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2026 Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings Workshop

18–20 May 2026
MIT
America/New_York timezone

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Talks

18 May 2026, 09:20
Pappalardo Room 4-349 (MIT)

Pappalardo Room 4-349

MIT

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  1. 2. A worldsheet for 2d YM
    Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich)
    18/05/2026, 09:20
  2. 3. Low-twist Z2-odd spectrum of 3d Ising CFT from AdS EFT
    Wei Li (Boston University)
    18/05/2026, 10:40
  3. 4. Hagedorn with a twist in N=4 SYM
    Joe Minahan (Uppsala University)
    18/05/2026, 11:20
  4. 5. The 3d Ising Field Theory from the Fuzzy Sphere
    Giulia Fardelli (Boston University)
    18/05/2026, 13:30
  5. 6. Regge trajectories from the adjoint sector of Matrix Quantum Mechanics
    Henry Lin (MIT)
    18/05/2026, 14:10

    We reexamine the large N limit of SU(N) symmetric matrix quantum mechanics, whose singlet sector is well known to be exactly solvable via free fermions. When the Fermi level approaches a maximum of the potential, there is critical behavior corresponding to string theory in two dimensions. We uncover new phenomena in the adjoint sector by solving the Marchesini-Onofri equation both numerically...

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  6. 7. Predictions of Matrix String Theory Duality for 2D SYM
    Minjae Cho (University of Chicago)
    18/05/2026, 14:50
  7. 8. The Confining String in Hyperbolic Space
    Bendeguz Offertaler (EPFL)
    18/05/2026, 16:10
  8. 9. Taming Diffractive Scattering with Effective Field Theory
    Iain Stewart (MIT)
    18/05/2026, 16:50
  9. 10. Regge’s Inferno
    Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University)
    19/05/2026, 09:20
  10. 11. Positivity in energy correlators
    Johan Henriksson (CERN)
    19/05/2026, 10:40
  11. 12. Imprints of Asymptotic Freedom on Confining Strings
    Jan Albert (Princeton University)
    19/05/2026, 11:20
  12. 13. Chiral Lattice Gauge Theories
    Sahand Seifnashri (IAS)
    19/05/2026, 13:30
  13. 14. Infinite-order lattice anomalies from CPT
    Sal Pace (MIT)
    19/05/2026, 14:10

    A massless Dirac fermion in 1+1d has axial and vector symmetries whose lattice realization is constrained by the chiral anomaly. In this talk, we will discuss lattice realizations of these symmetries governed by the Onsager algebra. The resulting Onsager symmetry has a lattice anomaly that becomes the chiral anomaly in the continuum limit. We will show that the lattice anomaly of the Onsager...

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  14. 24. Self-dual Higgs transitions: Toric code and beyond
    Chong Wang
    19/05/2026, 14:50

    The toric code, when deformed in a way that preserves the self-duality Z_2 symmetry exchanging the electric and magnetic excitations, admits a transition to a topologically trivial state that spontaneously breaks the Z_2 symmetry. Numerically, this transition was found to be continuous, which makes it particularly enigmatic given the longstanding absence of a continuum field-theoretic...

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  15. 15. Vaccum structure in gapped QCD2 theories from the infinite Hamiltonian lattice
    Anna-Maria Glueck (Princeton)
    19/05/2026, 16:10
  16. 16. Aspects of Confining Strings
    Amey Gaikwad (UCLA)
    19/05/2026, 16:28
  17. 17. Two-flavor Schwinger model at θ = π: solution of Coleman's puzzle
    Ilia Kochergin (Princeton)
    19/05/2026, 16:46
  18. 18. Quantum models with the Yang-Lee phase transition
    Erick Arguello-Cruz (CMU)
    19/05/2026, 17:04
  19. 19. Lattice Fermion Anomalies and CPT
    Wucheng Zhang (Princeton University)
    19/05/2026, 17:22
  20. 20. Conformal collider bootstrap in N=4 SYM
    Robin Karlsson (Oxford University)
    20/05/2026, 09:00
  21. 21. Understanding the finite-temperature phase structure of QCD with center vortices
    Jackson Mickley (Adelaide University)
    20/05/2026, 09:40
  22. 22. Looking at Protons Through a Quark-Gluon Plasma Lens
    Krishna Rajagopal (MIT)
    20/05/2026, 10:20
  23. 23. Gauge theory and random surfaces
    Scott Sheffield (MIT)
    20/05/2026, 11:30
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