Workshop Description
The Center for Fundamental Theory of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos at Penn State University is organizing a 3-day workshop titled "Supergravity and M/Superstring Theory in the Ultraviolet and Double Copy" during the period September 6-8, 2018. This workshop will bring together experts in supergravity, M/superstring theory and amplitudes working on unraveling the high energy behavior of supergravity theories in various dimensions and related topics.
Invited speakers include:
- Zvi Bern, UCLA
- Guillaume Bossard, CPhT, Ecole Polytechnique
- Clifford Cheung, Caltech
- Marco Chiodaroli, Uppsala University
- Yvonne Geyer, IAS, Princeton
- Walter Goldberger, Yale
- Yu-tin Huang, NTU, Taiwan
- Henrik Johansson, Uppsala University
- Bernard Julia, ENS, Paris
- Carlos R. Mafra, University of Southampton
- Kelly Stelle, Imperial College
- Jaroslav Trnka, UC Davis
- Yusuke Yamada, Stanford University
General Information
The workshop will be held in 320 Whitmore Lab on the Penn State University Park campus beginning Thursday, September 6 and concluding Saturday, September 8, 2018.
Registration
There is no registration fee; however, each participant must register in advance by sending an email to Randi Neshteruk at rxh1@psu.edu with the following information: Name, institutional affiliation, and professional status (faculty, post doc, graduate student). Registration deadline: September 1, 2018.
