Theoretical Physics 

Theoretical Physics 

 

The recent research effort in theoretical physics has somewhat fragmented into several focus areas with diminishing levels of crosstalk between them. These areas include: the study of the mathematical structure of scattering amplitudes; the holographic duality between quantum gravity and strongly coupled field theories; connections between random matrix theory and the gravity path integral; the conformal bootstrap; and the swampland program. Overlapping between these areas opens questions, including the factorization problem imposed by spacetime wormholes; the weak gravity conjecture that requires the existence of particles with a large enough charge to mass ratio; of finding gravitational solutions to the conformal bootstrap, and many more. This conference brings together world leading experts in the various subfields of theoretical physics to discuss these open problems.

Convened by
Ahmed Almheiri, Assistant Professor of Physics, NYUAD

In collaboration with