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SUMMARY:Doctoral Course: 'AdS/CFT Holography as a Framework for Quantum Gravity’
DESCRIPTION:Doctoral Course: ‘AdS/CFT Holography as a Framework for Quantum Gravity’ \n\n\nLecturer: José Calderón-Infante\n(Caltech)\n\n\n\n\n\nDates:\n📅9\, 10\, 11\, 12\, 16\, 17\, 18 March 2026\n🕒 10:00-12:00\n\nLocation:\n📍Sala Azul\, Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT)\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87999278090?pwd=5ghHKxbXBbbXa0AYbT1Di6PfJ6ydJG.1 \n\nCourse Overview\nThis course provides an introduction toAdS/CFT holography\, with a particular focus on its role as aframework for quantum gravity in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes.\nWe will begin by motivating the idea of holography in quantum gravity\, reviewing the geometry and physics of AdS\, and introducing some basics of conformal field theory (CFT). The course will then move to a more top-down perspective: after presenting the required ingredients of string theory\, we will discuss Maldacena’s decoupling argument and the AdS/CFT correspondence it leads to\, learning the AdS/CFT dictionary along the way.\nThe final part of the course will focus on AdS/CFT as a quantum gravity framework\, covering topics such as:\n\n\nHolographic CFTs\n\n\nBlack hole entropy in AdS/CFT\n\n\nBasics of bulk reconstruction and its relation to the absence of global symmetries in quantum gravity\n\n\nThe Swampland Distance Conjecture in AdS/CFT\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrerequisites:\nThe course only requires basic knowledge of differential geometry and quantum field theory. While some elements of string theory will appear\, all necessary ingredients will be introduced during the lectures.
URL:https://www.ift.uam-csic.es/event/doctoral-course-ads-cft-holography-as-a-framework-for-quantum-gravity/
LOCATION:Blue Room\, Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) - C. Nicolás Cabrera\, 13-15\, Fuencarral-El Pardo\, Madrid\, 28049\,\, Spain
CATEGORIES:IFT Courses,Training
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SUMMARY:SPS Journal Club: 'Quantum Obstructions to N=1 Infinite Distance Limits'
DESCRIPTION:Strings\, Pheno and the Swampland Journal Club \nTitle: ‘Quantum Obstructions to N=1 Infinite Distance Limits’ \nSpeaker: Jeroen Monnee (U. Hamburg) \nVenue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 \nAbstract: We study limits in the field space of 4d N=1 orientifold compactifications of Type IIB string theory with O3/O7-planes that descend from infinite distance limits in the complex structure moduli space of the underlying Calabi-Yau threefold. In particular\, we investigate the fate of such limits in the quantum-corrected field space. We find that such orientifolds can be grouped into two classes\, dubbed O-type A/B\, whose behaviours vary dramatically at the quantum level. For O-type A limits\, we observe that g_s-corrections become unsuppressed by observing that the degeneration of the geometry in the F-theory lift differs drastically from classical expectations. For O-type B limits we instead observe a similar behaviour for alpha’-corrections\, based on the classical inconsistency of EFT string probes combined with explicit computations of such corrections. Based on upcoming work with Lukas Kaufmann\, Timo Weigand\, and Max Wiesner.
URL:https://www.ift.uam-csic.es/event/quantum-obstructions-n1-infinite-distance-limits/
LOCATION:IFT Seminar Room/Red Room\, Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera\, 13-15\, Fuencarral-El Pardo\, Madrid\, 28049\,\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Journal clubs,Scientific activities
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SUMMARY:Pheno Journal Club
DESCRIPTION:Every Tuesday at 15:00 in Grey Room 3.
URL:https://www.ift.uam-csic.es/event/pheno-journal-club-10/
LOCATION:Grey Room 2\, Instituto de Física Teórica\, Madrid\, Madrid\, 28037\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Journal clubs,Scientific activities
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