Indian Strings Meeting 2025
from
Tuesday 9 December 2025 (08:55)
to
Sunday 14 December 2025 (21:30)
Monday 8 December 2025
Tuesday 9 December 2025
09:30
Inauguration
Inauguration
09:30 - 10:00
10:00
Scattering of D0-branes and strings
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Ashoke Sen
Scattering of D0-branes and strings
Ashoke Sen
10:00 - 11:00
11:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
Building string field theory using machine learning
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Harold Erbin
Building string field theory using machine learning
Harold Erbin
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
AdS4 boundary four point Wightman functions in Twistor Space: Factorization and a Double Copy
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Sachin Jain
AdS4 boundary four point Wightman functions in Twistor Space: Factorization and a Double Copy
Sachin Jain
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
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Amos Yarom
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
Amos Yarom
12:30 - 13:00
13:00
Lunch + Poster Session
Lunch + Poster Session
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
Flat holography in momentum space
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Mrityunjay Verma
Flat holography in momentum space
Mrityunjay Verma
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Black Hole Quantum Mechanics and Generalized Error Functions
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Boris Pioline
Black Hole Quantum Mechanics and Generalized Error Functions
Boris Pioline
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
Spontaneous breaking of extremality in D-brane systems
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Swapnamay Mondol
Spontaneous breaking of extremality in D-brane systems
Swapnamay Mondol
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
Scale-separated vacua in string theory
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Timm Wrase
Scale-separated vacua in string theory
Timm Wrase
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Four-dimensional spectrum generating algebra for the superstring
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Renann Lipinski
Four-dimensional spectrum generating algebra for the superstring
Renann Lipinski
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
Symmetry and causality constraints on Fermi liquids
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Subham Dutta Chowdhury
Symmetry and causality constraints on Fermi liquids
Subham Dutta Chowdhury
17:30 - 18:00
Wednesday 10 December 2025
09:30
Universal sectors of Carrollian CFT2
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Daniel Grumiller
Universal sectors of Carrollian CFT2
Daniel Grumiller
09:30 - 10:30
10:30
Carrollian adventures in Flatland
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Arjun Bagchi
Carrollian adventures in Flatland
Arjun Bagchi
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
String-inspired holography for hot and dense QCD matter
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Niko Jokela
String-inspired holography for hot and dense QCD matter
Niko Jokela
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
Supertranslations and Ultra-locality: Lessons from Condensed Matter Physics
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Rudranil Basu
Supertranslations and Ultra-locality: Lessons from Condensed Matter Physics
Rudranil Basu
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
Rethinking Complex Multiplication
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Abhiram Kidambi
Rethinking Complex Multiplication
Abhiram Kidambi
12:30 - 13:00
13:00
Lunch + Poster Session
Lunch + Poster Session
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
New Integrable Spin Chains from Deep Learning
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Shailesh Lal
New Integrable Spin Chains from Deep Learning
Shailesh Lal
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Quantum Fluctuations in Schwinger-Keldysh Hydroydnamics
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Akash Jain
Quantum Fluctuations in Schwinger-Keldysh Hydroydnamics
Akash Jain
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
Magnetised Bounds for Conformal Field Theories
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Biswajit Sahoo
Magnetised Bounds for Conformal Field Theories
Biswajit Sahoo
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
Logarithmic corrections for near-extremal Kerr-Newman Black holes
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Binata Panda
Logarithmic corrections for near-extremal Kerr-Newman Black holes
Binata Panda
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Manifestly Duality Symmetric Actions: A Stringy Perspective
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Subhroneel Chakrabarti
Manifestly Duality Symmetric Actions: A Stringy Perspective
Subhroneel Chakrabarti
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
Conformal representation of flat space correlators and their cubic expansion
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Siddharth Prabhu
Conformal representation of flat space correlators and their cubic expansion
Siddharth Prabhu
17:30 - 18:00
Thursday 11 December 2025
09:30
Semi universality of CFT_d entropy at large Spin
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Shiraz Minwalla
Semi universality of CFT_d entropy at large Spin
Shiraz Minwalla
09:30 - 10:30
10:30
MEASURING MULTI-PARTITE ENTANGLEMENT
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Abhijit Gadde
MEASURING MULTI-PARTITE ENTANGLEMENT
Abhijit Gadde
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
Aspects of the dS/CFT Correspondence
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Sandip Trivedi
Aspects of the dS/CFT Correspondence
Sandip Trivedi
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
Classical Solutions of Chern–Simons Theory on 3-Manifolds
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Ramadevi Pichai
Classical Solutions of Chern–Simons Theory on 3-Manifolds
Ramadevi Pichai
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
The flat limit of AdS coupled to a bath
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Dominik Neuenfeld
The flat limit of AdS coupled to a bath
Dominik Neuenfeld
12:30 - 13:00
13:00
Lunch + Poster Session
Lunch + Poster Session
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
Strings from Feynman Diagrams
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Rajesh Gopakumar
Strings from Feynman Diagrams
Rajesh Gopakumar
14:30 - 15:30
15:30
The O(N) model on S^1\times S^2 at large N
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Justin David
The O(N) model on S^1\times S^2 at large N
Justin David
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Tea
Tea
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
Negative Geometries and N=4 SYM
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Shruti Paranjape
Negative Geometries and N=4 SYM
Shruti Paranjape
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Engineering Celestial CFTs
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Nishant Gupta
Engineering Celestial CFTs
Nishant Gupta
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
Complexity in confining gauge theories-a holographic perspective.
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Dibakar Roychowdhury
Complexity in confining gauge theories-a holographic perspective.
Dibakar Roychowdhury
17:30 - 18:00
Friday 12 December 2025
09:00
Candidate de Sitter Vacua
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Liam McAllister
Candidate de Sitter Vacua
Liam McAllister
09:00 - 10:00
10:00
Contour Integrals for 4d Superconformal Gauge Theories and 2d Rational CFT
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Sunil Mukhi
Contour Integrals for 4d Superconformal Gauge Theories and 2d Rational CFT
Sunil Mukhi
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
Generalised 4d Partition Functions and Modular Differential Equations
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Ramesh Chandra
Generalised 4d Partition Functions and Modular Differential Equations
Ramesh Chandra
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
Interfaces in TTbar-deformed 2d CFTs
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Giuseppe Policastro
Interfaces in TTbar-deformed 2d CFTs
Giuseppe Policastro
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
Black Hole Physics from Impossible Things
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Arnab Kundu
Black Hole Physics from Impossible Things
Arnab Kundu
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
Near-extremal holographic correlators
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Blaise Goutéraux
Near-extremal holographic correlators
Blaise Goutéraux
12:30 - 13:00
13:00
Excursion
Excursion
13:00 - 17:30
Saturday 13 December 2025
09:30
Reimagining the origins of string theory
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Aninda Sinha
Reimagining the origins of string theory
Aninda Sinha
09:30 - 10:30
10:30
Bootstrappy explorations on QFTs in AdS
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Apratim Kaviraj
Bootstrappy explorations on QFTs in AdS
Apratim Kaviraj
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
Bubbling saddles of the gravitational index
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Davide Cassani
Bubbling saddles of the gravitational index
Davide Cassani
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
dS extremal surfaces, replicas, pseudo-Renyi entropies and time entanglement
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Narayan K
dS extremal surfaces, replicas, pseudo-Renyi entropies and time entanglement
Narayan K
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
How strings emerge from gravitational junctions and can be decoded as tunable quantum maps
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Ayan Mukhopadhyay
How strings emerge from gravitational junctions and can be decoded as tunable quantum maps
Ayan Mukhopadhyay
12:30 - 13:00
13:00
Lunch + Poster Session
Lunch + Poster Session
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
On the stabilizer complexity of Hawking radiation
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Onkar Parrikar
On the stabilizer complexity of Hawking radiation
Onkar Parrikar
14:30 - 15:30
15:30
New developments in holographic quantum error correction
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Alexander Jahn
New developments in holographic quantum error correction
Alexander Jahn
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30
17:00
Public Talk : String theory & its many manifestations
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Ashoke Sen
Public Talk : String theory & its many manifestations
Ashoke Sen
17:00 - 18:30
Sunday 14 December 2025
09:30
Solvable Models of Heat Transport in Quantum Mechanics
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R. Loganayagam
Solvable Models of Heat Transport in Quantum Mechanics
R. Loganayagam
09:30 - 10:00
10:00
Higher spin integrability using supersymmetry algebras
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Pramod Padmanabhan
Higher spin integrability using supersymmetry algebras
Pramod Padmanabhan
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
Deformed CFTs and two dimensional (A)dS
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Suchetan Das
Deformed CFTs and two dimensional (A)dS
Suchetan Das
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
Picard Lefschetz Theory & Gravitational Path Integral
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Masazumi Honda
Picard Lefschetz Theory & Gravitational Path Integral
Masazumi Honda
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
On the Freudenthal Duality of Rotating Black Holes
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Taniya Mandal
On the Freudenthal Duality of Rotating Black Holes
Taniya Mandal
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
On Inflating with Fibres and Swiss-Cheese
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Pramod Shukla
On Inflating with Fibres and Swiss-Cheese
Pramod Shukla
12:30 - 13:00
13:00
Lunch + Poster Session
Lunch + Poster Session
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
Uplifting String Amplitudes
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Christian Jepsen
Uplifting String Amplitudes
Christian Jepsen
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Fortuitous cohomologies at finite coupling
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Eunwoo Lee
Fortuitous cohomologies at finite coupling
Eunwoo Lee
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
SO(1,d+1) symmetry in ERG equation
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Semanti Dutta
SO(1,d+1) symmetry in ERG equation
Semanti Dutta
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Tea Break
Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30