PROGRAM

The Venue for Strings 2026

The venue for Strings 2026 will be Zijin Hall, Conference Center, Dongjiao State Guest Hotel (东郊宾馆).

Location: Pudong Xingqu, Shanghai Jinke Road No.1800 (东郊宾馆上海市浦东新区金科路1800号)

The venue for conference lectures will be on the same Dongjiao Hotel campus.

Time	Jul 5Day 0	Jul 6Day 1 Watch online	Jul 7Day 2 Watch online	Jul 8Day 3 Watch online	Jul 9Day 4 Watch online	Jul 10Day 5 Watch online
09:00 – 09:30	Arrival and sign in	Opening
09:30 – 10:00		Andrew Strominger	Wei Li	Nathan Seiberg	Cumrun Vafa	Mauricio Romo
10:00 – 10:30		Wei Song	Abhijit Gadde	Xinan Zhou	Matilda Delgado	Victor Rodriguez
10:30 – 11:00		Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00		Zhenbin Yang	Ashoke Sen	Clifford Cheung	Timo Weigand	Marcos Marino
12:00 – 13:30		Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00		Juan Maldacena	Manki Kim	Free afternoon	Naomi Gendler	Slava Rychkov
14:00 – 14:30		Thomas Hartman	Fedor Popov		Jacob McNamara	Yang Zhou
14:30 – 15:00		Coffee break	Coffee break		Coffee break	Coffee break
15:00 – 15:30		Matthew Headrick	Yin-Chen He		Edward Witten	Hua Xing Zhu
15:30 – 16:00		Elliott Gesteau	Mykola Dedushenko		Shai Chester	Yifan Wang
16:00 – 16:30		Coffee break	Coffee break		Coffee break	Concluding Remarks* Hirosi Ooguri 16:00 – 16:45
16:00 – 16:30		Coffee break	Coffee break		Sridip Pal* 16:15 – 16:45
16:30 – 17:00		Gong Show	Gong Show		Sridip Pal* 16:15 – 16:45
16:30 – 17:00					Matthew Dodelson* 16:45 – 17:15
17:00 – 17:30					Matthew Dodelson* 16:45 – 17:15
17:00 – 17:30
17:30 – 19:00		Poster session and reception	Scientific Discussion Victor Rodriguez Ashoke Sen Edward Witten	Dinner	Conference Dinner* 18:15
19:00 – 20:30		Dinner	Dinner	Public talk David Gross Watch online	Conference Dinner* 18:15

We will update the schedule after we get more information from invited speakers.

* Conference dinner will be at Zijin Hall at 18:15.

* Concluding Remarks: 16:00 – 16:45.

* Sridip Pal: 16:15 – 16:45.

* Matthew Dodelson: 16:45 – 17:15.