Vainshteinfest: Insights into Quantum Field Theory

Cedric Deffayet, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP)

Zohar Komargodski, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University

Edward Shuryak, Stony Brook University

Mithat Unsal, North Carolina State University

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm: Edward Shuryak (State University of New York, Stony Brook): Monopoles versus the instanton-dyons

1:45 pm - 2:30 pm: Mithat Ünsal (North Carolina State University): Generalized state sums and quantum distillations

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm:      Coffee break

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm: Zohar Komargodski (Weizmann Institute of Science): Comments on the Theta term in Yang-Mills theory

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm: Cédric Deffayet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris): The Arkady mechanism

Jorge Vinals; Edwin Ireson; Arkady Vainshtein; Paul Crowell; Roger Rusack; Evan Skillman; Alex Kamenev; Tony Gherghetta; Michael Zudov; Ke Wang; Shelley Frankel; Chuck Campbell; Edward Shuryak; Cedric Deffayet; Keith Olive; Alan Shapiro; Jeremiah Mans; Jennifer Allan; Maria Navarro Gastiasoro; Edward Shuryak; Kunio Kaneta; Morten Christensen; John Broadhurst; Michel Janssen; Yuichi Kubota; Linda Shapiro; Ursula Becker; Marina Shklovskii; Pinar Karaca Mandic; Sylvia Poling; Elizabeth Zimmermann; Dr. Bianca M. Fine; Boris Shklovskii; Vuk Mandic; Shaul Hanany; Priscilla Cushman; Alicia Canfield; Sally Menefee; Andrey Chubukov; Oriol Valls; Martin Greven; Ron Poling; Mithat Unsal; Misha Voloshin; Vincent Noireaux; Claudia Scarlata; James Kakalios; Ben Bayman; Misha Shifman; William Zimmermann; Vanuildo de Carvalho; Allen Goldman; Serge Rudaz; Nelly Teplova; Julia Davydova; Anna Zudova; Megan Dahlberg; Steve Oehlerich; Maureen Valls; Rita Shifman; Dan Dahlberg; Meghan Murray; Elias Puchner; Marvin Marshak; Julie Murphy; Marie Rahne; Natalia Perkins; Zohar Komargodski; Hilde Gasiorowicz; Leni Broadhurst; Suzanne Durkacs; Stephanie Gherghetta; Silvana Dessi-Olive; Aroti Bayman; Julie Murphy