Overview

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP) started to organize international schools from 2014 and this is the third one in the series. (See here for the past Yukawa international schools) The main subject of the school for this year is string theory and quantum field theory. It will be held from February 29th to March 4th in 2016 at YITP located in Kyoto, Japan.

  Invited Lecturers

• Francesco Benini (Imperial College London): Supersymmetric localization in gauge theories (lecture notes)
• Romuald Janik (Jagiellonian University): AdS/CFT at any coupling: the tools of integrability
• David Poland (Yale University): CFTs and the Conformal Bootstrap
• Tadashi Takayanagi (YITP, Kyoto University): Entanglement and Holography

  Program

program_v5.pdf  (last updated: March 2)

• On February 29th (Mon), the registration desk will open from 10:00 and there will be an opening announcement starting from around 10:45.
• We will have a party on March 1st (Tue) at "Camphora" in the main campus. (map) The participants are requested to pay 3000 Yen at the registration desk on Monday morning.

  Venue

Panasonic hall (the ground floor in the Yukawa hall: access map, google map)
at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto, JAPAN

  Registration

The on-line registration has been closed. Please register at the school site.

  Access to YITP

• Access Information (YITP, RIMS (nearby Institute))
• Map (access map, google map, Around YITP)
• Search (Train [Jorudan, Hyperdia], Bus and Train Veteran)
• From Kansai international airport (KIX) to Kyoto (guide1, guide2, train, bus, shuttle [MK taxi, Yasaka taxi])
• Access from Kyoto Station to YITP
• Access from Hearton Hotel Kyoto to YITP

  Links

• Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP)
• Kyoto University
• Yukawa International Schools
• Accommodations in Kyoto
• Public transport in Kyoto (Bus map, Subway map)
• Restaurant Guide around Kyoto University
• Restaurants around YITP
• Campus map: North Campus (11: YITP)
• Campus map: Main Campus (2: Camphora, 3: Clock Tower, Tully's Coffee)
• Kitashirakawa-Gakusha (map, google map)
• Hearton Hotel Kyoto
• Kyoto Weather Forecast
• Visa Information

  Organizers

Hiroshi Kunitomo, Naoki Sasakura, Masaki Shigemori, Tadashi Takayanagi, Seiji Terashima, Shigeki Sugimoto (chair)

  Contact

• Address:
  Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
  Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City,
  Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
• e-mail: school2016yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp
  (-> Shigeki Sugimoto (chair), Ms. Asako Ando (secretary))