[hep-th] Strings, Holography & Chaos Seminar March 11 12:00 CET (IPB, 2nd floor theory seminar room): Jesse van Muiden

[Mihailo Čubrović]

Dear friends,

On March 11 (Wednesday) at 12:00 CET we will have a seminar by Jesse van 
Muiden, in the theory seminar room (Institute of Physics Belgrade, 2nd 
floor). Jesse will be around for three days (Tue-Thu), so if you want to 
have a chat drop me an email and I'll get you in touch. Title and 
abstract follow.

M-theory from Membranes

Jesse van Muiden (Imperial College London and KU Leuven)

In this talk we examine whether the M-theory path integral admits an 
expansion into membrane saddles, which we subsequently semi-classically 
quantize. We highlight a subtle dependence on ensemble choices in this 
observable, and relatedly comment on the possibility to instead expand 
the path integral into five-brane saddles. We test these ideas in 
holographic geometries against supersymmetric field theory observables, 
and as a by-product provide new predictions for the appropriate boundary 
theories.

-- 
Dr. Mihailo Čubrović

Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Institute of Physics Belgrade
National Institute of the Republic of Serbia
Pregrevica 118, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
--