The general goal of the workshop is to bring together experts in different aspects of String Theory, focusing on its duality symmetries and generalized geometry. The last decade has witnessed a growth in the activity in the field, mostly after the advent of the so-called Generalized Geometry and Double/Exceptional Field Theories. In these frameworks the string dualities are promoted to manifest symmetries, highlighting novel generalized geometric structures and exposing emergent stringy physical phenomena.
The workshop will provide a friendly environment to create overlaps between the more formal and physical approaches, find applications of these frameworks, and move forward towards solving important open problems. These include: consistent characterizations of non-geometric backgrounds in string theory, dualities in the absence of isometries and localization in winding space, generalized geometrization of exotic branes, non-associativity and non-commutativity of compact coordinates, duality constraints on higher-derivative interactions, non-Abelian T-duality, implications for the string landscape, etc.
String Dualities and Geometry is expected to help focusing the field and consolidating progress. We hope to welcome you in Bariloche in January.
Organisers: Gerardo Aldazabal, Mariana Graña, Diego Marqués, Carmen Núñez
Supporting organisers: Eduardo Andrés, Yago Cagnacci, Eric Lescano, Martín Mayo, Victor Penas
SPEAKERS
Eric Bergshoeff
David Berman
Chris Blair
Ralph Blumenhagen
Guillaume Bossard
Yago Cagnacci
Martin Cederwall
Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis
Gianguido Dall'Agata
Giuseppe Dibitetto
Adolfo Guarino
Falk Hassler
Olaf Hohm
Christopher Hull
Gianluca Inverso
Larisa Jonke
Ctirad Klimcik
Oscar Loaiza-Brito
Yolanda Lozano
Dieter Lust
Emanuel Malek
Martin Mayo
Ruben Minasian
Hermann Nicolai
Jeong-Hyuck Park
Michela Petrini
Erik Plauschinn
Fernando Quevedo
Felix Rudolph
Charles Strickland-Constable
Daniel Thompson
Alessandro Tomasiello
Hagen Triendl
Daniel Waldram
Barton Zwiebach
