2026 Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings Workshop

Name: 2026 Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings Workshop
Start: 2026-05-18T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-20T14:00:00-04:00
Location: MIT

18–20 May 2026

MIT

America/New_York timezone

Session

Talks

18 May 2026, 09:20

Pappalardo Room 4-349 (MIT)

Pappalardo Room 4-349

MIT

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2. A worldsheet for 2d YM

Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich)

18/05/2026, 09:20

3. Low-twist Z2-odd spectrum of 3d Ising CFT from AdS EFT

Wei Li (Boston University)

18/05/2026, 10:40

4. Hagedorn with a twist in N=4 SYM

Joe Minahan (Uppsala University)

18/05/2026, 11:20

5. The 3d Ising Field Theory from the Fuzzy Sphere

Giulia Fardelli (Boston University)

18/05/2026, 13:30

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...

7. Predictions of Matrix String Theory Duality for 2D SYM

Minjae Cho (University of Chicago)

18/05/2026, 14:50

8. The Confining String in Hyperbolic Space

Bendeguz Offertaler (EPFL)

18/05/2026, 16:10

9. Taming Diffractive Scattering with Effective Field Theory

Iain Stewart (MIT)

18/05/2026, 16:50

10. Regge’s Inferno

Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University)

19/05/2026, 09:20

11. Positivity in energy correlators

Johan Henriksson (CERN)

19/05/2026, 10:40

12. Imprints of Asymptotic Freedom on Confining Strings

Jan Albert (Princeton University)

19/05/2026, 11:20

13. Chiral Lattice Gauge Theories

Sahand Seifnashri (IAS)

19/05/2026, 13:30

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...

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...

15. Vaccum structure in gapped QCD2 theories from the infinite Hamiltonian lattice

Anna-Maria Glueck (Princeton)

19/05/2026, 16:10

16. Aspects of Confining Strings

Amey Gaikwad (UCLA)

19/05/2026, 16:28

17. Two-flavor Schwinger model at θ = π: solution of Coleman's puzzle

Ilia Kochergin (Princeton)

19/05/2026, 16:46

18. Quantum models with the Yang-Lee phase transition

Erick Arguello-Cruz (CMU)

19/05/2026, 17:04