garching
Thursday
26 May
  Public Holiday
(Corpus Christi)
Friday
27 May
10:00



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Talk: Dario Francia
Cubic interactions of Maxwell-like higher spins
Abstract

Coffee Break & Discussion

Lunch

Dimitri Polyakov
Higher Spins as Rolling Tachyons in String Field Theory

Coffee Break

Discussion & Collaboration