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Quark Confinement

The workshop will focus on recent developments in our understanding of color confinement and QCD strings from a wide variety of perspectives, ranging from field theory to string theory, including both analytic and numerical techniques.  The workshop is planned as in-person event.  We plan to have about 40 active participants, but the number of talks per day will be kept limited so that there
is plenty of time for informal interaction and collaboration.

 

Please see our Google drive for PDF's of the presentation slides and 

our YouTube channel for recordings of the talks


Invited Participants
Bruno B

Bruno Balthazar

The University of Chicago

Georg Bergner

Georg Bergner

University of Jena

Bastian Brandt

Bastian Brandt

Bielefeld University

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Andrea Bulgarelli

University of Turin

Michele Caselle

Michele Caselle

University of Turin

Shi Chen

Shi Chen

Tokyo University

Gabriel Cuomo

Gabriel Cuomo

SCGP, Stony Brook University

Ross Dempsey

Ross Dempsey

Princeton University

Sergei Dubovsky

Sergei Dubovsky

New York University

Thomas Dumitrescu

Thomas Dumitrescu

University of California, Los Angeles

Gregory Gabadadze

Gregory Gabadadze

New York University

Barak Gabai

Barak Gabai

Harvard University

Matthias Gaberdiel

Matthias Gaberdiel

ETH Zurich

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Francesco Galvagno -

ETH Zurich 

Victor Gorbenko

Victor Gorbenko

Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Jeff Greensite

Jeff Greensite

San Francisco State University

David Gross

David Gross

KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara

Andrea Guerrieri

Andrea Guerrieri

University of Padua & the Perimeter Institute

Etsuko Itou

Etsuko Itou

YITP, Kyoto University

Theo Jacobson

Theo Jacobson

University of Minnesota

Christian Jepsen

Christian Jepsen

SCGP, StonyBrook

Ilia Kochergin

Ilia Kochergin

Princeton University

Zohar Komargodski

Zohar Komargodski

SCGP, Stony Brook University

Martin Kruczenski

Martin Kruczenski

Purdue University

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Alessandro Nada

University of Turin

Emily Nardoni

Emily Nardoni

Kavli IPMU

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Vladimir Narovlansky

Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics

Stefano Negro

Stefano Negro

New York University

Maria Neuzil

Maria Neuzil

University of Minnesota

Fedor Popov

Fedor Popov

New York University

Erich Poppitz

Erich Poppitz

University of Toronto

Thimo Preis

Thimo Preis

University of Heidelberg

Jiaxin Qiao

Jiaxin Qiao

Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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Grant Remmen

KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara

Srimoyee Sen

Srimoyee Sen

Iowa State University

Benjamin Sogaard

Benjamin Sogaard

Princeton University

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Zimo Sun

Princeton University

Tin Sulejmanpasic

Tin Sulejmanpasic

Durham University

Bo Sundborg

Bo Sundborg

Stockholm University

Yuya Tanizaki

Yuya Tanizaki

Kyoto University

Grigory Tarnopolsky

Grigory Tarnolpolsky

Carnegie Mellon University

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Varun Vaidya

University of South Dakota

Arkady Vainshtein

Arkady Vainshtein

FTPI, University of Minnesota

Raju Venugopalan

Raju Venugopalan

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Matthew Walters

Matthew Walters

Trinity College

Yuan Xin

Yuan Xin

Yale University

Bernardo Zan

Bernardo Zan

Princeton University

Location

Workshop Location:

The workshop will be held in Keller Hall 3-180 on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

The building can be accessed via the main doors on Washington Avenue and the side doors on Union Street and the Scholars Walk.

Banquet Location:

The banquet for workshop participants will be held on Thursday, May 4th at 6:00 pm in University Hall at the McNamara Alumni Center.

Getting to the University of Minnesota:

Once you land at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP), you have several options you can take to get to the University of Minnesota (UMN).

The Metro Transit Light Rail is the most efficient and cost effective mode of travel. It will cost $2.00 or $2.50 (rush hours) for a one-way ticket. The trains run every 10 - 15 minutes on weekdays and will get you to the UMN campus in about 30 minutes. From MSP, take the Blue Line north to US Bank Station. From there you will transfer to the Green Line and take that east to East Bank Station or Stadium Village Station. Find more information on the Light Rail Transit page of the MSP website

Shuttle service is available from MSP, however the waits can be long and cost may be high at $20.00 - $73.00 depending on whether you share the ride or travel alone. To learn more see the Van and Shuttle service page of the MSP website

Taxi services are available at MSP, including Uber and Lyft. It will take approximately 30 - 60 minutes to get to campus depending on traffic and will cost between $25.00 - $60.00. Visit the Ground Transportation page of the MSP website for more information on app-based ride services. 

Car rental is not recommended. Parking around campus is limited and can be expensive.

Local Restaurants:

Please see our Restaurant Locations Map for ideas on where to eat in the area. 

Lodging

Lodging for non-local invited speakers will be provided by the workshop sponsors at the Graduate Minneapolis (room and tax only). The hotel is within blocks of the workshop venue and about 30 minutes from the MSP airport. Light-rail transit, Taxi or SuperShuttle service is available for transportation to the hotel and/or workshop location.

Information regarding details of hotel arrangements will be sent via e-mail to each participant of the workshop after registration. Please DO NOT contact the hotel to update reservations; contact the email address below for any changes that need to be made.

Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions by e-mail at FTPI@umn.edu.

Graduate Minneapolis Hotel
Organizers
Andreas Athenodorou

Andreas Athenodoru

The Cyprus Institute

Aleksey Cherman

Aleksey Cherman

University of Minnesota

Igor Klebanov

Igor Klebanov

Princeton University

Program

Simons UMN Confinement Workshop 2023

The workshop will be held in Keller Hall 3-180 (street level)
200 Union Street Se 
.02 miles from the workshop hotel


Preliminary Schedule

Tues, 5/2  -  Wed, 5/3  - Thurs, 5/4  -  Friday, 5/5Saturday, 5/6

 

Please see our Google drive for PDF's of the presentation slides and 

our YouTube channel for recordings of the talks

 

Tuesday, May 2nd

8:50 am – 9:00 am        Welcome Remarks

9:00 am – 9:30 am        Raju Venugopalan
                                                 "Saturation and confinement of wee partons"
9:30 am – 9:40 am        Questions

9:40 am – 10:10 am      Coffee

10:10 am – 11:10 am    Four 10+5 talks:

(1) Shi Chen
        “
Generalized symmetry from the homotopy hypothesis”
(2) 
Fedor Popov
         “Supersymmetry in QCD2 coupled to fermions”

(3)
Yuan Xin
          
“Bootstrapping the gap of quantum spin systems”

11:10 am – 11:25 am    Short talk questions

11:25 am – 1:30 pm      Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm        Theo Jacobson
                                                      
Abelian Chern-Simons theory on the lattice
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm        Questions

2:10 pm – 2:40 pm        Coffee

2:40 pm – 3:10 pm        Ross Dempsey
                                                      Phase Diagram of the Two-Flavor Schwinger Model
3:10 pm – 3:20 pm        Questions

3:20 pm – 3:50 pm        Coffee

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm        Martin Krucenzski
                                                      Positivity and the loop equations in lattice gauge theory"
4:20 pm – 4:30 pm        Questions

 

Wednesday, May 3rd

9:00 am – 9:30 am        Grant Remmen
                                                 
“Stringy Dynamics from an Amplitudes Bootstrap”
9:30 am – 9:40 am        Questions

9:40 am – 10:10 am      Coffee

10:10 am – 11:10 am    Four 10+5 talks:

(1) Alessandro Nada
        “
Numerical calculation of the color flux tube thickness using Continuous Normalizing Flows
(2) Gabriel Cuomo

          The EFT of rotating strings

(3) Srimoyee Sen
          
A new perspective on Higgs vs confinement: can we tell the two apart?

(4)
Bastain Brandt
          
“High precision spectrum of the QCD flux tube and its effective string description”

11:10 am – 11:25 am    Short talk questions

11:25 am – 1:30 pm      Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm        Georg Bergner
                                               
Confinement and supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on the lattice"
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm        Questions

2:10 pm – 2:40 pm        Coffee

2:40 pm – 3:10 pm        Etsuko Itou
                                             “Velocity of Sound Beyond the High-Density Relativistic Limit from Lattice Simulation of Dense Two-Color QCD”
3:10 pm – 3:20 pm        Questions

3:20 pm – 3:50 pm        Coffee         

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm        Colloquium by David Gross
                                     
“Fifty Years of Quantum Chromodynamics (The Theory of The Strong Nuclear Force)”

                                   
  John T. Tate Hall

                                      116 Church St SE

                                      Room - B50

 

Thursday, May 4th

9:00 am – 9:30 am        Varun Vaidya
                                                  
Quantum entanglement and hadron structure
9:30 am – 9:40 am        Questions

9:40 am – 10:10 am      Coffee

10:10 am – 10:40 am    Emily Nardoni
                                               
Confinement in Adjoint QCD from Supersymmetry, Part 1
10:40 am – 10:50 am    Questions

10:50 am – 11:20 am    Informal Discussions

11:20 am – 1:30 pm      Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm        Thomas Dumitrescu
                                 
             Confinement in Adjoint QCD from Supersymmetry, Part 2

2:00 pm – 2:10 pm        Questions

2:10 pm – 2:40 pm        Coffee

2:40 pm – 4:10 pm        1.5 hr Panel Discussion:

Michele Casele
Sergei Dubovsky
Matthias Gaberdiel
Jeff Greensite
Arkady Vainshtein

4:10 pm – 6:00 pm      Informal Discussions

6:00 pm                        Workshop Dinner
                                     McNamara Alumni Center
                                     200 SE Oak St
                                     Room - University Hall 

Friday, May 5th (Note 30 min delayed start)

 9:30 am – 10:00 am     Erich Poppitz
                                               “Charting a path between semiclassical islands”

10:00 am – 10:10 am    Questions

10:10 am – 10:40 am    Coffee

10:40 am – 11:10 am    Zohar Komargodski
                                                “
Surprises in the CP1 nonlinear sigma model in diverse dimensions.
11:10 am – 11:20 am    Questions

11:20 am – 1:30 pm      Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm        Yuya Tanizaki
                                                “
Topology of SU(N)/Z_N lattice gauge fields and generalized ‘t Hooft anomaly
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm        Questions

2:10 pm – 2:40 pm        Coffee

2:40 pm – 3:10 pm        Tin Sulejmanpasic
                                                 “Comments on QCD with both fundamental and adjoint matter in 4d”

3:10 pm – 3:20 pm        Questions

3:20 pm – 3:50 pm        Coffee

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm        Matt Walters
                                                 
Nonperturbative QFT Dynamics from CFT Data
4:20 pm – 4:30 pm        Questions

 

Saturday, May 6th

9:00 am – 9:30 am        Christian Jepsen
                                                  “
Challenges to Accumulation Point Amplitudes
9:30 am – 9:40 am        Questions

9:40 am – 10:10 am       Bo Sundborg
                                                   “
RG flows and algebras in adjoint multi-scalar gauge theory
10:10 am – 10:20 am     Questions

10:20 am – 10:50 am     Coffee 

10:50 am – 11:20 am     Victor Gorbenko
                                                   QCD string and BFKL

11:20 am – 11:30 am    Questions

11:30 am – 12:00 pm    Coffee

End of the workshop