Holography and the Swampland - Collaboration kick-off meeting

Monday 21 Feb 2022, 09:00 → 15:30 Europe/Berlin

This online meeting initiates the newly founded German-Israeli Project (DIP) on 'Holography and the Swampland' between members of the groups at Ben-Gurion-University, the Weizmann Institute, the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Würzburg University and Hamburg University/DESY. 

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome

Speaker: Dieter Lüst (MPI Munich)

09:05 → 09:45 A tour of existing work connecting holography and the Swampland

Speaker: Eran Palti (Ben Gurion University)

DIP Talk.pdf

Palti.mp4

09:45 → 10:25 A convexity conjecture for charged operators in CFTs

Speaker: Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Institute)

Aharony.mp4

10:25 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 11:40 Information theory concepts for holographic dualities

Speaker: Johanna Erdmenger (Würzburg University )

Erdmenger.mp4

11:40 → 12:20 Black Holes and the Swampland

Speaker: Dieter Lüst (MPI Munich)

Lüst.mp4

Lüst-Slides.pdf

12:20 → 13:50 Break

13:50 → 14:30 Monodromy Inflation and Swampland Constraints

Speaker: Alexander Westphal (DESY)

DIPkickoff_2022_AWslides.pdf

Westphal.mp4

14:30 → 15:30 Discussion