Matrix Membranes and Emergent Spacetime Workshop - Day 3

Explore advanced theoretical physics concepts in this workshop recording featuring four specialized lectures on matrix membranes and emergent spacetime theories. Begin with Toby Wiseman's examination of Einstein gravity with boundaries, investigating how gravitational theories behave at spacetime boundaries and their implications for holographic duality. Continue with Aradhita Chattopadhyaya's analysis of instantons in Vafa-Witten theory and their connection to mock modularity, exploring non-perturbative effects in gauge theories and their mathematical structures. Proceed to Adolfo Holguin's presentation on giant probes derived from large N BPS correlators, delving into how extended objects behave in strongly coupled gauge theories and their role in the AdS/CFT correspondence. Conclude with Yuhma Asano's discussion of path integral formulations for closed superstrings and matrix models, examining the mathematical framework connecting string theory to matrix model descriptions of quantum gravity.