Double Scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model: From Gravity to Many-Body Quantum Chaos

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has proved to be a fertile ground for many areas of modern physics such as black holes, holography, condensed matter physics and many-body quantum chaos. In recent years, considerable progress has been made on the double-scaled limit of the SYK model (DSSYK), which is generic to a large class of p-local systems and beyond, and can be solved with great precision using combinatorial tools. New frontiers that emerged include noncommutative spacetimes and quantum groups, new “fake geometries” and negative distances in the bulk, and suggestions for the quantum nature of de Sitter gravity. All of the above topics are under active research by leading experts from different physics communities. We bring them together by for a one-week workshop at the SCGP to pursue further advancement in these research fields.