Mikefest: A conference in honor of Michael Douglas' 60th birthday

Session

Afternoon chair: Laurent Baulieu

May 9, 2022, 2:00 PM

Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons (Le Bois-Marie)

3. Exotic Fields, Tensionless Strings and Gravity (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn)

Prof. Chris HULL (Imperial College)

5/9/22, 2:00 PM

4. Prolate Wave Operator and Zeta (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn)

Prof. Alain CONNES (IHES & Collège de France)

5/9/22, 3:00 PM

This is joint work with Henri Moscovici in which we show that the ultraviolet spectrum of the selfadjoint extension of the prolate wave operator matches the squares of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function.

5. Remote Talk - Exotic Field Theories: Lifshitz Theory, Tensor Gauge Theory, and Fractons (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn)

Prof. Nathan SEIBERG (IAS)

5/9/22, 4:30 PM

Over the past few years, many exotic lattice systems with peculiar properties were found. Some of their peculiarities include particles with restricted mobility, large ground-state degeneracy, and long-distance sensitivity to short-distance details. Consequently, these theories do not have a standard continuum limit.

Together with Pranay Gorantla, Ho Tat Lam, and Shu-Heng Shao, we have...