Higher-spin (HS) gauge theories involve a massless particle of spin two, that is a graviton, together with (typically infinitely many) gauge fields of spin greater than two. An important motivation for their study originates from the long-standing difficulties encountered in the quantisation of gravity, which impel to explore extensions thereof that may have a better UV behaviour. Including fields of spin greater than two is mainly suggested by two observations: the constraints brought by a larger gauge symmetry may remove some UV divergences as supersymmetry does, and string theory does involve fields of arbitrary spin. HS gauge theories are indeed models of intermediate complexity with respect to these examples, and aspire to improve the UV behaviour of supergravity models without resorting to fully-fledged string theory and its plethora of additional particles.
The ESI programme is expected to foster further progress on the following developments:
The programme is organized as follows:
Week 1: March 11 - 15, 2019 Introductory talks and seminar talks + public talk
Talk Schedule Week 1 Flyer (pdf)
Public Talk Prof. Marc Henneaux (U Libre de Bruxelles)
Gravitation and Quantum Mechanics: the biggest crisis in modern physics?
Flyer (pdf)
Week 2: March 18 - 22, 2019 Workshop
Talk Schedule Workshop Flyer (pdf)
Week 3: March 25 - 29, 2019 Seminar talks and discussions
Talk Schedule Week 3 Flyer (pdf)
Week 4: April 1 - 5, 2019 Seminar talks and discussions
Talk Schedule Week 4 Flyer (pdf)
Coming soon.
Organizers
Name | Affiliation |
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Andrea Campoleoni | University of Mons |
Stefan Fredenhagen | University of Vienna |
Matthias Gaberdiel | ETH Zürich |
Daniel Grumiller | Technical University of Vienna |
Mikhail Vasiliev | Lebedev Physical Institute |
Attendees
Name | Affiliation |
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Hamid Reza Afchar | Technical University of Vienna |
Martin Ammon | University of Jena |
Dionysios Anninos | King's College London |
Arjun Bagchi | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
Thomas Basile | University of Mons |
Dario Benedetti | University Paris Sud |
Klaus Bering | Masaryk University |
Alejandra Castro | University of Amsterdam |
Abhishek Chowdhury | Technical University of Vienna |
Sumit Ranjan Das | University of Kentucky |
David De Filippi | University of Mons |
Nicolas Delporte | Université Paris-Saclay |
Stephane Detournay | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Viacheslav Didenko | Lebedev Physical Institute |
Lorenz Eberhardt | ETH Zürich |
Marc-Antoine Fiset | University of Oxford |
Dario Francia | Università Roma Tre |
Oscar Fuentealba | Centro de Estudios Cientificos |
Olga Gelfond | Lebedev Physical Institute |
Rajesh Gopakumar | International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |
Maxim Grigoriev | University of Mons |
Marc Henneaux | Free University of Brussels |
Yasuaki Hikida | Kyoto University |
Carlo Iazeolla | Guglielmo Marconi University |
Antal Jevicki | Brown University |
Euihun Joung | Kyung Hee University |
Yegor Korovin | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Anatolii Korybut | Lebedev Physical Institute |
Konstantinos Koutrolikos | Brown University |
Olaf Krüger | University of Vienna |
Shailesh Lal | University of Porto |
Wei Li | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Iva Lovrekovic | Imperial College London |
Sucheta Majumdar | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Javier Matulich | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Wout Merbis | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Nikita Misuna | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
Karapet Mkrtchyan | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
Ruben Monten | IPhT Saclay |
Mojtaba Najafizadeh | IPM |
Cheng Peng | Brown University |
Alfredo Perez | Centro de Estudios Cientificos |
Dmitry Ponomarev | Texas A & M University |
Massimo Porrati | New York University |
Predrag Prester | University of Rijeka |
Tomas Prochazka | Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences |
Stefan Prohazka | University of Vienna |
Joris Raeymaekers | CEICO Prague |
rakibur Rahman | University of Dhaka |
Radoslav Rashkov | Sofia University |
Vincent Rivasseau | Université Paris Sud |
Jan Rosseel | Ruđer Bošković Institute |
Jakob Salzer | University of Barcelona |
Maria Schimpf | Technical University of Vienna |
Ergin Sezgin | Texas A & M University |
Eugene Skvortsov | University of Mons |
Charlotte Sleight | Institute for Advanced Study |
Jiro Soda | Kobe University |
Dmitri Sorokin | INFN |
Harold Steinacker | University of Vienna |
Georg Stettinger | University of Groningen |
Bo Sundberg | University of Stockholm |
Per Sundell | Universidad Andrés Bello |
Massimo Taronna | Princeton University |
David Tempo | Centro de Estudios Cientificos |
Stefan Theisen | Albert-Einstein-Institute |
Ricardo Troncoso | Centro de Estudios Cientificos |
Takahiro Uetoko | Ritsumeikan University |
Orestis Vasilakis | CEICO Prague |
Timm Wrase | Lehigh University |
Raphaela Wutte | Arizona State University |
Yihao Yin | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
Junggi Yoon | Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics |
Yurii Zinoviev | Institute for High Energy Physics |
Celine Zwikel | Technical University of Vienna |