Nambu Memorial Symposium

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March 11 - 13, 2016
The University of Chicago
William Eckhardt Research Center
Room 161
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago IL 60637 USA


Program

Friday, March 11th

8:30am - 9:00am
Registration; Coffee and refreshments
9:00am - 9:15am
Welcome and introductory remarks

Session chair: Jon Rosner
9:15am - 10:00am
Peter Freund/Lars Brink - "Nambu and the importance of proceedings" (pdf)
10:00am - 11:00am
Pierre Ramond - "Hommage à Nambu" (pdf)
11:00am - 12:00pm
Hitoshi Murayama - "Nambu-Goldstone bosons, dark pions, and effective operators" (pdf)

12:00pm - 1:30pm
Lunch

Session chair: Markus Luty
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Cumrun Vafa - "Fundamental Lessons From String Theory" (pdf)
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Michael Dine - "Light Scalars and the Cosmos: Nambu-Goldstone and Otherwise" (pdf)
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Coffee break

Session chair: Bill Bardeen
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Lisa Randall - "A 750 GeV Scalar: Sign of Strong Dynamics?/Bulk RS?" (pdf)
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Burt Ovrut - "The Minimal SUSY B-L Model: From Unification to the LHC" (pdf)

Sumit Das - "Old And New Scaling Laws In Quantum Quench" (pdf)

Saturday, March 12th

Session chair: Michael Douglas
8:30am - 9:30am
Dam Son - "The Dirac composite fermion of the fractional quantum Hall effect" (pdf)
9:30am - 10:30am
Subir Sachdev - "Emergent gauge fields and high temperature superconductivity" (pdf)
10:30am - 11:00am
Coffee break
11:00am - 12:00pm
Stephen Shenker - "Quantum gravity and quantum chaos" (pdf)

12:00pm - 1:30pm
Lunch

Session chair: Thom Curtright
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Nathan Seiberg - "Gapped Boundary Phases of Topological Insulators via Weak Coupling" (pdf)
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Igor Klebanov - "On CFTs with Four-Fermion Interactions" (pdf)
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Coffee break

Session chair: Lars Brink
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Juan Maldacena - "Models for the Vacuum" (pdf)
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Andrew Strominger - "Nambu-Goldstone Bosons in QED and Black Hole Information" (pdf)
6:00pm - 6:45pm
Reception @ The Quad Club
6:45pm - 9:15pm
Dinner @ The Quad Club

Sunday, March 13th

Session chair: Anton Kapustin
9:00am - 10:00am
Gregory Moore - "Monopolia" (pdf)
10:00am - 11:00am
Hirosi Ooguri - "Characterizing the Swampland" (pdf)
11:00am - 11:30am
Coffee break
11:30am - 12:30pm
Tohru Eguchi - "Moonshine phenomena in string theory" (pdf)

12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch