5th Mons Workshop on Higher Spin Gauge Theories

When?
From 08 January 2024 to 12 January 2024

Organized by

Thomas Basile, Nicolas Boulanger, Andrea Campoleoni, Dorothea Friedrich and Evgeny Skvortsov
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From the 8th to the 12th of January 2024 UMONS hosted the fifth workshop dedicated to higher-spin theories and related topics, which gathered in Mons the main international experts on the topic.
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Speakers

  • Xavier Bekaert (U. Tours) | Carrollian conformal scalar as simpleton
  • Thanasis Chatzistavrakidis (Rudjer Boskovic Institute) | Brane mechanics and representations up to homotopy
  • Dario Francia (U. Roma III) | Aspects of the field theoretical Double Copy
  • Stefan Fredenhagen (University of Vienna) | On interactions of (Fang-)Fronsdal fields in three dimensions
  • Maxim Grigoriev (UMONS, Lebedev and MSU) | Gauge theories on manifolds with boundaries in the gauge PDE approach
  • Euihun Joung (Kyung Hee University) | Spinor-Helicity Representations of Massive and (Partially-)Massless Fields in (A)dS4
  • Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham University) | Spinorial G-structures and Plebanski formalism for GR
  • Vasileios Letsios (King's College) | (Non-)unitarity of massless higher spin fermions in de Sitter space
  • Ruben Manvelyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) | On Correlation Functions for Conformal Higher Spin Currents in d dimension
  • Karapet Mkrtchyan (Imperial College) | Democracy and equal opportunities for all p-forms
  • Yasha Neiman (OIST) | New perspectives on higher-spin self-dual GR
  • Blagoje Oblak (ULB) | Review talk: W-symmetry in the Quantum Hall Effect
  • Simon Pekar (École Polytechnique) | New higher-spin curvatures in flat space
  • Ben Pethybridge (King's College London) | Toward microscopic models of the discrete series in dS_2
  • Paolo Pichini (Queen Mary University of London) | Review talk: Kerr Black Holes from Higher-Spin Theory
  • Dmitry Ponomarev (MSU) | No go theorem for higher-spin geometry
  • Stefan Prohazka (University of Vienna) | Aspects of fractons
  • Joris Raeymaekers (Prague Institute of Physics) | Wormholes and surface defects in (higher spin) ensemble holography
  • Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo (TU Wien) | Effective description of p-atic quantum Hall phases from higher-spin fields
  • Bo Sundborg (Stockholm University) | Heavy localised objects and higher spin gravity
  • Tung Tran (University of Vienna) | Soft limit of scatterings in Lorentzian HS-IKKT
Tuesday
 9:30 - 11:00 Review talk: Blagoje Oblak
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 Euihun Joung
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Kirill Krasnov
14:30 - 15:30 Stefan Prohazka
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 17:00 Karapet Mkrtchyan
17:00 - 18:00 Yasha Neiman
18:00 Reception
 
Wednesday
9:30 - 10:30 Ruben Manvelyan
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Dario Francia
12:00 - 13:00 Joris Raeymaekers
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Thanasis Chatzistavrakidis
15:00 - 16:00 Bo Sundborg
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
16:30 - 17:30 Simon Pekar
 
Thursday
 9:30 - 11:00 Review talk: Paolo Pichini
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 Maxim Grigoriev
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Dmitry Ponomarev
14:30 - 15:30 Ben Pethybridge
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 17:00 Tung Tran
17:00 - 18:00 Stefan Fredenhagen
18:30 ... Dinner
Friday
10:00 - 11:00 Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo
11:00 - 12:00 Xavier Bekaert
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Vasileios Letsios
 

On Tuesday's morning the talks take place in Renard room (3rd floor of de Vinci, follow the arrows).

All other talks take place in Mirzakhani room (1st floor of de Vinci).

The reception will take place in Mirzakhani room.

To enjoy the conference dinner we will have to walk to Van der Valk restaurant.

  1. Ismael AHLOUCHE | UMONS, Belgium
  2. Glenn BARNICH | ULB, Belgium
  3. Thomas BASILE | UMONS, Belgium
  4. Xavier BEKAERT | U. de Tours, France
  5. Anders BENGTSSON | Stockholm U., Sweden
  6. Nicolas BOULANGER | UMONS, Belgium
  7. Andrea CAMPOLEONI | UMONS, Belgium
  8. Arghya CHATTOPADHAY | UMONS, Belgium
  9. Athanasios CHATZISTAVRAKIDIS | Ruđer Bošković Inst., Croatia
  10. Arnaud DELFANTE | UMONS, Belgium
  11. William DELPLANCKE | UMONS, Belgium
  12. Shailesh DHASMANA | UMONS, Belgium
  13. Dario FRANCIA | U. Roma III, Italy
  14. Stefan FREDENHAGEN | Universität Wien, Austria
  15. Oscar FUENTEALBA | ULB, Belgium
  16. Maxim GRIGORIEV | UMONS, Belgium
  17. Robin GUARINI | UMONS, Belgium
  18. Euihun JOUNG | Kyung Hee U., South Korea
  19. Kirill KRASNOV | U. of Nottingham, UK
  20. Julian LANG | OIST, Japan
  21. Vasileios LETSIOS | King's College London, UK
  22. Guillaume LHOST | UMONS, Belgium
  23. Iva LOVREKOVIC | TU Wien, Austria
  24. Ruben MANVELYAN | Yerevan Phys. Inst., Armenia
  25. Chrysoula MARKOU | UMONS, Belgium
  26. Mikhail MORKOV | UMONS, Belgium
  27. Lea MELE | UMONS, Belgium
  28. Karapet MKRTCHYAN | Imperial College London, UK
  29. Yasha NEIMAN | OIST, Japan
  30. Blagoje OBLAK | ULB, Belgium
  31. Josh O'CONNOR | UMONS, Belgium
  32. Michel PANNIER | Universität Jena, Germany
  33. Noemie PARRINI | UMONS, Belgium
  34. Simon PEKAR | École polytechnique, France
  35. Ben PETHYBRIDGE | King's College London, UK
  36. Paolo PICHINI | Queen Mary U. London, UK
  37. Dmitry PONOMAREV | ITMP Moscow, Russia
  38. Stefan PROHAZKA | Universität Wien, Austria
  39. Joris RAEYMAEKERS | Prague Inst. of Physics, Czech Republic
  40. Patricio SALGADO-REBOLLEDO | TU Wien, Austria
  41. Mattia SERRANI | UMONS, Belgium
  42. Evgeny SKVORTSOV | UMONS, Belgium
  43. Arsenii SUKHANOV | UMONS, Belgium
  44. Bo SUNDBORG | Stockholm University, Sweden
  45. Sylvain THOMEE | UMONS, Belgium
  46. Tung TRAN | Universität Wien, Austria
  47. Richard VAN DONGEN | UMONS, Belgium
Registration
If you wish to attend the meeting please send an email to Evgeny.SKVORTSOV@umons.ac.be
How to reach the conference venue
  • Direct trains from Zaventem airport to Mons are available every hour. You only have to be careful to look for trains directed to Bergen, which is the Dutch name of Mons; alternatively, you can reach the station Brussels Midi and take a train to Mons;
  • Charleroi airport is connected to Mons by a shuttle bus (bus schedule);
  • Trains from Brussels to Mons are running every half an hour, starting around h:25 and h:56 from Midi station (please crosscheck the train schedule!);
  • The workshop will take place in the UMONS campus “Plaine de Nimy”, that can be reached from Mons train station in 20/25 minutes by walk (see the precise address below). A limited number of blue-bikes is also available at the train station;
  • The talks will take place in the building De Vinci (map of the campus).
Accommodation