Workshop Description

This is the latest in a long-running biannual series of meetings amongst the Southern California string theory groups.

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Schedule

8:30-9:00	Coffee/pastries/chit-chat
9:00-10:30	Simone Giombi, Princeton University:"Wilson loops and 1d defect CFT"
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Adam Levine, UC Berkeley: "Variations of Entropy and Defect OPEs"
12:30-2:00	Lunch break
2:00-3:30	Nathan Benjamin, Princeton University: "A new twist on the modular bootstrap"
3:30-4:00	Coffee break
4:00-5:30	Gary Horowitz, UCSB: "A Mysterious Cosmic Censorship - Weak Gravity Connection"

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Logistics

Where: The talks will be held in the first-floor auditorium of the Beckman Institute on Wilson Avenue. It's a large tan building (see photo and campus map indicating Beckman Institute.) Entry to the auditorium is easy from the east courtyard (west of the DNA Fountain).

Note: this is not "Beckman Auditorium", which is a cylindrical white building that holds over 1000 people (sadly, not our expected attendance).

Parking: The parking lot nearest to the event, with pay stations, is on Wilson Avenue, across the street from the Beckman Institute (Parking Structure 1). If you would like a free parking pass, please email your mailing address to our group administrator, Carol Silberstein, by Tuesday, May 14; she will send you a pass in the mail.

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Contacts

Carol Silberstein: carol@theory.caltech.edu

Eric Perlmutter: perl@caltech.edu