STRINGS 2025

Final Schedule

Monday 6 January

Tuesday 7 January

Wednesday 8 January

Thursday 9 January

Friday 10 January

8:00:8:45 AM

Registration open

The Red Theater
C3 - NYUAD Arts Center

8:45 - 9:00 AM

Welcome speeches by
Ahmed Almheiri
&
Provost Arlie Petters

9:00 - 9:30 AM

Chaired by
Leonardo Rastelli

Review by
John McGreevy
(The Landau Paradigm: generalized symmetries in condensed matter)

+ Panel discussion with

Maissam Barkeshli
(Symmetry - enriched phases of matter and higher categorical structures)
Xie Chen
(Generalized symmetry and beyond Landau phase transitions)
Meng Cheng
(UV-IR matching of symmetries and anomalies in condensed matter)

Chaired by
Tom Faulkner

Review by
Edward Witten
(Algebras in Quantum Field Theory and Gravity: An Overview)

+ Panel discussion with

Chris Fewster
(Type change and quantum reference frames)
Nima Lashkari
(From algebras to Stringy AdS and Causal Structure)
Hong Liu
(Emergent causality and the stringy regime)

Chaired by
Shiraz Minwalla

Review by
Alexander Zhiboedov
(UV constraints on gravitational EFTs)

+ Panel discussion with

Yu-tin Huang
(Tree-level completions of gravitational amplitudes)

Francesco Riva
(Phenomenology of UV-IR relations)

Irene Valenzuela
(Connections between Swampland and Bootstrap)

Chaired by
Renata Kallosh

Review by
Anshuman Maharana
(String Cosmology)

+ Panel discussion with

Ed Copeland
(String cosmology - consequences of evolving moduli fields after inflation)
Paolo Creminelli
(The beginning of inflation)
Naomi Gendler
(String Cosmology: Axions)

Chaired by
Anastasia Volovich

Song He
(Surfaceology for string/particle amplitudes)

9:30 - 10:00 AM

Lorenzo Di Pietro
(Exploring Confinement in Anti-de Sitter Space)

10:00 - 10:30 AM

Julio Parra Martinez
(Exact tidal anomalous dimensions)

10:30 - 11:00 AM

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 AM

Chaired by
Shlomo Razamat

Pedro Vieira
(Huge Operators)

Chaired by
Ken Intriligator

Clay Cordova
(Representation Theory of Solitons)

Chaired by
Niels Obers

Daniel Grumiller
(Carroll physics and flat space holography)

Chaired by
Tom Hartman

Thomas Grimm
(Tameness and Complexity in QFTs and the Landscape)

Chaired by
Hirosi Ooguri

Alejandra Castro
(Aspects of de Sitter quantum gravity)

11:30 - 12:00 PM

Yiming Chen
(Toy models of fortuity)

Shu-Heng Shao
(Schwinger's anomaly from the lattice)

Ana-Maria Raclariu
(An infrared boundary action in asymptotically flat spacetimes)

Gonzalo Torroba
(Time-like boundaries, holography, and cosmology)

Yu Nakayama
(Scale vs Conformal in Non-Linear Sigma Model, Dipolar magnet and Parisi-Sourlas supertranslation)

12:00 - 12:30 PM

Heeyeon Kim
(Rational vertex operator algebras from supersymmetric field theories)

Tin Sulejmanpasic
(Abelian Chern-Simons theory on the lattice)

Natalie Paquette
(Chiral algebras from twistorial quantum field theories)

Dionysios Anninos
(Finite boundaries in theories of gravity)

Elli Pomoni
(Exploring thermal CFTs)

12:30 - 1:00 PM

Lunch break + Poster session

Sandip Trivedi
(JT gravity in deSitter Space and Extensions)

1:00 - 1:30 PM

Lunch break + Poster session

1:30 - 2:00 PM

2:00 - 2:30 PM

Chaired by
Jan de Boer

Luca Iliesiu
(How the Hilbert space of two-sided black holes factorises)

Chaired by
Rob Myers

Javier Magan
(Modular invariance, completeness and selection rules in 2d CFTs)

Chaired by
Juan Maldacena

Herman Verlinde
(Dual perspectives on double scaled SYK)

Strings 2025 Gathering Photo

Chaired by
Daniel Harlow

Ronak Soni
(The Holographic Covariant Entropy Bound)

2:30 - 3:00 PM

Kristan Jensen
(Non-perturbative de Sitter JT gravity)

Janet Hung
(Building Up Quantum Spacetimes with BCFT Tensor Networks and Symmetric Quantum RG)

Leonard Susskind
(A Surprising Parallel Between Large N QCD and Double Scaled SYK at Infinite Temperature: The 'tHooft Limit and the Fixed g Limit)

Strings Outing

Geoff Penington
(The evaporation of charged black holes)

3:00 - 3:30 PM

Eric Perlmutter
(An Analytic Language for 2D CFT)

Coffee break + Poster session

Announcements

3:30 - 4:00 PM

Coffee break

Chaired by
David Gross

Three 20 min panel discussions with the chairs

Panel 1: Jan de Boer, Tom Faulkner, Daniel Harlow, Tom Hartman, Juan Maldacena, Rob Myers
Panel 2: Yang-Hui He, Renata Kallosh, Shiraz Minwalla, Niels Obers, Cumrun Vafa, Anastasia Volovich
Panel 3: Ken Intriligator, Igor Klebanov, Hirosi Ooguri, Leonardo Rastelli, Shlomo Razamat

4:00 - 4:30 PM

Chaired by
Igor Klebanov

Ashoke Sen
(D-instanton induced effective action and its gauge invariance)

Chaired by
Cumrun Vafa

Lara Anderson
(Geometric Transitions in N=1 Theories)

Chaired by
Yang-Hui He

Jim Halverson
(Field Theory and Neural Networks)

4:30 - 5:00 PM

Shota Komatsu
(Einstein Gravity from Matrix Integral)

Hee-Cheol Kim
(Finite Landscape of 6d N=(1,0) Supergravity)

G. Bruno De Luca
(Landscapes)

5:00 - 5:30 PM

Strings Welcome Reception
Sexton Square at NYUAD

Masahito Yamazaki
(Crystal Melting and Quiver Algebras)

Vishnu Jejjala
(Calabi-Yau Metrics and Yukawa Couplings)

5:30 - 6:00 PM

6:00 - 6:30 PM

Strings Gala Dinner
St Regis Saadyiat Island

General public Talk

Stephen Shenker
(Chaos, Black Holes, and Quantum Mechanics)

Public Talks for Students

David Tong
(Our Quest to Understand the Universe)

6:30 - 7:00 PM

7:00 - 7:30 PM

7:30 - 8:00 PM

8:00 - 8:30 PM

8:30 - 9:00 PM

9:00 - 9:30 PM