Time: 14:00-15:30  (Beijing time), Thursday, 2026/1/15 (Jan 15)

Location: Room 401, Building 7, UCAS Zhongguancun Campus

Speaker: Wang Diandian, Harvard University


Abstract: I will review some recent work on the understanding of 3d gravity and its dual description which seems to be an ensemble of 2d CFTs. I will then describe the extension of several aspects to allow CFTs living on bordered Riemann surfaces, i.e., BCFTs. We will see that the bulk theory becomes richer, and in some cases, we can explicit solve the bulk side to find an exact match between the bulk and a boundary description.

Link for Zoom meeting:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85715129440?pwd=QlJJRFBWWFRLMkxCVmcxZ1RKdlRxQT09

Meeting ID: 857 1512 9440
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