Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Encuentro número 51 de Strings@ar

Estimados colegas y amigos,

Tenemos el agrado de anunciar el 52° Encuentro de la Red Strings@ar a realizarse el jueves 16 de agosto en el IAFE, Ciudad Universitaria, UBA, desde las 13:20 hs.


El programa del 52° Encuentro de Strings@ar será el siguiente:

13:20 - 13:30 hs: Apertura
13:30 - 14:30 hs: Juan Martin Maldacena (IAS-Princeton) 
TBA
14:30 - 14:45 hs: Café
14:45 - 15:45 hs: Sebastián Ardenghi (IAFE-UBA) 
TBA
15:45 - 16:00 hs: Café
16:00 - 17:00 hs: Alexander Zhiboedov (Princeton University)
Higher spin symmetry and its breaking in conformal field theories
I will review recent progress in studying conformal field theories (CFTs) with and without higher spin symmetry. First, I will discuss implications of higher spin symmetry for the correlation functions of conserved currents. Then I will focus on the constraints imposed by higher spin symmetry in the theories where it is broken at the quantum level. In the last part of the talk I will explain how the unitarity constraints the most general mechanism of higher spin symmetry breaking.
Esperamos verlos el jueves 16 de agosto próximo.