The Aim of the activity is to provide pedagogical treatment of these subjects in the form of a series of lectures by individual speakers. The activity is intended for theoretical physicists or mathematicians with knowledge of quantum field theory, general relativity and string theory. 

 

TOPICS: 

 

• Dynamics of Supersymmetric Theories 

• Entanglement Entropy and Holography 

• Integrability in N=4 Yang-Mills Theory 

• Higher Spins and Holography 

• Physics of Black-Holes 

• Scattering Amplitudes in Field- and String-Theory 

 

LECTURERS INCLUDE: 

 

 

N. ARKANI-HAMED 

(IAS, Princeton) 

 

M. GABERDIEL 

(ETH, Zurich) 

 

J. MALDACENA 

(IAS Princeton) 

 

N. SEIBERG 

(IAS Princeton) 

 

S. STIEBERGER 

(Max-Planck-Institut, Munich) 

 

T. TAKAYANAGI 

(Kyoto University) 
 

P. VIEIRA 

(Perimeter Institute, Waterloo)