PCTS Workshop - CFT

This workshop will be held in conjunction with “The Quantum Hall Effect: Past, Present & Future (QHE)” workshop, held from March 8-10, 2017; Room 407 Jadwin Hall, PCTS.While much has been known about CFTs in two space-time dimensions for a long time, the study of CFTs in more than two space-time dimensions has recently been undergoing significant progress. This workshop will include extensive studies of CFTs in three and higher dimensions, covering a variety of techniques such as the 1/N expansion, the epsilon expansion and the conformal bootstrap. CFT models have applications in condensed matter and statistical systems, but they are also very interesting for theoretical reasons, such as their relation to quantum gravity via the AdS/CFT correspondence.