Conference Schedule
The schedule has now been updated with videos of the lectures as well as links the slide presentations.
Photographs taken at NatiFest can be viewed here.
Thursday, September 15th
| 8:00 - 8:45 am | Registration (Wolfensohn Hall Tent) |
| 8:45 - 9:00 am |
Welcome (Wolfensohn Hall) |
| Session Chair: Cumrun Vafa | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 am |
"Monodromy in QCD: Insights from Supersymmetric |
| 9:45 - 10:30 am |
"Making Contact with the Sphere" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Coffee Break (Wolfensohn Hall Tent) |
| Session Chair: Micha Berkooz | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 am |
"A Taste of Flavor" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm |
"Three Points in a Talk |
| 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Lunch (Simons Hall) |
| Session Chair: John Schwarz | |
| 2:00 - 2:45 pm |
"Some Tools for Exploring Supersymmetric RG Flows" |
| 2:45 - 3:30 pm |
"Aspects of 6d QFTs" |
| 3:30 - 4:00 pm | Coffee Break (Wolfensohn Hall Tent) |
| Session Chair: Mikhail Shifman | |
| 4:00 - 4:45 pm |
"Some Boundary States for Bosons" |
| 4:45 - 5:30 pm |
"A 2D Stress Tensor for 4D Gravity" |
Friday, September 16th
| 8:00 - 9:00 am | Registration (Wolfensohn Hall Tent) |
| Session Chair: Eilam Gross | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 am |
"Boundaries, Interfaces, and Dualities" |
| 9:45 - 10:30 am |
"Three Roads Not (Yet) Taken" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Coffee Break (Wolfensohn Hall Tent) |
| Session Chair: Mark Van Raamsdonk | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 am |
"Emergent Supersymmetry from a Lattice |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm |
"Comments on Seiberg Duality" |
| 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Lunch (Simons Hall) |
| Session Chair: Freddy Cachazo | |
| 2:00 - 2:45 pm |
"Some Modular Properties of |
| 2:45 - 3:30 pm |
"Gravitational Scattering Theory as a Map Between |
| 3:30 - 4:00 pm | Coffee Break (Wolfensohn Hall Tent) |
| Session Chair: Gary Horowitz | |
| 4:00 - 4:45 pm |
"On the Time-Reversal Anomaly of 2+1d TQFTs" |
| 4:45 - 5:30 pm |
"Views on Physics"* |
| 6:00 - 6:30 pm | Reception (Dilworth Room) |
| 6:30 - 9:30 pm |
Dinner (Simons Hall) |
Saturday, September 17th
| 8:00 - 9:00 am | Registration (Wolfensohn Hall Tent) |
| Session Chair: Michael Douglas | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 am |
"The Large D Black Hole Membrane Paradigm"* |
| 9:45 - 10:30 am |
"Black Hole Degeneracies from Worldsheet Instantons" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Coffee Break (Wolfensohn Hall Tent) |
| Session Chair: Amihay Hanany | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 am |
"The SYK Model, AdS_2 and Conformal Symmetry" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm |
"Nati Puts You On Shell" |
| 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Lunch (Simons Hall) |
| Session Chair: David Morrison | |
| 2:00 - 2:45 pm |
"Natural SUSY vs. the LHC" |
| 2:45 - 3:30 pm | "Facing Complexity, Singularities and Holography in a Parallel Universe: Sesame" by Eliezer Rabinovici |
| 3:30 - 4:15 pm |
"Black Holes and Random Matrices" |