March 23-27, 2009
Stony Brook University
String Field Theory has been an active area of research for the past several years. There have been important technical advances, especially in the construction of classical solutions of open string field theory. This Workshop aims to evaluate recent progress and outline the main open challenges. Can string field theory lead to a complete non-perturbative formulation of string theory?
String field theory has also interconnections with many areas of modern mathematics -- the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, non-commutative geometry, operads, homotopy associative and homotopy Lie algebras, to name just a few. More connections surely await to be discovered. A long-standing problem has been a lack of a precise definition of the allowed space of string functionals. To fulfill the Simons Center's mission, we are bringing together leading experts from the string theory community and a few interested mathematicians.
(all talks in Math Common Room - Math Tower 4-125 unless otherwise stated)
| Mar 23, 2009, Monday | |||||
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| 9:15AM | Coffee and refreshments | ||||
| 9:30AM | Zwiebach | String Field Theory: Progress and Challenges | |||
| 11:30AM | Douglas | ||||
| 2:30PM | Schwarz | Space and time in string field theory | Abstract | ||
| 4:00PM | Zwiebach | Double field theory from closed strings on tori | |||
| Mar 24, 2009, Tuesday | |||||
| 9:15AM | Coffee and refreshments | ||||
| 9:30AM | Getzler | Topics in Closed String Field Theory | |||
| 11:30AM | Rastelli | Comments on the Open String C* Algebra | |||
| 2:30PM | Huang | Representations of vertex operator algebras, open-closed conformal field theories and string field theory | Abstract | ||
| 4:00PM | Shatashvili | Background Independent String Field Theory: Overview and Open Questions | |||
| Mar 25, 2009, Wednesday | |||||
| 9:15AM | Coffee and refreshments | ||||
| 9:30AM | Schnabl | ||||
| 11:30AM | Kiermaier | ||||
| 2:30PM | Erler | ||||
| 4:00PM | Ellwood | ||||
| Mar 26, 2009, Thursday | |||||
| 9:15AM | Coffee and refreshments | ||||
| 9:30AM | Berkovits | Overview of Superstring Field Theory | Abstract | ||
| 11:30AM | Okawa | The boundary state from open string fields | Abstract | ||
| 2:30PM | Siegel | BRST: Particles vs. Strings | Abstract | ||
| 4:00PM | |||||
| Mar 27, 2009, Friday | |||||
| 9:15AM | Coffee and refreshments | ||||
| 9:30AM | Moeller | Light-like rolling in level truncation | Abstract | ||
| 11:00AM | Kroyter | ||||
| 12:00-12:30PM | Discussion | ||||