Marty B. Halpern Memorial: From mesons to orbifolds via affine Lie algebras March 29-30, 2019, UC Berkeley

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Marty B. Halpern MemorialSpeakers

  • Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)
  • Itzhak Bars (USC)
  • Zvi Bern (UCLA)
  • Sergey Cherkis (University of Arizona)
  • Poul Damgaard (Niels Bohr Institute)
  • Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)
  • Ori Ganor (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
  • Jeff Greensite (SFSU)
  • Petr Hořava (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
  • Elias Kiritsis (APC, Paris and University of Crete)
  • Niels Obers (Nordita, Niels Bohr Institute)
  • Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech, KIPMU)
  • Charles Schwartz (UC Berkeley, LBNL)

Marty B. Halpern MemorialOrganizing Committee

  • Zvi Bern (UCLA)
  • Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)
  • Ori Ganor (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
  • Niels Obers (Nordita, Niels Bohr Institute)

Marty B. Halpern Memorial

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The conference is held in honor of our mentor, colleague, and friend, Marty Halpern, who passed away a year ago. The event is a gathering of former students, collaborators, colleagues, friends, and family. It is planned as a celebration of Marty's scientific breakthroughs and of his legacy, and will focus on recent developments in the following fields of high-energy and mathematical physics:

  • String theory, general relativity, and quantum gravity;
  • Quantum gauge field theories;
  • Infinite dimensional Lie algebras.

A historical account of some of Marty Halpern's early accomplishments, including the introduction of fermions into the string worldsheet and the celebrated discovery of affine Lie algebras, can be found in arxiv:0907.2705. A brief description of Marty's life and legacy can be found at: Remembering Martin B. Halpern

Talks

All talks will be held in 375 LeConte Hall

Dinner

Dinner, which will include reminiscences, will be held on Friday, March 29, at 19:30 at Great China Restaurant (2190 Bancroft Way). Please RSVP, since the number of seats is limited.

Contact Information

Please contact Lavern Navarro at lavernn@berkeley.edu if you need assistance with your visit.

List of Participants

NameAffiliation
Nima Arkani-Hamed IAS
Korkut Bardakci UC Berkeley, LBNL
Itzhak Bars USC
Zvi Bern UCLA
Sergey Cherkis University of Arizona
Poul Damgaard Niels Bohr Institute
Jan de Boer University of Amsterdam
Jarah Evslin Institute of Modern Physics, China
Ori Ganor UC Berkeley, LBNL
Eric Gimon
Jeff Greensite SFSU
Penny Halpern
Tamar Halpern
Jordan Halpern Schwartz
Craig Helfgott
Petr Hořava UC Berkeley, LBNL
Elias Kiritsis APC, Paris and University of Crete
Zoltan Ligeti LBNL
Antti Niemi NORDITA
Yasunori Nomura UC Berkeley, LBNL
Niels Obers Nordita and Niels Bohr Institute
Hirosi Ooguri Caltech and KIPMU
Charles Schwartz UC Berkeley, LBNL

Schedule of Talks

All talks will be held in 375 LeConte Hall.

Schedule of Friday talks

Friday, March 29
Time Speaker Talk Title
9:30 Zvi Bern Calculating Marty's way: From supergravity to LIGO
10:00 Jeff Greensite What is the difference between the Higgs and confinement phases of a gauge-Higgs theory?
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 Sergey Cherkis Affine Lie algebras and instanton constructions
11:45 Hirosi Ooguri Symmetry in QFT and Gravity
12:15 LUNCH
14:30 Jan de Boer Marty and Orbifolds
15:00 Poul Damgaard GR/QFT & reminisences
16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 Nima Arkani-Hamed Positive Geometry of Causal Diamonds, Particles and Strings
17:30 BREAK
19:30 Dinner at Great China Restaurant (2190 Bancroft Way)


Schedule of Saturday talks

Saturday, March 30
Time Speaker Talk Title
9:30 Elias Kiritsis C-functions and C-theorems: From the Virasoro Master Equation to entanglement entropy
10:00 Petr Hořava Topological Quantum Gravity of the Ricci Flow
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 Ori Ganor Infinite dimensional Lie algebras: from Marty and Korkut to brane creation
11:45 Charles Schwartz If Neutrinos are Tachyons, we may explain Dark Energy and Dark Matter
12:15 Niels Obers The VME and its non-relativistic avatar, the GVME
12:45 END OF CONFERENCE

More photos of Marty

Credits: thanks to Penny Halpern for the photos and captions.

Marty in the 70s.

Marty in the 70s.

Marty the young Weightlifter

Marty the young Weightlifter.

The young physicist

The young physicist.

Marty at the Rio Grande NM in 1979

Marty at the Rio Grande NM in 1979.

Marty in Israel in 1971

Marty in Israel in 1971.

Summer 1982

Summer 1982.

Marty Physique form

Marty Physique form.

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