Bert Schellekens Fest

Friday 13 May 2022, 10:00 → 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Z011 (CWI/Nikhef)

Retirement Bert Schellekens

Organisers:
Robert Fleischer (Nikhef and VU, Amsterdam)
Beatriz Gato Rivera (IFF-CSIC, Madrid)

Program for the scientific meeting of Bert's Fest on 13 May, 2022

Nikhef, Seminar Room: Z011

NOTE: the two talks in the morning and the last talk by E. Kiritsis are intended for a general audience of particle physicists, theorists as well as experimentalists.

 

 

 

BertFestSpeech.pdf

Participants Bert´s Fest.pdf

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome with coffee, tea, cookies,...

10:15 → 10:30 Opening of the event by Nikhef Director Stan Bentvelsen and Head of the Theory Group Robert Fleischer

Bert Fest.pdf

Notes Bert CV.pdf

pub.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Hermann Nicolai, MPI, Potsdam (Germany)

"Bert and the Multiverse"

nicolai.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Nikhef Colloquium - Dieter Lüst, LMU and MPI, München (Germany)

"New Clothes for the Landscape"
“In this talk I review the string landscape & swampland, together with the anthropic principle”

lust.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:20 Wolfgang Lerche, CERN

"On Truffles, Swamps and Bert”

lerche.pdf

13:20 → 13:40 Nick Warner, USC, Los Angeles (USA), and IPT, Saclay (France)

"The "Witten" Genus"

warner.pdf

13:40 → 14:00 George Leontaris, University of Ioannina (Greece)

" String loop corrections and de Sitter vacua"

leontaris.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 Nils Scheithauer, Technische Universiteit Darmstadt (Germany)

"On the Classification of Holomorphic Vertex Operator Algebras of Central Charge 24"

scheithauer.pdf

14:30 → 14:50 Break

14:50 → 15:10 Bengt Nilsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden)

"The squashed seven-sphere and the swampland"

nilsson.pdf

15:10 → 15:30 Jürgen Fuchs, University of Karlstad (Sweden)

"Bulk Fields in Conformal Field Theory"

fuchs.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 Pascal Anastasopoulos, University of Vienna (Austria)

"D-brane model building and the holographic framework"

anastasopoulos.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Elias Kiritsis, APC, Paris (France) and University of Crete (Greece)

"String Theory, Particle Physics and Emergent Gravity"

kiritsis.pdf

16:30 → 17:10 Reception: Expressions about Bert

Expressions Bert.pdf

godbole.mp4

Quevedo.mp4

16:30 Beatriz Gato-Rivera

16:40 Expressions by the participants (online and in person)

17:00 Bert

17:05 Robert Fleischer

17:10 → 18:00 Reception: Drinks and Snacks