ORGANIZERS:

Ofer Aharony, Weizmann Institute of Science
Justin David, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Shiraz Minwalla, TIFR, India
Jacob Sonnenschein, Tel Aviv University
Spenta Wadia, TIFR, India

 

This conference is the third installment in a series of conferences bringing together the Israeli and Indian communities working on theoretical high-energy physics. India and Israel both have strong researchers in theoretical high-energy physics, which share similar interests and are both somewhat distant from the other centers in the field, so it is natural to bring these two communities together. The themes of the conference include varioud topics in quantum field theory (the theoretical basis for particle physics), string theory (the leading candidate for a theory unifiying quantum physics with gravitational physics) and black hole physics.

Particular topics that will be reviewed and discussed are the latest results from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and how they are related to theoretical developments; the relation between generalizations of gravity involving higher spin fields and quantum field theories; the applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to condensed matter physics and to describing quark-gluon plasma; and the counting of microstates of black holes.