iTHEMS-YITP workshop: "Resurgence, Matrix model, String field theory and Instantons” or Really Marvelous Sparkling Ideas
from
Monday, September 28, 2026 (9:00 AM)
to
Friday, October 2, 2026 (6:00 PM)
Monday, September 28, 2026
9:00 AM
Registration
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
10:20 AM
Opening remark
Opening remark
10:20 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
10:30 AM
Martin Schnabl
Martin Schnabl
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
2:00 PM
Scheinpflug Jaroslav "A few conjectures in superstring field theory"
Scheinpflug Jaroslav "A few conjectures in superstring field theory"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
3:30 PM
Manki Kim
Manki Kim
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
9:00 AM
Jojiro Totsuka-Yoshinaka "Finite Gauge Transformations in L_\infty Algebras"
Jojiro Totsuka-Yoshinaka "Finite Gauge Transformations in L_\infty Algebras"
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
10:30 AM
Carlo Maccaferri "Boundary Observables in String Field Theory"
Carlo Maccaferri "Boundary Observables in String Field Theory"
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
2:00 PM
Minjae Cho "A bootstrap framework for equilibrium, nonequilibrium, and disorder"
Minjae Cho "A bootstrap framework for equilibrium, nonequilibrium, and disorder"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
3:30 PM
Amr Ahmadain "The Mathematical Structure of Finite Gauge Transformations in CSFT"
Amr Ahmadain "The Mathematical Structure of Finite Gauge Transformations in CSFT"
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
4:30 PM
Yuchen Wang "All-genus 2D N=1 superconformal blocks"
Yuchen Wang "All-genus 2D N=1 superconformal blocks"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
6:00 PM
Banquet/Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
9:00 AM
Gerald Dunne (online) "Crossing The Chern-Simons Natural Boundary"
Gerald Dunne (online) "Crossing The Chern-Simons Natural Boundary"
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
10:30 AM
Yuya Tanizaki "Monopoles and Center Vortices for Confinement: From Semiclassics to TQFT"
Yuya Tanizaki "Monopoles and Center Vortices for Confinement: From Semiclassics to TQFT"
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
2:00 PM
Yasuyuki Hatsuda "Exact WKB and High Overtone Expansion for Extremal Kerr Quasinormal Modes"
Yasuyuki Hatsuda "Exact WKB and High Overtone Expansion for Extremal Kerr Quasinormal Modes"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
3:30 PM
Keshav Dasgupta "String Theory de Sitter as an Excited State and Resurgence"
Keshav Dasgupta "String Theory de Sitter as an Excited State and Resurgence"
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
4:30 PM
poster session: Soumya Adhikari, Jyotirmoy Barman, JAYASHISH DAS, SAIKAT GHOSH, Masashi Hamanaka, Kyuma Hasegawa, Nguyen Hoang Vu, Arata Ishige, Taiga Miyachi, Kota Numajiri, Lorenzo Russo, Wei-Hsiang Shao, Kotaro Shinmyo, Cheng-Tsung Wang, Karin Yukuhiro
poster session: Soumya Adhikari, Jyotirmoy Barman, JAYASHISH DAS, SAIKAT GHOSH, Masashi Hamanaka, Kyuma Hasegawa, Nguyen Hoang Vu, Arata Ishige, Taiga Miyachi, Kota Numajiri, Lorenzo Russo, Wei-Hsiang Shao, Kotaro Shinmyo, Cheng-Tsung Wang, Karin Yukuhiro
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
Thursday, October 1, 2026
9:00 AM
Atakan Hilmi Fırat "Conserved charges and L_\infty algebras"
Atakan Hilmi Fırat "Conserved charges and L_\infty algebras"
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
10:30 AM
Theodore Erler
Theodore Erler
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
2:00 PM
Nobuyuki Ishibashi "Fokker-Planck formalism and string theory"
Nobuyuki Ishibashi "Fokker-Planck formalism and string theory"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
3:30 PM
Xi Yin (YITP colloquium) "Some thoughts on theoretical physics in a new era"
Xi Yin (YITP colloquium) "Some thoughts on theoretical physics in a new era"
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
Friday, October 2, 2026
9:00 AM
Alexander Frenkel "String Theory and the Gravitational Path Integral"
Alexander Frenkel "String Theory and the Gravitational Path Integral"
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
10:30 AM
Sungjay Lee "Resurgence of the Thermal Transition between Bounce and Sphaleron"
Sungjay Lee "Resurgence of the Thermal Transition between Bounce and Sphaleron"
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
2:00 PM
Keisuke Konosu "Open-Closed-Open Triality for 1/2 BPS Three-Point Functions"
Keisuke Konosu "Open-Closed-Open Triality for 1/2 BPS Three-Point Functions"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
3:30 PM
Kotaro Shinmyo “Stokes Phenomena between AdS/CFT and dS/CFT"
Kotaro Shinmyo “Stokes Phenomena between AdS/CFT and dS/CFT"
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
4:00 PM
Karin Yukuhiro "The Large N Limit of Correlation Functions from Homotopy Algebras"
Karin Yukuhiro "The Large N Limit of Correlation Functions from Homotopy Algebras"
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall
4:30 PM
Jyotirmoy Barman "Instanton-Induced Closed String Amplitudes in Minimal Superstring Theory"
Jyotirmoy Barman "Instanton-Induced Closed String Amplitudes in Minimal Superstring Theory"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall