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Applied Newton-Cartan geometry: March 6-10, 2017

By Janell Rodgers on March 1, 2017 in workshops

Organized by: Eric Bergshoeff, Gary Gibbons, Rob Leigh, Djordje Minic, and Dam Thanh Son.

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Recent studies of non-AdS holography involving Lifshitz spacetimes have led to a boundary conformal field theory coupled to an extension of Newton-Cartan geometry that includes twistless torsion. At the same time, effective field theories in Newton-Cartan backgrounds have been studied and used in the description of a variety of non-relativistic systems such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, chiral superfluids, and simple fluids. Besides the holographic and effective field theory applications, there have been many other recent applications of Newton-Cartan geometry. For instance, it has been shown that Hořava-Lifshitz gravity can be described using dynamical Newton-Cartan geometry. Furthermore, Newton-Cartan geometry obeys a duality with its ultra-relativistic cousin, Carroll geometry. A conformal extension of this Carroll geometry is related to the BMS symmetry of flat-space holography. Finally, studying supersymmetric field theories on arbitrary Newton–Cartan backgrounds enables one to apply powerful localization techniques to extract exact results for such field theories.

These recent applications of Newton-Cartan geometry make it clear that the time has come to organize an interdisciplinary workshop on this topic which will enable participants from different backgrounds (condensed matter physics, mathematics, statistical physics and string theory) to interact and exchange new ideas.

Talk Schedule

Monday, 03/6

Tuesday, 03/7

Wednesday, 03/8

Thursday, 03/9

Friday, 03/10

Time

Title

Presenter

Location

9:30am

Coffee

N/A

SCGP Cafe

10:30am

Unified Framework for Carroll and Galilei Symmetry

Peter Horvathy

SCGP 102

12:00pm

Lunch

N/A

SCGP Cafe

2:00pm

Geometry of Anisotropic Quantum Hall states

Andrey Gromov

SCGP 102

3:00pm

Tea

N/A

SCGP Cafe

3:30pm

Non-Relativistic Supergravity

Jan Rosseel

SCGP 102

Time

Title

Presenter

Location

9:30am

Non-Lorentzian geometry in gravity and string theory

Niels Obers

SCGP 102

10:30am

Coffee

N/A

SCGP Cafe

11:00am

Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory

Kristan Jensen

SCGP 102

12:00pm

Lunch

N/A

SCGP Cafe

1:00pm

Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry

Eric Bergshoeff

SCGP 102

3:00pm

Tea

N/A

SCGP Cafe

3:30pm

Lifshitz Anisotropy from Boundary Conditions

Daniel Grumiller

SCGP 102

Time

Title

Presenter

Location

9:30am

Rigid supersymmetric backgrounds of Newton-Cartan supergravity

James Liu

SCGP 102

10:30am

Coffee

N/A

SCGP Cafe

11:00am

On the Schrödinger-Newton equation and its conformal-Bargmann symmetries

Christian Duval

SCGP 102

12:00pm

Lunch

N/A

SCGP Cafe

2:00pm

Spacetime Reconstruction in Non-Relativistic Holography

Cindy Keeler

SCGP 102

3:00pm

Tea

N/A

SCGP Cafe

3:30pm

Physical stress, mass and energy for non-relativistic matter

Matt Roberts

SCGP 102

Time

Title

Presenter

Location

9:30am

A general theory of fluid dynamics with and without boost symmetries

Jelle Hartong

SCGP 102

10:30am

Coffee

N/A

SCGP Cafe

11:00am

Connections in Newton-Cartan Geometry: Intrinsic and Ambient Approaches

Xavier Bekaert

SCGP 102

12:00pm

Lunch

N/A

SCGP Cafe

3:30pm

Tea

N/A

math Common room

Time

Title

Presenter

Location

9:30am

Torsional Newton-Cartan gravity from a ‘pre-Newtonian’ expansion of GR

Dieter Van den Bleeken

SCGP 102

10:30am

Coffee

N/A

SCGP Cafe

11:00am

The BMS Bootstrap

Arjun Bagchi

SCGP 102

12:00pm

Lunch

N/A

SCGP Cafe

3:00pm

Tea

N/A

SCGP Cafe

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