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

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

de lundi 9 mai 2022 (09:00) à vendredi 13 mai 2022 (17:20)

lundi 9 mai 2022
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

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

11:30 Bootstrap for Lattice Yang-Mills Theory (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Volodya KAZAKOV (LPENS)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
14:00
14:00 - 17:30
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

14:00 Exotic Fields, Tensionless Strings and Gravity (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Chris HULL (Imperial College)

15:00 Prolate Wave Operator and Zeta (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Alain CONNES (IHES & Collège de France)

16:30 Remote Talk - Exotic Field Theories: Lifshitz Theory, Tensor Gauge Theory, and Fractons (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Nathan SEIBERG (IAS)
mardi 10 mai 2022
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

09:00 Quantum Complexity, Dynamical Chaos, and the Interior Structure of Black Holes (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Vijay BALASUBRAMANIAN (University of Pennsylvania)

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

11:30 New Life of D-branes in Math (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Maxim KONTSEVICH (IHES)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
14:00
14:00 - 17:30
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

14:00 Flat Space Holography (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - John SCHWARZ (Caltech)

15:00 Remote talk - Critical Points of Random Super-potentials and Spin Glasses (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Steve ZELDITCH (Northwestern University)

16:30 Remote talk - BI for AI: Energy Conserving Dynamics for Optimization and Sampling (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Eva SILVERSTEIN (Stanford University)
mercredi 11 mai 2022
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

09:00 Persistent Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at High Temperatures (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Eliezer RABINOVICI (HUJI)

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

11:30 Truncated Affine Rozansky-Witten Models as Extended TQFTs (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Ilka BRUNNER (Univ. München)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
14:00
14:00 - 17:30
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

14:00 Remote talk - Random Regular Graphs and Critical Phenomena in the Forest (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Alexander GORSKY (IITP RAS, MIPT)

15:00 Remote Talk - Square Dancing from the Viewpoint of a Mathematical Physicist (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Greg MOORE (Rutgers University)

16:30 Remote Talk - Mike and Matrices (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Steve SHENKER (Stanford University)
jeudi 12 mai 2022
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

09:00 Deep Learning for Formal Reasoning (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Christian SZEGEDY (Google Research)

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

11:30 Why Explain Mathematics to Computers? (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Patrick MASSOT (LMO, Université Paris-Saclay)
12:30 Lunck break
Lunck break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
14:00
14:00 - 19:15
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

14:00 Embedding of Low-Dimensional Attractor Manifolds by Neural Networks (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Rémi MONASSON (LPENS)

15:00 Remote talk - Dependent Type Theory from the Perspective of Mathematics, Physics, and Artificial Intelligence (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - David MCALLESTER (TTIC)

16:30 Remote talk - Computational Principles Underlying the Temporal Organization of Behavior (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Luca MAZZUCATO (University of Oregon)
vendredi 13 mai 2022
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

09:00 Radiation from Matrix Models (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Bartomeu FIOL (University of Barcelona)

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

11:30 TBC (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Frederik DENEF (Columbia University)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons
Contributions

14:00 Remote talk - Spectral Flow Construction of $N=2$ Superconformal Orbifolds (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Alexander BELAVIN (Independant University of Moscow)

15:00 Remote talk - How Natural is the Standard Model in the String Landscape? (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn) - Washington TAYLOR (MIT)