Bay Area Strings, Information & Cosmology Symposium

QMAP, UC Davis, November 8 and 9, 2025

QMAP will host the 3rd edition of the Bay Area Strings, Information & Cosmology Symposium. The inaugural meeting was held at UC Santa Cruz (BASICS 2023), and the 2nd edition was hosted at UC Berkeley (BASICS 2024). 

The meeting will take place in Roessler Hall, room 66. The venue is across from the Physics and Astronomy building and a stone's throw from the QMAP center (which is situated in the Physical and Data Sciences building). You can find Roessler Hall on the campus map here.

Schedule:

The workshop is scheduled for Saturday, November 8th, and Sunday, November 9th, 2025. The schedule of talks is as below. 

Talks:

1. Stefano Antonini (Berkeley): Living on the edge: a non-perturbative resolution to the negativity of bulk entropies
2. Yiming Chen (Stanford): On the phase of the de Sitter density of states
3. Luca Iliesiu (Berkeley): TBA
4. Manki Kim (Stanford): Non-linear sigma model in string field theory
5. Henry Maxfield (Stanford): TBA
6. Victor Rodriguez (Santa Barbara): D-instantons and the gluing formula
7. Edgar Shaghoulian (Santa Cruz): Timelike Liouville theory and AdS3 gravity at finite cutoff
8. Mykhaylo Usatyuk (Santa Barbara): Revisiting minimal string theories and unsolvable matrix integrals

Registration: 

To help us plan for the event, please register at the following Google web form. While there is no registration fee, and the event is open to all active researchers, we need a headcount to know how many people plan to attend. Please register before Oct 29, 2025.