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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050915T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050915T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05336@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05336/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05336/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Two-dimensional gravity and Liouville field theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050922T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050922T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05339@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05339/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05339/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Two-dimensional gravity and Liouville field theory - Part II DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050923T050000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050923T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05341@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05341/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05341/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark energy interaction with black holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050929T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050929T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05342@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05342/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05342/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Strings\, branes with dynamical tension and Weyl invariant light l ike branes in black hole and higher dimensional physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051006T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051006T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05340@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05340/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05340/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neutron oscillation: how fast it might be? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051020T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051020T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05356@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05356/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05356/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CP Violation and the Search for New Physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051021T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051021T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05350@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05350/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05350/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inflation and Moduli Stabilization in String Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051025T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051025T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05354@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05354/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05354/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT 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UID:indico-event-a05357@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05357/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05357/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Effects of environmental dependence of neutrino mass DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051124T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051124T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05372@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05372/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05372/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:String compactification with magnetic fluxes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051129T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051129T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05370@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05370/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05370/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fully radiative electroweak symmetry breaking DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051201T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051201T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05379@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05379/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05379/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Classification of heterotic S0(32) orbifold models and implication s for the type-I/heterotic duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051208T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051208T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05367@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05367/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05367/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black hole partition functions and duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051213T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051213T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05371@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05371/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05371/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The diffuse supernova neutrino flux\, star formation rate and SN19 87A DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051215T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051215T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05380@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05380/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05380/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Picturing dark matter from its neutrinos DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060110T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060110T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a05398@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05398/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05398/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New RICE bounds on ultrahigh energy neutrino fluxes and cross-sect ions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060214T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060214T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a066@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a066/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a066/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Physics with the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060217T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060217T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0614@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0614/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0614/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Noncommutative geometry & Poincare covariant QFTs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060313T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060313T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0642@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0642/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0642/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Solution of a Braneworld Big Crunch/Big Bang Cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060314T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060314T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0613@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0613/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0613/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Two-loop effective Kähler potential of non-renormalizable super symmetric models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060321T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060321T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0643@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0643/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0643/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A non standard source for neutron star (NS) magnetic fields DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060323T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060323T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0644@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0644/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0644/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A study of atmospheric neutrinos at the India-based Neutrino Obser vatory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060330T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060330T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0669@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0669/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0669/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hidden dimensions of the universe DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060330T154500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060330T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0673@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:This talk is aimed at providing an overview of string theory t o a general audience\, with particular emphasis on possible experimental s ignatures of string theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a0673/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Main Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0673/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:UV/IR mixing and open/closed duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060406T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060406T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0675@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0675/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0675/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cold dark matter caustics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060411T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060411T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0645@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0645/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0645/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rotating attractors DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060413T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060413T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0684@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0684/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0684/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Boundary black holes in AdS/CFT correspondence DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060420T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060420T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0689@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0689/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0689/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black hole microstate geometries and their quantization DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060504T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060504T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0682@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0682/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0682/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Universal extra dimension: ILC as a Kaluza-Klein factory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060508T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060508T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0699@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0699/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0699/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Can the Higgs be supersymmetric and composite? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060509T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060509T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0646@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0646/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0646/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Signals of sneutrino-antisneutrino mixing in future colliders in a nomaly-mediated SUSY breaking DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060511T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060511T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0671@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0671/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0671/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:de Sitter string vacua from perturbative Kähler corrections and c onsistent D-terms DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060515T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060515T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06100@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06100/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06100/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Recent results on the generation of quantum fluctuations during in flation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060516T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060516T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0647@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0647/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0647/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:What is the discrete gauge symmetry of the MSSM DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060518T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060518T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0685@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0685/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0685/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Naturalness of electroweak breaking while waiting for the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060523T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060523T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0648@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0648/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0648/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:String perturbation theory from M-theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060525T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060525T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0691@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0691/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0691/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The rational part of the QCD amplitude DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060526T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060526T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06115@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06115/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06115/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hypermultiplets and topological strings DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060606T050000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060606T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0683@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0683/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0683/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Relic fermion ferromagnetism as Dark Energy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060607T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060607T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06128@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06128/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06128/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Decays of the B-quark and the search for new physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060608T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060608T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06101@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06101/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06101/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Algebraic structure and approximation scheme for multi-matrix loop equations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060613T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060613T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0686@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0686/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0686/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A geometric approach to phenomenology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060615T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060615T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06102@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06102/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06102/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Causal structures and holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060622T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060622T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06104@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06104/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06104/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Looking beyond horizons via AdS/CFT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060623T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060623T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06103@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06103/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06103/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Supersymmetric dark matter\, fits and colliders DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060627T050000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060627T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0687@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0687/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0687/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Oscillations into sterile neutrinos DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060629T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060629T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06141@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06141/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06141/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Two dimensional scalar and spinor abelian gauge theories: a nonper turbative study DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060704T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060704T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06129@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:We describe some recent results obtained in the nonperturbativ e study of scalar and spinor abelian U(1) gauge theories in two dimensiona l space-time. First\, the Schwinger model with N massless flavors is consi dered\, in the absence of any gauge fixing\, in contradistinction to analy ses available in the literature where the coulomb gauge fixing is effected . This is followed by a careful analysis of the global chiral symmetries o f the models. Next\, the nonperturbative dynamics of the physical sector o f scalar elctrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions is considered. Minimal energy co nfigurations are shown to be associated to a vanishing electric field. The ir fluctuation spectrum is also analysed in order to assess their classica l stability\, such solutions including soliton configurations. Finally\, w ithin our physical (gauge invariant) formulation\, the nonperturbative dyn amics usually associated to instanton\nconfigurations in a gauge fixed app roach to the model is further understood.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a06129 / LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06129/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Entanglement as a source of black hole entropy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060706T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060706T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06126@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:To investigate whether quantum entanglement between the inside and outside of a black hole can give rise to Bekenstein-Hawking entropy\, we first compute the entanglement entropy of a quantum field\, by tracing over its degrees of freedom inside a spherical volume. We show that this entropy is proportional to the area of the sphere when the field is in its ground state\, a generic coherent state or a class of squeezed states. Ho wever\, it is proportional to a power of area less than unity when it is i n an excited state. We discuss its generalisation to curved spacetimes and implications of our results to black hole entropy. We also identify the l ocation of the degrees of freedom which give rise to entanglement entropy. \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a06126/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06126/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Towards a microscopic understanding of Seiberg duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060711T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060711T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06142@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06142/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06142/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On computing effective superpotentials for B-branes in Landau-Ginz burg models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060718T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060718T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06140@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06140/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06140/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MSGUT Reborn? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060725T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060725T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06229@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06229/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06229/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New Black Hole Solution: an example of pure curvature creation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060801T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060801T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06239@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06239/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06239/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inflation free\, stringy generation of scale-invariant cosmologica l fluctuations in D = 3 + 1 dimensions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060817T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060817T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06241@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06241/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06241/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Power law runnning in universal extra dimension model DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060831T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060831T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06254@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06254/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06254/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:T2KK solves all the neutrino parameter degeneracy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060921T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060921T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06265@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06265/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06265/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black holes in five dimensions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060928T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060928T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06266@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06266/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06266/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The LHC and Hierarchies in String Theory I DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061005T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061005T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06277@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06277/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06277/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum attractor flows DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061010T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061010T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06297@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06297/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06297/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flavor from accidental symmetries DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061016T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061016T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06298@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06298/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06298/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Soft SUSY breaking contributions to proton decay DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061017T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061017T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06302@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06302/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06302/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The LHC and Hierarchies in String Theory II DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061019T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061019T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06278@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06278/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06278/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Early Dark Energy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061020T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061020T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06255@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06255/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06255/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Duality in left-right seesaw DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061023T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061023T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06305@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06305/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06305/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Soft supersymmetry breaking terms from string compactifications DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061024T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061024T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06269@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06269/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06269/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ricci flow and black holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061024T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061024T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06299@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06299/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06299/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Scattering of SM fields in the Randall-Sundrum model with the smal l curvature DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061030T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061030T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06310@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06310/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06310/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:One-loop scattering amplitudes in D-brane worlds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061102T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061102T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a06300@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06300/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06300/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Stable 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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080505T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080505T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0881@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0881/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0881/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:How to determine SUSY mass scales now DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080506T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080506T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0874@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0874/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0874/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Primordial non-Gaussianity and CMB: present constraints DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080515T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080515T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0862@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0862/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C 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LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08111/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Moessbauer effect with neutrinos and neutrino oscillations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080612T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080612T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08121@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08121/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08121/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flavon Inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080707T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080707T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08112@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08112/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08112/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N = 4\, 5\, 6\, 8 superconformal Chern-Simons theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080708T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080708T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08203@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08203/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08203/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Effective field theory methods for modified gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080715T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080715T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08202@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08202/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08202/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A review on axions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080916T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080916T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08230@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08230/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08230/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Unification of forces from string compactification DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080918T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080918T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08231@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08231/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08231/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holography and quasi-normal modes of black holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081009T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081009T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08253@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08253/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08253/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non-thermal dark matter\, the moduli problem and strong CP DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081013T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081013T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08238@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08238/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08238/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Warm dark matter\, phase space density and the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081014T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081014T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08251@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08251/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08251/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Two wave propagation problems relating to axion searches: vacuum b irefringence in a rotating magnetic field\, and a detailed theoretical ana lysis of 'light shifting through a wall' experiments DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081016T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081016T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08132@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I discuss two wave propagation problems that arise i n connection with axion search experiments\, which can be solved by both G reen's function and wave matching methods. The first (arXiv:0611267) is a calculation of the vacuum-polarization induced ellipticity acquired by a l aser beam traversing a magnetic field rotating with a small angular veloci ty around the beam axis. I show that there are only two sidebands\, displa ced by twice the magnetic field rotation frequency\, and that the acquired ellipticity is independent of the magnetic field rotation. \nThe second (arXiv:0801.4739) is a detailed analysis of "light shining through a wall experiments"\, retaining a nonzero axion mass. When the photon frequency i s very close to the axion mass\, there is a threshold cusp which significa ntly enhances the photon to axion conversion amplitude\, relative to the c orresponding axion to photon conversion process. For zero axion mass\, the enhancement factor reduces to unity and the results of previous calculati ons are recovered.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a08132/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08132/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Model-independent implications of the positron\, electron\, anti-p roton cosmic ray spectra on properties of Dark Matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081023T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081023T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08257@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Taking into account spins\, we classify all two-bod y non-relativistic Dark Matter annihilation channels to the allowed polari zation states of Standard Model particles\, computing the energy spectra o f the stable final-state particles relevant for indirect DM detection. We study the DM masses\, annihilation channels and cross sections that can re produce the PAMELA preliminary indications of an e+ excess consistently wi th the PAMELA p-bar data and the ATIC/PPB-BETS e++e- data. From the PAMELA data alone\, two solutions emerge: (i) either the DM particles that annih ilate into W\,Z\,h must be heavier than about 10 TeV or (ii) the DM must a nnihilate only into leptons. Thus in both cases a DM particle compatible w ith the PAMELA excess seems to have quite unexpected properties. The solut ion (ii) implies a peak in the e++e- energy spectrum\, which\, indeed\, se ems to appear in the ATIC/PPB-BETS data around 700 GeV. If upcoming data f rom ATIC-4 and GLAST confirm this feature\, this would point to a O(1) TeV DM annihilating only into leptons. Otherwise the solution (i) would be fa vored. We comment on the implications of these results for DM models\, dir ect DM detection and colliders as well as on the possibility of an astroph ysical origin of the excess.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a08257/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room D URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08257/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A new volume measure for eternally inflating landscape DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081028T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081028T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08241@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08241/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08241/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Towards a minimal particle-cosmology supersymmetric standard model DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081104T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081104T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08232@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08232/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08232/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Structure formation in theories of modified gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081113T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081113T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08242@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Viable models of modified gravity designed to produ ce cosmic acceleration at the current epoch\, closely mimic the LCDM (cosm ological constant) model at the level of background cosmology. However\, this degeneracy is generically broken at the level of linear perturbations \, where the modifications induce a peculiar scale-dependent pattern. The differences in the prediction for the growth of large scale structure can be sufficiently large to be detected/constrained with upcoming and future surveys. In the first part of the seminar I will present a study of how scalar perturbations evolve in the class of f(R) theories. In the second part I will introduce a parametrization to describe general modifications in the growth pattern and will explore the potential of upcoming surveys t o detect/constrain departures from the growth of structure expected in LCD M.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a08242/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room D URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08242/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flavour physics at the LHC: Why? How? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081117T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081117T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08266@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08266/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08266/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sigma models with defects and Fourier-Mukai transforms DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081118T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081118T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08259@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08259/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08259/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pure spinor formalism and a topological approach to gauge/string d uality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081127T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081127T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08267@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08267/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room D URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08267/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A new measurement of the positron abundance in the cosmic radiatio n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081204T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081204T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08276@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08276/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room D URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08276/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The galileon as a local modification of gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081215T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081215T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08269@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08269/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08269/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non-relativistic CFTs and holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090127T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090127T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a08284@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08284/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08284/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic Multiverse DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090203T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090203T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a093@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWe explore the idea that the dynamics of the inflat ionary multiverse is encoded in its future boundary\, where it is describe d by a lower dimensional theory which is conformally invariant in the UV. We propose that a measure for the multiverse\, which is needed in order to extract quantitative probabilistic predictions\, can be derived in terms of the boundary theory by imposing a UV cutoff. In the inflationary bulk\, this is closely related (though not identical) to the so-called scale fac tor cutoff measure.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a093/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a093/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gauge coupling unification with magic fields DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090209T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090209T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0915@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0915/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0915/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cancellation of the Dirac Mass Hierarchy in SO(10) GUTs implemente d with the Flavor Symmetries T7 and Sigma (81) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090302T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090302T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0916@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0916/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0916/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cluster abundances and cosmology in standard and modified models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090305T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090305T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0936@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0936/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0936/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Leptonic Higgs boson in the two-Higgs-doublet model DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090309T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090309T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0925@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0925/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0925/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Exploiting N=2 supersymmetry in type II flux compactifications DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090310T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090310T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0920@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0920/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0920/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neutrino masses in the left-right symmetric model with triplet and Bi-doublet Higgs scalars DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090316T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090316T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0926@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0926/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room B URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0926/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:M-flation: Inflation from matrix valued scalar fields DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090317T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090317T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a094@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a094/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a094/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Particle physics and astrophysics with the Sudbury Neutrino Observ atory and the new SNOLAB DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090319T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090319T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0939@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0939/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0939/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Thinking non-linear: New ideas to tackle gravitational clustering DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090326T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090326T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0931@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0931/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0931/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A window on CP violation from lepton flavor violating rare process es DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090331T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090331T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0943@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0943/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0943/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dynamics of non-Abelian vortices in N=1* theory and its gravity du al DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090407T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090407T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0964@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0964/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0964/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Kinematics of deformations and flows in diverse contexts DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090414T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090414T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0966@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0966/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0966/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black holes and origin of species DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090416T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090416T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a095@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a095/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a095/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Yukawa couplings and Neutrino masses from Heterotic/F-theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090421T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090421T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0923@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0923/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0923/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hitchin's Equations and Phenomenology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090428T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090428T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0961@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0961/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0961/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Three dimensional chiral gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090507T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090507T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0919@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0919/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0919/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:TeV scale B-L extension of the standard model DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090508T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090508T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0989@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0989/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0989/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:LFV and leptogenesis in Higgs exempt no-scale supersymmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090512T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090512T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0927@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0927/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0927/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tri (bi) maximal lepton mixing in models with more than three righ t-handed neutrino singlets DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090519T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090519T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0984@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0984/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0984/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SUSY breaking and mediation in string model building DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090521T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090521T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0930@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0930/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0930/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic monopole catalysis of baryon decay DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090525T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090525T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a09104@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a09104/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09104/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Some phenomenological aspects of unparticle physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090526T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090526T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a09105@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a09105/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09105/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Thawing quintessence models with nearly flat potentials DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090528T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090528T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a0959@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0959/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room 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SUMMARY:Dark matter and physics of hidden sectors DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100914T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100914T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10119@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10119/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10119/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SUSY production at the LHC: Higgs boson effect DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100920T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100920T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10237@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10237/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10237/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AdS/QHE: Towards a Holographic Description of Quantum Hall Experim ents DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100927T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100927T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10250@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10250/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10250/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:RS model with a small curvature and diphoton production at the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10246@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10246/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10246/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Higgs Triplet Model with A4 symmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10253@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10253/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10253/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New MinibooNE results and non-standard neutrino interactions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10254@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10254/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10254/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SUSY and LHC: prospects from Bayesian approach DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101006T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101006T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10255@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10255/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10255/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Phenomenology of 5d supersymmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10251@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10251/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10251/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Universal extra dimensions on (projective) sphere DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101012T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10228@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10228/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10228/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Stress tensor fluctuations in de Sitter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10247@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10247/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10247/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Minimal inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101026T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101026T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10238@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10238/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10238/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Connecting cosmology to fundamental physics: examples DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101028T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101028T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10239@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10239/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10239/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Recent results from Dark Matter direct detection experiments and t heir interpretations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101102T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101102T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10263@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10263/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10263/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic flows in some non-relativistic string backgrounds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101111T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101111T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10279@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10279/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10279/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Strong electroweak interactions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101116T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101116T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10275@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10275/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10275/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmic acceleration: Dark Energy and alternatives DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101118T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101118T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10289@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10289/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10289/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non-linear supersymmetry in field and string theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101123T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101123T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10271@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10271/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10271/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On moduli stabilization and dS vacua in MSSM heterotic orbifolds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101125T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101125T173000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10268@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10268/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10268/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark Matter in Galaxies\n\n(organized as part of Dark Matter Aware ness Week 2010) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101203T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101203T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10306@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10306/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10306/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Massive gravity and the Galileon DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101210T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101210T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10248@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10248/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10248/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Phenomenology in the LHC Era DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101213T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101213T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10326@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10326/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10326/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reheating and Nongaussianity in String Cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101214T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101214T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10325@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10325/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10325/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Minimal Flavor Violation and the Seesaw DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110111T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110111T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10335@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10335/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10335/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gravitino dark matter at the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110125T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110125T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a114@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a114/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a114/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Charged holographic quark-gluon plasmas DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110215T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110215T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10337@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10337/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10337/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Low scale Left Right symmetry and first LHC limits DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110222T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110222T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a113@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a113/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a113/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Status of neutralinos as dark matter particles DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110301T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110301T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10338@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10338/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10338/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Localization and exact quantum entropy of black holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110303T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110303T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1124@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1124/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1124/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fine tuning and inflection point inflation: definitions\, problems \, solutions and constraints DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110308T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110308T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1125@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1125/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1125/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic Non-Gaussianity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110310T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110310T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a117@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: After a brief review of cosmological non-Gaussianit y and holography\, we discuss the construction of holographic models for t he inflationary epoch. We show how cosmological observables\, such as the primordial power spectrum and non-Gaussianities\, may be computed from th e correlation functions of a dual three-dimensional non-gravitational QFT. We present a general class of holographic models that are consistent wit h current observational constraints and discuss the distinctive signatures they predict for the running of the spectral index and for the form of pr imordial non-Gaussianity.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a117/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a117/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mathieu moonshine from counting dyons in CHL strings DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110315T155000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110315T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1144@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1144/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1144/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The influence of primordial non-Gaussianity on large-scale structu res -- new hopes for falsifying inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110317T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110317T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1119@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1119/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1119/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Higgs Physics for the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110322T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110322T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a112@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a112/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a112/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neutrino Transition Radiation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110328T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110328T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1155@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWe calculate the transition radiation process $\\nu \\to \\nu \\gamma$ at the border of two media with different (photon) ind ex of refractions. The neutrinos are taken to be with only standard-model couplings. The medium fulfills the dual purpose of inducing an effective n eutrino-photon vertex and of modifying the photon dispersion relation. We ignore the neutrino masses in the calculations due to their negligible con tribution. The violation of the translational invariance at the direction from one media into another leads to the momentum non conservation at the same direction. We find that the probability of transition radiation is l arger by three orders of magnitude (using the medium induced neutrino-phot on vertex) than previous calculations (using vacuum induced vertex). The t ransition probability is about $10^{-18}$ for the electron density typical for neutron star surface.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1155/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1155/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Implications of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top Pair Production at the Tevatron for New Physics Searches at the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110329T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110329T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1153@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1153/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1153/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Potential of Minimal Flavour Violation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110405T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110405T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a10336@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10336/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10336/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmic Antiproton Constraints for Dark Matter Effective Interactio ns DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110407T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110407T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1130@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1130/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1130/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A study inM2-Branes -- BLG Perspective DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110411T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110411T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1168@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1168/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1168/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Angel Dust: Designer Dust with Pressure DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110414T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110414T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a116@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:I will talk about a novel kind of scalar field dynamic which n ominally possess two scalar fields but acts effectively as a single degree of freedom. Casting it in terms of a perfect fluid\, it behaves hydrodyna mically like "dust" in the sense that it's soundspeed is identically zero. Unlike regular dust (like Cold Dark Matter for example) however\, this f luid possess a non-vanishing pressure. I will use this "dust with pressure " to construct a unified dark energy/dark matter cosmology with a single d egree of freedom. If I have time\, I will discuss issues with trying to co nstruct a quantum field theory of Angel Dust.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1 16/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a116/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rapid Thermalization by Baryon Injection in Gauge/Gravity Duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110421T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110421T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1127@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Using the AdS/CFT correspondence for strongly coup led gauge theories\, we calculate thermalization of mesons caused by a tim e-dependent change of a baryon number chemical potential. We discuss impli cation of our results to RHIC and LHC experiments. If time permitted\, oth er properties of nuclear forces derived from AdS/CFT are also discussed.\n \n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1127/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1127/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:3D Chern-Simons and 2D WZW models relation in the presence of boun daries and defects DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110505T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110505T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1189@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1189/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1189/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Exploring the strange metal crossover: generalized Pomeranchuk ins tabilities as a complement to holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110516T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110516T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1198@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1198/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1198/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Physics Case for WISP Searches with Intense Photon - and Electron Beams DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110517T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110517T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1148@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1148/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1148/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic Quantum Hall Effect DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110616T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110616T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11110@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11110/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11110/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Topological Quantization of Free Massive Bosonic Field DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110622T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110622T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11126@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11126/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11126/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Supersymmetric black holes in N=2\, D=4 gauged supergravity and at tractors DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110628T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110628T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1199@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1199/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1199/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Some Issues in Supersymmetry Breaking DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110629T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110629T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11119@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11119/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11119/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cladogenesis: baryon-dark matter coincidence from branchings in mo duli decay DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110630T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110630T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1187@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1187/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1187/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Grand Unification Upended DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110707T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110707T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11127@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11127/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11127/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Phenomenological aspects of SUSY B-L extension of the SM DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110712T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110712T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11131@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11131/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11131/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Properties of higher spin gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110719T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110719T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11142@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11142/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11142/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Magnetars: Maximum Stars \nUnravelling the Puzzle DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110721T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110721T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11138@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Magnetars are maximum stars. They carry the highest magnetic fields and emit the most energetic flares recorded. They have ma ny other distinctive and puzzling features that defy explanation. We consi der a model where the strong magnetic fields of magnetars arise from a hig h baryon density\, magnetized core. In this framework magnetars are distin guished from pulsars by their higher masses and central density. For magne tars\, as core densities exceed a threshold\, the strong interaction induc es a phase transition to a neutral pion condensate that aligns all magneti c moments. The core magnetic field is initially shielded by the ambient hi gh conductivity plasma. With time the shielding currents dissipate transp orting the core field out\, first to the crust and then breaking through t he crust to the surface of the star. Recent observations provide strong su pport for this model which accounts for several properties of magnetars an d also and also enables us to identify new magnetars.\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/a11138/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11138/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark Matter through the Mirror (fermions) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110726T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110726T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11218@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11218/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11218/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmic string detection on the CMB map DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110728T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110728T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11141@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11141/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11141/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmic Magnetic Fields: Origin\, Evolution and Signature DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110802T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110802T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11147@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Observations show that galaxies have magnetic fiel ds with a component that is coherent over a large fraction of the galaxy w ith field strength of order microGauss and coherence scale of order 10 kpc . Understanding the origin of these fields is one of the challenging ques tions of modern astrophysics. There are two scenarios under current discu ssion: an astrophysical one\, where the needed seed field is generated on smaller scales\, and a cosmological scenario where the seed field is gener ated prior to galaxy formation in the early universe on scales that are la rge at the present epoch. In this talk I will address the following quest ions: (i) How and when was this magnetic field generated? (ii) How does it evolve during the expansion of the universe? (iii) Can the amplitude and statistical properties of the magnetic field explain the strengths and cor relation lengths of the magnetic fields observed in galaxies and clusters? (iv) Is the seed magnetic field detectable through cosmological observati ons\, such as CMB anisotropy measurements or LSS observations? And (v) if yes\, what are the observational constraints on such a primordial magnetic field?\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11147/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11147/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Local and non-local features in the primordial power spectrum and associated non-Gaussianties DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110901T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110901T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11148@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk is divided into two parts. In the first ha lf of the talk\, I will discuss the generation of localized as well as non -local features (i.e. characteristic and repeated patterns that extend ove r a wide range of scales) in the inflationary scalar power spectrum that l ead to a better fit to the CMB data than the conventional power law spectr um. In the second half\, I will discuss the non-Gaussianities that arise i n such scenarios\, and how they compare with the current observational lim its on the parameter f_NL.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11148/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11148/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Volume of Moduli Space of Vortex Equations and Localization DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110906T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110906T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11242@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:We evaluate volume of moduli space of BPS vortices on a compac t genus h Riemann surface Sigma_h by using topological field theory and lo calization technique developed by Moore\, Nekrasov and Shatashvili. We app ly this technique to Abelian (ANO) vortex and show that the volume of modu li space agrees with the previous results obtained by integrating over the moduli space metric. We extend the evaluation to non-Abelian gauge groups and multi-flavors. We also compare our results with the volume of the Kah ler quotient space inspired by the brane configuration. (arXiv:1105.2087[h ep-th]).\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11242/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11242/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Instantons and Supersymmetric Conformal Field Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110908T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110908T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11245@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11245/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11245/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic Entropy Packing DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110912T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110912T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11227@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11227/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11227/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conformal scenarios for the generation of density perturbations in the Universe DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111003T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111003T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11137@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11137/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11137/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dissipative effects in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111004T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111004T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11246@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11246/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11246/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Large scale fluctuations in the SDSS and their ISW signal DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111013T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111013T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11255@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11255/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11255/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The effective action of Double Field Theory\n(arXiv:1109.0290) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111018T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111018T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11260@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11260/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11260/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On renormalization Group Flows in Four Dimensions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111019T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111019T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11265@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11265/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11265/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sequestering in brane world supersymmetry breaking and its realiza tion in string models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111019T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111019T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11266@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11266/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11266/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First observational tests of eternal inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111020T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111020T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11241@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The eternal inflation scenario predicts that our observable un iverse resides inside a single bubble embedded in a vast inflating multive rse. Collisions between bubble universes imprinted in the CMB sky provide a powerful observational test of this idea. I will describe a robust algor ithm for non-Gaussian source detection in massive datasets\, and present i ts application to the search for bubble collision signatures in CMB data f rom WMAP.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11241/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11241/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tinkertoys and N=2 S-duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111025T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111025T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11275@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11275/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11275/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Velocity Probes in Cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111027T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111027T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11243@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11243/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11243/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Localization and Exact Holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111110T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111110T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11279@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11279/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11279/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Photometric redshifts and cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111117T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111117T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11244@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11244/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11244/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Electroweak Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from an Approximate R-sym metry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111122T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111122T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11252@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11252/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11252/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flavor without R-parity and neutrino masses DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111124T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111124T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11267@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT. We study the extension of the Minimal Flavour Violat ion (MFV) hypothesis to the MSSM without R-parity. The novelty of our appr oach lies in the observation that supersymmetry enhances the global symmet ry of the kinetic term and in the fact that we consider as irreducible sou rces of the flavour symmetry breaking all the couplings of the superpotent ial including the R-parity violating ones. If R-parity violation is respon sible for neutrino masses\, our setup can be seen as an extension of MFV t o the lepton sector.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11267/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11267/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:VIDEO STRING THEORY JOURNAL CLUB at ICTP:\nEmergent Spacetime from AdS/CFT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111128T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111128T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11307@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11307/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11307/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Brane-Antibrane Backreaction in Axion Monodromy Inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111129T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111129T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11300@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11300/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11300/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Clustering of dark energy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111201T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111201T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11261@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11261/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11261/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On effective actions of non-BPS and BPS branes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111205T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111205T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11311@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We talk about S-matrix element of one closed string RR field\, two open string tachyons and one gauge field in type II superst ring theory in brane -anti brane systems. An expansion for the S-matrix el ement has been found that all leading order terms are exactly reproduced by the symmetric trace tachyon DBI and the Wess-Zumino actions of D-brane- anti-D-brane systems. Using this consistency\, we have also found the hig her derivative correction to the some of the WZ terms as well. Then we tal k about the precise consistency between field theory and string theory ta chyon pole of S-matrix element of one RR and three tachyons provided that one takes into account the fact that the tachyon vertex operator in 0 pict ure to be along the Pauli matrix $\\sigma_1$ whereas the tachyon in -1 pic ture to be along the $\\sigma_2$ direction. This internal CP factors must be included in the tachyon DBI part of the effective action. Finally we gi ve some hints for tachyonic effective action for non-BPS branes and BPS br ane such that the infinite tachyon/massless poles and the contact terms of amplitudes can be reproduced by the tachyon DBI and the WZ actions\, a nd by their higher derivative corrections.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1131 1/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11311/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The four ways of creating dark matter through a portal DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111206T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111206T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11277@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11277/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11277/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:What the LHC will see: lessons from naturalness and the cosmologic al constant DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111208T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111208T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11294@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11294/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11294/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:VIDEO STRING THEORY JOURNAL CLUB at ICTP:\nQuantum Order and Emerg ent Space in Holographic Phases of Matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111212T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111212T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11322@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11322/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11322/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars:\nBlackfolds\, (an)istropic charg ed fluids and thermal probe branes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11302@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11302/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11302/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Black holes in string theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11303@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11303/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11303/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non SM Higgs at the LHC as a sign of naturalness DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111220T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111220T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11271@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11271/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11271/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fermion Masses in SO(10) Models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120126T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120126T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a11329@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nSO(10) grand unified theory which unifies strong an d electroweak interactions also provides a constrained and unified descrip tion of the fermion masses and mixing angles. In this talk\, I will review many SO(10) models and will discuss their viability in explaining all the fermion masses and mixing angles. The supersymmetric and non-supersymmetr ic versions of minimal\, non-minimal and flavor symmetric SO(10) models an d their consequences on the fermion mass spectrum will be discussed. Sever al interesting observations like the possible origin of differences in the flavor mixing patterns of quarks and leptons and predictions for the reac tor angle and leptonic CP violating phases will be outlined in each case.\ n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11329/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11329/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmanian DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120201T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120201T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1221@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1221/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1221/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmanian DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120202T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120202T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1222@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1222/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1222/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Moduli stabilisation for chiral global models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1216@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1216/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1216/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:VIDEO String Theory Journal Club - Strongly correlated electron sy stems as string theories?!? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120213T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120213T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1237@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1237/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1237/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Type IIB LARGE Volume Scenario DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120227T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120227T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1253@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1253/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1253/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The 4-site model at LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120228T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120228T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a122@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a122/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a122/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:From trace-anomaly matching to the a-theorem DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120305T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120305T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1267@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1267/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1267/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Global Embeddings for Branes at Toric Singularities DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120309T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120309T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1269@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1269/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1269/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Physics Potential of Future e+e- Colliders DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120312T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120312T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1268@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1268/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1268/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spinning the Higgs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120313T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120313T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a123@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I will present an analysis of the 2011 LHC Higgs dat a in the context of an effective low-energy theory of the Higgs boson. Th e focus will be on the 4-leptons and diphoton channels at the LHC and the b-bar channel at the Tevatron. Combining the available data in these chan nels\, one can derive constraints on the effective theory parameters. The se constraints can then be mapped several simplified scenarios of natural new physics capturing the Higgs physics of simple supersymmetric and co mposite Higgs models. I will also discuss the phenomenological consequen ces of the assumption that the Higgs couplings to the electroweak gauge bo sons is larger than in the Standard Model. The latter may be hinted at by the CMS diphoton channel excess in the dijet category\, and by the Tevatro n excess in the W/Z+H -> b-bar channel.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a123/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a123/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: The Higgs mass\, SUSY and String s DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120315T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120315T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1251@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1251/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1251/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Three-dimensional superconformal field theories and Fermi gases DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120315T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120315T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1252@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The partition function on the three-sphere of many s uperconformal field theories (SCFTs)(including the ABJM theory) can be red uced to a matrix integral by using localization techniques. This makes pos sible to study this quantity in the strong coupling\, large N regime\, by studying the associated matrix models. In this talk I will review these de velopments\, which lead to precision tests of the AdS/CFT correspondence\, and explain a new method to study a large class of matrix models appearin g in this context. The method is based on reformulating the model as a one -dimensional ideal Fermi gas with a non-trivial\, one-particle quantum Ham iltonian\, and leads to a simple picture of the strongly coupled dynamics of these theories (including the famous 3/2 scaling of the number of degre es of freedom). Moreover\, simple semiclassical calculations in the Fermi gas make possible to determine the full 1/N asymptotics of the partition f unction.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1252/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1252/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Type IIB LARGE Volume Scenario part II: Cosmology and SUSY breakin g DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120316T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120316T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1273@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1273/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1273/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark matter searches with the Fermi-LAT data DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120322T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120322T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1282@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1282/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1282/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Framework for R-parity and the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120329T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120329T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1276@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1276/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1276/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:More on Closed String Induced Higher Derivative Interactions on D- branes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120402T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120402T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1290@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1290/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1290/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The next round of double beta decay experiments DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1256@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1256/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1256/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Testing the Initial Conditions of the Universe with the Large-Scal e Structure DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120413T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120413T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1289@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The possible detection of a non-Gaussian component i n the initial condition of the Universe could provide crucial information on the physics of inflation. While current constraints on non-Gaussian par ameters are still consistent with the Gaussian hypothesis\, the Planck sat ellite will soon significantly improve these limits. In case of detection\ , a confirmation from different observables\, as for instance the galaxy d istribution\, will be required. \nI will review the basic effects of non -Gaussian initial conditions on the evolution of the large-scale structure of the Universe\, paying specific attention to how they affect the nonlin ear growth\, both of the matter power spectrum and higher-order correlatio n functions as well as the corrections induced to linear and nonlinear gal axy bias. In addition\, I will present in details the case of the Quasi-Si ngle Field model of inflation\, characterized by a quite rich phenomenolog y in terms of its observational consequences.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1 289/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1289/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Implications of a 125 GeV Higgs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120417T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120417T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1258@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1258/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1258/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Symmetry Breaking from Compactification DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1298@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: D-brane constructions of the Standard Model are ofte n carried out in a local setting\; the branes are at singularities or wrap local cycles. Isometries in the local geometry imply global symmetries in the model. In this talk\, we will discuss the size and form of the leadi ng symmetry breaking effects once such models are embedded into a compacti fication. The setting allows for hierarchical separation in the symmetry b reaking parameters.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1298/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1298/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Localization technique and exact results for three dimensional the ory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12107@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The localization technique is explained\, which play s an essential role to obtain the exact results for the three dimensional supersymmetric gauge theory. Then\, we discuss several applications and/or extensions of the exact results.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12107/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12107/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black Hole N portrait DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1240@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1240/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1240/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Interactive Learning: Using Research to Promote Student Understand ing in the Science Classroom DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120508T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120508T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1284@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1284/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1284/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Emergent geometry from string am plitudes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120516T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120516T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12100@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I will discuss how "mixed" amplitudes (i.e. amplitud es with both closed and open strings) can be used to derive the geometrica l backreaction of different D-brane bound states. As an example\, I will m ainly focus on a particular class of 1/8-BPS configurations in type IIB an d derive from string theory several non-trivial features of the correspond ing supegravity solution. I will also discuss a simple dynamical process i n the case of 1/2-BPS configurations.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12100/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12100/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Holographic metals DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120516T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120516T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1299@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1299/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1299/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gauge Mediation and Holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12122@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This is a series of two JC's devoted to holographic implementation of (General) Gauge Mediation set up. We will briefly review the basics of Gauge Mediation models and present\, as an instance of holo graphic realization\, the work by Benini et al. (arxiv:0903.0619). Then we will introduce the framework of General Gauge Mediation (arxiv:0801.3278) and outline the computation of GGM two-point functions in a 5D background by means of holographic renormalization.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12122 / LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12122/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Science in Astronomy: A review DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1285@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Are we ready to let machines do the work so we can now concent rate on the science questions? Have we reached the point where statistica l and machine learning methods have become useful tools rather than a nuis ance and the practice of the few? \nI will present four examples where sig nificant progress has been made and the interdisciplinary practices have b rought fruitful results. These include\, automatic classification\, Bayesi an parameter inferences\, event detection and anomaly detection\, and desi gn of surveys and follow ups.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1285/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1285/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A tale of two cascades: string duals to tumbling and cascading gau ge theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1250@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1250/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1250/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Natural and flavorful SUSY at the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12111@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12111/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12111/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gauge Mediation and Holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120528T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120528T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12138@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis is a series of two JC's devoted to holographic implementation of (General) Gauge Mediation set up.\nWe will briefly revi ew the basics of Gauge Mediation models and present\, as an instance of ho lographic\nrealization\, the work by Benini et al. (arxiv:0903.0619). Then we will introduce the framework of General\nGauge Mediation (arxiv:0801.3 278) and outline the computation of GGM two-point functions in a 5D\nbackg round by means of holographic renormalization.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a 12138/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12138/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Knots and Mirrors DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120601T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120601T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12120@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12120/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12120/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dissecting the Diffuse Gamma-ray Background using anisotropies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120608T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120608T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12109@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The diffuse gamma-ray background is expected to exhi bit small scale anisotropies which can carry information on the underlying sources contributing to it. Astrophysical sources as well as more exotic processes like galactic or extragalactic DM annihilation are expected to l eave their imprint in the pattern of the gamma-ray anisotropies. I will pr esent the results of an angular power spectrum analysis of the high-latitu de diffuse emission measured by the Fermi-LAT\, and discuss the implicatio ns of the measured angular power spectrum for gamma-ray source populations that may provide a contribution to the diffuse background.\n\n//indico.ic tp.it/event/a12109/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12109/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Is synchrotron radiation doing better than colliders to constrain Dark Matter? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120611T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120611T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12114@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12114/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12114/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First Glimpses at Higgs' face DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120619T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120619T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12119@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12119/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12119/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Using Jet Substructure at the LHC to Search for the Light Higgs Bo sons of the CP-Violating MSSM DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120621T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120621T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12134@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe CP-violating version of the Minimal Supersymme tric Standard Model (MSSM) is an example of a model where experimental dat a do not preclude the presence of light Higgs bosons in the range around 1 0 -- 110 GeV. Such light Higgs bosons\, decaying almost wholly to b-bbar p airs\, may be copiously produced at the LHC\, but would remain inaccessibl e to conventional Higgs searches because of intractable QCD backgrounds. W e demonstrate that a significant number of these light Higgs bosons would be boosted strongly enough for the pair of daughter $b$-jet pairs to appea r as a single 'fat' jet with substructure. Tagging such jets could extend the discovery potential at the LHC into the hitherto-inaccessible region f or light Higgs bosons.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12134/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12134/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On the Unitarity of Critical Gravity\, Other Higher-Derivative The ories\, and High Spin Randall-Sundrum Theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120625T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120625T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12143@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Special limits of theories with higher time deriva tives in Anti de Sitter space exhibit interesting features: they realize l ogarithmic representations of the conformal algebra and they possess a str ucture akin to gauge theory. These results can be obtained by a simple stu dy of the scalar product of free fields. This study shows that "critical" gravity in dimension larger than 3 is non-unitary\, but that the spectrum of certain other higher derivative theories\, such as the Flato-Fronsdal singleton dipole theory\, contains a unitary subsector. Unitarity of a hi gh spin generalization of the Randall-Sundrum construction will be also di scussed.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12143/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12143/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Light Color Scalars from Low Energy to Proton Decay DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120626T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120626T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1260@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. A colored weak singlet scalar state with hypercharg e 4/3 is one of the possible candidates for the explanation of the unexpec tedly large forward-backward asymmetry in t tbar production as measured by the CDF and D0 experiments. We investigate the role of this state in a pl ethora of flavor changing neutral current processes and precision observab les of down-quarks and charged leptons. Our analysis includes tree- and lo op-level mediated observables in the K and B systems\, the charged lepton sector\, as well as the Z to b bbar decay width. We perform a global fit o f the relevant scalar couplings. This approach can explain the (g-2)_mu an omaly while tensions among the CP violating observables in the quark secto r\, most notably the nonstandard CP phase (and width difference) in the Bs system cannot be fully relaxed. The results are interpreted in a class of grand unified models which allow for a light colored scalar with a mass b elow 1TeV. We identify contributions of this leptoquark to dimension-six o perators\, mediated through a box diagram\, and tree-level dimension-nine operators\, that would destabilize proton if sizable leptoquark and diquar k couplings were to be simultaneously present.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a 1260/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1260/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Unbalanced Holographic Superconductors and Spintronics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120703T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120703T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1220@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1220/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1220/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Some issues in horizon thermodynamics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120706T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120706T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12112@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12112/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12112/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:M-flation\, its naturalness and 1/N resolution to quantum eta-prob lem DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120709T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120709T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12148@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. In this talk\, I introduce a specific model of infl ation with three matrix-valued NxN scalar inflaton fields\, minimally coup led to Einstein gravity\, the M-flation. We argue about the possible strin g theory origins of M-flation. After discussing effective single field inf lationary trajectories of the model\, we study the spectrum and role of ot her "spectator" fields in the model. In particular\, we focus on the "quan tum eta-problem"\, that in any scalar-driven inflationary model\, due to quantum gravity effects\, there is an R\\phi^2 term in the effective actio n of the inflationary model\, causing the slow-roll parameter \\eta to be of order one. We argue that for the M-flation case there are 1/N suppress ion factors to the one-loop corrections to \\eta\, resolving the quantum e ta-problem in this model.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12148/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12148/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Testing the composition of the gamma rays from the galactic center and the cosmic ray electrons at TeV scale in search of dark matter\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120712T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120712T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12144@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The spectrum of gamma rays from the galactic center (Fermi+HESS) as well as the spectrum of cosmic ray electrons (Fermi+HESS) both exhibit a cutoff at TeV energies. Such a cutoff can be naturally expl ained by the spectrum of annihilating dark matter in both cases. We update the previous constraints in the plane thermal cross-section vs. dark matt er mass. We also study the best fits to the data in the parameter space de fined by the branching ratio to a particular annihilation channel and the mass of dark matter particle. This is more robust than the boost factor to the uncertainties introduced by dark matter distribution and the propagat ion of charged particles.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12144/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12144/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Kaluza-Klein models in a weak-field limit: state of the art DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120713T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120713T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12149@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We clarify the problematic aspects of gravitational interaction in a weak-field limit of Kaluza-Klein models. We explain why some models meet the classical gravitational tests\, while others do not. We show that variation of the total volume of the internal spaces generate s the fifth force. This is the main reason of the problem. It happens for all considered models (linear with respect to the scalar curvature and non linear $f(R)$\, with toroidal and spherical compactifications). We explici tly single out the contribution of the fifth force to nonrelativistic grav itational potentials. In the case of models with toroidal compactification \, we demonstrate how tension (with and without effects of nonlinearity) o f the gravitating source can fix the total volume of the internal space\, resulting in the vanishing fifth force and consequently in agreement with the observations. It takes place for latent solitons\, black strings and b lack branes. We also demonstrate a particular example where non-vanishing variations of the internal space volume do not contradict the gravitationa l experiments. In the case of spherical compactification\, the fifth force is replaced by the Yukawa interaction for models with the stabilized inte rnal space. For large Yukawa masses\, the effect of this interaction is ne gligibly small\, and considered models satisfy the gravitational tests at the same level of accuracy as general relativity. However\, for this model gravitating masses acquire effective relativistic pressure in the externa l space. Such pressure contradicts the observations. We demonstrate that t ension is the only possibility to preserve the dustlike equation of state in the external space. Therefore\, tension plays a crucial role for the co nsidered models.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12149/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12149/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flavor symmetries of N=2 SYM and the 2D/4D correspondence DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120719T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120719T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12160@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12160/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12160/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Probing Majorana Neutrinos in the Rare Decays of Mesons: Part I DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120720T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120720T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12246@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12246/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12246/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Model for Vector Dark Matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120724T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120724T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12248@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12248/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12248/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An Alternative String Cosmology: avoiding Bizarreness DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120727T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120727T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12157@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12157/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12157/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tree/loop Superstring amplitudes and geometry - strategy for deriv ing AdS/CFT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120731T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120731T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12105@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12105/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12105/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:One-loop Kähler metric of D-branes at angles DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120810T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120810T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12261@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12261/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12261/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Constraints on Calabi-Yaus with large volume vacua DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120904T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120904T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12263@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12263/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12263/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Probing Majorana Neutrinos in the Rare Decays of Mesons: Part II DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120906T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120906T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12247@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12247/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12247/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AGT correspondence and bases in 2D CFT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120907T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120907T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12270@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12270/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12270/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bouncing Universe from String Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120913T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120913T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12271@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:I discuss a model of bouncing universe from string theory. In our model\, bouncing arises as a consequence of unstable dynamics of non-B PS brane.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12271/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12271/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A String Theory Explanation for Quantum Chaos in the Hadronic Spec trum DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120914T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120914T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12265@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12265/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12265/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Determination of Mass hierarchy and Leptonic CP violation with upg raded NOvA and T2K in light of large theta13 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120925T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120925T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12280@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:We explore the combined physics potential of T2K and NOvA in l ight of the moderately large measured value of $\\theta_{13}$. For $\\sin^ 2 2 \\theta_{13} = 0.1$\, which is close to the best fit value\, a 90\\% C .L. evidence for the hierarchy can be obtained only for the combinations ( NH\, $-170^\\circ \\leq \\dcp \\leq 0$) and (IH\, $0^\\circ \\leq \\dcp \\ leq 170^\\circ$)\, with the currently planned runs of NOvA and T2K. Howeve r\, the hierarchy can essentially be determined for any value of $\\delta_ {CP}$\, if the statistics of NOvA are increased by $50\\%$ and those of T2 K are doubled. Such an increase will also give an allowed region of $\\del ta_{CP}$ around the its true value\, except for the CP conserving cases $\ \delta_{CP} = 0 \\ {\\rm or} \\pm 180^\\circ$.\n\nNOvA experiment has reop timized its event selection criteria after recent measurements of $\\theta _{13}$ by the reactor neutrinos. We study the improvement in the sensitivi ty to the neutrino mass hierarchy and to leptonic CP violation due to thes e new features. For favourable values of $\\delta_{CP}$\, NOvA sensitivity to mass hierarchy and leptonic CP violation is increased by 20\\%. Additi on of 5 years of neutrino data from T2K to NOvA more than doubles the rang e of $\\delta_{CP}$ for which the leptonic CP violation can be discovered\ , compared to stand alone NOvA. But for unfavourable values of $\\delta_{C P}$\, the combination of NOvA and T2K are not enough to provide even a 90\ \% C.L.\nhint of hierarchy discovery. Therefore\, we further explore the i mprovement in the hierarchy and CP violation sensitivities due to the addi tion of a 10 kt liquid argon detector placed close to NOvA site.\n\n//indi co.ictp.it/event/a12280/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12280/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cold positrons from decaying dark matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120927T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120927T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12283@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Many scenarios have been proposed to explain the 511 keV line from the center of the galaxy in terms of a decaying/annihilating dark mat ter with lifetime larger than the age of the Universe. I will discuss an alternative scenario where a subdominant fraction of Dark matter decays to positrons\, early on. The positrons cool down by scattering off the cosm ic microwave background and eventually annihilate when they fall into Gala ctic potential wells. The resulting 511 keV flux not only places constrain ts on this class of models but might even be consistent with that observed by the INTEGRAL satellite.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12283/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12283/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Measuring BAO in the reconstructed field of SDSS galaxies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121015T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121015T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12285@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) featu re imprinted in the clustering distribution of galaxies is becoming a main stream method for large galaxy surveys to determine the relation between d istance and redshift. However\, obtaining precise determinations of the di stance-redshift relation requires a low uncertainty in the position of the BAO\, which is usually achieved by extending the survey to probe a larger volume. In this talk I will describe how a simple method dubbed "reconstr uction" is able to reduce the uncertainties in these measurements by parti ally undoing the effects of non-linear evolution responsible of washing aw ay the BAO. The reduction in the error bar is therefore given for free\, w ithout the need for further additional observations\, since the method use s information from the density field that is not captured by two-point clu stering statistics. I will describe how reconstruction has successfully be en applied for the first time this year to the LRG and CMASS galaxy sample s from Sloan Digital Sky Survey\, and how cosmological constraints benefit from these high-precision BAO measurements.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12 285/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12285/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pulsars: wonderful objects to probe different aspects of our Unive rse DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121016T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121016T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12272@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will make a review of the current status of pul sar science. Pulsar are rapid spinning\, highly magnetized neutron stars t hat can emit radiation in different part of the electromagnetic spectrum s uch as radio\, optical\, X-rays and Gamma-rays. These stars are unique lab oratories in which very dense forms of matter and extremely curved space-t ime can be studied. They are also excellent tools to measure time with hig h precision and to probe the interstellar and potentially the intergalacti c medium. In this talk I will review some of these aspects and the exciti ng results that are coming from the pulsar searches made at different faci lities. I will focus particularly in how through these searches we can det ect new astrophysical phenomena such as single millisecond radio bursts th at may be associated to the coalescence of two compact objects.\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/a12272/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12272/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum Entropy of Extremal Black Holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121018T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121018T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12290@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12290/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12290/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neutrino anarchy in warped space DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121030T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121030T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12298@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12298/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12298/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: SCAPEZILLA: the backreaction of antibranes in flux compactifications DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121107T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121107T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12273@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12273/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12273/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Resilience of meta-stable states in String Theory and supergravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121107T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121107T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12276@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12276/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12276/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic Slow-Roll Inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121113T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121113T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12291@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. In the talk I will introduce a cosmology/QFT corresp ondence and present a holographic model for a slow-roll inflation. In part icular I will express the cosmological data such as power spectra and non- gaussianitites in terms of correlation functions of a dual QFT. Finally\, I will propose alternative models of inflation\, where the early time dyna mics involves strongly coupled gravity.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12291/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12291/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Higher-spin holography and cubic interactions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121120T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121120T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12292@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Some issues of higher-spin (HS) gauge theory (in d+1 >3)\, mainly related to its holography\, are discussed. After providing a very brief overview on the topic\, we begin with the boundary side: the HS symmetry\, the effective action and the HS Weyl anomaly of scalar CFT are discussed with comments on the generic 3pt functions of HS currents. Movi ng to the bulk side\, we focus on the metric-like description of HS gauge theory\, whose interacting action is not yet known. For the quadratic acti on\, we show\, through a holographic renormalization\, that the both sides match being free from the HS Weyl anomaly (for d+1>3). For the cubic inte raction\, using the ambient-space formulation\, we construct all gauge con sistent vertices whose number matches that of 3pt functions. Only one of t hose vertices correspond to the free scalar CFT on the boundary\, hence th e metric-like version of the vertex encoded in Vasiliev's equation. The co nstruction of vertices can be generalized to dS---where we also have parti ally-massless HS fields---showing much richer structure of cubic interacti ons. We conclude with some remarks on the conformal HS action which arises from the effective action of free scalar field: its spectrum and its poss ible link to the unknown action of interacting HS fields.\n\n//indico.ictp .it/event/a12292/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12292/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ultra-high energy neutrinos at the IceCube and the Glashow resonan ce DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121122T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121122T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12302@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12302/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12302/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The global electroweak fit after the discovery of a new boson at t he LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121126T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121126T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12310@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The global Standard Model (SM) electroweak fit has a long tradition in particle physics. It exploits the enormous amount of pi oneering work in the calculation of radiative corrections in electroweak p hysics as well as precision measurements at the Z-peak by the LEP and SLD collaborations. In the recent past precision measurements of the top quark and W boson mass by the Tevatron experiments have complemented the availa ble precision data. In view of the discovery of a new boson with Higgs-lik e properties by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations an update of the global f it to electroweak precision data is presented. The new boson is assumed to be the SM Higgs boson\, which allows for the first time to overconstrain the SM at the electroweak scale and assert its validity. In this talk I wi ll review the status of the electroweak fit and the constraints on new phy sics through the oblique vacuum corrections. I will conclude with an outlo ok showing the impact of precision measurements at a possible future linea r collider.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12310/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12310/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Magnetic field induced lattice ground states from holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121127T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121127T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12299@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12299/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12299/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Semiclassical Cross Sections in Classicalizing Theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121129T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121129T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12303@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. It has been suggested by Dvali et al. that certain d erivatively coupled non-renormalizable scalar field theories might restore the perturbative unitarity of high energy hard scatterings by classicaliz ation\, i.e. formation of multiparticle states of soft quanta. I will disc uss our recent work where we apply the semiclassical method of calculating the multiparticle production rates to the scalar DBI theory which is sugg ested to classicalize. We find that the semiclassical method is applicable for the energies in the final state above the cutoff scale of the theory L_*^(-1). We encounter that the cross section of the process two to N ceas es to be exponentially suppressed for the particle number in the final sta te N smaller than a critical particle number N_{crit} ~ (E L_*)^(4/3). It coincides with the typical particle number produced in two-particle collis ions at high energies predicted by classicalization arguments.\n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/a12303/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12303/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Large N limit of Chern-Simons matter theories and their higher spi n duals DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121130T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121130T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12325@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12325/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12325/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On the Fermi gamma-ray lines: observations and particle physics mo dels DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121203T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121203T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12312@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I give a brief overview of the claim of a gamma-ray line in the Fermi-LAT data\, and its possible explanation in term of dark matter models. In the last part of the talk\, I focus on the possibility t hat gamma-ray lines from dark matter annihilation may come with gluon-line s\, and discuss the phenomenological consequences and the experimental con straints on such a scenario.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12312/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12312/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Non-linear evolution of the neutrino cosmic background DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121204T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121204T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12305@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:In this seminar I will extend the properties of the cosmic neu trino background to the non-linear regime. By means of state-of-the-art N- body hydrodynamic simulations\, I will investigate the neutrino dynamics d own to small scales and redshifts that are not probed by linear theory In particular\, I will discuss how the following neutrino properties: the den sity profile of the neutrino haloes around collapsed objects\, the matter clustering as a function of neutrino mass\, the neutrino peculiar velocity field and the dark matter halo mass function. These results could be part icularly relevant in view of future lensing/clustering experiments like th e Euclid satellite\, that are expected to measure the total neutrino mass with an error below 30 meV.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12305/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12305/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Derivative expansion of the Casimir energy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121206T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121206T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12315@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12315/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12315/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neutrinos: race for the mass hierarchy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121211T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121211T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12311@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12311/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12311/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmology of the DFSZ axino DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121218T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121218T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12314@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12314/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12314/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Astrophysical probes for Dark Matter searches DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130110T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130110T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12347@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12347/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12347/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Probing the Physics of Inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12338@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The next few years will bring a wealth of new inform ation about the primordial cosmological fluctuations. In this talk\, I wil l discuss how observable non-Gaussianities and gravitational wave signals encode the physics of the early universe. First I will discuss signatures of global symmetries in the early universe\, arguing that even the simples t slow roll inflation models can lead to observable non-Gaussianity and pr imordial gravity waves. Next\, I will consider more generally the possibil ity to probe how the inflaton couples to radiation.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/a12338/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12338/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On quantum corrected Kaehler potentials in F-theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130121T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130121T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a135@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: F-theory marks a major step forward in understandin g the strong coupling regime of type IIB string theory. However\, it has a perturbative formulation in terms of the string length\, being on the sam e footing as type IIB supergravity. Controlling \\alpha' corrections to th e F-theory effective physics is a challenging task and is of great relevan ce in string phenomenology. In this talk\, I will present a modest attempt in this program. In particular\, I will be mostly focusing on F-theory co mpactified on K3xK3 and discuss the exact Kaehler potential in the \\alpha ' perturbation theory for the vector multiplets of the ensuing 4d\, N=2 ef fective theory. The various (non)-perturbative dualities which this specif ic model features greatly simplify the analysis and makes manifest the SL( 2\,Z)-invariant structure of the quantum corrections. I will finally inter pret these corrections in 11d supergravity and provide a way of computing them directly in the M-theory definition of F-theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ event/a135/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a135/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Effective Field Theories vs. Holography for Superfluids and Superc onductors DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130122T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130122T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a133@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a133/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a133/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Unitarity and infall: black holes\, fuzzballs and firewalls DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130124T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130124T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12339@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12339/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12339/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Physics of Life: Searching for Theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130128T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130201T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1321@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Topics will include:\n- Taming the phenomena\n- Finding signal s in noise\n- Living on a diet of bits\n- More than the sum of its parts\n - Making predictions\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1321/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1321/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Non-geometric Strings - Differen tial Geometry of Lie-algebroids DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12348@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12348/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12348/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: U(1) groups and G-flux in F-theo ry compactifications with multiple sections DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a12349@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12349/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12349/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ALPs in the sky: bounds and discovery opportunities DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130219T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130219T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1322@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Very light axion-like particles (ALPs) with a two-p hoton vertex are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model of par ticle physics. Depending on the actual value of their mass\, ALPs can play an important role in cosmology\, either as cold dark matter particles or as quintessential dark energy. The coupling with photons allows for ALP-ph oton mixing in external electromagnetic fields. This effect is exploited f or direct searches of ALPs in laboratory experiments. The two-photon verte x would also induce the mixing with ALPs for photons emitted by distant as trophysical sources\, and propagating in the large-scale cosmic magnetic f ields. Indeed\, different astrophysical puzzles would be naturally solved by conversions of cosmic photons into ALPs. Motivated by these intriguing hints\, I will discuss how current and upcoming astrophysical experiments\ , ranging from the cosmic microwave background to the high-energy gamma-ra ys\, could probe the elusive ALPs in a region of their parameter space not accessible by laboratory experiments.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1322/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1322/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark matter detection in mass degenerate scenarios DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130228T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130228T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1332@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1332/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1332/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Semiclassical stability of de Sitter spacetime DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130305T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130305T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1320@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We solve the semiclassical Einstein equations govern ing the dynamics of linear metric perturbations (of scalar\, vector and te nsor type) around de Sitter spacetime including the vacuum polarization ef fects of conformal matter fields. An order reduction method is used to eli minate the spurious solutions associated with higher order derivatives. Ou r exact (nonperturbative) solutions show that de Sitter spacetime is stabl e and a large time attractor. This extends some of the existing “no- hair” results for de Sitter spacetime.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13 20/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1320/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gravitational waves and new hope for Quantum Gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130319T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130319T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a136@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We explore the dynamics of metric perturbations (gra vitational waves) on the cosmological background in the theory with higher derivatives and semiclassical non-local corrections coming from massless conformal fields. It is shown\, by means of analytical and numerical metho ds that there are no growing modes until the background has enegies of Pla nck order of magnitude. This result means\, also\, that there are good cha nces to construct renormalizable theory of quantum gravity which is unitar y for the energies below Planck scale.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a136/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a136/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hunting for sterile neutrinos in oscillation experiments and in da rk matter detectors DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1324@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Several unexplained results from neutrino oscillatio n experiments and from cosmology have sparked renewed interest in extensio ns of the Standard Model containing light sterile neutrinos. In this talk\ , we first discuss the status of such models\, we present results from a g lobal fit to neutrino oscillation data\, and we discuss the tension betwee n different data sets. In the second part of the talk\, we explore the pos sible implications that the existence of sterile neutrinos could have for dark matter searches. In particular\, resonantly enhanced active-to-steril e oscillations can weaken limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun. O n the direct detection side\, we show that models in which sterile neutrin os form part of a larger hidden sector can lead to interesting new signatu res of solar sterile neutrinos scattering on electrons or nuclei. On the o ne hand\, these signatures provide a new application for dark matter detec tors\, on the other hand they are not always easy to distinguish from dark matter scattering signals.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1324/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1324/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Energy loss of heavy quarks in a strongly coupled anisotropic plas ma from gauge-string duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130328T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130328T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1338@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We study the energy loss of a rotating infinitely ma ssive quark moving\, at constant velocity\, through an anisotropic strongl y- coupled N = 4 plasma from holography. It is shown that\, similar to the isotropic plasma\, the energy loss of the rotating quark is due to either the drag force or radiation with a continuous crossover from drag-dominat ed regime to the radiation dominated regime. We find that the anisotropy h as a significant effect on the energy loss of the heavy quark\, specially in the crossover regime. We argue that the energy loss due to radiation in anisotropic media is less than the isotropic case. Interestingly this is similar to analogous calculations for the energy loss in weakly coupled an isotropic plasma.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1338/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1338/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Testing the accelerating Universe with VIPERS DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130408T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130408T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1365@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1365/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1365/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Anisotropic inflation from charged scalar field DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130411T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130411T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1341@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The observational data provided by Planck satellite indicates some deviations from the statistical isotropy\, which is one of the fundamental assumptions of the standard model of cosmology. These stat istical anisotropies may be achieved by introducing some vector fields dur ing inflation. In this talk\, first I consider an inflationary model with U(1) gauge fields and charged scalar field. I show that there exists attra ctor solution where the anisotropies produced during inflation become comp arable to the slow-roll parameters. Then\, using the in-in formalism\, I o btain the correction to the primordial power spectrum due to this anisotro pic sources. Finally\, I present another method \,delta N formalism\, for calculating the curvature perturbations in anisotropic background which is an extension of usual approach for FRW background.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/a1341/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1341/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Metastable spinning strings DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130417T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130417T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1398@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1398/ LOCATION:SISSA - Room 128 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1398/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Covariant Non-Commutative De Sit ter spaces DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130417T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130417T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1399@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1399/ LOCATION:SISSA - Room 128 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1399/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Heterotic mini-landscape in blow-up DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130418T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130418T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1362@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The mini-landscape of heterotic string compactificat ions is a set of hundreds of T^6/Z_{6II} orbifold models with the spectru m of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Those constructions have a n anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry that generates a D-term\, which has to be canceled by assigning vevs to scalars fields in order to preserve the N=1 supersymmetry. This process breaks global discrete symmetries\, decouples exotic states and reduces the gauge sector to give realistic constructions . The vevs of fields located at the orbifold singularities can parametrize the blow-up of the singularities to a generic smooth Calabi-Yau 3-fold. We will start with a review of the heterotic orbifold compactifications a nd their blown-up counterparts. The smooth CY are studied by a dimensional reduction of the 10d N=1 supergravity theory coupled to super Yang-Mills with an abelian gauge flux in the internal dimensions. I then present the deformation of a T^6/Z_{6II} compactification with MSSM-like spectrum by v evs. I establish the correspondence between the deformed orbifold and a sm ooth CY 3-fold by identifying the blow-up modes\, matching the massless s pectrum and comparing the 4d anomaly cancellation mechanism.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/a1362/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1362/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantization and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130419T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130419T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1361@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1361/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1361/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Top Partners Hunting DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130422T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130422T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1357@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. In this talk\, I will describe how to test composite Higgs models at LHC by searching for top partners\, in a simple and siste matic way. In the first part\, I will show how to build effective lagrangi ans capturing the relevant features with a small number of parameters. In the second part\, I will explore some of the rich phenomenology and use th e experimental data to derive bounds on top partners. I will conclude by h ighligthing the open questions and the room for improvement.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/a1357/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1357/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Thermal width of heavy quarkonia in anisotropic Quark Gluon Plasma from Holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130424T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130424T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1388@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Using holography we study the imaginary of the heavy quark anti-quark (dipole) potential in the anisotropic plasma at finite t emperature. The anisotropic plasma is a deformation of N=4 SYM theory by a dding a Theta-term depending on the anisotropy direction to the action. Fr om gravity side the deformation can be thought as generated from a back-re acting number of D7 branes wrapping the internal 5-sphere and two of the s patial directions (transverse directions) in the space-time. The imaginary part of the potential creates a thermal width and by comparing the result s with isotropic case we show that the thermal width in the anisotropic pl asma is larger than the isotropic case. The thermal width is a function of the angle between the dipole and anisotropy direction and we show that th e thermal width in anisotropy direction is larger than the thermal width i n transverse direction.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1388/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1388/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fundamental Physics with Optically Levitated Dielectrics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130430T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130430T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1374@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1374/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1374/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Three Types of Dark Matter and Their Unification DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130507T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130507T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13113@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13113/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13113/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The velocity distribution of Dark Matter in the Milky Way and impl ications for direct detection experiments DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130513T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130513T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13119@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The velocity distribution function (VDF) of Dark Mat ter (DM) in Milky Way is determined directly from observational data of th e Galaxy. This is done by "inverting" --- using Eddington's method --- the Navarro-Frenk-White universal density profile of the DM halo of the Galax y\, the parameters of which are determined from a recently compiled set of observational data on the Galaxy's rotation curve extended to distances w ell beyond the visible edge of the disk of the Galaxy. The derived most-li kely local isotropic VDF strongly differs from the Maxwellian form assumed in the "Standard Halo Model" (SHM) customarily used in the analysis of th e results of direct-detection experiments. The astrophysical "g-factor" t hat determines the effect of the DM VDF on the expected event rate in a di rect-detection experiment can be lower for the observational VDF than that for the closest Maxwellian VDF by as much two orders of magnitude at the lowest DM mass threshold of a typical experiment.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/even t/a13119/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13119/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminar: Non-perturbative aspects of the g auge/gravity correspondence\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130514T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130514T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1367@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1367/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1367/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminar: Phase transitions of magnetic AdS 4 black holes with scalar hair DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130514T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130514T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1370@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1370/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1370/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Axion cold dark matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130516T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130516T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1333@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We will briefly review the strong CP problem and the solution proposed by Peccei and Quinn\, the existence of a new degree of freedom that restores C and P conservation in the colour sector: the axion . Then we will review the cosmology of axions focusing on their role as da rk matter\, and the perspectives for its discovery.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/a1333/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1333/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On hydrodynamics in the presence of anisotropies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130520T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130520T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1383@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1383/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1383/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Unwinding Inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130521T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130521T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1340@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1340/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1340/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Informal JC on Type II Goldstone Bosons and their holographic real izations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13134@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Bibliography: hep-ph/0108210\, 1001.5212\, 1302.5641\, 1109.63 27\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13134/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13134/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Unbalanced Holographic Superconductors & Multiple orderings DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1366@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I introduce a class of holographic systems describin g chemically unbalanced Fermi mixtures at strong coupling. Such systems fe ature interesting intertwined “spin-electric” transport and supercondu cting properties. After illustrating the minimal model\, I enlarge the per spective including multiple order parameters and address the study of comp etition/enhancement of multiple orderings in a strongly coupled context by means of AdS/CFT correspondence.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1366/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1366/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Higher Spin Black Holes: The Domain Wall Perspective DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13135@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I will briefly review the higher spin generalization of the well known equivalence between SL(2)xSL(2) CS gauge theory and 3D Einstein Gravity with negative cosmological constant. Generalizations of B TZ black holes can be found in these theories but the presence of horizon is not a gauge dependent statement. Apparently there is always a gauge whe re the geometry looks like a domain wall configuration interpolating betwe en two different AdS's and different asymptotic W-symmetry algebras. A pre tty much detailed CFT dual perspective can be decoded just from the HS bul k analysis.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13135/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13135/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:125 GeV: What is the message? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13140@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13140/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13140/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:String Theory and Finite Coupling DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13143@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13143/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13143/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Testing Higgs Compositeness at LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130528T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130528T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1354@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1354/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1354/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Planck results on Sunyaev-Zeldovich clusters and their cosmologica l implications DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130529T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130529T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1379@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1379/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1379/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gravitational waves from oscillon preheating DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130603T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130603T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13112@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Oscillons are long-lived\, localized excitations of nonlinear scalar fields which may be copiously produced during preheating after inflation\, leading to a possible oscillon-dominated phase in the ea rly Universe. We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background associated with an oscillon-dominated phase. An isolated oscillon is spher ically symmetric and does not radiate gravitational waves and we show that the flux of gravitational radiation generated by pair-wise (and higher or der) interactions is very small. However\, a significant stochastic gravit ational wave background may be generated during preheating itself\, and in this case the characteristic size of the oscillons is imprinted on the g ravitational wave power spectrum\, which has multiple\, distinct peaks.\n\ n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13112/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13112/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nonperturbative infrared dynamics of interacting scalar fields in de Sitter space DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130604T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130604T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a1386@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The dynamics of quantum fields in de Sitter space is radically different from the flat space case. For light scalar fields\, p erturbation theory is plagued by infrared divergences which require resumm ation techniques. Existing such techniques\, developed for flat space quan tum field theory (QFT) are difficult to implement in curved spaces mainly because of the phenomenon of gravitational redshift. I present recent work on this topics concerning a new formulation of QFT in de Sitter space whi ch exploits as much as possible de Sitter symmetries and the power of a mo mentum representation. This p-representation solves the gravitational reds hift problem and allows one to formulate standard resummation techniques o f QFT in an efficient way. I discuss recent applications concerning the ca lculation of field correlators and the issue of spontaneous symmetry break ing in de Sitter space.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1386/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1386/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Kinematics of Cosmic Reheating DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130605T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130605T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13121@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We calculate the relaxation rate of a scalar field in a plasma of other scalars and fermions with gauge interactions using th ermal quantum field theory. It yields the rate of cosmic reheating\, which determines the temperature of the “hot big bang” in inflationary cosm ology. The total rate originates from various processes\, including decays and inverse decays as well as Landau damping by scatterings. We pay speci al attention to the temperature dependence of the phase space due to the m odified dispersion relations in the plasma. We find that it can have a dra stic effect on the efficiency of perturbative reheating\, which depends on the way particles in the primordial plasma interact. For some interaction s thermal masses can effectively close the phase space for the dominant di ssipative processes and thereby impose an upper bound on the reheating tem perature. In other cases they open up new channels of dissipation\, hence increase the reheating temperature. At high temperatures we find that the universe can even be heated through couplings to fermions\, which are ofte n assumed to be negligible due to Pauli-blocking.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/even t/a13121/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13121/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Supermembrane 25 Years Later DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130610T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130610T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13150@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In the first part of this talk I will review the inv ention of the eleven-dimensional supermembrane at the ICTP and how this ha s led to the concept of branes in string theory. In the second part I will review new insights in the classification of branes and why this suggests a new geometry underlying string theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13150 / LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13150/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmology Using Neutral Hydrogen Distribution DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130611T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130611T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13120@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. As is well known\, hydrogen is the most abundant ele ment in the Universe. Hydrogen in the low density intergalactic medium is photoionized by radiation from galaxies and other sources\, while they rem ain in neutral form in very high density regions because of shielding. The evolution of neutral hydrogen through cosmic times passes through a numbe r of interesting phases\, namely\, the dark ages\, reionization and post-r eionization epoch. Understanding each of these phases holds clue about the cosmology and galaxy formation in our Universe. In the talk\, we will rev iew our understanding of the physical processes related to cosmological di stribution of neutral hydrogen and then present our recent results on thes e issues. We will also discuss prospects for using neutral hydrogen as str ong probe of cosmology using future observational probes.\n\n//indico.ictp .it/event/a13120/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13120/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On singular fibres in F-theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130625T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130625T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13151@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In compactifications of M-Theory\, ADE singularities are expected to give rise to non-abelian gauge theories. In case the comp actification manifold admits an torus fibration (this case is usually call ed `F-theory') such singularities become degenerations of the fibre. These degenerations have a nice classification due to Kodaira for complex surfa ces\, but no such classification exists in higher dimensions. In this talk \, I will present some recent observations on the interplay between singul ar fibres and the effective low-energy physics in F-theory.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/a13151/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13151/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Special Lecture: Integrability and supersymmetric vacua (I) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130626T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130626T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13165@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13165/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room B URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13165/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tensor modes on the landscape DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130627T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130627T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13164@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We attempt an estimate for the distribution of the t ensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ (the relative power of primordial gravitational waves from inflation) over the landscape of vacua in string theory. The dy namics of eternal inflation and quantum tunneling lead to a kind of democr acy on the landscape\, providing no bias towards large-field or small-fiel d inflation regardless of the class of measure. The tensor mode fraction $ r$ then follows the number frequency distributions of inflationary mechani sms of string theory over the landscape. We then determine the frequency o f regions of small-field inflation in the Wigner landscape as an approxima tion to random supergravities/type IIB flux compactifications. We show tha t small-field inflation occurs exponentially more often than large-field i nflation The tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ is generically tied to the scale o f inflation. For small-field models this is below current observational re ach. However\, we find small-field inflation to be dominated by the highes t inflationary energy scales compatible with a sub-Planckian field range. Hence\, we expect a typical $r\\sim {\\cal O}(10^{-3})$ currently undetect able in upcoming CMB measurements\, but potentially detectable in a future dedicated B-mode space mission.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13164/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13164/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Special Lecture: Integrability and supersymmetric vacua (II) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130628T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130628T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13166@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13166/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room B URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13166/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Special Lecture: Integrability and supersymmetric vacua (III) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130701T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130701T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13167@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13167/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room B URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13167/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A General Relativistic understanding of a Dark Matter dominated ga laxy via Berterand Spacetime DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130702T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130702T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13171@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Bertrand spacetimes (BSTs) are static\, spherically symmetric solutions of Einstein's equations\, that admit stable\, closed o rbits. Starting from the fact that to a good approximation\, stars in the disc or halo regions of typical galaxies move in such orbits\, we propose that\, under certain physical assumptions\, the dark matter distribution o f some low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies can seed a particular class o f BSTs. In the Newtonian limit\, it is shown that for flat rotation curves \, our proposal leads to an analytic prediction of the NFW dark matter pro file.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13171/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13171/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Special Lecture: Integrability and supersymmetric vacua (IV) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130703T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130703T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13168@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13168/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room B URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13168/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Galactic Dark Matter Density DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130705T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130705T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13169@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I review the knowledge of the Dark Matter distribut ion in our Galaxy in the light of recent experimental astrophysical data. I will focus on the determination of the Dark Matter density at the Sun's location and its uncertainties\, interesting for direct detection experim ents\, and then review the constraints on the global spatial distribution\ , crucial for the indirect DM search especially towards the galactic cente r.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13169/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13169/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Toward a Higher-Spin Dual of Interacting Field Theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130708T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130708T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13173@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We show explicitly how the exact renormalization gro up equation of interacting vector models in the large N limit can be mappe d into certain higher-spin equations of motion. The equations of motion ar e generalized to incorporate a multiparticle extension of the higher-spin algebra\, which reflects the "multitrace" nature of the interactions in th e dual field theory from the holographic point of view.\n\n//indico.ictp.i t/event/a13173/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13173/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:From strings to strings - the amazing story of strings in Quantum Chromodynamics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130709T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130709T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13104@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The Dual Superconductor picture\, proposed as a reso lution for the prob- lem of Quark Confinement\, predicts Flux Tubes connec ting quarks. Evidence for such flux tubes in QCD has been unambiguously pr ovided by Lattice Gauge Simulations. An algorithmic breakthrough by Lusche r and Weisz permitted very accurate studies of the flux tube which showed that the sub- dominant term in ground state energy was characterstic of Bo sonic Strings\, the original candidates for explaining strong interactions .\nPushan Majumdar and myself carried out massive simulations using the Lu scher-Weisz algorithm. We showed that even the next two higher order terms are exactly what is expected of a free bosonic string. Peter Matlock and myself subsequently proved this result analytically using the idea of effe ctive string theories. I shall conclude by briefly reviewing the status of even higher order corrections as well as some implications of all these r esults.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13104/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13104/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Super cool Inflation-TeV scales DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130715T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130715T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13117@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The SuperCool inflation has the virtue of working " Naturally" at TeV scales and even much lower\, which opens the possibilit y of using collider physics to probe inflation. In addition\, the model in troduces a new mechanism to end Old inflation. The Universe starts off h ot and trapped in a false vacuum. The Universe supercools and inflates sol ving the horizon and flatness problems. The inflaton couples to a set of Q CD like fermions. When the fermions' non-Abelian gauge group freezes\, the Yukawa terms generate a tadpole for the inflaton\, which removes the barr ier. Inflation ends\, and the Universe rapidly reheats. The model also can generate the necessary perturbations for inflation and can satisfy constr aints from Plank.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13117/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13117/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Wilson loops in Chern-Simons and ABJ(M) theories at two loops DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130723T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130723T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13154@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13154/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13154/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Less is More: The story of high energy neutrinos in IceCube DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130725T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130725T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13132@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: IceCube has recently observed 2 cascade-like events at PeV energies. These are the highest energy neutrino events ever observe d. In this talk I will present a phenomenological analysis of the IceCube data that explores the potential sources for these events. We predict that an efficient way to identify such sources is to look at lower energies\, where more events are expected. Preliminary IceCube data already seems to confirm this expectation\, and hints that this may be the first glimpse of high energy astrophysical neutrinos.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13132/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13132/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Recent progress\, and wars\, in Higgs Effective Field Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130730T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130730T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13174@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13174/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13174/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Towards phenomenology from heterotic orbifolds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130801T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130801T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13178@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We shall discuss some phenomenologically appealing f eatures and challenges of heterotic orbifold compactifications\, aiming at a theory of particles and cosmology. Obtaining globally consistent strin g constructions with properties akin to those of the (N)MSSM is made now t rivial by using "The Orbifolder"\, an open-source computer code. The model s constructed this way offer plenty of resources to possibly arrive at obs ervable physics.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13178/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13178/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Is it a generalized NJL model an effective action of massless QCD ?\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130808T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130808T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13179@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. A local and gauge invariant alternative version o f QCD for massive fermions\, will be presented. It is underlined that its action includes vertices which eventually could had been overlooked befo re for the consideration of gauge theories\, since at first sight\, they seem as breaking power counting renormalizability. However\, the fact tha t those terms also modify the quark propagators\, to become more converge nt at large momenta\, strongly suggests that theory is in fact renormaliza ble. Accepting this view\, it also can be argued that all the four fermio ns terms constituting the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models\, could be included as counterterms in a slightly generalized renormalization procedure for massless QCD. The possible applications of these properties in massless S USY models will be underlined.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13179/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13179/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Laws of Extremal Black Hole (Thermo)dynamics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130822T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130822T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13282@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk I focus on the low temperature expansio n of the first law of thermodynamics for near-extremal black holes and der ive "laws of extremal black hole dynamics" and show that for extremal blac k holes with non-vanishing entropy\, the leading order contribution yields an expression for their extremal entropy in agreement with the entropy fu nction result and the Cardy formula for the entropy of a two dimensional c hiral conformal field theory (CFT). When their entropy vanishes due to the vanishing of a one-cycle on the horizon\, such leading contribution is al ways compatible with the first law satisfied by a BTZ black hole. These re sults are universal and consistent both with the presence of local AdS2 an d AdS3 near horizon throats for extremal black holes and with the suggeste d quantum microscopic descriptions (AdS2/CFT1\, Kerr/CFT and EVH/CFT).\n\n //indico.ictp.it/event/a13282/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13282/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Novel Perspectives for the Refined Topological String from N=2 Amp litudes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130924T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130924T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13163@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13163/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13163/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gauge fields and inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131001T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131001T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13279@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The isotropy and homogeneity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) favors "scalar driven" early Universe inflationary model s. Non-scalar fields\, and in particular gauge fields\, are on the other h and commonplace in all high energy particle physics models proposed to be at work at the upper bound on energy scale of inflation set by the current CMB observations. In this review we consider the role and consequences\, theoretical and observational\, that gauge fields can have during inflatio nary era. Gauge fields may be turned on in the background during inflation \, or may become relevant at the level of cosmic perturbations.\nThere hav e been two main class of models with gauge fields in the background\, mode ls which show violation of cosmic no-hair theorem and those which lead to isotropic FLRW cosmology\, respecting the cosmic no-hair theorem. Models i n which gauge fields are only turned on at the cosmic perturbation level\, may source primordial magnetic fields. We also review specific observatio nal features of these models on the CMB and/or the primordial cosmic magne tic fields. Our discussions will be mainly focused on the inflation period \, with only a brief discussion on the post inflationary (p)reheating era. \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13279/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13279/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lifshitz-AdS vacua\, hyper-scaling violation and entanglement entr opy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131010T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131010T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13306@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13306/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13306/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A new mechanism for curvature perturbations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131011T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131011T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13268@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I will explain the spectator scenario and show its a dvantages compared to the curvaton scenario\, under the latest Planck cons traints. The spectator scenario generates a smaller non-Gaussianity\, negl igible isocurvature perturbations\, and less tuning. It agrees well with t he current Planck data in the visible sector inflation setup\, as an examp le. It also explains the CMB dipole asymmetry with a brief fast roll phase . I will close the talk by proposing the CMB power multipoles\, as an alte rnative approach independent of the CMB dipole asymmetry model.\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/a13268/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13268/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Asymptotic Fragility and the Hie rarchy Problem DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131018T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131018T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13291@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13291/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13291/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Effective Field Theories for Hyd rodynamical Systems DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131018T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131018T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13292@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13292/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13292/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A holographic path to the turbulent side of gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131021T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131021T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13293@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13293/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13293/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Science with AGILE and future gamma-rays telescopes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131024T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131024T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13323@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13323/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13323/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Defects\, Non-abelian T-duality\, and the Fourier-Mukai transform of the Ramond-Ramond fields\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131029T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131029T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13313@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We construct topological defects generating non-abel ian T-duality for isometry groups acting without isotropy. We find that th ese defects are given by line bundles on the correspondence space with cur vature which can be considered as a non-abelian generalization of the cur vature of the Poincar\\`{e} bundle. We show that the defect equations of motion encode the non-abelian T-duality transformation. The Fourier-Mukai transform of the Ramond-Ramond fields generated by the gauge invariant flu x of these defects is studied. We show that it provides elegant and compac t way of computation of the transformation of the Ramond-Ramond fields und er the non-abelian T-duality.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13313/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13313/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum Black Holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131107T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131107T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13342@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13342/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13342/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark energy: an effective field theory approach DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131112T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131112T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13319@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The discovery of the accelerating expansion of the U niverse is motivating an impressive amount of theoretical and observationa l activity. After briefly reviewing the problems and challenges of "Dark E nergy"\, I will focus on recent and ongoing works where a unifying descrip tion of dark energy and modified gravity is proposed\, that is inspired by the Effective Field Theory (EFT) of Inflation formalism. By extending su ch a framework to late time cosmology one can write the most general actio n for cosmological perturbations in the presence of an additional scalar degree of freedom. I will focus on a few operators that are quadratic in t he perturbations and which appear in non-minimally coupled scalar-tensor g ravity and "Galileon" theories and describe the mixing between gravity an d the scalar degree of freedom that such operators produce. I will also d iscuss the present observational constraints and forecasts for future expe riments such as EUCLID.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13319/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13319/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Charming stop decays and their implications for naturalness DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131119T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131119T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13177@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13177/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13177/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The SIMP Miracle DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131120T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131120T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13341@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13341/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13341/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Production mechanisms of dark matter in hidden sector DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131126T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131126T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13345@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13345/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13345/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark Radiation\, the Cluster Soft Excess and a 0.1-1 keV \nCosmic Axion Background DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131128T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131128T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13346@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13346/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13346/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Higher derivative stringy correc tions\, B-field and N=2 theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131211T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131211T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13304@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13304/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13304/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: F-theory\, elliptic fibrations a nd local limits DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131211T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131211T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13305@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13305/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13305/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The importance of local measurements for cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131212T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131212T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13360@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13360/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13360/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Are cosmology and sterile neutrinos still good friends? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140204T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140204T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13350@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13350/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13350/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: New maximal Supergravities DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140212T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140212T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14102@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14102/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14102/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Deformations of special geometry : in search of the topological string DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140212T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140212T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14103@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14103/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14103/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The heterotic string on magnetized orbifolds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140213T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140213T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a13368@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13368/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13368/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Large N phase transitions in supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory wi th massive matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140218T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140218T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a141@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We study supersymmetric U(N) Chern-Simons theory on S3 coupled to 2N_f chiral multiplets deformed by mass terms. The partitio n function localizes to a matrix integral\, which can be exactly computed in the large N limit. In a specific decompactification limit\, the theory exhibits quantum (third-order) phase transitions at finite critical values of the coupling.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a141/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a141/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Light vector-like fermions in a minimal SU(5) setup\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140225T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140225T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14143@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14143/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14143/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Looking for light top squarks: rummaging through the data DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140318T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140318T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14129@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14129/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14129/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Entanglement thermodynamics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140320T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140320T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14151@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14151/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14151/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Revisiting the S-matrix approach to the open superstring low energ y effective lagrangian DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140327T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140327T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14136@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14136/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14136/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Constraints on light dark sector particles from White Dwarfs and S upernovae DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140408T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140408T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14137@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Theories with a dark sector\, that communicates wit h the visible sector only via U(1) kinetic mixing\, are interesting becaus e they could provide an explanation for dark matter. If the dark sector co ntains light particles\, these could be produced in the interior of a star and accelerate its cooling. I show that\, considering the well-understood cooling laws of white dwarfs and supernovae\, one can place significant c onstraints on these models.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14137/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14137/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Mathieu Moonshine DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140409T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140409T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14123@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14123/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14123/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Open-Closed-Open String Duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140409T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140409T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14124@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14124/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14124/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Naturally light dilatons\, holographically DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140410T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140410T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14128@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14128/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14128/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BCS Instability and Finite Temperature Corrections to Tachyon Mass in Intersecting D1-Branes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140411T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140411T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14175@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14175/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14175/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP Mini Symposium on Particle Physics Phenomenology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140414T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140414T162000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14170@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14170/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14170/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:keV Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140415T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140415T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14122@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. In this talk\, I will give an overview of keV steril e neutrinos as Dark Matter candidates. After giving an introduction to the relevant bits of neutrino and Dark Matter physics\, I will review the cos mological aspects of (Warm) Dark Matter and given some details about possi ble production mechanisms of this type of Dark Matter in the early Univers e. I will the explain the connection to neutrino physics and present some relations to neutrino model building. We will pick an example model\, to s ee how particle physics methods can lead to interesting and fundamental co nnections between the neutrino and Dark Matter sectors. I finally present some alternative ideas and generalisations.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a141 22/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14122/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spinning Fluids: A Group Theoretical Approach DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140416T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140416T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14174@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We will review a group theoretical fluid model to de scribe gauge interactions. In particular we will focus on QGP physics appl ications describing how it is possible to reproduce the chiral magnetic ef fect and study similar effects through this formalism. Other than gauge gr oups this formalism can be used to describe any dynamics completely descri bed by a symmetry group. We will show how to use this formalism to write a Mathisson-Papapetrou equation for spinning relativistic fluids.\n\n//indi co.ictp.it/event/a14174/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14174/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Excess noise in anisotropic QGP DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140417T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140417T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14144@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14144/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14144/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Covariant and non-covariant double string theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140422T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140422T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14153@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14153/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14153/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Momentum dissipation and charge transport in holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140424T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140424T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14145@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Holography can be used to study the physics of stron gly coupled quantum field theories at finite density\, which may be at wor k in certain real materials. However\, the conservation of momentum in the se field theories means that they have unrealistic transport properties\, such as an infinite electrical conductivity. I will give a summary of rece nt progress in constructing gravitational solutions which are dual to fiel d theories which dissipate momentum. I will explain how these gravitationa l solutions are related to theories of massive gravity\, and what the tran sport properties of the dual field theories are. Finally\, I will describe a simple mechanism\, which is natural from the holographic point of view\ , by which strongly interacting metals can acquire a linear in temperature resistivity\, as is observed in the strange metal phase of the cuprates.\ n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14145/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14145/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The black hole interior in AdS/CFT and the information paradox\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140429T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140429T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14138@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14138/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14138/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spectrum generating algebra for the pure spinor superstring DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140505T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140505T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14186@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk I will construct a paralell between the DDF operators in the bosonic string and the pure spinor superstring. Star ting with the massless vertices\, a creation/annihilation algebra will be presented and a simple procedure to construct the usual light-cone superst ring spectrum will be shown\, together with some particularities of the fo rmalism.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14186/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14186/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Duality and higher-derivative corrections DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140506T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140506T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14157@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14157/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14157/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Generalized geometry in eleven dimensions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140508T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140508T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14158@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14158/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14158/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pre-Inflationary Clues from String Theory? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140512T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140512T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14183@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. "Brane supersymmetry breaking'' occurs in String The ory when the only available combinations of D--branes and orientifolds are not mutually BPS and yet do not introduce tree--level tachyon instabiliti es. It is characterized by the emergence of a steep exponential potential\ , and thus by the absence of maximally symmetric vacua. The corresponding low--energy supergravity admits intriguing spatially--flat cosmological so lutions where a scalar field is forced to climb up toward the steep potent ial after an initial singularity\, and additional milder terms can inject an inflationary phase during the ensuing descent. We show that\, in the re sulting power spectra of scalar perturbations\, an infrared suppression is typically followed by a pre--inflationary peak that reflects the end of t he climbing phase and can lie well apart from the approximately scale inva riant profile. A first look at WMAP9 raw data shows that\, while the chi-s quared fits for the low--l CMB angular power spectrum are clearly compatib le with an almost scale invariant behavior\, they display nonetheless an e ye--catching preference for this type of setting within a perturbative str ing regime.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14183/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14183/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Continuous Spin Particles In Field Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140527T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140527T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14184@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Spin characterizes how particle states re-phase unde r changes of frame that leave their momentum and energy invariant. But al l familiar field theories propagate particles that transform trivially und er some of these transformations --- in particular\, those that involve bo osts. For example\, until very recently it was not known how to describe the four-dimensional "continuous spin'' particles (CSPs) in field theory. In this talk\, I will introduce a new covariant\, local action for gauge fields\, whose physical excitation in four dimensions is a CSP. The theor y is simply formulated as a gauge theory in a "vector superspace"\, but ca n also be formulated in terms of a tower of symmetric tensor gauge fields. In the limit of vanishing spin-scale ρ\, the theory smoothly recovers familiar gauge-theory actions. The theory readily generalizes to higher or lower dimensions\; in 2+1 dimensions\, the only kind of massless partic le with non-trivial physical spin is CSP-like. These "panyons" can be und erstood as massless generalizations of anyons\, but are simpler in key res pects.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14184/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14184/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On Spin and Long Range Forces: Continuous Spin Particles Demystifi ed DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140527T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140527T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14185@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The success of gauge theory descriptions of Nature f ollows simply\, in hindsight\, from Lorentz symmetry\, quantum mechanics\, and the existence of interacting massless particles with spin. Yet\, rem arkably\, the most generic type of massless particle spin has never been s eriously examined: Wigner's so-called "continuous spin" particles (CSPs)\, which have a tower of polarization states carrying all integer or half-in teger helicities that mix under boosts. In this talk\, I will explain how to think about CSPs\, and some hints from the symmetry constraints on scat tering amplitudes not only that CSP theories may be consistent\, but that they could be relevant to understanding long-range forces in Nature. Furt her progress in understanding free CSPs in field theory will be discussed in Philip Schuster's seminar to follow.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14185/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14185/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Generalized Kahler Geometry in (2\,2) superspace DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140529T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140529T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14160@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14160/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14160/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark Energy\, QCD axion\, and Comment on BICEP2 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140530T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140530T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14200@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I will briefly talk on approximate global symmetries which can be a dark energy symmetry and PQ symmetry. These are constructe d such that there is no gravity spoil of global symmetries. For the QCD ax ion\, it is suggested to use the anomalous U(1) symmetry from string compa ctification\, which gives a domain-wall number 1 models.\n\n//indico.ictp. it/event/a14200/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14200/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CFT4 as SO(4\,2)-invariant TFT2 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140610T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140610T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14182@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14182/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14182/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Electromagnetic response of strongly coupled plasmas\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140617T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140617T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14207@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I briefly present a thorough analysis of the electro magnetic response of strongly coupled neutral plasmas described by the gau ge/gravity correspondence. The coupling of the external electromagnetic fi eld with the tower of quasi-normal modes of the plasmas supports the prese nce of various electromagnetic modes with different properties. Among them we underline the existence of negative refraction with low dissipation fo r a transverse non-hydrodynamical mode. Previous hydrodynamical approaches have shown the ubiquitous character of negative refraction in charged pla smas and the absence thereof in neutral plasmas. The results I present her e extend the analysis to neutral plasmas beyond the hydrodynamical regime. As an application of these new insights\, I will succinctly discuss the c ase of the quark gluon plasma in the temperature dominated regime.\n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/a14207/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14207/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:To be announced DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140624T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140624T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14156@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14156/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14156/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Color-Kinematics Duality for Scalar Amplitudes in the Regge Limit DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140703T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140703T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14152@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14152/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14152/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Probing holography with probe branes. I: Generalities DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140708T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140708T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14195@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14195/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14195/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Probing holography with probe branes. II: The example of the enhan çon DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140708T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140708T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14196@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14196/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14196/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Scattering amplitude of the Chern-Simons theory with matter \n(&am p\; the study of Bose-Fermi duality)\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140715T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140715T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14219@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In case of Chern-Simons matter theories\, the charge d particle itself is regarded as the magnetic flux\, then it exhibits a lo t of "strange behavior" which will not be understood with our intuition ba sed on the Maxwell equation. In this talk\, we studied how such a "strange " feature of the Chern-Simons matter theory affects the usual S-matrix ana lysis. We have also studied the duality relationship between Bosonic syste m and Fermionic system based on the result of the S-matrix.\n\n//indico.ic tp.it/event/a14219/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14219/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Discrete cosmology: mechanical approach to the late-time Universe\ n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140729T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140729T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14222@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We consider the Universe deep inside the cell of uni formity which is of the order of 190 Mpc. At these scales\, the Universe is filled with inhomogeneously distributed discrete structures (galaxies\, groups and clusters of galaxies)\, which perturb the background Friedmann model. Here\, the mechanical approach is the most appropriate to describe the dynamics of the inhomogeneities which is defined\, on the one hand\, by gravitational potentials of inhomogeneities and\, on the other hand\, b y the cosmological expansion of the Universe. As an example\, we consider the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda in future.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/a14222/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14222/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Heterotic NS5-branes from closed string tachyon condensation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140807T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140807T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14319@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14319/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14319/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A universal correction to higher spin entanglement entropy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140826T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140826T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14324@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We consider conformal field theories in 1+1 dimensio ns with W-algebra symmetries\, deformed by a chemical potential \\mu for t he spin-three current. We show that the order \\mu2 correction to the Re'n yi and entanglement entropies of a single interval in the deformed theory\ , on the infinite spatial line and at finite temperature\, is universal. T he correction is completely determined by the operator product expansion o f two spin-three currents\, and by the expectation values of the stress te nsor\, its descendants and its composites\, evaluated on the n-sheeted Rie mann surface branched along the interval. This explains the recently found agreement of the order \\mu2 correction across distinct free field CFTs a nd higher spin black hole solutions holographically dual to CFTs with W-sy mmetry.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14324/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14324/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Minimal String Theory from Douglas string equation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140911T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140911T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14329@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14329/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14329/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Super-renormalizable & Finite Gravitational Theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140918T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140918T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14331@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We hereby introduce and extensively study a class o f non-polynomial higher derivative theories of gravity that realize a ultr aviolet (UV) completion of Einstein general relativity. These theories are unitary (ghost free) and at most only one-loop divergences survive. The o utcome is a class of theories super-renormalizable in even dimension and f inite in odd dimension. Moreover\, we explicitly prove in D=4 that there e xists an extension of the theory that is completely finite and all the bet a functions vanish even at one-loop. These results can be easily extended in extra dimensions and it is likely that the higher dimensional theory ca n be made finite too. Therefore we have the possibility for "finite quantu m gravity" in any dimension.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14331/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14331/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:To be announced DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140923T050000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140923T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14325@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14325/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14325/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conformal blocks of WN Minimal Models and AGT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140926T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140926T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14348@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14348/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14348/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:To be announced DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140930T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140930T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14330@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14330/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14330/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum Correction to Kahler Metric of String Effective Action DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141002T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141002T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14342@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14342/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14342/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Twistor Origin of Superstring DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141003T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141003T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14343@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14343/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14343/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Leptogenesis at LHCb\, BELLE II and SHiP\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141014T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141014T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14340@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We show that existing laboratory experiments have th e potential to unveil the origin of matter by probing leptogenesis in the type-I seesaw model with three right handed neutrinos and Majorana masses in the GeV range. The baryon asymmetry is generated by CP-violating flavou r oscillations during the production of the right-handed neutrinos. In con trast to the case with only two right handed neutrinos\, no degeneracy in the Majorana masses is required. The right-handed neutrinos can be found i n meson decays at BELLE II\, LHCb or the proposed SHiP experiment.\n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/a14340/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14340/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum Corrections to Extremal Black Hole Entropy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141016T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141016T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14321@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14321/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14321/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inflation from Minkowski space DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141021T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141021T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7290@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7290/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7290/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Conformal partial waves\, buildi ng blocks of the conformal bootstrap DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141028T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141028T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14337@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14337/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14337/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: N=3 and N=4 anti-de Sitter vacua of maximal supergravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141028T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141028T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-a14338@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14338/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14338/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gamma rays from dark matter in the Inner Galaxy? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141113T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141113T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7294@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7294/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7294/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monopole correlations in holographically flavored liquids DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141118T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141118T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7295@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Given a many-body system in (2+1) dimensions with a conserved U(1) current\, an interesting probe of the IR dynamics is provid ed by weakly gauging the current and then studying the correlation functio ns of magnetic monopole operators in the resulting dynamical gauge theory. This correlation function is a non-perturbative object and so is somewhat difficult to calculate using conventional techniques. We review the expec ted behavior of such monopole correlations in different field-theoretical states. We then turn to holography and study monopole correlations in holo graphic liquids with fundamental flavor\, where the monopole operator is d ual to a bulk particle that carries magnetic charge\, permitting a simple geometric understanding. We display consistency with expected field-theore tical results. For a charge-gapped phase this requires a discussion of mon opole condensation in the bulk\, which turns out to be equivalent to the c apping off of the bulk flavor brane. In a compressible finite-density phas e we present a novel calculation of the monopole correlation in space and time.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7295/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7295/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Big Bang Synthesis of Nuclear Dark Matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141120T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141120T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7313@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I will discuss the physics of dark matter models fea turing composite bound states carrying a large conserved dark "nucleon" nu mber. The properties of sufficiently large dark nuclei may obey simple sca ling laws\, and we find that this scaling can determine the number distrib ution of nuclei resulting from Big Bang Dark Nucleosynthesis. For plausibl e models of asymmetric dark matter\, dark nuclei of large nucleon number\, e.g. > 10^8\, are synthesised\, with the number distribution taking one o f two characteristic forms\, independent of many details of the initial co nditions and small-number interactions. I will also briefly discuss the co nstraints arising from the novel dark sector energetics\, possible modific ations to astrophysical processes\, and the potential direct detection sig nals.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7313/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7313/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An ordered anarchy from 5-dimensional S0(10) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141204T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141204T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7324@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: A mechanism to generate flavour hierarchy via 5-dime nsional wave-function localization is revisited in the context of an SO(10 ) grand unified theory. An extra-dimension compactified on an orbifold gen erates different zero-mode profiles for fermions of different charges. Uti lizing suitable scalar fields\, a predictive model for fermion masses and mixing is constructed and shown to be viable with the current data. All th e Yukawa couplings in the model are of order unity while the hierarchies a mong different fermions result from the wave-function profiles. The natura lness of anarchical Yukawa couplings and predictions for various observabl es in the lepton sector will be discussed.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7324/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7324/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Toric hypersurface fibrations for F-theory and their Higgs branche s DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141212T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141212T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7321@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We consider genus one fibrations for F-theory\, with their fibers realized as hypersurfaces in the toric varieties associated to the 16 reflexive 2D polyhedra. For all of these we determine the gauge groups\, matter representations\, 6D matter multiplicities and 4D Yukawa c ouplings of their corresponding effective theories in a base independent w ay. We also explore the network of Higgsings relating these theories. Geom etrically\, such Higgsings correspond to extremal transitions induced by b low-ups in the 2D toric varieties. We recover the 6D effective theories of all 16 toric hypersurface fibrations upon successive Higgsings from the t hee theories that exhibit Mordell-Weil torsion. We find that the three Cal abi-Yau manifolds without section\, whose fibers are given by the toric hy persurfaces in P^2\, P^1x P^1 and the recently studied P^2(1\,1\,2)\, yiel d F-theory realizations of SUGRA theories with discrete gauge groups Z_3\, Z_2 and Z_4. In these three manifolds\, we also find codimension two I_2- fibers supporting matter charged only under these discrete gauge groups. T his opens up a whole new arena for model building with discrete global sym metries in F-theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7321/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7321/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Holographic Fermi surfaces from String Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141217T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141217T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7297@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7297/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7297/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Space-Time Symmetries of the Qua ntum Hall Effect DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141217T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141217T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7298@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7298/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7298/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Energy Extraction from Spinning Black Holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150113T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150113T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7346@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7346/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7346/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:What can we infer about cosmic-ray diffusion by observing the gamm a-ray sky? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150115T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150115T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7337@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7337/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7337/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Listening to the quantum noise of AdS DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150122T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150122T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7343@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I discuss some general properties of AdS/CFT correla tion functions at very long time scales\, using hypothesis imported from t he theory of quantum chaos. The main results are estimates of the average noise level depending on spectral properties of the CFT and some general r emarks on whether these noise levels can be captured by fluctuating bulk g eometries.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7343/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7343/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Liouville theory at central charge less than one DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150127T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150127T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7329@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We will show that\, for any value $ c \\leq 1$ of th e central charge\, there exists a consistent CFT which is diagonal and has a continuous spectrum. This CFT is based on the structure constants found by Schomerus (2003)\, Zamolodchikov(2005) and Petkova and Kostov(2005). T he interpretation of these structure constants as a part of a consistent C FT has been dismissed until Viti and Delfino (2011) showed that they have a natural application in critical statistical models. We will show that th is theory differs from the generelised minimal models\, as well as from ot her theories at rational values of the central charge such as the minimal models or the Runkel-Watts kind of theories. We will argue that the solu tion we found extends the definition and consistency of the Liouville the ory to all complex values of c. Our claims are backed by numerical tests of crossing symmetry. Finally\, we will discuss the application of such t heory to describe certain many-point observables in critical statistical m odels.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7329/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7329/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:TCSA: Physics at strong coupling using Conformal Field Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150129T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150129T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7344@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7344/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7344/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Constraining Fundamental Physics with Large Scale Structure Data DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150203T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150203T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7364@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7364/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7364/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Unraveling entanglement entropy in higher spin theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150205T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150205T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7348@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7348/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7348/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Galaxy number counts: power spectrum and bispectrum DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150212T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150212T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7338@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Current and future galaxy surveys provide a wealth o f information to constrain the cosmological parameters. I will show that c onsidering only observable quantities\, namely the redshift and angular po sition\, we recover the same information of the 3D matter power spectrum. All the results have been obtained using CLASSgal\, a code which computes the galaxy number fluctuations in linear perturbation theory\, including all relativistic corrections. I will also present the relevant contributio ns to the bispectrum\, computed from the galaxy number counts to second or der.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7338/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7338/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Topics on Rigid Supersymmetry and Localization of N=1 Theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150217T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150217T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7376@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I discuss various aspects of rigid supersymmetry wit hin minimal N = 1 off-shell supergravity using the old and new minimal for mulations in both Lorentzian and Euclidean signatures. In particular\, I p resent a construction of all rigid supersymmetry backgrounds with a hypers urface orthogonal Killing vector. I will also examine the dependence of fo ur-dimensional Euclidean N = 1 partition functions on coupling constants. In particular\, I shall focus on backgrounds without R-symmetry\, which a rise in the rigid limit of old minimal supergravity. Based on a systemati c analysis of supersymmetric invariants\, I will argue that localization i s not possible for backgrounds without R-symmetry.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/eve nt/7376/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7376/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:QCD flux tube spectrum from approximate integrability DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150303T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150303T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7360@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7360/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7360/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bootstrapping SCFTs with Four Supercharges DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150305T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150305T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7345@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7345/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7345/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spontaneously breaking space-time: Poincare\, gravity\, cosmology and spinning objects DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150310T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150310T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7373@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Space-time symmetries are a crucial ingredient of an y theoretical model in physics. Unlike internal symmetries\, which may or may not be gauged and/or spontaneously broken\, space-time symmetries do n ot admit any ambiguity: they are gauged by gravity\, and any conceivable p hysical system (other than the vacuum) is bound to break at least some of them. Motivated by this observation\, I will discuss how to couple gravity with the Goldstone fields (that non-linearly realize spontaneously broken space-time symmetries) by weakly gauging the Poincare symmetry group. As an illustrative example of the power of these techniques I will build an e ffective action that describes spinning objects coupled to gravity. Furthe rmore\, I will discuss how this relates to effective field theories pertin ent to cosmology such as the effective field theory of inflation and solid inflation.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7373/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7373/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:One-loop non-renormalization results in EFTs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150312T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150312T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7390@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7390/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7390/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum Gravity as an Information Network: Self-Organization of a 4D Universe DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150317T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150317T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7378@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7378/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7378/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black Hole microstate counting using pure D brane systems DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150319T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150319T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7379@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7379/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7379/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Logarithmic Corrections to Twisted Indices (based on arXiv:1404.63 63) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150320T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150320T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7410@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We compute logarithmic corrections to the twisted i ndex Bg6 in four-dimensional N=4 and N=8 string theories using the framewo rk of the Quantum Entropy Function. We find that these vanish\, matching p erfectly with the large--charge expansion of the corresponding microscopic expressions.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7410/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7410/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Astrophysical Plasmas DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150320T080000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150320T090000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7412@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The seminar will describe the state of the art instrumentation for X-ray spectroscopy on board satellites\, both present and future. It will then demonstrate some exquisite diagnostics of astrophysical plasmas. A few examples of which are electron temperature measurements of active-g alaxy winds from their narrow radiative recombination continua\, and the s pectroscopic detection of a shock contact discontinuity in a planetary neb ula based on the same spectral feature. We will then highlight \nabsorptio n measurements of outflows from supermassive black holes shined on by gas falling into the black hole. These spectroscopic diagnostics have been pro ven useful to constrain the physics of the outflowing plasma\, even when n o complementary spatial information is available. Finally\, some relevant laboratory experiments will be described\, as well as ways to harness high quality laboratory measurements to astrophysical diagnostics.\n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/7412/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7412/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Effective Field Theory of Structure Formation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150324T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150324T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7375@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Over the next decade\, large scale structure (LSS) s urveys will play an increasingly important role in the measurement of cosm ological parameters and as a probe of initial conditions. Relating the ob served distribution of galaxies to the physics of the early universe requi res a good understanding of several late-time sources of non-linear effect s. Recently the effective field theory (EFT) principles have provided a ne w framework in which this evolution can be studied . In this talk\, I will explain how\, on large scales\, effective field theory (EFT) offers a nat ural framework in which these short-scale non-linear effects can be system atically parametrized. After reviewing the recently developed effective fi eld theory of large scale structure\, I will explain how the halo model - a model relating the density of dark matter halo to the underlying dark m atter density - can also be understood in the context of EFT. I will show explicitly how the renormalization of halo correlation function is perform ed and discuss their observational consequences.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event /7375/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7375/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Top Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: past\, present and persp ectives on 13 TeV collisions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150331T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150331T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7391@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The top quark is the most massive known fundamental constituent of matter. Its unexplained large mass suggests an important co nnection to the still mysterious electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism a nd it is the basis of a rich set of links to possible new particle and int eractions that could appear at the LHC by often modifying the production a nd decay of top quarks. \nUnprecedentedly abundant top quark production in proton-proton (pp) collisions at the Large Hadron Collider is opening doo rs on increasingly precise measurements of top quark properties\, its conn ection to the newly discovered Higgs boson and on frontier studies on top quark-related physics beyond the standard model at new scales of energy an d distance. \nA review of the most recent and significant results in top physics using data collected in the LHC pp collisions at 7 and 8 TeV cente r-of-mass energies (LHC Run1) will be given. Available performance and pr ospects studies will also be included to discuss expectations and areas of improvements for the mentioned topics in the analysis of the forthcoming data to be collected in 13 TeV LHC pp collisions starting in May 2015.\n\n //indico.ictp.it/event/7391/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7391/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Localization in supergravity and quantum AdS4/CFT3 holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150409T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150409T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7377@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7377/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7377/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New frontiers in particle physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150414T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150414T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7405@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I will discuss new tools\, new searches\, and a new proposal for an experiment to look for standard model physics and beyond. Among the topics covered are: new observables associated with anomalies in B-mesons decays\; new searches with neutrino beam experiments to look for new weak interactions\; a new tool to help discriminate resonances decayi ng hadronically against background at the LHC\; and a proposal for a new e xperiment to look for milli-charged particles and mirror forces at high e nergy colliders.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7405/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7405/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Probing Inflation from the Botto m Up DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150415T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150415T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7419@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7419/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7419/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Large Field Inflation - String T heory & Phenomenology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150415T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150415T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7420@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7420/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7420/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Localization for BPS Black Hole Entropy: 1-loop Partition Function from Vector Multiplets DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150416T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150416T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7429@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We use the techniques of supersymmetric localization to compute the BPS black hole entropy in N=2 supergravity. We focus on th e n_v+1 vector multiplets on the black hole near horizon background which is AdS_2 x S^2 space. We find the localizing saddle point of the vector mu ltiplets by solving the localization equations\, and compute the exact one loop partition function on the saddle point. Furthermore\, we propose the appropriate functional integration measure. Through this measure\, the on e loop determinant is written in terms of the radius of the physical metri c\, which depends on the localizing saddle point value of the vector multi plets. The result for the one loop determinant is consistent with the loga rithmic corrections to the BPS black hole entropy from vector multiplets.\ n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7429/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7429/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY: The Exceptional Twin Higgs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150421T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150421T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7416@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The Twin Higgs mechanism helps in reducing the sensi tivity of the Higgs potential to the mass of the particles introduced to a ddress the hierarchy problem\, like stops in Supersymmetry or top partners in Composite Higgs models. This sensitivity is turned into a sensitivity to the mass of particles that can be totally neutral under the SM gauge gr oup and can therefore be substantially lighter while not being experimenta lly excluded. \nAfter a pedagogical introduction to the Twin Higgs scenari o and to the recent development in its composite incarnation\, I will disc uss under which conditions a more minimal model can be constructed\, based on a smaller symmetry group (SO(7)/G2). The key difference with all the p revious models is that the twin partners are now charged under the SM hype rcharge\, making the model more visible. Moreover\, to avoid charged light twin fermions\, we consider Twin Symmetry to be respected only by SU(2)L gauge interactions and third generation quarks Yukawa couplings. This allo ws to generate a viable radiative Higgs potential. The twin QCD confines a t scales higher than QCD delivering Twin Hadrons carrying electric charge which can lead to spectacular signatures at the LHC.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/e vent/7416/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7416/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Umbral moonshine\, mock modularity\, and string theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150428T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150428T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7358@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7358/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7358/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Notes on Duality-Invariant Electrodynamics with auxiliary bispinor fields DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150505T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150505T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7434@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We analyse the effect of the re-scaling of the basic auxiliary fields in E.Ivanov and B.Zupnik approach to self-dual nonlinea r electrodynamics. It is turned out that such re-scaling is quite useful h elping to construct new self-dual Lagrangians explicitly . We also discus s very simple and straightforward procedure for constructing of self-dual actions which based only on assumption that the linear realization of dual ity symmetry exists. Finally\, we present two new self-dual Lagrangians.\n \n//indico.ictp.it/event/7434/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7434/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Heterotic Superpotentials and Moduli Stabilisation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150507T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150507T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7417@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We review some recent progress in heterotic moduli\n stabilization. In particular\, it was recently shown that the heterotic\nB ianchi Identity can be accounted for by the construction of a holomorphic\ noperator\, which mathematically corresponds to a holomorphic double\nexte nsion. Moduli can then be computed in terms of cohomologies of this\nopera tor. We will see how the same structure can be derived form a\nGukov-Vafa- Witten type superpotential. We also cover some examples\, and\nbriefly con sider obstructions and Yukawa couplings arising from these\nstructures.\n\ nBased on: 1402.1725\, 1409.3347\, 1411.6696\, 1405.xxxxx\n\n//indico.ictp .it/event/7417/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7417/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: G-theory: flux vacua from CY geo metries DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150513T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150513T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7414@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7414/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7414/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: What is QFT? Resurgence\, transs eries\, and Lefschetz thimbles DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150513T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150513T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7415@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7415/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7415/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Coulomb branch and the moduli space of instantons DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150519T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150519T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7418@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I will explain how to compute the Hilbert series tha t counts chiral operators parametrising the Coulomb branch of the moduli s pace of vacua of three-dimensional N=4 supersymmetric gauge theories. The formalism has applications to Physics\, such as to the study of infrared d ualities in three dimensions and of string backgrounds with eight supercha rges\, as well as to Mathematics\, where it provides a new construction of HyperKaehler cones as algebraic varieties. I will then show how the Coul omb branch of certain 3d N=4 generalised quiver gauge theories can be used to compute the Hilbert series of the moduli space of k G-instantons\, for any simple Lie group G. The construction is alternative to the ADHM const ruction that is only available for classical groups G.\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/7418/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7418/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum corrections to gauge couplings and universality in strings with spontaneously broken supersymmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150521T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150521T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7438@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7438/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7438/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Runge-Lenz vector and stark effect in Calogero-Coulomb problem DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150526T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150526T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7460@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We show that deformation N-dimensional (Euclidean\, spherical andhyperbolic) Coulomb system by the patential of rational Calog ero model preserves superintegrability property of Coulomb problem. Then w e find explicit expression of the Runge-Lenz vector and symmetry algebra o f rational Calogero-Coulomb problem\, formulated in terms of Dunkl operato rs. We find that they are proper deformations of their Coulomb counterpart s. This observation permits to claim that most of properties of Coulomb an d oscillator systems can be lifted to their Calogero-extended analogs by t he proper replacement of momenta by Dunkl momenta operators. Particularly \, we show that N-dimensional Calogero-Coulomb system preserves integrabil ity property in the presence of Stark term\, and construct its complete se t of constants of motion. We find\, that in parabolic coordinates the syst ems admits complete separation of variables for N=2\,3 and partial ones fo r N>3. The system possesses linear Stark effect and find its explicit expr ession. Finally\, we show\, that two-center Calogero-Coulomb problem is al so integrable system\, which admits\, in elliptic coordinates\, the comple te separation of variables for N=2\,3 and partial ones for N>3.\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/7460/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7460/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gauge Symmetry in F-Theory Flux Vacua DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150528T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150528T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7470@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I will review some of my recent work on flux compact ification of F-theory. In particular\, I will discuss various approaches t o the question "should we expect F-Theory flux vacua to preserve some gaug e symmetry?".\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7470/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7470/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:M&m-strings and Modular Forms DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150604T120000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150604T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7469@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:--- Please note unusual time and venue!! ---\n\n//indico.ictp. it/event/7469/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7469/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Causality constraints on the graviton 3-point coupling DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150609T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150609T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7374@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I will consider higher derivative corrections to the graviton 3-point coupling within a weakly coupled theory of gravity. Lore ntz invariance allows further structures beyond that of Einstein's theory. I will argue that these structures are constrained by causality\, and sho w that the problem cannot be fixed by adding conventional particles with s pins lower or equal to 2\, but adding an infinite tower of massive particl es with higher spins. Implications of this result in the context of AdS/CF T\, quantum gravity in asymptotically flat space-times\, and non-Gaussiani ty features of primordial gravitational waves are discussed.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/7374/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7374/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Standard Cosmology Delayed DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150616T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150616T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7464@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The introduction of a delay in the Friedmann equatio n of cosmological evolution is shown to result in the very early universe undergoing the necessary accelerated expansion in the usual radiation (or matter) dominated phase. Occurring even without a violation of the strong energy condition\, this expansion slows down naturally to go over to the d ecelerated phase\, namely the standard Hubble expansion. This may obviate the need for a scalar field driven inflationary epoch.\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/7464/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7464/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:From topological vertices to minimal models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150703T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150703T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7575@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I wish to outline how one can start from a set of re fined topological vertices\, glue them to construct refined topological st ring partition functions\, then choose the parameters of the latter and re strict the Young diagrams that label the intermediate states\, to obtain conformal blocks in Virasoro minimal models.\n\nBased on joint works with M. Bershtein and with J.F. Wu\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7575/ LOCATION:ICTP LB Bar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7575/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Near Horizon Structure of Extremal Vanishing Horizon Black Holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150707T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150707T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7576@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7576/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7576/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark matter from the Fraternal Twin Higgs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150709T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150709T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7497@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Twin Higgs theories attempt to solve the little hier archy problem - why has the LHC not yet observed new states stabilising th e EW scale? - by introducing a SM-neutral twin sector\, related to the SM by an approximate Z_2 symmetry. The physical Higgs is then a PNGB mixture from both sectors\, and acts as a portal between them. In this talk\, I wi ll discuss the cosmology of minimal (“fraternal”) Twin Higgs models. H iggs portal interactions establish thermal equilibrium between the SM and twin sector at high temperatures\, giving a thermal history with possibili ties for both symmetric dark matter (through a “twin WIMP miracle”)\, and asymmetric dark matter (from twin QCD states which naturally have GeV- scale masses). More generally\, relic abundances of cosmologically stable states place constraints on the parameters of the theory\, and twin sector phase transitions need to be considered.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7497/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7497/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A solution of GGM after Higgs (based on S. Knapen\, D. Redigolo an d D. Shih\, to appear). DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150714T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150714T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7455@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The 125 GeV Higgs mass stringently constrains the pa rameter space of General Gauge Mediation (GGM) with light stops. We will d iscuss how the RG- generated A-terms necessary for the Higgs mass are also in strong tension with electroweak symmetry breaking and a tachyon-free s pectrum. We present the first fully general solution to these constraints in the GGM parameter space. We find that the left-handed stop can be arbit rarily llight\, but a strong lower bound of ∼ 1.5 TeV exists on the righ t-handed stop. We show that when this bound is saturated\, the spectrum be comes extremely constrained\, and always is accompanied by light ewkinos a nd leptons. We provide a complete analytic understanding of these constra ints and the features of the solution. Finally we discuss the impact of pr esent and future colliders on the GGM parameter space.\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/7455/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7455/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Hidden Symmetry of AdS Resonances DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150714T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150714T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7472@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7472/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7472/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Twin Higgs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150716T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150716T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7584@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7584/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Lecture Room B URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7584/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Characterization of clustering patterns in a cosmological stochast ic field DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150728T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150728T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7570@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Because of many reasons\, we expect that in our cosm os\, initial conditions and/or evolution of fields behave as stochastic ma nner. Quantum fluctuations of fields in so-called inflationary epoch and/o r various topological phase transitions at the very early universe as the seed of temperature fluctuations at the last scattering surface and also c urrent large scale structures are just some of stochastic fields. Topologi cal and geometrical measures enable us to establish almost robust approach es to quantify mentioned fields. In this talk\, I will give a brief explan ation about the classification of fields from complex system points of vie w and then concentrate on some measures\, Finally\, I will try to setup se mi-analytical prediction for their clustering and compare them from that o f computed directly from simulations and real data such as Planck data. Th ese approach can be implemented to various stochastic field not only in co smology but also for other stochastic fields in 1+1\, 2+1 and 3+1-Dimensio ns.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7570/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7570/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Analytic results from bootstrap DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150825T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150825T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7669@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I will discuss new analytic results that follow from conformal bootstrap for anomalous dimension of operators at large spin an d large twist. The results are universal and applicable for any conformal field theory (with some minimum set of assumptions). I will also discuss s ome ongoing work on how to reproduce Wilson's original results on critical exponents using bootstrap ideas without using Feynman diagrams.\n\n//indi co.ictp.it/event/7669/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7669/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Use of N=2 Superconformal Symmetry in d=10 NSR String for its GSO- projection and getting Space-Time Supersymmetric String theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150903T120000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150903T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7673@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The fermionic NSR String possesses a hidden N=2 supe rconformal algebra on the world sheet. In this talk\, I show how to use an isomorphism of this algebra\, the so-called spectral flow\, for construct ion of a subspace of physical states of the string\, on which Space-Time s upersymmetry acts. This construction is an alternative to the GSO-projecti on in string theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7673/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7673/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Supersymmetric gauged Double Field Theory: Systematic derivation b y virtue of Twist DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150908T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150908T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7681@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. In a completely systematic and geometric way\, we de rive maximal and half-maximal supersymmetric gauged double field theories in lower than ten dimensions. To this end\, we apply a simple twisting ans atz to the D= 10 ungauged maximal and half-maximal supersymmetric double f ield theories constructed previously within the so-called semi-covariant f ormalism. The twisting ansatz may not satisfy the section condition. Nonet heless\, all the features of the semi-covariant formalism\, including its complete covariantizability\, are still valid after the twist under altern ative consistency conditions. The twist allows gaugings as supersymmetry p reserving deformations of the D = 10 untwisted theories after Scherk-Schwa rz-type dimensional reductions. The maximal supersymmetric twist requires an extra condition to ensure both the Ramond-Ramond gauge symmetry and the 32 supersymmetries unbroken.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7681/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7681/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Frobenius manifolds\, Saito theory and Topological CFT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150910T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150910T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7674@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7674/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7674/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gauge and fermion preheating and the end of axion inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150917T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150917T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7682@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Axions are attractive candidates for theories of lar ge-field inflation that are capable of generating observable primordial gr avitational wave backgrounds. These fields enjoy shift-symmetries that pro tect their role as inflatons from being spoiled by coupling to unknown UV physics. This symmetry also restricts the couplings of these axion fields to other matter fields. At lowest order\, the only allowed interactions ar e derivative couplings to gauge fields and fermions. These derivative coup lings lead to the biased production of fermion and gauge-boson helicity st ates during and after inflation. I will describe some recent work on prehe ating in axion-inflation models that are derivatively coupled to Abelian g auge-fields and fermion axial-currents.\n\nFor an axion coupled to U(1) ga uge fields it is found –analytically and numerically- that preheating is efficient for a wide range of parameters. In certain cases the inflaton i s seen to transfer all its energy to the gauge fields within a few oscilla tions. In most cases\, three-dimensional lattice simulations showed that t he gauge fields on sub-horizon scales end preheating in an unpolarized sta te due to the existence of strong rescattering between the inflaton and ga uge-field modes. \n\nCoupling an axion to Majorana fermions leads to the b iased production of fermion helicity-states which can have interesting phe nomenological implications for leptogenesis.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/768 2/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7682/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The origin of Cosmic Rays: the possible role of Unidentified High Energy sources DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150922T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150922T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7693@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The riddle of the origin of Cosmic Rays is open sinc e more than one century.\nGamma ray observations above 100 MeV reveal the sites of cosmic ray acceleration and recently we got the experimental proo f of hadronic acceleration in Supernovae Remnants\, however new questions rised and no final answer has been provided so far.\nIn the last years the knowledge in this field of research widely increased\, however almost 50% of the TeV (> 10^{12} eV) Galactic sources are still unidentified\; at Ge V (> 10^9 eV) energies\, 67% of EGRET sources were unidentified and also w ith the newer generation of gamma-ray satellites we have the same result: in fact\, at low Galactic latitudes (b \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7693/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7693/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Extra-dimensional gravity: new black hole solutions from the Geome tric Deformation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151015T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151015T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7695@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7695/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7695/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inflation\, CMB and Moduli DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151020T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151020T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7672@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. A generic feature of inflationary models in supergra vity/string constructions is vacuum misalignment for the moduli fields. Th e associated production of moduli particles leads to an epoch in the post -inflationary history in which the energy density is dominated by cold mo duli particles. This modification of the post-inflationary history implies that the preferred range for the number of e-foldings between horizon exi t of the modes relevant for CMB observations and the end of inflation $(N_ k)$ depends on moduli masses. This in turn implies that the precision CMB observables $n_s$ and $r$ are sensitive to moduli masses. We analyse this sensitivity for some representative models of inflation and find the effe ct to be very relevant for confronting inflationary models with observatio ns.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7672/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7672/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:TeV gamma-ray emitting BL Lac objects: the multi-wavelength view DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151020T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151020T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7725@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission of BL Lac ob jects (a class of active galactic nuclei dominated by non-thermal emission ) gave new insights into the particle acceleration and the emission proces ses in the highly relativistic jets. In order to shed light on these proce sses\, the spectral energy distribution (SED) of sources with different ch aracteristics has been studied in details. BL Lac objects with exceptional TeV spectra\, i.e. with extreme values for the spectral index\, have been selected. In addition\, sources with different maximum energies in the SE D cover the different sub-classes of BL Lac objects. The basic aim was to study with new\, simultaneous multi-wavelength observations in the optical \, UV\, X-ray\, GeV and TeV gamma-ray regime\, if the emission processes o f these extreme cases of TeV BL Lac objects can be explained by the synchr otron Self-Compton model\, which is well established for the class of BL L ac objects at lower energies. During this study\, a clear extended non-the rmal X-ray jet in AP Librae was detected. This was surprising\, since X-ra y jets are unusual for TeV emitting BL Lac objects.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/7725/ LOCATION: URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7725/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Semi-classics\, complex saddles and path integrals DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151022T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151022T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7683@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I will discuss the use of semi-classics and instanto n calculus and argue that\, contrary to common wisdom\, complex solutions of the equations of motion are a necessary ingredient of any semi-classica l expansion. In particular\, I will show that without the complex solution s semi-classical expansion of supersymmetric theories cannot be reconciled with supersymmetry. This has a natural interpretation in the Picard-Lefsc hetz theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7683/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7683/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:TeV gamma-ray emitting BL Lac objects: the multi-wavelength view DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151023T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151023T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7724@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission of BL Lac ob jects (a class of active galactic nuclei dominated by non-thermal emission ) gave new insights into the particle acceleration and the emission proces ses in the highly relativistic jets. In order to shed light on these proce sses\, the spectral energy distribution (SED) of sources with different ch aracteristics has been studied in details. BL Lac objects with exceptional TeV spectra\, i.e. with extreme values for the spectral index\, have been selected. In addition\, sources with different maximum energies in the SE D cover the different sub-classes of BL Lac objects. The basic aim was to study with new\, simultaneous multi-wavelength observations in the optical \, UV\, X-ray\, GeV and TeV gamma-ray regime\, if the emission processes o f these extreme cases of TeV BL Lac objects can be explained by the synchr otron Self-Compton model\, which is well established for the class of BL L ac objects at lower energies. During this study\, a clear extended non-the rmal X-ray jet in AP Librae was detected. This was surprising\, since X-ra y jets are unusual for TeV emitting BL Lac objects.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/7724/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7724/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non equilibrium dynamics in non conformal plasma DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151027T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151027T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7705@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7705/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Room 204 - second floor URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7705/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Inflationary Universe of α-attractors DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151105T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151105T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7684@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. The latest Planck data provide stringent constraints on the parameters related to the inflationary dynamics. However\, many mo dels are still competing for the final say on the detailed mechanism of in flation.\n\nGuided by UV-completion arguments\, we present α-attractors: their cosmological predictions are fully determined by some geometric prop erties of the underlying supergravity theory. Strikingly\, they provide an excellent fit with the latest observational data.\n\nWe will show how thi s scenario emerges very naturally from some basic theoretical ingredients. Interestingly\, the coupling with a nilpotent sector responsible for dark energy and susy breaking will enhance the attractor nature of the theory. \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7684/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7684/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New insights into metals from holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151110T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151110T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7571@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7571/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7571/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Boostrapping the (2\,0) theories in six dimensions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151111T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151111T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7689@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7689/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7689/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Topics in the Analytic Bootstrap DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151111T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151111T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7690@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7690/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7690/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Entanglement constant for conformal families DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151117T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151117T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7586@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We show that in 1+1 dimensional conformal field theo ries\, exciting a state with a local operator increases the Renyi entangle ment entropies by a constant which is the same for every member of the con formal family. Hence\, it is an intrinsic parameter that characterizes loc al operators from the perspective of quantum entanglement. In rational con formal field theories this constant corresponds to the logarithm of the qu antum dimension of the primary operator. We provide several detailed examp les for the second Renyi entropies and a general derivation. Finally\, we discuss work in progress regarding different kinds of large-N limits of of the Renyi entropies in the context of Wess-Zumino-Witten theories.\n\n//i ndico.ictp.it/event/7586/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7586/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Towards a holographic model of quantum Hall transition DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151119T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151119T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7701@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7701/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7701/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Topological String and Spectral Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151124T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151124T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7719@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. In this talk I will discuss a conjectural duality be tween topological string theory and quantum mechanics. This correspondence provides a Fermi gas picture of topological strings which is non-perturba tive and background independent. Mathematically\, these results lead to a new family of solvable problems in spectral theory and provide a new relat ion between enumerative geometry and spectral theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ event/7719/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7719/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Instabilities in inflation: the axial coupling DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151201T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151201T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7747@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7747/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7747/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic thermo-electric transport properties and strange metal s DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151203T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151203T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7716@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Gauge/gravity duality can be used to study the trans port properties of strongly interacting systems with no quasiparticles. I will give an overview of some holographic toy models of states like this\, in which momentum is not conserved and thus the transport of energy and c harge is non-trivial. Specifically I will discuss the thermoelectric trans port properties of these toy models and their possible relations to the ph enomenology of the strange metals.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7716/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7716/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Unitary Matrix Model and Free Fermions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151210T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151210T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7752@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7752/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7752/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Moonshines\, old and new DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151215T103000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151215T120000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7721@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7721/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7721/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Galilean Hydrodynamics Through Null Reduction DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151217T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151217T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7755@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The importance of non-relativistic systems in physic s cannot be overstated. Although the universe we live in is relativistic\, at sufficiently low 'day to day' energy scales\, it is governed by non-re lativistic laws. Non-relativistic (or more precisely Galilean) physics has been a topic of interest for centuries\, and its implications have been w ell studied and tested. But in last century there has been an exponential increase in our understanding of relativistic phenomenon. Hence it is impo rtant to ask if these new exotic relativistic phenomenon (like anomalies) leave any signature on the Galilean physics. In this talk we will explore a systematic mechanism to translate relativistic theories to Galilean\, he nce allowing us to study the effect of various relativistic phenomenon on Galilean systems\, paying special attention to Galilean fluids. Rather tha n the usual 'low velocity limit' this approach is based on 'null reduction ' which maps a relativistic theory to a Galilean theory in one lower dimen sion. The talk is based on recent papers: arXiv:1405.5687\, 1505.05677\, 1 509.04718\, 1509.05777.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7755/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7755/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Topological amplitudes and N=2* in string theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160119T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160119T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7759@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7759/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7759/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:LHC Precision searches: what is being searched for? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160121T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160121T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7760@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7760/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7760/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Geometrical destabilization of heavy scalar fields during inflatio n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160126T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160126T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7763@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We show the existence of a general mechanism by whic h heavy scalar fields can be destabilized during inflation. It relies on t he fact that the effective mass of fluctuations orthogonal to the inflatio nary direction contains a contribution proportional to the curvature tenso r of the field space metric\, and that it can render the entropic fluctuat ions tachyonic. We describe a simple and rather universal setup in which a pparently benign higher-order operators trigger this instability. This phe nomenon can prematurely end inflation and have important observational con sequences\, sometimes excluding models that would otherwise perfectly fit the data. More generally\, it modifies the interpretation of cosmological constraints in terms of fundamental physics.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/776 3/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7763/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:1-loop exponentiation for large rank Wilson loops DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160202T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160202T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7779@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract: I will describe Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mi lls\, for external particles in k-rank totally symmetric representations. I will argue that for large k the perturbative resummation of diagrams is dominated by ladder diagrams and simply given by the exponential of the 1- loop result. This will be verified -for a generic family of Wilson loops- in the strong coupling limit performing a classical D-brane computation an d using the AdS/CFT correspondence. I will also comment on the extension o f this 1-loop exponentiation to other gauge theories.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ event/7779/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7779/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Superconformal theories from M5 branes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160204T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160204T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7777@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk I will discuss superconformal theories in four dimensions obtained wrapping M5 branes on a Riemann surface. I wil l first review N=2 class S theories introduced some years ago by Gaiotto a nd then describe a generalization to the N=1 case. For this class of theor ies it is possible to write down a spectral curve encoding the properties of the chiral ring and I propose a method to determine from the spectral c urve the scaling dimension of chiral operators in the SCFT. This proposal reduces to the correct prescription in the special case of N=2 theories. I will provide several consistency checks and apply this method to study so me new superconformal theories.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7777/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7777/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nouveau Naturalness DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160209T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160209T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7756@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7756/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7756/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Holography for N=1^* on S^4 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160217T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160217T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7767@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I will discuss the gravitational dual of a mass defo rmation of N=4 SYM\, called N=2* SYM\, on S^4. Using holographic technique s one can calculate the universal contribution to the corresponding free e nergy in the planar limit and at large 't Hooft coupling. The result match es the expression recently computed using supersymmetric localization in t he field theory. This agreement provides a non-trivial precision test of h olography in a non-conformal setting. I will also discuss the extension of these results to mass deformations of N=4 SYM with N=1 supersymmetry.\n\n //indico.ictp.it/event/7767/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7767/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Conformal Truncation in Three Di mensions: A new method for quantizing a 3D QFT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160217T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160217T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7768@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7768/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7768/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Physics of the $\\theta$-angle in Holographic QCD DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160218T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160218T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7757@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract: I discuss the behavior of various observables wit h the $\\theta$-angle in the holographic model closest to (planar) Yang-Mi lls theory. The results agree qualitatively with the available data from t he lattice\, providing benchmark behaviors for further corrections. I then consider the inclusion of massive quarks and derive the dependence of the free energy on $theta$.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7757/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7757/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:String-loop corrections to Einstein-Hilbert term in minimally supe rsymmetric type IIB orientifolds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160222T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160222T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7778@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract: I will discuss string one-loop contributions to E instein-Hilbert term in toroidal minimally supersymmetric type IIB orienti folds with D-branes. This study is indispensable in order to determine the quantum corrections to Kahler metric of the moduli scalars in these model s. I will describe the procedures of the calculations of the string-loop E instein Hilbert term for a general compact type IIB $Z_N$ orientifolds\, w hich is a missing gap in literature\, and illustrate the results in two co ncrete examples\, i.e. $Z_3$ and $Z_6$ models.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7 778/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7778/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Squeezing the halo bispectrum: test of bias modeling DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160301T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160301T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7805@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk I will discuss our recent work on st udying the impact of modeling of the bias on accurate prediction of the la rge scale structure bispectrum in the presence of primordial non-Gaussiani ty. I will describe our theoretical prediction for the bispectrum and the comparison with N-body simulations. We use three different prescriptions f or calculating the baises namely the biases obtained from excursion-set pe aks\, biases calculated explicitly from peak-background split and a local bias model and calculate the one-loop Lagrangian-space bispectrum in the s queezed limit using the integrated perturbation theory. Our results indica te that the scale-dependance of the quadratic and third-order bias is a cr ucial ingredient in accurate prediction of the bispectrum in the squeezed limit.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7805/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7805/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Modularity at large-N without supersymmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160303T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160303T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7758@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract: In this talk\, I will discuss the existence of ne w and surprising structures hidden within a calculable limit of four-dimen sional gauge theories. The particular limit is that of large-N gauge theor ies\, with *arbitrary* numbers of massless adjoint fermions and scalars\, placed on the compact four-manifold S3 x S1\, at weak-coupling. Surprising ly\, in this limit the high-temperature scaling of the partition functions matches that of a two-dimensional quantum field theory — additiona lly\, they have well-defined modular weight. As a corollaries have interes ting connections to conjectured level-matching between bosons and fermions in large-N QCD *unrelated* to supersymmetry\, vacuum energies\, and to mo dular forms with product representations.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7758/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7758/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On 3d Bulk Geometry of Virasoro Coadjoint Orbits DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160308T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160308T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7785@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk\, expanding upon [arXiv:1404.4472\, 1511.06079]\, we provide further detailed analysis of Banados geometries\, the most general solutions to the AdS3 gravity with Brown-Henneaux bounda ry conditions. We analyze in some detail the causal\, horizon and boundary structure\, and geodesic motion on these geometries. We elaborate further and establish the one-to-one relation between representations of two copi es of Virasoro group and Banados geometries. Virasoro group representation s fall into the Virasoro coadjoint orbits where each orbit is labelled by at most two quantum numbers (an integer and a continuous parameter) and st ates in a given orbit are specified by their charges under Virasoro genera tors L_n's. We show that local (classical) gravity probes can only measure orbit invariant quantities. Details of the Virasoro charges associated wi th each geometry is only available to semiclassical or non-local observabl es. In particular\, we also elaborate on multi-BTZ geometries which have s ome number of disconnected pieces at the horizon bifurcation curve. We stu dy multi-BTZ black hole thermodynamics and discuss that the thermodynamic quantities are orbit invariants. Our analysis sheds further light on the p icture that a (multi-)BTZ black hole at the classical gravity level is spe cified by orbit invariant quantities (mass\, angular momentum\, and number of pieces at the horizon and boundary)\, while black hole microstates may be identified with Virasoro charges within a given orbit. We also discuss implications of our analysis for a 2d CFT dual which could possibly be du al to AdS3 Einstein gravity.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7785/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7785/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Super-renormalizable models of quantum gravity and some of their I R properties DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160329T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160329T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7769@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The main difficulty of perturbative quantum gravity (QG) in 4d is the conflict between renormalizability and unitarity. The si mplest version of QG is based on General Relativity and is non-renormaliza ble. One can construct renormalizable and even superrenormalizable version s of QG by introducing higher derivatives\, but then one has to deal with the unphysical higher derivative massive ghosts. At the same time polynomi al superrenormalizable versions of QG have certain attractive features\, such as unambiguous and exactly calculable beta-functions and possible Lee -Wick type unitarity in case when all extra poles are complex. The non-pol ynomial models of QG have no ghosts at the tree level\, but taking loop co rrections into account one meets infinite amount of ghost-like complex sta tes. In the IR one can prove that the modified Newton limit in all these m odels is singularity-free. After a survey of all these issues some list of unsolved interesting problems will be discussed.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/even t/7769/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7769/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Very Best Limits on Extra-Galactic Magnetic Fields DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160331T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160331T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7818@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Rotation Measures can teach us a lot about extra- Galactic Magnetic Fields. After a brief overview of magnetic observations and magnetogenesis mechanisms in the early Universe\, I will show how to o btain the very best limits cosmological magnetic fields.\n\n//indico.ictp. it/event/7818/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7818/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic complexity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160404T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160404T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7843@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7843/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7843/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Entanglement\, geometry\, and black holes in Matrix theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160405T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160405T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7839@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.  In the context of the Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Su sskind Matrix model of M-theory\, black holes and geometry are encoded in matrix degrees of freedom. I elaborate on this map by demonstrating that t he relevant dynamics is realized through a system of qubits with a dense n etwork of interactions. Using methods from quantum information theory\, I compute the information scrambling time in Matrix black holes\; and I pres ent evidence that geometry is encoded in qubit entanglement entropy.\n\n// indico.ictp.it/event/7839/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7839/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:General Relativistic ‘Screening’ in Cosmological Simulations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160407T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160407T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7814@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The analysis and interpretation of large cosmolog ical surveys increasingly relies on the use of large volume simulations of collisionless dynamics. Since these simulations routinely use Newtonian e quations\, one must be careful in interpreting their output\, particularly when considering statistics on length scales comparable to the Hubble rad ius where general relativistic (GR) effects are expected to become importa nt. This is potentially relevant for future surveys such as the SKA or LSS T which will be able to access these scales observationally. The standard solution to the problem involves a clever use of gauge degrees of freedom in GR to map the variables evolved by standard Newtonian simulations to va riables in multiple gauges in GR. We will discuss an alternate approach to this problem in which the Poisson equation for the gravitational potentia l is replaced with a Helmholtz equation\, using a simple but accurate appr oximation valid in the so-called conformal Newtonian gauge. This Helmholtz equation — which\, like the Poisson equation\, is fully nonlinear in th e density fluctuations — contains a ‘screening’ scale whose value is determined by the expansion of the Universe and the linear growth of stru cture. Length scales smaller than the screening scale evolve according to Newtonian dynamics\, while larger scales pick up relativistic corrections that accurately reproduce known results from perturbation theory in the Ne wtonian gauge. This approach provides a clear physical understanding of ho w the expansion of the Universe ‘screens’ small scales from the gauge- dependent power at large scales through a criterion closely resembling tha t of Jeans stability. In particular\, our analysis provides a natural reso lution to the ‘Jeans swindle’ problem in the presence of super-horizon fluctuations. Finally\, the simplicity of our modification (Poisson to He lmholtz) also leads to an accurate post-processing prescription to convert the outputs of standard simulations into the correctly screened relativis tic outputs in the Newtonian gauge. We will discuss how our results might be applied in studying the large scale clustering of biased tracers of mat ter\, as well as extended to the case of multiple fluids. Reference: Hahn & Paranjape\, arXiv:1602.07699\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7814/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7814/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic reconstruction of Einstein spaces DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160412T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160412T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7780@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7780/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7780/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BMS-like soldering across horizons DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160414T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160414T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7806@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7806/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7806/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An exact result for vacuum decay DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160419T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160419T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7832@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Pair production is ubiquitous in quantum field th eory coupled to a background. One way to account for pair production is by computing the overlap\, between the states with no particles in the past and in the future. This vacuum decay rate appears first in the work of Sch winger\, on pair production in an electric field. It was later generalized to curved spacetimes\, notably de Sitter space and black hole geometries. Most of the results available in the literature rely on the symmetry of t he background to which the quanta are coupled. I will show that\, for two dimensional conformal field theories coupled to an arbitrary background pr ofile\, there is a formal exact result for the vacuum decay rate. This vac uum decay rate is a generalization of a result in dissipative quantum mech anics\, due to Caldeira and Leggett.\n Based on: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512 .06721 with A. Polyakov and G. Tarnopolsky\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7832/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7832/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Axion Inflation with an SU(2) Gauge Field: Detectable Chiral Gravi ty Waves DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160422T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160422T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7792@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk\, I will talk about a single field a xion inflation model in the presence of an SU(2) gauge field with a small vev. The gauge field is coupled to the axion with a Chern-Simons interacti on and has a negligible effect on the background evolution. However\, its quantum fluctuations make a significant contribution to the cosmic perturb ation. In particular\, the gauge field has a spin-2 fluctuation which expl icitly breaks the parity between the left- and right-handed polarization s tates. The chiral tensor modes are linearly coupled to the gravitational w aves and generates a circularly polarized tensor power spectrum compatible with the unpolarized vacuum fluctuations. Moreover\, the scalar sector is modified by the linear scalar fluctuations of the gauge field. Since the spin-0 and spin-2 fluctuations of the SU(2) gauge field are independent\, the gauge field can\, at the same time\, generate a detectable chiral grav itational wave signal and have a negligible contribution to the scalar flu ctuations\, in agreement with the current CMB observations.\n\n//indico.ic tp.it/event/7792/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7792/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Astrophysical signatures of axions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160426T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160426T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7823@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7823/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7823/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP Mini Workshop on COSMOLOGY DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160428T080000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160428T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7861@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:10:00 - 11:00 Yacine ALI-HAIMOUD (Johns Hopkins University)\nU nusual Phenomenology of Dark Matter\n11:30 - 12:30 Tobias BALDAUF (IAS\, P rinceton)\nLarge Scale Structure Statistics for Precision Cosmology\n14:00 - 15:00 Mehrdad MIRBABAYI (IAS\, Princeton)\nWeinberg Soft Theorems from Weinberg Adiabatic Modes\n15:30 - 16:30 David PIRTSKHALAVA (ITPP\, Lausann e)\nEffective Field Theories for Cosmology\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7861/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7861/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Aspects of string phenomenology and scale hierarchies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160505T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160505T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7793@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7793/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7793/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:How (not) to use simplified models to search for dark matter at th e LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160517T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160517T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7812@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I will discuss the motivation\, the advantages an d the problems of using simplified models as a tool to interpret LHC searc hes for dark matter. I will present a few examples for how this approach c an be used to understand the complementarity of different dark matter sear ch strategies. Finally\, I will focus on various consistency conditions th at should be imposed even on the most simplified models. These conditions can imply the presence of additional new particles and interactions that m ay change the phenomenology of the model in important ways.\n\n//indico.ic tp.it/event/7812/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7812/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The information paradox revisited: Soft Hair on Black Holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160518T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160518T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7871@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7871/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7871/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmic Acceleration from Modified Gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160519T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160519T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7828@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7828/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7828/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Single-field Inflationary Models in Supergravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160525T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160525T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7810@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. After reviewing the well known fact that bosonic "Starobinsky" R+ f(R) models of inflation are equivalent to standard singl e-scalar slow-roll theories\, we show how to embed R+f(R) models in superg ravity\, in an efficient way\, using supergravity's "new minimal" formulat ion. We also discuss how supergravity can improve the naturalness of such models and conclude presenting a rather general class of R + f(R) models c oupled to matter.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7810/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7810/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Sgoldstino-less models of broken supergravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160525T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160525T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7811@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7811/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7811/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AdS/CFT Challenge IV: N=2 topologicallly twisted partition functio n on S^1\\times H_2 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160530T083000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160530T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7885@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7885/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Bldg. / Bar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7885/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AdS/CFT Challenge IV: Multiplet recombination in Conformal Field T heories and Holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160530T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160530T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7886@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7886/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Bldg. / Bar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7886/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AdS/CFT Challenge IV: Seiberg—Witten theory as a Fermi gas DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160531T083000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160531T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7887@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7887/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Bldg. / Bar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7887/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AdS/CFT Challenge IV: Toward Precision Holography with Wilson Loop s DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160531T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160531T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7888@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7888/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7888/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Abelianization\, BPS states\, and mock modularity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160607T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160607T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7874@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7874/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7874/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Searching for Primordial Gravitational Waves with B-mode polarizat ion: the BICEP program and beyond DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160610T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160610T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7896@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7896/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7896/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Yang-Mills Theory in Two Dimensions: One More Visit DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160614T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160614T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7856@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7856/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7856/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Large Volume Scenario with Higher Derivative Terms and Fibre I nflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160616T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160616T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7884@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n Abstract. We discuss constraints on the internal volume size in type IIB string theory in the Large Volume Scenario\, in the pres ence of various uplift terms. We then show how all the Kaehler moduli in type IIB string theory compactifications on generic Swiss Cheese type C alabi-Yau spaces may be stabilized by taking into account the F4 correctio ns to the potential recently discussed by Ciupke et al. The argument works for either sign of the Euler character. This extends the validity of LVS phenomenology well beyond the original framework. Finally we show how theo retically and observationally viable Fibre Inflation models can be obtai ned by including also one-loop string contributions.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/7884/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7884/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The seven-fifty the graviton\, the Higgs a pNGB DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160628T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160628T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7903@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We analyze the phenomenology of the 750 GeV dipho ton resonance in the framework of a warped/composite simplified model.  We consider the resonance to be a graviton\, and the Higgs to be a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone-Boson\, which suppresses the problematic decay channels i n a natural way and without tuning.  Our model states a clear predictio n between the $ZZ$\, $Z\\gamma$ and $HH$ channels.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/eve nt/7903/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7903/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Looking for exotic features in cosmological stochastic fields DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160811T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160811T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7936@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.  Complexity is ubiquitous behavior in the nature . In cosmology\, especially due to the initial conditions mainly and mostl y because of other relevant phenomena such as foreground effects\, stochas ticity in contrast to deterministic behavior are emerged.  Mentioned prop erty is widely experienced in cosmological fields in 1\, 2 and 3 dimension s.  In principle the probabilistic frame work according to statistical po ints of view\, enables to introduce the robust method not only in data ana lysis but also in preparing reliable strategies to predict the evolution a nd for characterization of underlying processes.  In this talk\, I will r ely on stochasticity nature of cosmological fields in various dimensions\, and attempt to set up cross-correlation of some geometrical features like local extrema and up-crossing.  I will show that mentioned statistics ar e able to find exotic features hidden in the underlying field and to discr iminate between them.  As an example I will focus on 2+1D CMB field and l ook for non-Gaussianity and cosmic strings networks.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/e vent/7936/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7936/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Scale Invariant Helical Primordial Magnetic Fields and the Duratio n of Inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160816T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160816T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7939@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.  In this talk I will discuss the results of our recent numerical simulations (Brandenburg & Kahniashvili 2016) of decaying hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. The classification of  our time-dependent solutions by their evolutionary tracks (in parametric p lots between instantaneous scaling exponents) will be presented. As an app lication of our results to cosmology\, I will discuss the evolution of pri mordial magnetic fields since its generation. In particular\, I will addre ss the inflationary magnetogenesis\, that implies the scale invariant magn etic field generation. I will show that if the helical inflationary magnet ic fields are present in the universe\, the measurement of the helicity of such fields can be used to determine the beginning of inflation\, while t he upper bounds from the observational data an be used to derive constrain ts on the minimal duration of inflation.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7939/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7939/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spacetime from Hilbert Space DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160901T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160901T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-7945@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.  There has been recent interest in identifying e ntanglement as the fundamental concept from which space may emerge. We not e that the particular way that a Hilbert space is decomposed into tensor f actors is important in what the resulting geometry looks like.  We then p ropose that time may be regarded as a variable that parameterizes a family of such decompositions\, thus giving rise to a family of spatial geometri es.  As a proof of concept\, this idea is demonstrated in two toy models which feature a dynamical change of dimension and topology.\n\n//indico.ic tp.it/event/7945/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7945/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inflation with dissipation and metastability DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160913T144000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160913T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8013@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.  We analyze two models in which primordial infla tion has non-standard features.  In the first model we study the evolutio n of a system in which the inflaton is slowed down by dissipation of energ y into gauge bosons instead of the usual Hubble friction: in particular we study the conditions of the onset of such a scenario from a static field configuration and we briefly mention some difficulties of the treatment of perturbations.  In the second model we consider the case of a metastable vacuum which sources exponential inflation and we show that the presence of scalar-tensor gravity can induce a power-law expansion which allows suc cessful tunneling.  We also analyze the case in which such a metastable v acuum might be in the Standard Model Higgs potential.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ event/8013/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8013/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mellin Amplitudes in Perturbative Conformal Field Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160926T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160926T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8022@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract:  We explore the Mellin representation of correla tion functions in conformal field theories in the weak coupling regime.  We consider the Mellin amplitude for a general tree level Feynman diagram involving only scalar fields and find a factorised form involving beta fun ctions associated to the propagators\, similar to tree level Feynman rules in momentum space for ordinary QFTs.  We discuss the extension to loop l evel and\, time permitting\, briefly comment on the Mellin representation in non-conformal settings. [based on http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07334 (with A. Rudra\, S. Sarkar and M. Verma)]\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8022/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo building - Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8022/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Causality Constraints on Massive Gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160927T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160927T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8016@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.  We constrain dRGT massive gravity by a causalit y analysis\, which eliminates one of its parameters.  First\, we demonstr ate that the theory admits a class of exact vacuum solutions: pp-wave spac etimes with a null Killing vector.  Linear fluctuations on these backgrou nds do obey the necessary constraints as expected.  However\, the longitu dinal modes generically undergo a measurable time advance upon crossing\, for example\, a "sandwich wave" of compact support.  Taking place well wi thin the validity regime of the effective theory\, this potentially leads to closed time-like curves.  Our results corroborate the fact that the ab sence of unphysical modes is not a sufficient consistency condition.  The remedy is to fix a parameter of the theory to a value that rules out the minimal model and\, when combined with other constrains derived from unita rity and analyticity of scattering amplitudes\, leaves room only for a tin y line segment in the parameter space.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8016/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8016/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Whither Colliders: after the LHC 8 TeV? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161003T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161003T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8029@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract:  With the success of the LHC in finding the Higg s boson and the failure to find any evidence for new physics so far\, it i s very important to take stock of where the field of collider physics goes from here.  I will try to outline the physics programs that are indicate d by the current physics situation and summarise the physics potential and time scales of the various collider projects that are under discussion.\n \n//indico.ictp.it/event/8029/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8029/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Associated production of the Higgs with a top-anti-top pair  and CP property of the Higgs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161013T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161013T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8031@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.  We will discuss associated production of the Hi ggs with top-anti-top pair\, with an emphasis on the effect of the CP prop erty of the Higgs.  We will discuss dependency of total cross-sections an d kinematic distributions on he CP (mixing)  of the Higgs\, as well con struction of  CP violating observables.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8031/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Builiding - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8031/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New Advances in Heterotic Moduli DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161018T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161018T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8020@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract:  I will discuss recent advances in addressing th e heterotic moduli problem in six and seven dimensional compactifications.   To map out the reduction to a lower dimensional effective theory\, and in a quest to complete our understanding of the generically torsional geom etries that appear\, it is important to understand the moduli of these geo metries.  I will briefly review the infinitesimal moduli space in six dim ensions\, and comment on some recent advances in understanding its geometr ic properties.  I will then explain how a similar story is emerging in se ven dimensional compactifications on more exotic manifolds with G2-structu re\, giving hope that similar tools can be applied in other areas of strin g theory to understand moduli.  If time\, I will comment on some recent a dvances is studying finite deformations and obstructions of the moduli spa ce.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8020/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8020/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Conformal Bootstrap Program in 4D DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161020T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161020T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8047@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract:  I will briefly introduce the idea behind the co nformal bootstrap\, a program aiming - in it's most ambitious form - to cl assify conformal field theories (CFTs) in $d>2$. For the case of $d=4$\, i t recently became possible to consider CFTs with fermions\, after the calc ulations of the relevant "Conformal Blocks" in arXiv:1601.05325.  As an a pplication I will consider the bootstrap equations of 2 scalars and 2 ferm ions.  Solving these equations\, in a particular limit\, constrains the s caling dimensions of the large spin sector of the CFT.\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/8047/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8047/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminar: How to succeed at holographic cor relators without really trying DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161026T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161026T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8033@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8033/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8033/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminar: How macroscopic black holes teach us about microscopic quantum gravity. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161026T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161026T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8034@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Modular symmetry: assembled and broken\n\n//indico.ictp.it/eve nt/8034/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8034/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gravitational Waves from Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161103T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161103T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8028@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Twenty years ago\, we predicted that primordial b lack holes would form via the gravitational collapse of matter associated with peaks in the spectrum of fluctuations\, and that they could constitut e all of the dark matter today. More recently\, we predicted the mass dist ribution of PBH\, which peaks at 50 Msun and whose tails could be responsi ble for the seeds of galaxies. LIGO has recently detected gravitational wa ves from the inspiraling of two 30 Msun black holes. We propose that LIGO has actually detected dark matter in the form of PBH\, and predict that wi thin 10 years\, an array of GW detectors (i.e. LIGO\, VIRGO\, KAGRA\, LIGO -India\, etc.) could be used to determine the mass and spin distribution o f PBH dark matter with 10% accuracy.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8028/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo building - Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8028/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Integrable bootstrap in AdS/CFT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161108T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161108T173000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8021@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Integrable models are a class of quantum and clas sical theories that possess rich symmetries which constrain their dynamics \, often leading to their exact solution. Such models also appeared in AdS /CFT\, and allowed e.g. to study the spectrum of non-protected operators i n planar N=4 super Yang-Mills with stunning precision and efficiency.\n In deed in recent years integrability manifested itself in several AdS/CFT du al pairs\, and could be exploited in the computation of a rich set of obse rvables through the bootstrap of appropriate algebraic objects\, such as t he S-matrix or certain form factors. I would like to outline this integrab le bootstrap approach and advocate the opportunity of systematically apply ing it to a large class of obervables and AdS/CFT duals.\n In my talk I wi ll work out a relatively simple example: the computation of the spectrum o f AdS3xS3xT4 and AdS3xS3xS3xS1 superstrings in the planar limit. This saw remarkable progress in recent years and is interesting in itself\, as thes e backgrounds are related to the D1-D5 system\, to CFT2s with N=(4\,4) sup er-conformal symmetry\, and in a certain limit to higher-spin theories. I will then discuss how the approach used there can be adapted to other back grounds and observables such as three-point functions and one-point functi ons in presence of defects.\n I will conclude by presenting a rich list of open problems that are within our grasp by integrable bootstrap technique s.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8021/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8021/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The black hole information paradox and physics behind the horizon DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161110T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161110T173000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8039@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. General relativity predicts that space-time near the horizon of a large black hole is smooth. On the contrary\, the require ment that information is preserved during Hawking evaporation\, suggests t hat quantum effects in gravity may dramatically modify the interior of a b lack hole\, not only at the singularity but all the way to the horizon. I will present a proposal\, inspired by the AdS/CFT correspondence\, which c ould potentially reconcile the smoothness of the horizon with the recovery of information during black hole evaporation.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8 039/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8039/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Heterotic-Type IIA duality and K3 fibrations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161115T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161115T173000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8041@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We study the duality between four-dimensional N=2 compactifications of heterotic and type IIA string theories. Via adiabati c fibration of the duality in six dimensions\, type IIA string theory comp actified on a K3-fibred Calabi-Yau threefold has a potential heterotic dua l compactification. This adiabatic picture fails whenever the K3 fibre deg enerates into multiple components over points in the base of the fibration . Guided by monodromy\, we identify such degenerate K3 fibres as solitons generalizing the NS5-brane in heterotic string theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/8041/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Builiding - Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8041/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Infrared effects in de Sitter spacetime: nonperturbative treatment of secular terms DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161117T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161117T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8064@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The study of interacting quantum fields in de Sit ter geometry reveals peculiarities that are of conceptual and phenomenolog ical interest. In this geometry\, the exponential expansion of the metric produces an effective growth in the self-interaction of light fields\, bre aking down the standard perturbative expansion. Furthermore\, in the massl ess limit the free propagators do not respect the symmetries of the classi cal theory\, and neither do they decay at large distances. One way to avoi d the problems of the standard perturbative calculations is to go to Eucli dean de Sitter space\, where the zero mode responsible for IR divergences can be treated exactly\, giving an effective coupling $\\sqrt{\\lambda}$ f or the perturbative corrections coming from the nonzero modes. The Lorentz ian counterpart is then obtained by analytical continuation. However\, we point out that a further partial resummation of the leading secular terms (which necessarily involves nonzero modes) is required to obtain a decay o f the two-point functions at large distances for massless fields. We imple ment this resummation along with a systematic double expansion in $\\sqrt{ \\lambda}$ and in $1/N$ in the $O(N)$ model. Finally\, we discuss how thes e results compare with those known in the leading infrared approximation\, obtained directly in Lorentzian de Sitter spacetime.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ event/8064/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8064/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Entanglement thermodynamic laws and perturbative corrections for D p-branes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161122T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161122T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8072@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We shall study the effect of charge excitations i n the AdS spacetime on the first law of entanglement thermodynamics. It is found that boosted AdS black holes give rise to a more general form of fi rst law which includes  charge density. To obtain this result we resort t o a second order perturbative calculation of entanglement entropy for smal l size subsystems. At first order the form of entanglement law remains unc hanged even in the presence of charges. But the thermodynamic quantities h ave to be appropriately redefined at the second order. We work in the pert urbative regime where T_{thermal} << T_E.\n \n  \n \n\n\n//indico.ictp .it/event/8072/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8072/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black Holes and Random Matrices DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161124T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161124T173000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8019@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Maldacena suggested that the late-time behavior o f the correlation functions can diagnose the discrete energy spectrum of t he black hole microstates. In order to determine such long-time property i n the quantum field theories dual to black holes\, we consider the Sachdev -Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model as an ideal toy model. We study the correlation fun ctions and the spectral form factor\, which is essentially the analytic co ntinuation of the thermal partition function to the Minkowski time\, and n umerically demonstrate that the long-time behavior of the spectral form fa ctor of the SYK model is reproduced by the Random Matrix Theory (RMT). We argue that super Yang-Mills theory would exhibit the same property\, and c omment on possible implications to quantum gravity.\n This talk is based o n a recent paper arXiv: 1611.04650 [hep-th]\, with J. Cotler\, G. Gur-Ari\ , J. Polchinski\, P. Saad\, S. Shenker\, D. Stanford\, A. Streicher and M. Tezuka.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8019/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8019/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New Forms of Entanglement and Holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161201T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161201T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8094@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8094/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8094/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Symmetry Constraints in Inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161206T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161206T173000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8048@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract: Cosmological inflation gives rise to the homogene ous and isotropic universe we observe today\, as well as generates quantum perturbations which lead to CMB anisotropies and the formation of large s cale structure. The geometry of the universe during inflation is approxima tely de Sitter space. We will discuss the interesting constraints imposed on the correlation functions of inflationary perturbations by the underlyi ng spatial reparametrization invariance of the theory in single field mode ls of inflation. The constraints are in the form of Ward identities for sc aling and special conformal transformations\, which are isometries of de S itter space. We will discuss the implications of these constraints for the scalar three point function. We will also study the constraints when the possibility for the universe to have started from a non Bunch-Davies vacuu m state\, in particular the de Sitter invariant alpha-vacua states\, is co nsidered.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8048/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8048/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Explicit global constructions for Fibre inflation Models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161208T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161208T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8095@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Fibre inflation model\, proposed in the framework of LARGE volume scenarios\, is one of most attractive inflationary models in which not only the moduli stabilization studies are fairly established but also one has a good control over the (un-)known sub-leading correctio ns to trust the EFT description. In this talk\, I will present some explic it Calabi Yau orientifold examples which could be minimally sufficient for the global embedding of Fibre inflationary potential. The main idea is to find suitable K3-fibred Calabi Yau threefolds\, and then choose orientifo ld involutions such that the tadpole/anomaly cancellations conditions coul d be satisfied\, and the desired form of string-loop corrections to the Ka ehler potential as well as the non-perturbative corrections to the superpo tential are ensured to get generated. Subsequently\, the final task is to perform the numerical analysis for fitting the inflationary observables\, and to check for the overall control\, e.g. to ensure that the higher deri vative contributions do not spoil the inflationary dynamics.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/8095/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8095/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fundamental Unknowns in Neutrino Oscillation and their Future DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161213T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161213T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8084@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract:  Neutrino flavor oscillation implies that neutri nos have mass and they mix with each other\, providing an evidence for phy sics beyond the Standard Model.  The most recent development in this fiel d is the discovery of the smallest lepton mixing angle theta13.  This sig nifies an important breakthrough in validating the standard three-flavor o scillation picture of neutrinos.  First\, I will briefly discuss the thre e-flavor neutrino oscillation\, and identify the fundamental oscillation p arameters which govern this phenomenon.  Then\, I will review the present knowledge about these parameters\, and list the remaining fundamental iss ues which need to be addressed in current and future neutrino oscillation experiments.  Next\, I will elucidate the role of currently running and f uture long-baseline experiments in resolving these unsolved issues.  I wi ll also mention about the upcoming India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) facility whose aim is to explore the Earth's matter effect by observing th e energy and zenith angle dependence of the atmospheric neutrinos in the m ulti-GeV range.  Finally\, I will describe how this experiment is going t o play an important role to address some of the outstanding issues in neut rino oscillation physics.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8084/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8084/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminar: Entanglement and the Dynamics of Shape DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161214T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161214T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8061@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8061/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8061/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminar: Proof of a/c bounds and the avera ged null energy condition DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161214T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161214T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8062@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8062/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8062/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Stellar cooling bounds on new light particles: including plasma ef fects DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161215T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161215T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8100@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Strong constraints on the coupling of new light p articles to the Standard Model (SM) arise from their production in the hot cores of stars\, and the effects of this on stellar cooling. The large el ectron density in stellar cores significantly modifies the in-medium propa gation of SM states. I will show that for new light particles which have a n effective in-medium mixing with the photon\, such plasma effects can res ult in parametrically different production rates to those obtained from a naive calculation. Taking these previously-neglected contributions into ac count\, I will give updated estimates for the stellar cooling bounds on a number of light new particle candidates. In particular\, the bounds on lig ht (m < keV) scalars coupling to electrons or nucleons are strengthened by 3 orders of magnitude\, supernova cooling bounds on dark photon couplings are significantly revised\, and the mass dependence of stellar bounds on new vectors are qualitatively changed.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8100/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8100/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An effective field theory approach to superradiance DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161220T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161220T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8107@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.  Superradiance is a phenomenon by which a dissip ative spinning object looses angular momentum by amplifying the intensity of scattered radiation\, or by producing particles in a bound state. Black hole superradiance\, in particular\, has received significant attention i n the last few years\, as it could provide a way of testing indirectly the existence of ultralight particles beyond the Standard Model. In this talk \, I will discuss a simple and modern approach of superradiance based on e ffective field theory techniques. This approach is valid at scales much la rger than the size of the spinning object\, and it applies not only to bla ck holes but to any dissipative object. Along the way\, I will also provid e a simple derivation of vacuum friction derivation of vacuum friction---a "quantum torque" that acts on spinning objects in empty space. If time wi ll allow it\, I will also comment on the relation between superradiance an d tidal dynamics in the Newtonian limit.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8107/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8107/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Super-Planckian Field Variations and Quantum Gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170125T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170125T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8128@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8128/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8128/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: All Vacua Must Decay DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170125T141500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170125T151500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8129@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8129/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8129/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ttbb and ttttt as probe of NP at the LHC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170216T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170216T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8152@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract: With the last energy & luminosity upgrade at the LHC\, relevant results on tttt and ttbb are becoming available at the LHC for the first time. We'll analyze available results - which have moderate excesses - and discuss on possible paths to follow in order to seek for po ssible NP that couples mainly to third generation of quarks.  We identify in parameter space the relevant and yet unexplored regions.  We propose a new kinematic observable for resonance search and study the phenomenolog ical natural units as a shortcut to understand and discuss the most sensit ive channels to a given model.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8152/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8152/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AGT correspondence and semiclassical limit of conformal blocks DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170328T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170328T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8202@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We study light asymptotic limit of conformal bloc ks in two-dimensional Liouville and Toda conformal field theories. Using A GT correspondence we obtain elegant expressions for the light asymptotic l imit of certain class of conformal blocks. We show that for certain class of conformal blocks the corresponding Nekrasov functions in this limit are simplified drastically being represented as a sum of a restricted class o f Young tableaux.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8202/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8202/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Protected couplings and BPS black holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170330T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170330T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8153@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. After compactification on a thermal circle\, BPS black holes in dimension $D$ yield BPS instantons in dimension $D-1$. Thus \, BPS saturated couplings in the low energy effective action in dimensi on $D-1$ conveniently encode BPS black hole degeneracies. I will demonstra te this connection in the case of $R^4$ and $\\nabla^4 R^4$ couplings in s tring vacua with 32 supercharges\, and $F^4\, \\nabla^2 F^4$ couplings in string vacua with 16 supercharges\, all of which can be deternined exactly using constraints from U-duality and supersymmetry. In particular\, the $ \\nabla^2 F^4$ couplings provide a new point of view on the celebrated DVV formula counting BPS dyons in $D=4$.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8153/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8153/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MeV scale interactions of neutrinos DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170403T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170403T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8191@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8191/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8191/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Modular solutions to 6d SCFTs and generalised blowup equations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170404T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170404T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8134@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8134/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8134/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Horizon Fluffs: A proposal for black hole quantum microstates DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170406T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170406T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8175@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. It is now an established fact that black holes be have as thermodynamical systems with a blackbody radiation\, the Hawking r adiation. Appearance of gravitational arrow of time (from gravitational co llapse and formation of black hole to its evaporation due to Hawking radia tion) and restoration of unitarity of black hole dynamics\, as in any ther modynamical system\, may be attributed to presence of an underlying micros copic statistical mechanical system. These microscopic degrees of freedom are usually called black hole microstates. Identifying the black hole micr ostates and counting them to get the black hole entropy\, despite the prog ress in some very special cases\, has remained a big challenge in theoreti cal high energy physics. In this talk I present the proposal we recently m ade for identification of certain three dimensional black hole microstates \, the horizon fluffs proposal\, and discuss how it may be extended to mor e realistic rotating Kerr black holes.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8175/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8175/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Elliptic Genus of Squashed Toric Sigma Models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170411T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170411T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8139@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I will discuss a class of two-dimensional N = (2\ , 2) Gauged Linear Sigma Models (GLSM) called squashed toric sigma models. These models are deformations of toric GLSMs obtained by gauging the favo r symmetries and introducing a set of corresponding compensator super fiel ds. I will then talk about the elliptic genus of these models\, using loca lization technique\, in the case when the unsquashed vacuum manifolds obey the Calabi-Yau condition. I will also discuss the modular and elliptic pr operties of the elliptic genera of these models.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event /8139/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8139/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Binary Pulsars as Resonant Detectors of Ultra-Light Dark Matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170413T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170413T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8183@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Dark matter (DM) could consist of very light boso ns or axion-like particles which can be basically described as a classical scalar field that experience oscillations. The presence of the DM field c an lead to observable effects on the dynamics of ordinary matter\, either because the DM stress tensor modifies the spacetime metric\, or if the DM is directly coupled to the Standard Model. In this talk I will summarise r ecent work where the exquisite precision of measurements of orbital parame ters of binary pulsars is exploited to constrain the effects.\n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/8183/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8183/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Heavier and darker: spin-2 dark matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170418T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170418T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8203@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The ghost-free massive spin-2 field of bigravity turns out to be a very perfect Dark Matter candidate. I will review the th eoretical foundations of bigravity\, and outline the qualities and phenome nology of spin-2 gravitational dark matter.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8203 / LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8203/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:How Robust is Inflation to Inhomogenous Initial Conditions? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170420T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170420T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8204@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Inflation solved the cosmic homogeneity problem. But does Inflation itself require a homogenous patch to begin? We investig ate this problem in full 3+1 numerical relativity. We show that while larg e field inflation is very robust to inhomogeneities\, small field inflatio n fails in the presence of sub-dominant gradients. We also show that\, for large field inflation\, attempts to stop inflation by forming a black hol e spacetime will fail as long as the initial hyperslice is roughly flat.\n \n//indico.ictp.it/event/8204/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8204/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: New TFT / CFT Relations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170426T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170426T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8164@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8164/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8164/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: The physics of supersymmetry-bre aking branes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170426T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170426T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8165@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8165/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8165/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gaugino Condensation and Holomorphic BF Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170504T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170504T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8221@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.\n \n \n \n Pure N = 1 supersymmetric ga uge theory with a simple gauge group G is widely believed to have h^{\\vee } massive vacua\, where   h^{\\vee} is the dual Coxeter number of the Lie algebra corresponding to G.  The vacua are distinguished by the phase of the gaugino condensate.  The appearance of the dual Coxeter number is a hint of the role of affine Lie algebras.  A holomorphic twist of pure N = 1 gauge theory is known to be equivalent to holomorphic BF theory.  It i s natural to wonder if the perturbative physics of holomorphic BF theory h as any relation to the non-perturbative dynamics of the full physical theo ry.  We study the classical spectrum of local observables in holomorphic BF theory and find that an index constructed out of the local operators ca n be expressed in terms of the orbits of an affine Weyl group correspondin g to G.  The index can also be expressed as quotients of Dedekind's \\eta -function and in the case of E_8 is intricately connected with Monstrous M oonshine.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n \n\n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/8221/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8221/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Higher-form symmetries and locality in AdS/CFT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170509T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170509T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8179@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8179/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8179/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Power of Series DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170511T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170511T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8213@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8213/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8213/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non-Geometric Heterotic Compactifications from Geometric F-Theory Vacua DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170515T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170515T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8230@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Using the duality between heterotic string theo ry and F-theory\, we study the effect of quantum corrections for torus fi bred heterotic compactifications away from the stable degeneration limit . We will show that almost every elliptic heterotic compactification be comes a non-geometric T-fold away from the stable degeneration limit.\n\n/ /indico.ictp.it/event/8230/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8230/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure beyond localit y DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170518T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170518T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8210@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8210/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8210/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flows\, Fixed Points and Dualities for Chern Simons Matter Theorie s DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170519T120000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170519T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8185@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8185/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8185/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Moduli Spaces of 6d N=(1\,0) Theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170523T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170523T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8151@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. This talk focuses on vacuum moduli spaces of 6d N =(1\,0) field theories that have a superconformal fixed point at infinite coupling. Such theories admit an effective description in terms of a quive r diagram\, which can be realised using Type IIA string theory or F-theory at finite coupling. We show that several pieces of information about the hypermultiplet moduli space\, also known as the Higgs branch\, of the supe rconformal field theory (SCFT) at infinite coupling are drastically differ ent from those obtained naively from the quiver at finite coupling. Howeve r\, using a torus compactification to lower dimensional field theories as a tool\, we show how one can extract the information about the Higgs branc h of the SCFT at infinite coupling from the finite coupling description. T his provides several insights into the physics at infinite coupling of six dimensional field theories.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8151/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8151/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Productive interactions: heavy particles\, gravitational waves and non-Gaussianity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170525T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170525T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8233@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I discuss the phenomenology of models of inflatio n with periodic particle production. Particle production occurs as the mas s of heavy particles goes through non-adiabatic modulations as the inflato n field rolls. I show that this process can lead to significant emission o f scalar and gravitational waves during inflation\, with distinct observat ional signatures.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8233/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8233/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Anomalies and Conformal Manifolds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T120000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8238@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8238/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8238/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:String Theory Journal Club: Infrared Divergences in QCD Revisited DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170529T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170529T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8239@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this journal club I will attempt\, with consid erable help from the audience\, to review the recent paper by Kapec\, Perr y\, Raclariu and Strominger\, with the title quoted above.\n\n//indico.ict p.it/event/8239/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Bldg. - Discussion area BAR URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8239/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Contemporary Relaxation of the Cosmological Constant DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170530T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170530T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8192@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I will present a new mechanism to relax the Cosmo logical Constant (CC)\, that is\, to dynamically reduce the CC from an ini tially large value to a small final one. The mechanism is present provided boost invariance is 'slightly' broken\, and the initial CC is negative. A n interesting feature of this mechanism is that the relaxation operates du ring the standard Big Bang cosmology. I will present the basic idea and di scuss the constraints arising from observational bounds and from naturalne ss.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8192/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8192/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Power of Series - Part II DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170531T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170531T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8234@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8234/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8234/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Soft graviton theorem in generic quantum theory of gravity - Part I DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170613T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170613T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8249@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8249/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8249/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Soft graviton theorem in generic quantum theory of gravity - Part II DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170615T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170615T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8250@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8250/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8250/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Supersymmetric indices\, partiti on functions\, and the topological A-twist DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170620T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170620T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8235@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8235/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8235/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: The infrared physics of bad theo ries DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170620T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170620T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8236@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8236/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8236/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non-Gaussianity as a Particle Detector DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170627T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170627T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8219@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Cosmological correlation functions encode the spe ctrum of particles during inflation\, in analogy to scattering amplitudes in colliders. In this talk\, I will discuss the imprints of massive partic les with arbitrary spin on cosmological correlators. The spinning case is particularly interesting because the detection of massive higher-spin part icles would be indicative of a stringy origin of inflation. I will describ e their key spectroscopic features in the scalar and tensor bispectra\, an d discuss scenarios in which they lead to observable non-Gaussianity.\n\n/ /indico.ictp.it/event/8219/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8219/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Anomaly-induced effective action of gravity and its most importan t applications DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170711T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170711T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8215@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The effective action of gravity is supposed to co ntains the main information about quantum corrections to gravity. However\ , in many cases it can not be calculated exactly. A remarkable and importa nt exception is the effective action of vacuum for massless and conformal- invariant matter fields. In this case the effective action can be easily d erived by integrating trace anomaly. The integration constant is an unknow n conformal functional of the background metric\, but for zero-order cosmo logy this functional is irrelevant and the solution becomes exact. Until r ecently the integrated anomaly was known only in dimensions d=2 and d=4\, but recently we achieved the explicit result for d=6\, which confirms the universal functional structure of the effective action. The most important applications in d=4 include systematic classification of vacuum states in the vicinity of the black hole and the Starobinsky model of inflation. In the seminar I will give a non-technical introduction to the subject and a lso discuss the recent works on the transition from stable to unstable (St arobinsky model) branches of anomaly-induced inflation.\n\n//indico.ictp.i t/event/8215/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8215/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Assembling the Universe DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170713T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170713T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8273@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Contemporary cosmological observations provide st rong support for a 'standard model' of general relativistic cosmology whos e constituents - radiation\, baryons\, dark matter and a cosmological cons tant - have now been measured with unprecedented precision. Understanding the formation of structure in such a universe\, however\, with tiny initia l density fluctuations evolving into a complex Cosmic Web of dark matter\, galaxies and gas\, continues to be an interesting and challenging problem \, despite several decades of progress. The non-linear nature of gravitati onal instability\, combined with the stochastic nature of the initial fluc tuations\, prevents us from weaving a Cosmic Web using fully analytical me thods. In parallel\, modelling galaxy formation and evolution is fraught w ith large uncertainties in the astrophysics of gas across cosmic time. One is therefore prevented from analytically assembling a realistic universe from its constituent parts. In this talk\, I will argue that there is\, in fact\, much to be gained from analytical approximations and statistical m odels used in concert with numerical simulations of structure formation. I will review the current status of such model building efforts and then fo cus on several open questions and avenues of current interest in the field . In particular\, I will highlight how the connection between galaxy envir onment and galaxy assembly history (the so-called 'assembly bias') can be a powerful probe of galaxy evolution and cosmology.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/8273/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8273/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A taste of flavor in string compactifications DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170720T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170720T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8269@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The phenomenological models based on compactifica tions of the heterotic string are endowed with several symmetries\, among which there are non-Abelian discrete groups that may be interpreted as fla vor symmetries. Delta(54) is the largest discrete subgroup of SU(3) that m ay explain the number of generations in particle physics. In this talk\, w e discuss how orbifold compactifications generate naturally this symmetry and impose constraints that result in phenomenological simplifications. Th e consequences for flavor physics\, besides adequate masses for quarks and leptons\, include normal hierarchy and experimentally-favored values for mixing angles in the neutrino sector.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8269/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8269/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Yang-Baxter σ-models on Deformed AdS5×S5 and Holographic Noncomm utativity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170810T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170810T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8275@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Yang-Baxter σ-model is a systematic way to gener ate integrable deformations of AdS5×S5.  We recast the deformations as s een by open strings\, where the metric is undeformed AdS5×S5 with constan t string coupling\, and all information about the deformation is encoded i n the noncommutative (NC) parameter Θ.  We identify the deformations of AdS5 as twists of the conformal algebra\, thus explaining the noncommutati vity.  We show that the unimodularity conditon on r-matrices for supergra vity solutions translates into Θ being divergence-free.  Integrability o f the σ-model for unimodular r-matrices implies the existence and planar integrability of the dual NC gauge theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8275/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8275/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Uber-Gravity and H0 tension DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170817T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170817T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8359@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract.  Recently\, the idea of taking ensemble average over gravity models has been introduced. Based on this idea\, we study the ensemble average over (effectively) all the gravity models dubbing the na me uber-gravity which is a fixed point in the model space. The uber-gravit y has interesting universal properties\, independent from the choice of ba sis: i) it mimics Einstein-Hilbert gravity for high-curvature regime\, ii) it predicts stronger gravitational force for an intermediate-curvature re gime\, iii) surprisingly\, for low-curvature regime\, i.e. R π /4). This octant ambiguity of θ23 is one of the fundamental issues in the neutrino sector\, and long-baseline (LBL) experiments can resolve this is sue with the help of νμ → νe appearance channel. First\, I will discu ss how this measurement would be affected in the upcoming LBL experiments if there exist a light eV-scale sterile neutrino. I will show that in the so called 3+1 scheme involving three active and one sterile neutrinos\, a new interference term in νμ → νe transition probability can spoil the chances of measuring θ23 octant completely. Next\, I will describe in de tail the degeneracy between the octant of θ23 and flavor-changing neutral -current non-standard interactions (NSI’s) in neutrino propagation. I wi ll show that for values of the NSI coupling as small as f ew %\, the disco very potential of the octant of θ23 gets completely lost.References: 1) A garwalla\, Chatterjee\, Palazzo\, Phys.Rev.Lett. 118 (2017) no.3\, 031804\ n 2) Agarwalla\, Chatterjee\, Palazzo\, Phys.Lett. B762 (2016) 64-71\n\n// indico.ictp.it/event/8358/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8358/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The c-map beyond the classical level DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170926T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170926T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8383@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8383/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8383/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Duality symmetry\, Hesse potential and connections to topological string DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170928T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170928T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8384@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The topological string captures certain superstri ng amplitudes which are also encoded in the underlying string effective ac tion. However\, unlike the topological string free energy\, the N=2 string effective action including higher derivative couplings\, is not defined i n terms of duality covariant variables. We shall discuss this in the conte xt of N=2 supergravity by introducing the Hesse potential defined in terms of duality covariant variables and is related by a Legendre transformatio n to the function that encodes the effective action. The non-holomorphic d eformations of this function have been included for obtain results for the more general case. It is then demonstrated that the Hesse potential conta ins a unique subsector which can be identified with topological string fre e energy and it satisfies the holomorphic anomaly equation of topological string theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8384/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8384/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Oscillons from string moduli DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171017T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171017T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8412@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. A generic feature of string compactifications is the presence of many scalar fields\, called moduli. Moduli are usually dis placed from their post-inflationary minimum during inflation. Their relaxa tion to the minimum could lead to the production of oscillons: long-lived non-linear excitations of the scalar fields. One interesting consequence o f oscillon dynamics is the production of gravitational waves.\n In this ta lk I survey under which conditions oscillons can be produced in string cos mology\, and I will illustrate their production and potential phenomenolog y with two explicit examples: the case of an initially displaced volume mo dulus in the KKLT scenario and of an initially displaced blow-up modulus i n the LVS.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8412/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8412/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Systematics of Adiabatic Modes in Cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171024T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171024T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8390@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Adiabatic modes (ADMs) play an essential role in derivation of soft theorems in Cosmology. They also give us non-trivial so lutions to the Einstein perturbed equations that are almost independent fr om the matter content of the universe. They are defined as the physical pe rturbations (on the top of a fixed FRW universe)\, that can be locally rem oved by a local coordinate transformation.\n In this work we systematicall y construct the adiabatic modes and find new time-dependent ones. In the l ight of a new time dependent ADM for graviton\, we show that alternative t heories to inflation enjoy asymptotic symmetries associated with soft grav itons. We point out adiabaticity of vector perturbations and mention the r elevance of this finding to primordial magnetogenesis.\n  \n\n New ADMs\, possess interesting features. In particular\, they can be either mixed or pure in terms of scalar-vector-tensor decomposition. The long mode of the tensor perturbation is able to have quantum behavior even on large scales . Also\, we figure out that some ADMs can not be monochromatic but instead \, they will be continued to spherical waves.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/83 90/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8390/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nonlinear Supersymmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171114T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171114T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8392@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8392/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8392/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Compact\, Singular G2-Holonomy Manifolds and M/Heterotic/F-Theory Duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171114T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171114T113000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8440@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We study the duality between M-theory on compact holonomy G2-manifolds and the heterotic string on Calabi-Yau three-folds. The duality is studied for K3-fibered G2-manifolds\, called twisted connec ted sums\, which lend themselves to an application of fiber-wise M-theory/ Heterotic Duality. For a large class of such G2-manifolds we are able to i dentify the dual heterotic as well as F-theory realizations. First we esta blish this chain of dualities for smooth G2-manifolds. This has a natural generalization to situations with non-abelian gauge groups\, which corresp ond to singular G2-manifolds\, where each of the K3-fibers degenerates. We argue for their existence through the chain of dualities\, supported by n on-trivial checks of the spectra. The corresponding 4d gauge groups can be both Higgsable and non-Higgsable\, and we provide several explicit exampl es of the general construction.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8440/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8440/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: New results in hydrodynamics and fluid/gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171115T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171115T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8376@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8376/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8376/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Wave-turbulence and pair-product ion of cusps on a string DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171115T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171115T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8377@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8377/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8377/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mellin representation of correlators of fermionic operators DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171116T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171116T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8393@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We define Mellin amplitudes for the fermion-scala r four point function and the fermion four point function in three dimensi ons. The Mellin amplitude has multiple components each associated to a ten sor structure. We examine the pole structure of the Mellin amplitude and s how how each component factorizes on the dynamical poles. Compared to the scalar case\, we have a novelty here in that each component has in general two series of poles corresponding to each primary exchanged. Finally\, we discuss some explicit results for fermionic Mellin amplitudes for Witten diagrams and conformal Feynman integrals which nicely illustrate the gener al features.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8393/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8393/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A semi-holographic model for thermalization DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171121T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171121T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8418@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. To understand the time-evolution and thermalizati on properties of systems like the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)\, it is necessa ry to include both weakly and strongly coupled degrees of freedom at vario us energy scales. Semi-holography is a non-perturbative framework that com bines perturbative methods for weakly coupled partons with the holographic duality for the strongly coupled infrared in a wide range of energy scale s. I will describe some progress in deriving such a framework from first p rinciples. I will also describe a phenomenological construction aimed towa rds a better understanding of the QGP and present our recent findings on t he collective flow near thermal equilibrium. Our results relate remarkably diverse behavior across a wide range of energy scales.\n\n//indico.ictp.i t/event/8418/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8418/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Global symmetries and gravity: from theoretical aspects to phenome nological applications DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171205T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171205T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8442@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. There exists a widely held notion mostly based on various "folk theorems" - that gravitational effects can violate global s ymmetries.\n In this talk\, I will discuss some aspects of this story from both theoretical and phenomenological viewpoint.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/even t/8442/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8442/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Resurgence in Chern-Simons theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171207T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171207T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8456@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8456/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8456/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Supercurrent and Einstein equations in the Superconformal form ulation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171212T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171212T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8447@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8447/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8447/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Phonons\, rotons\, and the mass of sound DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171214T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171214T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8459@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8459/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8459/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Two applications of Effective Field Theory in Gravity: the Supersy mmetric EFT of Inflation and the EFT for probing extensions of General Re lativity at LIGO DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171219T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171219T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8471@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I will discuss two applications of Effective File d Theory in the context of gravity. In the context of the early universe\, I will construct the most general theory of inflationary fluctuations whe n time-translations and supersymmetry are spontaneously broken. The non-li near realization of these invariances allows us to define a complete SUGRA multiplet containing the graviton\, the gravitino\, the Goldstone of time translations and the Goldstino\, with no auxiliary fields. This allows us to write a remarkably-simple general Lagrangian for the fluctuations\, an d study its observational consequences. Then\, I will pass to the late uni verse\, and describe an EFT that allows us to parametrize what extensions of GR can be tested with gravitational wave observations. The most general action not involving additional degrees of freedom corresponds to adding to the GR Lagrangian operators constructed out of powers of the Riemann te nsor\, suppressed by a scale comparable to the curvature of the observed m erging binaries. I will explain why the presence of these operators is not ruled by other GR tests\, and the resulting observational signature.\n\n/ /indico.ictp.it/event/8471/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8471/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IR-Resummation in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Struct ure DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180118T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180118T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8487@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk I will discuss the non-linear infrar ed effects that plagues Eulerian Perturbation Theory for Large Scale Struc ture.\n Understanding and resumming these contributions is essential to ac hieve a detailed description of galaxy correlation functions around the BA O scale.\n In particular I will present a resummation scheme called IR-res ummation and show how it works for the 2- and 3-point correlation function s of matter.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8487/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8487/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Constraining Particle Physics fr om Quantum Gravity Conjectures DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180124T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180124T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8460@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8460/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8460/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Large Field Inflation and the W eak Gravity Conjecture DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180124T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180124T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8461@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8461/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8461/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CMB Spectral Distortions and Primordial non-Gaussianity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180130T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180130T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8474@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Current and upcoming experimental efforts to unve il the details of the inflationary epoch have primordial non-Gaussianity a s one of the main targets. Indeed\, detecting a deviation from Gaussianity in the statistics of primordial perturbations would shed light on the int eractions between the degrees of freedom active during inflation.\n Deviat ions of the CMB spectrum from a black-body are a powerful probe of the thr ee-point function of curvature perturbations. Dissipation of acoustic wave s in the photon- electron-baryon fluid heats the plasma: the heating is no t balanced by an appropriate change in photon number\, and a Bose-Einstein spectrum is formed. A non-zero three-point function of curvature perturba tions makes the heating rate spatially dependent\, so that the observed ch emical potential in the sky will be anisotropic and correlated with large- scale temperature fluctuations.\n In this talk I discuss how the angular c orrelation of temperature anisotropies and spectral distortions is insensi tive to contamination from late-time projection effects (unlike other obse rvables like the CMB temperature bispectrum)\, making it an excellent\, al beit futuristic\, probe of primordial non- Gaussianity.\n\n//indico.ictp.i t/event/8474/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8474/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New analytic approaches for the conformal bootstrap DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180212T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180212T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8492@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8492/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8492/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hawking Genesis DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180213T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180213T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8497@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8497/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8497/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Astrophobic Axion DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180222T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180222T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8491@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Reliable estimates of the allowed range for axion couplings to photons\, nucleons and electrons are of major importance for determining the viable axion mass window as well as to focus experimental axion searches. We show that in a class of generalized DFSZ axion models with generation dependent Peccei-Quinn charges the axion couplings to nucl eons and electrons can be simultaneously suppressed. Astrophysical limits from the SN1987A burst duration and from white dwarf cooling can therefore be relaxed\, and as a consequence for such an astrophobic axion a mass wi ndow up to O(0.1) eV remains open. Since the axion-photon coupling remains sizeable\, the proposed IAXO helioscope will become crucial to search for axions of this type. An unavoidable consequence of astrophobia are flavor off-diagonal axion couplings at tree-level\, so that experimental limits on flavor-violating processes can also provide a powerful tool to constrai n this scenario. The astrophobic axion can be a viable dark matter candida te in the heavy mass window\, and can also account for anomalous energy lo ss in stars.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8491/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8491/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:What's inside a black hole? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180227T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180227T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8486@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8486/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8486/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On the initial value problem in Lovelock and Horndeski theories of gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180301T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180301T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8516@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Lovelock and Horndeski theories are natural gener alisations of Einstein's theory of General Relativity with second order eq uations of motion.\n While their applications in astrophysics and cosmolog y have been thoroughly explored\, the issue of their mathematical consiste ncy has received little attention.\n In particular\, it is not known wheth er these theories admit a well-posed initial value problem\, a necessary r equirement for any classical theory to make sense. If this condition were not satisfied\, these theories would not constitute a viable alternative t o General Relativity.\n In this talk\, I will discuss why the standard met hod used to establish the local well-posedness of the Einstein equations f ails for these theories.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8516/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8516/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:6d Theories on Curves DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180302T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180302T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8544@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract.  I review recent progress in compactifying (1\,0) S CFT's in 6d on curves and discuss the resulting N=1 SCFT's in 4d.\n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/8544/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8544/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum Information Measures for Restricted Sets of Observables DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180306T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180306T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8498@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk I will consider the problem of defin ing measures of quantum information in cases where the space spanned by th e set of accessible observables does not form an algebra\, i.e. it is not closed under products. This setting is relevant for the study of localized quantum information in theories of gravity where the set of approximately -local operators in a region may not be closed under arbitrary products. W hile one cannot naturally associate a density matrix with a state in this setting\, it is still possible to define a modular operator for a state\, and distinguish between two states using a relative modular operator. Thes e operators are defined on a 'little Hilbert space'\, which parameterize s small deformations of the system away from its original state\, and they do not depend on the structure of the full Hilbert space of the theory. I will show how a novel class of relative-entropy-like quantities can be de fined using the spectrum of these operators. I will also describe some app lications of this formalism for studying bulk reconstruction and subregion -dualities in the AdS/CFT correspondence.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8498/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8498/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Stringy corrections\, generalised complex geometry and supersymmet ry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180313T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180313T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8523@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. I will review some of the recent attempts to incorpo rate stringy corrections to low energy effective actions within the framew ork of GCG.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8523/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8523/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A 24+24 real scalar multiplet in four dimensional N=2 conformal su pergravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180327T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180327T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8531@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Superconformal multiplet calculus provides a syst ematic method to construct higher derivative invariants in Poincare superg ravity. In this context\, matter multiplets in conformal supergravity are of interest. We will discuss the construction of a 24+24 real scalar multi plet in N=2 conformal supergravity in four dimensions. We will see the red uction of this multiplet to an 8+8 restricted multiplet and a precise embe dding of the 8+8 tensor multiplet inside this multiplet. We will then disc uss the first steps towards constructing a superconformal action for this multiplet.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8531/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8531/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holographic first order phase transition DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180329T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180329T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8533@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk I show the linear and nonlinear time evolution of a holographic system possessing a first order phase transiti on. The initial state is chosen in the spinodal region of the phase diagra m\, and includes an inhomogeneous perturbation in one of the field theory directions. The final state of the time evolution shows a clear phase sepa ration in the form of domain formation. The results indicate the existence of a very rich class of inhomogeneous black hole solutions.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/8533/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8533/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Renormalisation in open Quantum Field Theory: Scalar Field Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180403T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180403T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8534@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Effective theories have been very successful in a ll branches of theoretical physics. There are still a variety of phenomena where we do not have a clear understanding from the standard effective fi eld theory point of view. One such phenomenon is dissipation and informati on loss in time evolution of a system. In the open quantum system literatu re little has been done for field theoretic systems. In this talk what we will do is first explain the tools available to deal with effective field theories of open systems. Then we will use these tools to study open versi on of \\phi^3+\\phi^4 theory\, discuss few interesting aspects and study r enormalisability of this theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8534/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8534/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Probing interacting dark radiation with cosmic 21 cm line DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180405T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180405T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8525@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8525/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8525/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Topology of the Electroweak Vacua DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180412T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180412T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8513@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8513/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8513/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP Mini Workshop on Particle Physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180416T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180418T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8571@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8571/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8571/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Bosonization in 3d and 2d DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180418T120000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180418T130000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8574@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8574/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8574/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: JT-bar deformed CFTs and their h olographic interpretation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180418T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180418T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8575@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8575/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8575/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non-perturbative black hole entropy from quantum foam DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180424T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180424T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8543@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8543/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8543/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Axions from Strings DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180426T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180426T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8576@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8576/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8576/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:From phase space to integrable representations and level-rank dual ity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180508T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180508T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8542@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We shall present a phase space description of uni tary matrix model. It is well known that eigenvalues of unitary matrices a re like positions of free fermions. We show that in large N limit\, number of boxes in Young diagram corresponding to dominant representation of SU( N) plays the role of momentum for those fermions. A relation between eigen values and number of boxes allows one to provide a phase space description for different large N phases of the theory. We shall consider Chern-Simon s matter theory on $S^2\\times S^1$ in particular and discuss how phase sp ace description forces the corresponding dominant representations to be in tegrable. We also discus the level-rank duality between different dominant representations.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8542/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8542/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gluequark Dark Matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180510T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180510T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8526@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8526/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8526/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Proper Basis for Studying Amplitudes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180515T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180515T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8541@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In a QFT or a theory of Gravity\, the most intere sting objects are the physical amplitudes. As it turns out\, the symmetry properties of the theory are not always best understood in the usual field space basis. In this talk\, I shall talk about two different sets of basi s space\, where amplitudes are best understood. I shall provide some expli cit examples for clarification.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8541/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8541/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmic Photons from Mass Splitting in the Dark Sector DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180517T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180517T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8493@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk\, I will present two dark matter fra meworks where a mass splitting in the dark sector dramatically alters the expectations for indirect detection rates. In the first case\, the presenc e of a quasi-degenerate metastable state\, where the dark matter number is stored\, allows for sub-GeV relics with large s-wave annihilation cross s ection and not excluded by CMB bounds. In the second case\, dark matter pa rticles inelastically up-scatter in the interstellar plasma to a quasi-deg enerate heavier partner\, whose subsequent decays generate X-ray lines wit h unique spectrum and morphology.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8493/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8493/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nature of Dark Matter using Cosmological Observations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180522T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180522T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8593@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Although the standard paradigm of Cold Dark Matte r (CDM) has been remarkably successful in predicting the large-scale struc ture of the universe\, it has been known to exhibit a number of problems a t small scales. A popular solution to these problems involves invoking War m Dark Matter (WDM) particles of mass about keV that erase small-scale pow er. The mass of these WDM particles can\, in principle\, be constrained us ing cosmological observations at high redshift. In this talk\, we will exp lore various observational probes and the corresponding theoretical formal ism which can be useful for constraining the nature of dark matter using o ngoing and upcoming instruments.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8593/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8593/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non-relativistic Dark Matter Bound States DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180524T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180524T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8522@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8522/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8522/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Two new avenues in dark matter indirect detection DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180525T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180525T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8540@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8540/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8540/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Soft theorem and its classical limit DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180525T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180525T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8587@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8587/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8587/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Anderson localisation in theory space DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180601T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180601T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8524@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8524/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8524/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Localization in supergravity: theory and applications DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180605T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180605T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8564@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Localization techniques have proven to be a power ful and invaluable tool for obtaining exact results in rigidly supersymmet ric theories. In this talk\, we will discuss how this framework can be use d in the study of locally supersymmetric theories\, i.e. in supergravity. We will discuss the BRST quantization of supergravity theories on spaces w ith an asymptotic boundary via a suitable background field formalism. When the background is restricted to have a residual isometry group\, an equiv ariant BRST algebra arises as a deformation of the standard nilpotent BRST algebra. This equivariant algebra can then be used to localize supersymme tric partition functions or expectation values. As an illustration of this general formalism\, we will revisit the derivation of the exact entropy o f certain asymptotically flat BPS black holes in the Quantum Entropy Funct ion formalism. We will also present recent results for the exact entropy o f asymptotically AdS BPS black holes and compare with exact results previo usly obtained in the dual CFT.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8564/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8564/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Oscillation with Three Active and One Light Sterile Neutrinos DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180607T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180607T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8577@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk\, I will discuss the neutrino oscill ation phenomenology with three active and one light sterile neutrinos with a special emphasis on currently running and upcoming long-baseline experi ments and the upcoming atmospheric neutrino experiment at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO).\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8577/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8577/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A lowerbound on the bounce action DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180612T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180612T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8555@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8555/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8555/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BV-BRST deformation formalism and gaugings of supergravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180626T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180626T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8595@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Due to the electric-magnetic duality of supergrav ity\, one is able to have a Lagrangian description of the theory in differ ent duality frames. Although the gaugings of supergravity have been classi fied as long as we stick to the electric frame\, it is not for long that t he similar analysis in an arbitrary electric-magnetic duality frame has be en done. After a review of the topic and BV deformation formalism\, we wil l go on to show a no-go theorem for the gaugings of N=4 and maximal superg ravity in four dimensions.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8595/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8595/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Galactic Rotation Curves vs. Ultra-Light Dark Matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180705T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180705T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8514@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Bosonic ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) would form cored density distributions at the center of galaxies. These cores\, seen in numerical simulations\, admit analytic description as the lowest energ y bound state solution ("soliton") of the Schroedinger-Poisson equations. Numerical simulations of ULDM galactic halos found an empirical scaling re lation between the mass of the large-scale host halo and the mass of the c entral soliton. We show that this relation predicts that the peak circular velocity\, measured for the host halo in the outskirts of the galaxy\, sh ould approximately repeat itself in the central region. Contrasting this p rediction to the measured rotation curves of well-resolved near-by galaxie s\, we show that ULDM in the mass range m ~ (10-22 - 10-21) eV\, which has been invoked as a possible solution to the small-scale puzzles of CDM\, i s in tension with the data.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8514/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8514/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Topological measures for the search of exotic features in the ligh t of Universe DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180710T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180710T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8616@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In principle\, we expect that our cosmos has expe rienced a series of complicated phase transitions. Exploring the correspon ding consequences and discriminating between various types of mentioned ph ase transitions are therefore of interest not only from theoretical approa ches but also from observational points of view. In this talk\, relying on an extensive simulation of cosmic strings networks\, I examine the CMB ra ndom field induced by a typical topological defects which is so-called cos mic strings as a part of ISW phenomenon. I will use various robust topolog ical measures accompanied by some multi-scale reductions to quantify our a bility to detect the probable cosmic strings networks. To this end I also utilize extensive Machine learning algorithm to find best feature sequence s which are more sensitive for searching such one-dimensional defect.\n Ba sed on arXiv:1710.00173 / arXiv:1801.04140\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8616/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8616/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New Stringy Perspective on Cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180711T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180711T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8622@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8622/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8622/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Soft Hair on Generic Horizons - Implications for Black Hole Micros tates DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180717T124500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180717T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8629@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Starting from a generic near horizon expansion in any spacetime dimension greater than two we derive all near horizon symme tries and discover a wealth of novel results: 1. Any non-extremal horizon has an infinite set of near horizon symmetries and associated soft hair ex citations. 2. The near horizon symmetries can be represented as generaliza tion of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs algebra. 3. For horizons that are either f lat or non-rotating the near horizon symmetries can be represented as Heis enberg algebras\, with one quarter of the inverse of Newton constant playi ng the role of Planck's constant. 4. Not only black holes\, but also cosmo logical horizons are equipped with soft hair. We discuss implications of s oft hair for horizon thermodynamics and entropy\, and comment on open prob lems and further developments.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8629/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8629/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Learning New Physics from a Machine DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180726T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180726T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8606@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I will discuss how to use neural networks to dete ct data departures from a given reference model\, with no prior bias on th e nature of the new physics responsible for the discrepancy. The algorithm that I will describe returns a global p-value that quantifies the tension between the data and the reference model. It also allows to compare direc tly what the network has learned with the data\, giving a fully transparen t account of the nature of possible signals. The potential applications ar e broad\, from LHC physics searches to cosmology and beyond.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/8606/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8606/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The price of shifting the Hubble Constant and evidence for dark en ergy evolution DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180731T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180731T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8621@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The current tension in H_{0} measurements by Plan ck-2015 for $\\Lambda$CDM and that by recent direct measurement by Riess e t al. 2016\, also results another tension in the value of r_{d}\, the soun d horizon at drag epoch\, measured by BAO observations and Planck-2015. We show that\, regardless of dark energy dynamics\, to accommodate higher va lue of H_{0}\, one needs a lower value of r_{d}\, and so necessarily a mod ification of early universe cosmology. Later on\, a model independent appr oach to constraint background evolution of the universe with low-redshift data\, will be discussed.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8621/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8621/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Milky Way Dark Matter and the Direct Detection Exclusion Limits DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180828T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180828T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8659@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. For simplicity\, experimental dark matter (DM) di rect detection exclusion curves in the literature are almost always calcul ated by assuming a naive Standard Halo Model (SHM) expectation for the Mil ky Way (MW) DM halo. There have been a number of attempts that have tried to go beyond the SHM and assess the impact of astrophysical uncertainties on DM direct detection experiments. Most of these attempts have examined t he impact of an uncertain local dark matter density which results in a tri vial re-scaling of the exclusion curves. Others have attempted to look at the effect of the DM velocities via changes in the local DM escape speed a nd the local DM velocity dispersion\, or have tried to incorporate the loc al DM velocity distribution but have mainly restricted to ansatzes or simu lations.\n We claim that the right approach should be to use an observatio nally inferred determination\, along with the related uncertainties\, of t he local DM phase-space in a self- consistent manner. In this talk\, I wil l present a detailed look at this fundamentally important element of DM de tection results. We start by constructing the MW DM rotation curves and en d with re-estimates of the direct detection DM exclusion limits. On the wa y\, we present the tightest constraint on local DM density till date.\n\n/ /indico.ictp.it/event/8659/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8659/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A proposal of a renormalizable Nambu - Jona-Lasinio model DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180830T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180830T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8663@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. A local and gauge invariant gauge field model inc luding Nambu - Jona-Lasinio (NJL) and QCD Lagrangian terms in its action i s introduced. Surprisingly\, it becomes power counting renormalizable. Thi s occurs thanks to the presence of action terms which modify the quark pro pagators\, to become more decreasing that the Dirac one at large momenta i n a Lee-Wick form\, implying power counting renormalizability. The appeara nce of finite quark masses already in the tree approximation in the scheme is determined by the fact that the new action terms explicitly break chir al invariance. In this starting work we present the renormalized Feynman d iagram expansion of the model and derive the formula for the degree of div ergence of the diagrams.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8663/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8663/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Special geometry for Calabi-Yau manifolds of Fermat type and Q-inv ariant Milnor rings DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180906T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180906T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8666@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8666/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8666/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation: Celebrating 20 years of Super-K Discovery and Beyond DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180917T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180917T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8710@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In 1998\, Super-Kamiokande came up with the solut ion of long-standing atmospheric neutrino anomaly in terms of neutrino fla vour oscillation providing an exclusive evidence for physics beyond the St andard Model. This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of discove ry of atmospheric neutrino oscillation. In the first part of my talk\, I w ill discuss the physics behind the atmospheric neutrino oscillation. Then\ , I will discuss the physics reach of currently running and upcoming atmos pheric neutrino experiments. In the second part of my talk\, I will presen t the status and prospects of the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) f acility\, a flagship mega-science project of our country to study atmosphe ric neutrinos. Towards the end of my talk\, I will show some selected resu lts from our recent studies on the physics capabilities of the INO experim ent.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8710/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8710/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Going beyond the horizon DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180918T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180918T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8707@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8707/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8707/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seeking Fixed Points in Scalar Theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180920T120000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180920T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8712@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The bootstrap has had remarkable success but it i s not always straightforward to find novel fixed points. We consider what lessons may be learned by considering the epsilon expansion. I scalar theo ries.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8712/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8712/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:To B or not to B: Primordial magnetic fields from Weyl anomaly DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181011T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181011T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8749@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8749/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8749/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Swampland Update DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181018T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181018T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8761@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8761/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8761/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Crossing symmetry in superstring theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181113T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181113T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8792@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8792/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8792/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AdS3/CFT2 holographic duality with N = (3\,3) supersymmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181115T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181115T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8797@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We consider string theory on AdS3 x (S3 x S3 x S1 ) / Z2. This background supports N = 3 or 1 supersymmetry depending on the action of the Z2 orbifold. We consider the construction which has N = (3\ ,3) supersymmetry and propose an AdS3/CFT2 holographic duality which state s that string theory on this background is dual to the symmetric product o rbifold of S0 / Z2\, where S0 is a theory of four free fermions and one fr ee boson. We show that the BPS spectra and the elliptic genera of the two sides of the duality match precisely\, providing non-trivial support for o ur proposal. We also comment on the construction with N = 1 supersymmetry. \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8797/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8797/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dyon degeneracies from Mathieu moonshine symmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181122T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181122T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8771@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8771/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8771/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Heavy (Dynamical) Axions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181127T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181127T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8768@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8768/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8768/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Exact Quantum Effective Actions in Large N matter Chern Simons the ories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181129T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181129T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8782@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I present computations of the exact quantum effec tive action in classes of matter Chern Simons theories in the t' Hooft lar ge N limit\, and use the results of this computation to analyze the stabil ity and phase structure of various matter Chern Simons theories\, includin g the so called 'regular boson theory' and the N=2 supersymmetric matter C hern Simons theory with a single fundamental chiral multiplet.\n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/8782/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8782/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY: Collisions of axion stars with black holes and neutron stars DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181206T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181206T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8759@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Axions are a potential dark matter candidate\, wh ich may condense and form self gravitating compact objects\, called axion stars.\n In recent work\, we studied head-on collisions of relativistic ax ion stars with black holes and neutron stars. In the black hole case we fi nd that relatively large scalar clouds are produced by mergers of low comp actness axion stars and black holes with intermediate spins\, which provid es a dynamical mechanism for the formation of long lived scalar hair. For neutron star collisions we find that in the critical limit of black hole f ormation\, the collision gives rise to a large ejection of baryonic mass f rom the system\, purely due to gravitational effects. This could give rise to electromagnetic observables in addition to their gravitational wave si gnatures.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8759/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8759/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Landscape - a workshop at the interface of string theory\, machine learning and energy landscapes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181210T073000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181212T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8784@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The goal of this workshop is to bring together members of t he community from the academic and private sector that are interested in a combination of machine learning and energy landscapes\, with emphasis on\ , but not limited to\, the energy landscape of string theory. The program will feature plenary sessions as well as shorter\, more specialized talks and time for discussions to explore synergies between these different appr oaches.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8784/ LOCATION:ICTP Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8784/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Effective field theory for phonons\, cosmological solids and dark energy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181211T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181211T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8760@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8760/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8760/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Classical de Sitter solutions an d the swampland DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181212T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181212T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8775@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8775/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8775/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: On effective descriptions and th e stability of de Sitter states DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181212T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181212T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8776@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8776/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8776/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Two modified gravity theories with few degrees of freedom DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181213T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181213T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8821@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk\, I will present two specific modifi cations of gravity in which the number of degrees of freedom (d.o.f.) is m inimized using a cosmological-scale violation of Lorentz invariance. I wil l focus on their construction\, showing how different methods can be used to accomplish the same goal\, i.e. keeping a low number of d.o.f. As a fir st example\, I will describe a class of modified gravity theories that pro pagate only the usual two polarizations of gravitational waves and that ha ve an Einstein frame. As a second example I will give a short overview of the minimal theory of massive gravity\, a theory of massive gravity with o nly two d.o.f.\, and on its generalizations.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/882 1/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8821/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Discussing dark energy models from theoretical points of view DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181220T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181220T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8767@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The mysterious component called "dark energy"\, w hich comprises almost 70% of the current energy budget of the universe\, i s believed to be responsible for the observed cosmic acceleration at the p resent epoch. Interestingly\, many of the recent observations predict that the properties of dark energy are consistent with the concordance cosmolo gical model (LCDM)\, based on the Einstein's general theory of relativity and characterised by a constant energy density of the dark energy. But the LCDM model is plagued by quite a few theoretical and observational issues . Therefore\, the importance of looking for the alternatives to the genera l relativity for explaining the cosmic acceleration\, consistent with the observations\, cannot be overstated. The talk will be focused on the follo wing two compelling models of evolving dark energy. (i) New tracker models of dark energy: we introduced a new class of quintessence driven dark ene rgy models which behave like cosmological trackers at early times and are consistent with the observed late-time accelerated expansion of the univer se. These models are based on the α-attractor set of potentials\, origi nally discussed in the context of inflation. (ii) Braneworld models of dar k energy: the presence of a large extra dimension in the braneworld models can result in late-time accelerated expansion that is consistent with the observation. I will discuss some attractive features and the advantages o f these models\, and how well they match the current observations.\n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/8767/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8767/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gravitational Wave Decay into Dark Energy DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190131T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190131T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8757@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8757/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8757/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spin of Primordial Black Holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190201T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190201T113000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8856@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Primordial black holes\, formed from rare peaks i n the primordial fluctuations $\\zeta$\, are non-rotating at zeroth order in $\\zeta_{rms}$. We show that the spin also vanishes at first order in $ \\zeta_{rms}$\, suggesting the dimensionless spin parameter $a_{\\rm rms} \\sim \\zeta_{rms}^2$. We identify one quadratic contribution to the spin by calculating (and extrapolating to the formation time) the torque on a b lack hole due to ambient acoustic waves. For a reasonable density of primo rdial black holes this implies a percent level spin parameter.\n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/8856/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8856/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY: Supercooling from strongly coupled TeV physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190205T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190205T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8807@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Models with strong dynamics at the TeV scale feat ure a confinement phase transition which is first order and generically sl ow\, and a late inflationary period is a natural expectation. We study the modeling relevant for this problem\, as long as the cosmological implicat ions of this epoch.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8807/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8807/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Moduli Stars DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190207T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190207T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8806@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The recent direct detection of gravitational wave s (GWs) has opened a new window of observation for physical phenomena in w hich gravity is the dominant interaction. Collisions of black holes and ne utron stars have been observed and a plethora of new events\, even involvi ng new physics\, are expected to be detected in the next few years. It is natural to explore alternative physical objects that may exist which are d ifferent from the standard stars and black holes and that could lead to pa rticular imprints on the GW spectrum. In this talk I will explore the poss ibility that moduli (gravitationally coupled scalar fields arising in all string compactifications) can compose star-like objects (moduli stars) who se dynamics gives rise to GW production. I will illustrate their formation in the early universe\, that was studied through lattice techniques. Afte r their formation moduli stars can have very different behaviours\, e.g. t hey could rapidly collapse to black holes or disperse into scalar radiatio n. I will describe the fate of moduli stars\, that was investigated throug h numerical relativity techniques.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8806/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8806/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The relativistic bispectrum of dark matter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190212T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190212T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8844@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We discuss relativistic corrections to large scal e structure observables. These are expected to yield contributions compara ble to fNL of a few\, and therefore potentially observable in future surve ys. We then focus on the large scale structure bispectrum in the squeezed limit\, which couples large with small scales. Since relativity is importa nt at large scales and non-linear loop corrections are important at small scales\, the proper calculation of the observed bispectrum in this limit r equires a non-linear relativistic calculation. We compute the matter bispe ctrum in general relativity in the weak field approximation. The calculati on is as involved as existing second-order results. For the bispectrum\, w e find relativistic corrections to be as large as the newtonian result in the squeezed limit. In that limit relativistic one-loop contributions\, wh ich we compute for the first time\, can be as large as tree level results and have the sa dependence as a primordial local non-Gaussianity signal wh ere k is the momentum approaching zero. Moreover\, we find the time depend ence of the relavistic corrections to the bispectrum to be the same as tha t of a primordial non-Gaussianity signal.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8844/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8844/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Comments on flux vacua DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190213T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190213T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8842@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8842/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8842/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Conformally soft photons and gra vitons DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190213T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190213T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8843@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8843/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8843/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Euclidean Wormholes and Holography DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190214T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190214T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8829@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8829/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8829/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Statistical challenges in dark energy models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190219T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190219T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8824@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8824/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8824/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Job Talk DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190312T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190312T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8903@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n This is a practice talk for a job interview I have coming u p. I will begin with a 30 min review lecture on my past research results\, and current research interests. I will then give a 30 min trial lecture o n the fundamental theorem of Calculus\, aimed at first year undergraduates .\n\n  \n\n Comments and suggestions are very welcome!\n  \n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/8903/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8903/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Maximal freedom at minimum cost: on the future of general scalar-t ensor theories in cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190314T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190314T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8860@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk I will introduce the main motivation s to explore theories of gravity alternative to General Relativity. In par ticular\, I will focus on the popular class of scalar-tensor theories\, di scussing their formulation and how to parametrize them efficiently on a co smological background. This framework is optimal to describe large class o f models at once\, which makes it ideal to test deviations from the standa rd cosmological model. I will discuss some of the main results in the lite rature\, as well as current constraints on the parameters. Finally\, I wil l speculate about the future of alternative theories of gravity and show w hat we can realistically expect from future surveys.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/e vent/8860/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8860/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Towards an effective likelihood for Large-Scale Structure DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190319T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190319T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8861@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Current efforts to derive constraints on primordi al physics and cosmological parameters from Large-Scale Structure observat ions are mainly based on summary statistics\, for example n-point correlat ion functions of the density field of biased tracers such as galaxies.\n A n alternative method\, that in principle allows to make use of the informa tion coming from all n-point functions\, is that of forward-modeling the g alaxy density field itself. I discuss how this can be achieved in the fram ework of the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure.\n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/8861/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8861/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Large Volume Scenario\, Holography and the Swampland DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190320T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190320T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8885@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. String compactifications are essential for connec ting string theory to low energy particle physics and cosmology. Moduli st abilisation gives rise to effective Lagrangians that capture the low-energ y degrees of freedom. Much recent interest has been on swampland consisten cy conditions on such effective field theories - which low energy Lagrangi ans can arise from quantum gravity? Furthermore\, given that moduli stabil isation scenarios often exist in AdS space\, we can also ask: what do swam pland conditions mean in the context of AdS/CFT? I describe work on develo ping a holographic understanding of moduli stabilisation and swampland con sistency conditions. I focus in particular on the Large Volume Scenario\, which is especially appealing from a holographic perspective as in the lar ge volume limit all its interactions can be expressed solely in terms of t he AdS radius\, with no free dimensionless parameters.\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/8885/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8885/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Novel Approaches to Galaxy Clustering DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190321T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190321T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8823@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8823/ LOCATION:IFPU Building (old SISSA Bldg.) Room D URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8823/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Pulling Yourself Up by Your Boot straps in Quantum Field Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190403T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190403T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8890@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8890/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8890/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Modular Bootstrap and 't Hooft A nomaly DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190403T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190403T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8891@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We study the implications of 't Hooft anomaly (i. e. obstruction to gauging) on quantum field theory in the gapless phase\, focusing on the case when the global symmetry is Z_2. Using the modular bo otstrap method\, universal bounds on (1+1)-dimensional bosonic conformal f ield theory with an internal Z_2 global symmetry are derived. The bootstra p bounds depend dramatically on the 't Hooft anomaly. In particular\, ther e is a universal upper bound on the lightest Z_2 odd operator if the symme try is anomalous\, but there is no bound if the symmetry is non-anomalous. We also consider theories with a U(1) global symmetry. We comment that th ere is no bound on the lightest U(1) charged operator if the symmetry is n on-anomalous\, and discuss its implications on the weak gravity conjecture in AdS3/CFT2.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8891/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8891/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Complexity and Behind the Horizon Cutoff DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190409T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190409T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8912@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Motivated by T Tbar deformation of a conformal fi eld theory we compute holographic complexity for a black brane solution wi th a finite cutoff using complexity action proposal. In order to have a late time behavior consistent with Lloyd's bound one is forced to have a c utoff behind the horizon whose value is fixed by the boundary cutoff. Usin g this result we compute holographic complexity for two dimensional AdS so lutions where we get expected late times linear growth. It is in contrast with the naively computation which is done without assuming the cutoff whe re the complexity approaches a constant at the late time.\n\n//indico.ictp .it/event/8912/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8912/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Particle physics on a quantum computer? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190416T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190416T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8917@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The main aim of this review talk is to present th e state-of-the-art on the study of particle physics phenomena utilizing qu antum computers and quantum simulators.\n In the first part of the seminar \, I will introduce the concept of quantum simulation\, following Feynmann 's original vision\, and discuss its applications in the field of ultracol d atoms in optical lattices. Until few years ago\, these applications had focused exclusively on models of relevance to condensed matter physics. I will present the key motivations that sparked a strong interest in quantum approaches to particle physics problems\, in particular\, in the context of (lattice) gauge theories. In the second part\, I will discuss few examp les on how trapped ions and cold atom gases can be used to emulate the rea l time dynamics of Abelian lattice gauge theories\, and show how some of t hese approaches can be extended to certain non Abelian groups (U(N<11)\, S U(N<4)) utilizing alkaline-earth-like atoms. The first concrete experiment al realizations in the context of the Schwinger mechanism will also be pre sented.\n Some introductory references to the topic written by HEP experts are:\n J. Preskill\, arXiv.1811.10085 (2018) U. J. Wiese\, Ann. Phys. 525 \, 777 (2013)\n and a review article: MD and S. Montangero\, Contemporary Physics 57\, 388 (2016).\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8917/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8917/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IFPU Colloquia: Could Dark Matter be made of Quarks? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190510T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190510T100000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8929@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Its conceivable that there is an undiscovered neu tral stable particle made of quarks (uuddss)\, with mass near twice the pr oton mass. If so\, it could be the dark matter. I will discuss how it can be that such a particle could have gone unnoticed and how to detect it. Re markably\, a particle with these properties can both explain the observed abundance of dark matter at high accuracy\, and account for the observed 1 0-sigma deficit in primordial Li7 compared to the prediction of the standa rd cosmological model. Even if such a particle does not exist\, or exists but is not the dark matter\, investigating the problem provides a fascinat ing tour through modern cosmology and particle physics - which will be pre sented in a manner accessible to non-experts.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/89 29/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Lecture Room B URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8929/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Weak Gravity Theorem DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190521T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190521T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8953@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In a gravitational theory with a massless photon the maximum charge-to-mass ratio of black holes approaches the prediction of the Einstein-Maxwell theory as black hole mass increases: Q_ext/M = 1 + a/ M^2 for some constant a. I will show that a>0 if below the quantum gra vity scale (\\Lambda) there are many degrees of freedom with a hierarchica lly small mass gap\, log(\\Lambda/m)>>1. In this regime one can derive fie ld-theoretic sum-rules for the coefficients of the leading corrections to the Einstein-Maxwell theory that imply a>0. Hence gravitational force amon g maximally charged black holes keeps getting weaker than the electric for ce as the black hole size becomes smaller.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8953/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8953/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Charge fluctuations of scalar electrodynamics in power-law inflati on DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190528T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190528T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8940@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Vector fields are insensitive to the rapid expans ion of the primordial inflating universe due to their conformal coupling. However\, they may couple to other light fields that are sensitive to the expansion and experience huge gravitational particle production\, such as the complex scalar. In that case the vector field can develop large electr ic and magnetic field fluctuations induced by the gravitationaly enhanced charge fluctuations. I will present a computation of the one-loop correcti ons to the electric and magnetic field correlators of SQED in power-law in flation. One-loop corrections dwarf the tree-level result\, and the slow-r oll corrections very soon become large.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8940/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8940/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Worldsheet Dual of the Symmetric Product CFT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190528T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190528T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8944@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk\, I will discuss AdS3xS3xM4 backgrou nds with pure NS-NS flux for M4=T4\, K3 or S3xS1. I will show that the bac kground with the lowest amount of NS-NS flux (`k=1') is dual to the large N limit of the symmetric product orbifold of M4. Showing this requires a d escription of string theory on AdS3xS3xM4 at k=1\, where the standard RNS formalism breaks down. I will explain how the worldsheet theory can be con sistently defined for k=1 by employing the hybrid formalism. The represent ation theory on the worldsheet for k=1 becomes far more restrictive than i n the generic case\, in particular all short string solutions and the cont inuum of long strings disappear\, only the lowest energy long string solut ion is still allowed. I will also discuss the generalisation of the dualit y to higher flux\, where the dual CFT can be described in terms of a Liouv ille theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8944/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8944/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IFPU Colloquia: The origin of supermassive black holes at the dawn of galaxy formation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190605T093000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190605T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8933@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8933/ LOCATION:Former SISSA Bldg. Lecture Room D URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8933/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Baryogenesis from axion inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190611T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190611T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8906@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The coupling of an axion-like particle driving in flation to the Standard Model particle content through a Chern-Simons term generically sources a dual production of massless helical gauge fields an d chiral fermions. We demonstrate that the interplay of these two componen ts results in a highly predictive baryogenesis model\, which requires no f urther ingredients beyond the Standard Model. If the helicity stored in th e hyper magnetic field and the effective chemical potential induced by the chiral fermion production are large enough to avoid magnetic diffusion fr om the thermal plasma but small enough to sufficiently delay the chiral pl asma instability\, then the non-vanishing helicity survives until the elec troweak phase transition and sources a net baryon asymmetry which is in ex cellent agreement with the observed value. If any of these two conditions is violated\, the final baryon asymmetry vanishes. The observed baryon asy mmetry can be reproduced if the energy scale of inflation is around $H_\\t ext{inf} \\sim 10^{9}$--$10^{13}$\\\, GeV with a moderate dependence on in flation model parameters.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8906/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8906/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non-Gaussianity in the hydrogen distribution at different cosmic t imes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190613T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190613T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8962@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Hydrogen is the most abundant visible element in the universe and observing its spatial distribution at different cosmic ti mes can be the most direct probe of the evolution of underlying structures . Radio interferometric observations of the redshifted 21-cm line originat ing from the spin-flip transition in the neutral hydrogen (HI) are our bes t bet to observe the HI distribution over a wide redshift range.\n After t he matter-radiation decoupling\, the epoch at which most of the HI goes th rough its first major phase change is the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Rei onization. This is the phase when the first sources of lights are formed\, gradually heating and ionizing the HI in the IGM. A large number of prese nt and upcoming radio interferometers are in a race to observe the HI from this phase using the redshifted 21-cm signal. Most of this ongoing effort focuses on the statistical detection of the signal through its power spec trum. However\, the HI distribution during this phase is expected to be hi ghly non-Gaussian due to its evolving morphology. The power spectrum\, the refore\, cannot give us a comprehensive picture of the signal.\n In this t alk I will discuss a higher order Fourier statistics\, the bispectrum\, th at is capable of capturing the evolving non-Gaussianity inherent in the CD -EoR 21-cm signal. With the end of the Epoch of Reionization\, that is\, w hen most of the HI in the universe is ionized\, some HI remains in high-de nsity regions of the IGM that can be self-shielded from the ionization bac kground. This HI distribution is also expected to be non-Gaussian in natur e. I will discuss how the bispectrum estimates from the intensity-mapping observations of the post-EoR 21-cm signal can contribute to our understand ing of the underlying matter distribution.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8962/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8962/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Time-sliced perturbation theory with primordial non-Gaussianity an d effects of large bulk flows on inflationary oscillating features DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190625T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190625T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8948@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8948/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8948/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Probing Ultralight Dark Matter models with Binary Pulsars DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190702T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190702T100000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8968@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk I will assume models where Dark Matt er (DM) can be described as a classical oscillating (scalar\, vector or a spin-2 tensor) field. I will summarize recent work where we study secular effects that this kind of DM has on the dynamics of binary pulsars.\n\n//i ndico.ictp.it/event/8968/ LOCATION:Former SISSA Bldg. Lecture Room D URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8968/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IFPU Colloquium - The first image of a black hole DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190702T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190702T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8983@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I will briefly discuss how the first image of a b lack hole was obtained by the EHT collaboration. In particular\, I will de scribe the theoretical aspects that have allowed us to model the dynamics of the plasma accreting onto the black hole and how such dynamics was used to generate synthetic black-hole images. I will also illustrate how the c omparison between the theoretical images and the observations has allowed us to deduce the presence of a black hole in M87 and to extract informatio n about its properties. Finally\, I will describe the lessons we have lear ned about strong-field gravity and alternatives to black holes.\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/8983/ LOCATION:Former SISSA Bldg. Lecture Room D URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8983/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An EFT approach to black hole perturbations DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190704T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190704T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8956@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8956/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8956/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Can the magnetic field shape a compact object? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190709T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190709T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8999@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8999/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8999/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Supersymmetry\, Ricci flat manifolds and the String Landscape DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190711T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190711T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9003@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9003/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9003/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A pipeline for searching Stochastic Gravitational Wave by Pulsar T iming Residuals DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190802T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190802T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9035@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Complexity as an emergent behavior is ubiquitous in the systems including a large number of degrees of freedom. Mentioned p roperty is widely experienced in cosmological and astrophysical fields in 1\, 2 and 3 dimensions. Among various astrophysical processes\, Millisecon d pulsars is highly stable and the predictability of their rotational beha vior leading to be an almost proper tool to elucidate various physical phe nomena ranging from early universe to late time.\n In this talk\, based on self-similarity of a typical stochastic process\, we propose a robust pip eline in order to examine the footprint of stochastic gravitational waves superimposed on the pulsar timing residuals (PTRs). We introduce a new alg orithm\, the so-called Irregular-Multi-Fractal-Detrended-Cross Correlation -Analysis (Irregular MF-DXA)\, to deal with irregular data sampling record ed in the observations. According to the quadrupolar nature of the spatial cross-correlation function of a gravitational wave background\, a new cro ss-correlation function will be introduced. We propose four strategies bas ed on results derived by Irregular-MF-DXA to determine the dimensionless a mplitude and power-law exponent of the characteristic strain spectrum for GWB. Using the value of Hurst exponent\, one can clarify the type of GWs. The flexibility in the algorithm enables us to manipulate the contribution of noise and trends in PTRs. We apply our pipeline to explore 20 millisec ond pulsars observed by Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. Finally \, some upper bounds on the dimensionless amplitude of GWs background\, wi ll be reported.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9035/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9035/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nonlinear structure formation as a probe of beyond standard model of cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190816T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190816T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9039@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Future large scale structure surveys are designed to study the nature of the dark side of the universe and the physics of t he initial condition of the cosmos. In this context\, the understanding of the distribution of structures of the cosmic web: dark matte halos\, cosm ic filaments and large scale voids in one hand and their clustering and co nnection with the luminous matter known as bias parameter\, on the other h and are all valuable probes of beyond standard model of cosmology. In this talk\, I will introduce the excursion set theory (EST) of nonlinear struc ture formation and the non-Markov solutions of first up-crossing in EST co ntext which opens a new venue to study the distribution of dark matter hal os and the bias parameter in more realistic cases. Also I will introduce t he excursion set theory of saddle points as a new framework for studying c osmic filaments. Finally\, I will discuss that how the EST framework can a ddress the void phenomena in the context of uLCDM model which is introduce d to address the H_0 tension.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9039/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9039/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Light Species during Inflation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190827T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190827T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9047@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In the simplest scenarios of the cosmic inflation the universe\, at the very onset of its evolution\, is almost empty fille d with only a single scalar field\, the inflaton\, whose background energy density is responsible for the nearly exponential expansion of the univer se and its quantum fluctuations\, once stretched beyond the horizon scale\ , serve as the primordial seeds of clumpy universe we see today.\n Althoug h the predictions of this vanilla model is well compatible with current da ta ranging from CMB to LSS\, there has been a continuing endeavour to stud y the consequence of presence of extra fields other than inflaton on those observables. In this talk\, I am going to talk about possible footprints of light extra degrees of freedom during inflation on the primordial power spectrum of the curvature perturbations.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9047/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9047/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:M5 branes and theta functions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190827T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190827T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9049@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We propose quantum states for Little String Theor ies (LSTs) arising from M5 branes probing A- and D-type singularities. Thi s extends Witten's picture of M5 brane partition functions as theta functi ons to this more general setup. Compactifying the world-volume of the five -branes on a two-torus\, we find that the corresponding theta functions ar e sections of line bundles over complex 4-tori. This formalism allows us t o derive Seiberg-Witten curves for the resulting four-dimensional theories . Along the way\, we prove a duality for LSTs observed by Iqbal\, Hohenegg er and Rey.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9049/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9049/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:(2\,2) supersymmetric gauged theories for Calabi-Yau manifolds of Berglund-Hübsch class DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190906T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190906T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9051@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. We study a mirror interpretation of the relation bet ween the exact partition functions of N = (2\, 2) Gauged Linear Sigma Mode ls (GLSM) on the two sphere and Kähler potentials on the moduli spaces of the CY manifolds proposed by Jockers\, Kumar\, Lapan\, Morrison and Romo. \nWe use the Batyrev mirror construction for establishing the explicit rel ation between GLSM and the corresponding mirror family of the Calabi-Yau m anifolds\, defined as hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces.\n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/9051/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9051/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Invertible field transformations with derivatives: necessary and s ufficient conditions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190912T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190912T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9050@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We formulate explicitly the necessary and suffici ent conditions for the local invertibility of a field transformation invol ving derivative terms. Our approach is to apply the method of characterist ics of differential equations\, by treating such a transformation as diffe rential equations that give new variables in terms of original ones. The o btained results generalise the well-known and widely used inverse function theorem. Taking into account that field transformations are ubiquitous in modern physics and mathematics\, our criteria for invertibility will find many useful applications.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9050/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9050/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IFPU Colloquium: Chandra\, HST\, and Radio Observations of Cluster s of Galaxies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190924T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190924T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8931@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Clusters of galaxies are the most massive gravita tionally bound objects in the Universe. While most of their mass is Dark M atter\, the primary component of their visible matter is hot X-ray gas. A significant fraction of clusters are still growing through the infall of g roups of galaxies or through the mergers of clusters. These cluster merger s are the most energetic events in the present Universe\, after the Big Ba ng\, releasing energies up to 10^64 ergs. Cluster mergers leave distinct s ignatures on the intracluster medium in the form of shocked gas and diffus e radio sources\, relics. Most of the gravitational energy released during the merger is converted into shocks and gas turbulence in the cluster gas . This talk will highlight Chandra X-ray and radio results on the HST Fron tier Fields clusters MACSJ017.5+3745\, MACSJ1149.6+2223\, and A2744\, whic h are undergoing major mergers. Recent results on the merger of the A3411 and A3412 clusters show strong evidence for the electron re-acceleration a t the merger site. Finally this talk will highlight results from the HST R ELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey) which has led to the detection of very high redshift (z~10) galaxies which are strongly lensed by foregr ound clusters.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8931/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8931/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IFPU Colloquium: Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) at Work: The Effe cts of SMBH Outbursts on theEvolution of Gas Rich Galaxies\, Groups\, and Galaxy Clusters DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190924T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190924T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-8932@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) play key roles i n galaxy and cluster evolution. This is most clearly seen in the “fossil record” that is imprinted in the gas rich atmospheres of early type gal axies\, groups\, and clusters by powerful SMBH outbursts. I will discuss t he outburst history of M87 as chronicled in its radio and X-ray images and the implications of these outbursts for heating gas rich environments. Ba sed on a simple shock model of M87’s 12 Myr old outburst\, I will presen t the properties of the outburst including its age\, total energy\, and du ration. In addition to discussing the outburst around M87\, I will review the results of a galaxy survey that shows the effects of SMBH feedback on early type galaxies and has interesting implications for the growth of SMB Hs over cosmic time. I conclude by describing a future X-ray mission\, Lyn x\, whose sub-arcsecond angular resolution would allow us to study the evo lution of SMBHs and hot\, X-ray emitting atmospheres from high redshifts t o the present.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8932/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8932/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Status of Soft Theorem in D=4 (Its classical limit and understandi ng as Ward identity) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190926T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190926T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9046@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In recent years we explored the understanding of the soft factorization property of the S-matrix for a theory containing ma ssless particles(photon/graviton) when the energy of external massless par ticles are small (soft particles). Though the leading factorization is dis covered long ago (1965) by Weinberg\, it's understanding in the subleading order (for all loop order in S-matrix) was not much explored prior to our (with Sen) work due to the infrared divergence of S-matrix in D=4. For lo op corrected S-matrix\, we found that the subleading soft factorization co ntains terms logarithmic in soft energy. The classical limit of this logar ithmic terms in soft graviton theorem provides a new classical tail memory with the known permanent shift between the mirrors of gravitational wave detector. Currently\, we are trying to understand whether this soft expans ion can be understood as the Ward identity of any asymptotic symmetry.\n\n //indico.ictp.it/event/9046/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9046/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Primordial Features in the BAO spectrum DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191001T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191001T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9070@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. One of the main challenges in cosmology is to cha racterise the physics of inflation. While a single weakly-coupled scalar f ield rolling down a very flat potential satisfies the basic requirements t hat observations impose on an inflationary scenario\, a great number of ph enomena that could take place during inflation are still unconstrained by data. Primordial features are one example of this phenomena and a well-mot ivated proof of the early universe in their own right.\n In this talk\, we demonstrate that features in primordial spectra\, much like the standard BAO themselves\, are immune to the most basic nonlinear processes of the l ate universe and can be tested with the full statistical power of LSS surv eys. We perform a full fledged analysis of the BOSS survey data and put co nstraints on linearly and logarithmically spaced primordial oscillations w hich are competitive with the ones obtained from CMB observations. Further more\, we provide an extensive forecast of future surveys\, such as EUCLID \, DESI and SPHEREx\, showing that the future of constraining primordial f eatures is indeed in LSS observations.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9070/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9070/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IFPU Colloquium: Myth and truth about halo formation in CDM models DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191002T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191002T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9071@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The conventional wisdom in cosmology is that that cold-dark-matter haloes form out of initial density peaks and continuousl y accrete matter from the surroundings becoming more and more massive with time. These concepts form the basis of several semi-analytical tools that are regularly used to interpret data from galaxy and cluster surveys and develop galaxy-formation models (e.g. for the halo mass function\, merger trees\, and galaxy biasing). Using a suite of numerical simulations\, we p resent thorough tests of the established scenario and show that it is mand atory to introduce new elements in the theory of the gravitational collaps e of cold matter. In particular\, we demonstrate that filamentary structur es in the cosmic web inhibit accretion of new matter onto collapsed haloes . We also illustrate how this phenomenon explains the origin of the so-cal led 'assembly bias' for galaxy-sized haloes and also influences the dynami cs of satellite galaxies.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9071/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9071/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IFPU Colloquium: Fuzzy dark matter: constraints on parsec scales DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191002T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191002T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9072@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9072/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9072/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Extremal surfaces\, de Sitter entropy and entanglement in ghost th eories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191008T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191008T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9064@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We describe connected timelike codim-2 extremal s urfaces stretching between the future and past boundaries in the static co ordinatization of de Sitter space. These are analogous to rotated versions of certain surfaces in the AdS black hole. The existence of these surface s via the dS/CFT framework suggests the speculation that dS4 is dual to tw o copies of ghost-like CFTs in a thermofield-double-type entangled state. In studies of entanglement in ghost theories and "ghost-spin" chains\, we show that similar entangled states in two copies of ghost-spin ensembles a lways have positive norm and positive entanglement.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/9064/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9064/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Local G2 Geometry\, Gauge Theory and String Duality DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191015T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191015T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9145@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I will consider some physical aspects of a new cl ass of G2-holonomy spaces recently constructed by Foscolo\, Haskins and No rdstrom. These geometries are constructed as circle bundles over a local C alabi-Yau\, with an appropriate geometric condition on the first Chern cla ss on this bundle. I will explain how this condition naturally appears as the vacuum condition of the four dimensional N=1 gauge theory we get by co mpactifying type IIA string theory on the Calabi-Yau. I will also discuss the geometric transition and how these vacua relate to flat connections in an (S)U(N) theory on a quotient of the deformed conifold\, framed within an M-theory perspective.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9145/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9145/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:de Sitter Vacua\, Inflation and the Swampland DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191017T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191017T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9073@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Not all the effective field theories (EFTs) coupl ed to gravity admit a UV completion in String Theory. This suggests that q uantum gravity constraints can affect the physics at lower\, naively decou pled\, energies. What can we then say about EFTs of dS vacua and inflation ? Do they belong to the Swampland or to the Landscape? In this talk\, we f ocus on specific aspects of this question. First\, we critically analyse r ecent arguments which propose that interaction between the anti-D3 brane a nd bulk moduli prevent the formation of de Sitter vacua. We show that at t he 4d level this is never the case\, both in the KKLT and in the KL scenar io\, and that both structures remain fully compatible with the Weak Gravit y Conjecture. Secondly\, we discuss the significance for inflation of the Swampland Distance Conjecture\, a proposal for a quantum gravity constrain t acting at infinite distances.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9073/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9073/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gravitational collapse in SYK models and Choptuik-like phenomenon DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191024T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191024T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9060@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9060/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9060/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Coleman-De Luccia and related topics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191029T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191029T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9179@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We review various aspects of tunnelling transitio ns\, both in flat space and in the presence of gravity.\n\n//indico.ictp.i t/event/9179/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9179/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black Holes and Modular Calabi-Yau Manifolds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191031T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191031T113000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9148@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract. All elliptic curves over Q are modular. This is the statement of the Modularity Theorem that relates arithmetic properties of the elliptic curve to a modular form for SL(2\,Z). This modularity has b een (and still is) the subject of much research in Number Theory.\n \nAt first\, one might argue that this kind of modularity is irrelevant for phy sics. In this talk\, however\, I hope to present some recent work on (and examples of) "rank-2 attractors" which suggests that certain N=2 black hol es that arise in String Theory are sensitive to the modularity of a Calabi -Yau manifold.\n \nThis is work produced in collaboration with Philip Ca ndelas\, Xenia de la Ossa and Duco van Straten.\n \n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/9148/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9148/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BPS black holes\, refinement and mock modularity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191105T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191105T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9164@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I'll present recent results on modular properties of generating functions of degeneracies of BPS black holes appearing in s tring theory compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds. These generating functions turn out to be examples of (higher depth) mock modular forms and therefore have modular anomalies. I'll present the explicit form for thei r modular completions which becomes particularly simple in the presence of a refinement. In this case the construction suggests that the refinement induces a quantization of the corresponding moduli space. I'll also discus s implications of these results for Vafa-Witten theory and holomorphic ano maly equations for BPS partition functions.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9164 / LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9164/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spins of line operators in Yang-Mills theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191107T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191107T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9173@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9173/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9173/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A simple quantum test for smooth horizons DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191112T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191112T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9059@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Recently\, validity of Strong Cosmic Censorship c onjecture has been subject to extensive debate. Majority of the work has f ocussed on classical smoothness of inner horizon of Reissner-Nordstrom or Kerr black holes. We propose a necessary condition for smoothness of a qua ntum state in the vicinity of a null surface. We study "near-horizon" mode s defined near a patch of the null surface and show that\, in any smooth q uantum state\, these modes must be "correctly entangled". This test is con siderably simpler than computing the full renormalized stress tensor. We i mplement this test for Reissner Nordstrom black holes in Anti-de-Sitter sp ace and BTZ black holes. We provide evidence for instability of the Cauchy horizon of RN-AdS in the Hartle-Hawking state. For BTZ black holes\, we f ind that modes defined just outside the Cauchy horizon pass our test. We b riefly discuss the possibility and implications of extension of spacetime beyond the inner horizon.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9059/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9059/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black hole S-matrix and the infalling observer DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191114T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191114T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9143@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9143/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9143/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Brane configurations and tachyons at finite temperature in dense h olographic QCD DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191119T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191119T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9169@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9169/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9169/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Determination of the Higgs self-coupling at e+e- Higgs factories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191121T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191121T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9180@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9180/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Lecture Room B URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9180/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bulk entanglement entropy for photons and gravitons in AdS_3/CFT_2 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191126T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191126T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9146@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In this talk\, I will discuss holographic entangl ement entropy beyond the classical limit. The classical contribution to th e entanglement entropy is given by the area of the Ryu-Takayanagi surface\ , and Faulkner\, Lewkowycz and Maldacena showed that the quantum correctio ns arise from the bulk entanglement entropy across the RT surface. All fie lds in the low-energy effective field theory contribute to the bulk entang lement entropy\, including gauge fields and gravitons for which it is noto riously difficult to factorize the Hilbert space. I will consider the bulk entanglement entropy for photons and gravitons in AdS_3/CFT_2\, which ena bles an exact computation due to the topological nature of the degrees of freedom. In the vacuum where the CFT answer is fixed by symmetry\, I will show that the effect of the bulk entanglement entropy is to renormalize Ne wton's constant. For excited states\, I will show a perfect agreement betw een the bulk and CFT answers.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9146/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9146/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Kähler moduli stabilization fro m ten dimensions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191127T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191127T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9159@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9159/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9159/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Metastable antibranes and higher -form hydrodynamics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191127T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191127T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9160@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I will explain how higher-form hydrodynamics can be used to construct nonextremal brane effective actions in string theory whose extrema describe black hole solutions. Then I will show how those ef fective actions can be used to construct nonextremal metastable antibranes in Klebanov-Strassler and in M-theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9160/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9160/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hyper-non-Gaussianities\, strongly non-geodesic motion and imagina ry speed of sound DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191128T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191128T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9156@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Several recent proposals to embed inflation into high-energy physics rely on inflationary dynamics characterized by a stron gly non-geodesic motion. This in turn relaxes the conditions of slow-roll to allow for potentials that are steep in Planck units\, a welcome feature in view of the eta problem and the recently much discussed swampland conj ectures. In this talk I will present a general framework to study non-Gaus sianities in presence of non-geodesic trajectories in field space. This co nsists in deriving a non-standard single-field effective field theory with imaginary speed of sound supported (via a matching) by first-principle nu merical computations. I will then highlight how non-geodesic motion in fie lds space naturally leads to 'hyper-non-Gaussianities'\, i.e. the bispectr um and all higher-order correlation functions are hierarchically enhanced for particular flattened configurations. The result provides powerful mode l-independent constraints on non-standard inflationary attractors motivate d by the search for ultraviolet completions of inflation.\n\n//indico.ictp .it/event/9156/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9156/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:String theory on non-toric singularities DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191129T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191129T113000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9162@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. String theory on singular spaces is a rich playgr ound to study QFT's. On the one hand\, D3-branes probing singularities giv e rise to quiver gauge theories. On the other hand\, M-theory on ALE-fiber ed spaces gives rise to gauge theories\, whereby M2-branes wrapping except ional curves correspond to roots of Lie algebras.\n So far\, physicists ha ve mainly studied probes of non-compact toric Calabi-Yau spaces on the one hand\, and threefolds that give rise to simple flops "of length one" on t he M-theory side.\n Recently\, two important pieces of mathematics have fr uitfully been combined: The simultaneous Grothendieck resolution of famili es of ADE singularities\, and representations of Non-commutative Crepant R esolutions of singular threefolds. This opens the door to a whole new worl d of singular threefolds that were impossible to study before from either point of view. From the D3-probe perspective\, it means new non-Abelian qu iver gauge theories. From the M-theory side\, it means gauge theories with matter fields of higher electric charge.\n In the work that I will presen t\, I will pedagogically introduce these notions. I will then work out an explicit example\, and show how to see a flop transition in the quiver rep resentation language. So far\, such flop transitions were only understood abstractly. I will then show how such geometries can be applied to geometr ic engineering in M-theory.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9162/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9162/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Massive Supergravities and String Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191205T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191205T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9144@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9144/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9144/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IFPU Colloquium - Signatures from the Dark Universe DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191205T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191205T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9233@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The manifestation of the dark Universe began with unexpected large-scale astronomical observations. Though\, known physics fails to explain also a plethora of persisting small-scale atmospheric obs ervations. The key signature of all observations is their planetary relati onship. However\, planetary remote interactions are too feeble to cause an y significant effect\, while they are independently excluded by this work. The derived signatures are suggestive for streams of invisible particles\ , which interact "strongly"\, e.g.\, with the outer layers of atmosphere. The streams must be not relativistic\, for gravitational (self)focusing ef fects by the Sun and/or its planets to be effective. Experiments searching for dark matter\, either on purpose (e.g. CAST) or not\, could profit fro m the concept of invisible streams. A few favourite particle candidates wi ll also be presented. If time allows\, some question(s) and a spin-off wil l be mentioned.\n Further reading:\n 1) https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732 314400082\n 2) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2017.06.001\n \n  \n \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9233/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9233/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmological Probes of Fundamental Physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191210T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191210T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9196@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9196/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9196/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Replica wormholes and the black hole interior DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191212T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191212T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9234@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9234/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9234/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:λ φ4 in ds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191217T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191217T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9206@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9206/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9206/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Interpolating Between Asymptotic and Near Horizon Symmetries DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191219T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191219T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9245@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. We study interpolate between asymptotic and near horizon symmetries in the example of AdS3 black holes. In particular\, we match Brown--Henneaux boundary conditions at infinity\, which yields two V irasoro algebras\, to Heisenberg boundary conditions at the horizon yieldi ng two u(1) current algebras. Our construction allows to equip BTZ black h oles with soft hair excitations at the horizon invisible to the asymptotic observer.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9245/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9245/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dyonic black hole degeneracies in N = 4 string theory from Dabholk ar-Harvey Degeneracies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200114T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200114T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9238@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9238/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9238/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On the Complexity of Black Holes DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200204T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200204T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9239@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. In the last few years\, quantum computational com plexity from quantum information theory has become a thriving topic of res earch in the high-energy community due to its relationship to black holes. This relation stems from the AdS/CFT correspondence\, which relates the p roperties of quantum field theories to those of gravitational systems. I w ill describe these developments in detail. In particular\, I will discuss our progress towards understanding complexity for quantum field theory sta tes and the study of the relevant dual gravitational observables. I will e xplain the implications of these ideas on studying the interior of black h oles.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9239/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9239/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New Swampland Conjectures DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200205T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200205T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9274@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9274/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9274/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sub-MeV dark matter detection with superfluid He-4: an effective t heory approach DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200206T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200206T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9208@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. I will discuss the possibility of looking for sub -MeV dark matter using superfluid helium-4\, which is currently the most p romising proposal for such a mass range. In particular\, I will employ the recently developed relativistic effective theory for the superfluid phono n to describe the response of the detector to the passing dark matter. Bei ng formulated in a quantum field theory language\, this approach is partic ularly suitable for a particle physics problem like the one at hand\, and presents several advantages with respect to the standard techniques. I wil l apply the formalism to a model of dark matter with both a scalar and vec tor mediator\, and discuss what kind of constraints such an experiment can put on these model.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9208/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9208/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ultra-light scalar saving the 3 + 1 neutrino scheme from the cosmo logical bounds DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200213T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200213T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9261@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The LSND and MiniBooNE results as well as the rea ctor and Gallium anomalies seem to indicate the presence of a sterile neut rino with a mass of ∼1 eV mixed with active neutrinos. Such sterile neut rino can be produced in the early universe before the neutrino decoupling\ , leading to a contribution to the effective number of neutrinos ( Neff ) as well as to a contribution to the sum of neutrino masses which are in te nsion with cosmological observations. We propose a scenario to relax this tension by a Yukawa coupling of the sterile neutrinos to ultra-light scala r particles which contribute to the dark matter in the background. The cou pling induces an effective mass for νs which prevents its production in t he early universe. We discuss the implications for the upcoming KATRIN exp eriment and future relic neutrino search experiments such as PTOLEMY. We a lso briefly comment on certain non-renormalizable forms of interaction bet ween νs and the scalar and their consequences for the νs production in t he early universe.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9261/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9261/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Higgs inflation\, unitarity\, and emergence of scalaron DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200218T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200218T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9263@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. The vanilla Higgs inflation introduces a large no n-minimal coupling between the Ricci scalar and Higgs that causes tree-lev el unitarity violation well below the Planck scale. After reviewing the un itarity issue during and after inflation\, we show that the unitarity can be restored by summing over vacuum polarization-type diagrams. The scatter ing amplitude develops a pole after the resummation\, which we identify as the scalar component of the metric\, or the scalaron. It suggests that th e Higgs inflation is actually a multi-field inflation model\, i.e. Higgs n ad the scalaron\, and does not suffer from the unitarity issue.\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/9263/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9263/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Impossible Theories of Gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200220T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200220T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9270@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract. Not every effective theory of fields and gravitat ional interactions at low energy can be embedded into a consistent theory of gravity at short distances. I will discuss how fundamental properties o f scattering amplitudes\, such as unitarity and causality of the underlyin g fundamental theory\, can be used to spot inconsistent theories of gravit y at low-energy\, and hence throw them in the so-called EFT "swampland". I will focus on three main applications: the weak gravity conjecture for th e physics of extremal black holes\; and modified gravity theories such as Galileons and massive gravity\, of interest for late-time cosmology.\n\n// indico.ictp.it/event/9270/ LOCATION:ICTP Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9270/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Matching type-B conformal anomalies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200402T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200402T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9334@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9334/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 221-740-882 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9334/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"Principal Chiral Field at Large N" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200406T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200406T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9344@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9344/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 776 009 834 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9344/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Three Avatars of Mock Modularity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200407T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200407T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9335@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9335/ LOCATION:ZOOM Meeting Meeting ID: 221-740-882 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9335/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holomorphic anomaly in Vafa-Witten theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200414T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200414T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9346@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9346/ LOCATION:ZOOM Meeting Meeting ID: 221-740-882 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9346/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Non-relativistic supergravity and curved supersymmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200421T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200421T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9342@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9342/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 221-740-882 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9342/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hexagon Scattering Amplitude at the Origin DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200428T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200428T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9348@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:--- Please note unusual time!! ---\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9 348/ LOCATION:ZOOM Meeting Meeting ID: 221-740-882 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9348/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Fundamental Aspects of String Theory - Week 1 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200601T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200604T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9384@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Mini course of four lectures by Ashoke Sen on "D-Instanton Per turbation Theory"\nDue to Covid-19\, the workshop will be held online. Lin ks to the videoconferences will be available on the webpage.\nThere is no registration fee and all lectures will be broadcast live.https://www.ictp- saifr.org/workshop-on-fundamental-aspects-of-string-theory/\n\n//indico.ic tp.it/event/9384/ LOCATION:ICTP-SAIFR\, Sao Paulo\, Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9384/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Voronoi volume function: A new probe of cosmology and galaxy evolu tion DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200603T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200603T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260909T063922Z UID:indico-event-9370@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Please register in advance for this meeting:https://zoom.us/me eting/register/tJAsc--spzkqHN0_OmWi80dWNH3Tg89UtJna\nAfter registration\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9370/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9370/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR