Name: iTHEMS-YITP workshop: "Resurgence, Matrix model, String field theory and Instantons” or Really Marvelous Sparkling Ideas
Start: 2026-09-28T09:00:00+09:00
End: 2026-10-02T18:00:00+09:00
Location: YITP, Kyoto University

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

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