IAS Workshop on Black Holes, Inflation and Gravitational Waves

Program

Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST


Updated as of Jan 2, 2019

Time
Event
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
Session I
Chair: Yi WANG
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
09:00 - 10:00
Black Hole Spectroscopy and AdS(2) Holography [Abstract]
Finn LARSEN
University of Michigan
10:00 - 11:00
Entanglement Structure, Causality, and Energy Conditions in QFTs [Abstract]
Huajia WANG
University of California, Santa Barbara
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
11:30 - 12:30
Modular Bootstrap of Solvable Irrelevant Deformations [Abstract]
Yunfeng JIANG
CERN
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch (By Invitation Only; Venue: UniQue, Conference Lodge)
Session II
Chair: Antonino MARCIANO
Fudan University
14:00 - 15:00
Reinterpreting Low Frequency LIGO/Virgo Events as Gravitationally-Lensed Magnified Stellar-Mass Black Hole Mergers at Cosmological Distances
George SMOOT
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(IAS TT & WF Chao Foundation Professor)
15:00 - 16:00
Positivity Bounds in Effective Field Theories [Abstract]
Shuang-Yong ZHOU
The University of Science and Technology of China
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
16:30 - 17:30
Generalized Uncertainty Principle, White Dwarfs, and Cosmological Constant [Abstract]
Yen Chin ONG
Yangzhou University
17:30 - 18:30
Excursion in Hyperbolic Space during Inflation [Abstract]
Dong-Gang WANG
Leiden University
Time
Event
Session III
Chair: Shuang-Yong ZHOU
The University of Science and Technology of China
09:00 - 10:00
Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Coalescences of Primordial Black Hole [Abstract]
Qing-Guo HUANG
Chinese Academy of Sciences
10:00 - 11:00
Primordial Black Holes from Inflationary Sound Speed Resonance [Abstract]
Yi-Fu CAI
The University of Science and Technology of China
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
11:30 - 12:30
Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates [Abstract]
Cristiano GERMANI
University of Barcelona
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch (By Invitation Only; Venue: UniQue, Conference Lodge)
Session IV
Chair: Yi-Fu CAI
The University of Science and Technology of China
14:00 - 15:00
Gravitational Waves from Dark Bubbles in the Early Universe [Abstract]
Antonino MARCIANO
Fudan University
15:00 - 16:00
Gravitational Dynamics of Near-Nariai Black Holes [Abstract]
Zhenbin YANG
Princeton University
16:00 - 16:30
Group Photo Taking and Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
16:30 - 17:30
Regenesis and Quantum Traversable Wormholes [Abstract]
Ping GAO
Harvard University
17:30 - 18:00
Short Break
18:00
Banquet (By Invitation Only; Venue: Sai Kung)
*Coach departs from the IAS at 18:00 and returns at 20:30
Time
Event
Session V
Chair: Finn LARSEN
University of Michigan
09:00 - 10:00
Non-extremal Black Holes, Thermodynamics of Inner Horizons and Holography [Abstract]
Mirjam CVETIC
University of Pennsylvania
10:00 - 11:00
Near Extremal Black Holes and Holography [Abstract]
Ioannis PAPADIMITRIOU
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
11:30 - 12:30
Rotating Horizons and Holography [Abstract]
Dionysios ANNINOS
King's College London
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch (By Invitation Only; Venue: UniQue, Conference Lodge)
Session VI
Chair: Dionysios ANNINOS
King's College London
14:00 - 15:00
Noether's Theorem and Gauge-Gravity Duality [Abstract]
Sebastian DE HARO
University of Amsterdam and Harvard University
15:00 - 16:00
Quantum Dynamics in Curved 2d CFT: Sine-square Deformed CFT [Abstract]
Jie-qiang WU
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break (Venue: Open Area, 2/F)
16:30 - 17:30
Spin and Quadrupole Corrections to EMRIs [Abstract]
Jiang LONG
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics