Current Topics in
String Theory
and
Cosmology

This is a 3-day meeting on Current topics in String theory and Cosmology at NISER, Bhubaneswar during the last weekend of April (24-26th of April, 2023).

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Speakers

The following speakers have confirmed their participation and to deliver talks, the list will be updated from time to time.

Aninda Sinha

IISc

Sunil Mukhi

IISER-Pune

Justin David

IISc

Gautam Mandal

TIFR

Shiraz Minwalla

TIFR

Debashis Ghoshal

JNU

Spenta Wadia

ICTS

Anshuman Maharana

HRI

Amitabh Virmani

CMI

Atri Deshamukhya

Assam University

Sandip Trivedi

TIFR

Dileep Jatkar

HRI

Samir Mathur

The Ohio State University

Sayantan Choudhury

CCSP

Jnanadeva Maharana

NISER

CS Bhamidipati

IIT Bhubaneswar

T R Govindarajan

IMSc

Local Organising Committee

Shamik Banerjee

bshamik@niser.ac.in
8582806501

Sayantani Bhattacharrya

sayanta@niser.ac.in
8172825521

Chethan N Gowdigere

chethan.gowdigere@niser.ac.in
9777118363

Yogesh Srivastava

yogeshs@niser.ac.in
7894254569

Accommodation

Accommodation will be provided to all the participants in NISER guest houses / flatlets during the period of the workshop.

Participants

Abhishek Chowdhury IIT Bhubaneswar
Aditya Singh IIT Bhubaneswar
Amitabh Virmani CMI
Aninda Sinha IISc
Anshuman Maharana HRI
Aritra Gosh IIT Bhubaneswar
Arkajyoti Bandyopadhyay IIT Bhubaneswar
Ashish Rawat NISER Bhubaneswar
Atri Deshamukhya Assam University
Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati IIT Bhubaneswar
Chethan N. Gowdigere NISER Bhubaneswar
Debabrata Sahu IIT Bhubaneswar
Debashis Ghoshal JNU
Dileep Jatkar HRI
Gautam Mandal TIFR
Jnanadeva Maharana NISER Bhubaneswar
Justin David IISc
Manu Akavoor IOP Bhubaneswar
Milan Patra NISER Bhubaneswar
Mousumi Maitra NISER Bhubaneswar
Parashar Chatterjee NISER Bhubaneswar
Pavan Yerra IOP Bhubaneswar
Poulami Mukherji IIT Bhubaneswar
Raju Mandal NISER Bhubaneswar
Sachin Kala NISER Bhubaneswar
Sagnik Misra NISER Bhubaneswar
Samir Mathur The Ohio State University
Sandip Trivedi TIFR
Sayantan Choudhury CCSP
Sayantani Bhattacharyya NISER Bhubaneswar
Shamik Banerjee NISER Bhubaneswar
Shiraz Minwalla TIFR
Shuvayu Roy NISER Bhubaneswar
Somnath Maity IIT Bhubaneswar
Sourav Maji IIT Bhubaneswar
Spenta Wadia ICTS
Subhodip Bandyopadhyay NISER Bhubaneswar
Sudhakar Panda NISER Bhubaneswar
Sunil Mukhi IISER Pune
T R Govindarajan IMSc
Yogesh K Srivastava NISER Bhubaneswar

Schedule of Talks

09:30 - 13:00

09:30 - 10:30 | Spenta Wadia, ICTS
Modeling Black Hole Dissipation in the SYK model

10:30 - 11:30 | T R Govindarajan, IMSc
Ultra LIGHT dark matter

11:30 - 12:00 | Tea Break

12:00 - 13:00 | Shiraz Minwalla, TIFR
End point of the superradiant instability of Kerr-AdS black holes

13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break

14:30 - 18:00

14:30 - 15:30 | Sayantan Choudhury, CCSP
Quantum loop effects on PBH formation from EFT of single field inflation

15:30 - 16:00 | Tea Break

16:00 - 17:00 | Dileep Jatkar, HRI
Utility of the DBI counter-term

17:00 - 18:00 | Samir Mathur, The Ohio State University [ONLINE]
-TBA-

09:00 - 12:30

09:00 - 10:00 | Jnanadeva Maharana, NISER Bhubaneswar
Production of KK States in Large Radius Compactification Scenario

10:00 - 11:00 | Gautam Mandal, TIFR
-TBA-

11:00 - 11:30 | Tea Break

11:30 - 12:30 | Aninda Sinha, IISc
The Bootstrap; Resurrections

12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:00

14:00 - 15:00 | Justin David, IISc
Entanglement properties of the graviton

15:00 - 16:00 | Debashis Ghoshal, JNU
Modular forms: deconstructed, Mellin-ed

09:30 - 13:00

09:30 - 10:30 | Sandip Trivedi, TIFR
JT gravity in deSitter Space

10:30 - 11:30 | Anshuman Maharana, HRI
-TBA-

11:30 - 12:00 | Tea Break

12:00 - 13:00 | Amitabh Virmani, CMI
Gravitational Dynamics in de Sitter Spacetime: A status report

13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break

14:30 - 18:00

14:30 - 15:30 | Sunil Mukhi, IISER Pune [ONLINE]
-TBA-

15:30 - 16:00 | Tea Break

16:00 - 17:00 | Atri Deshamukhya, Assam University
-TBA-

17:00 - 18:00 | Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati, IIT Bhubaneswar
-TBA-

Sponsors

[Parent] : Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India
[Host] : National Institute of Science Education and Research

Contact Us

Postal contact address:

Organisers, "Current Topics in String Theory and Cosmology"
School of Physical Sciences
National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
PO: NISER, Via: Jatni, District: Khurda, Odisha - 752050

 

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  •   bshamik@ / sayanta@ / chethan.gowdigere@ / yogeshs@ [niser.ac.in]
  • School of Physical Sciences, NISER
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  • bshamik/sayanta/chethan.gowdigere/yogeshs [@niser.ac.in]