KEK Theory Workshop 2026

概要

KEK Theory Workshop is an annual workshop on string theory and quantum field theory. Since KEK Theory Workshop 2014, it has been held as an international workshop. This year we aim to provide a valuable opportunity to have extensive discussions on new developments in string theory, matrix models, the gauge-gravity duality, black-hole microstates, lattice construction of chiral gauge theories, and open quantum systems. The invited speakers are selected from various research fields, and we have asked them to give a pedagogical exposition of the big picture in their own research field with the right amount of technical details, which are useful in building up a comprehensive understanding of the notions and their mutual relationship.

The workshop will be ON-SITE at KEK Tsukuba Campus on November 25 (Wed.) – 27 (Fri.), 2026, without online attendance. Please visit K03 Building.

This workshop is jointly organized by the KEK Theory Center and RIKEN iTHEMS.
 

List of invited speakers and tentative titles:

• Hirotaka Hayashi (Tokai University) 

 “6d/5d gauge theories from web diagrams”

• Hikaru Kawai (Osaka Metropolitan University)

 “Emergence of space-time and matter from matrix model”

• Takato Mori (Rikkyo University)

 “Information theoretic approaches to closed universe”

• Masaya Nakagawa (The University of Tokyo)

 “Open quantum systems: From many-body physics to feedback control”

• Masaki Shigemori (Nagoya University)

 “Microstates of black holes and of whatnot”

• Tadashi Takayanagi (YITP, Kyoto University)

 “Extending holography to non-Hermitian systems”

• Norihiro Tanahashi (Kyoto University)

 “Optimal transport, holography and chaos”

• Tatsuya Yamaoka (The University of Osaka)

 “Advances in Hamiltonian lattice theory for realizing chiral gauge theories”

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