Name: Mikefest: A conference in honor of Michael Douglas' 60th birthday
Start: 2022-05-09T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-05-13T17:20:00+02:00
Location: Le Bois-Marie

Monday, May 9, 2022
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

10:00 AM Adventures in Theoretical Physics (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Shamit KACHRU (Stanford University)

11:30 AM Bootstrap for Lattice Yang-Mills Theory (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Volodya KAZAKOV (LPENS)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

2:00 PM Exotic Fields, Tensionless Strings and Gravity (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Chris HULL (Imperial College)

3:00 PM Prolate Wave Operator and Zeta (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Alain CONNES (IHES & Collège de France)

4:30 PM Remote Talk - Exotic Field Theories: Lifshitz Theory, Tensor Gauge Theory, and Fractons (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Nathan SEIBERG (IAS)
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

9:00 AM Quantum Complexity, Dynamical Chaos, and the Interior Structure of Black Holes (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Vijay BALASUBRAMANIAN (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 AM Infrared Dynamics of QCD Theories (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Jaume GOMIS (Perimeter Institute)

11:30 AM New Life of D-branes in Math (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Maxim KONTSEVICH (IHES)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

2:00 PM Flat Space Holography (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - John SCHWARZ (Caltech)

3:00 PM Remote talk - Critical Points of Random Super-potentials and Spin Glasses (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Steve ZELDITCH (Northwestern University)

4:30 PM Remote talk - BI for AI: Energy Conserving Dynamics for Optimization and Sampling (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Eva SILVERSTEIN (Stanford University)
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

9:00 AM Persistent Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at High Temperatures (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Eliezer RABINOVICI (HUJI)

10:00 AM Scale Separation in String Theory (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Alessandro TOMASIELLO (Univ. Milano Bicocca)

11:30 AM Truncated Affine Rozansky-Witten Models as Extended TQFTs (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Ilka BRUNNER (Univ. München)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

2:00 PM Remote talk - Random Regular Graphs and Critical Phenomena in the Forest (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Alexander GORSKY (IITP RAS, MIPT)

3:00 PM Remote Talk - Square Dancing from the Viewpoint of a Mathematical Physicist (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Greg MOORE (Rutgers University)

4:30 PM Remote Talk - Mike and Matrices (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Steve SHENKER (Stanford University)
Thursday, May 12, 2022
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

9:00 AM Deep Learning for Formal Reasoning (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Christian SZEGEDY (Google Research)

10:00 AM Some News from the Semantic AI Paradise (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Josef URBAN (CIIRC)

11:30 AM Why Explain Mathematics to Computers? (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Patrick MASSOT (LMO, Université Paris-Saclay)
12:30 PM Lunck break
Lunck break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

2:00 PM Embedding of Low-Dimensional Attractor Manifolds by Neural Networks (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Rémi MONASSON (LPENS)

3:00 PM Remote talk - Dependent Type Theory from the Perspective of Mathematics, Physics, and Artificial Intelligence (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - David MCALLESTER (TTIC)

4:30 PM Remote talk - Computational Principles Underlying the Temporal Organization of Behavior (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Luca MAZZUCATO (University of Oregon)
Friday, May 13, 2022
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

9:00 AM Radiation from Matrix Models (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Bartomeu FIOL (University of Barcelona)

10:00 AM Flux Vacua and the Cosmological Constant (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Liam MCALLISTER (Cornell University)

11:30 AM TBC (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Frederik DENEF (Columbia University)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

2:00 PM Remote talk - Spectral Flow Construction of $N=2$ Superconformal Orbifolds (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Alexander BELAVIN (Independant University of Moscow)

3:00 PM Remote talk - How Natural is the Standard Model in the String Landscape? (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Washington TAYLOR (MIT)