Luis Apolo

I'm an assistant professor at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (Bimsa) interested in quantum gravity, conformal field theory, and their relationship via the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Research

My research focuses on holography and its extensions beyond anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes. A major motivation behind my research is to understand how holography and quantum gravity work in the real world. I’m particularly interested in the construction of top-down models of non-AdS holography obtained from string theory, and in further developing the holographic dictionary of known bottom-up constructions.

Currently I'm studying a class of solvable irrelevant deformations of 2d conformal field theories and their relationship to non-AdS holography and string theory. You can read more about it here and here.

Teaching

• Tsinghua University, Spring 2024: Physics 0
• Bimsa, Fall 2023: Holography and TTbar deformations
• Tsinghua University, Spring 2021: Aspects of holography and irrelevant deformations

Lectures

• Single-trace TTbar deformations and string theory , 3rd Young Frontiers Meeting (zoom), September 12-14th, 2022 (Recorded lectures: I , II , III   ◇   Lecture notes: I , II , III )

Selected publications

A full list of my publications can be found in: inSPIRE | arXiv.

• L. Apolo, A. Belin, S. Bintanja, A. Castro and C. Keller, Deforming symmetric product orbifolds: a tale of moduli and higher spin currents [JHEP08 (2022) 159, 2204.07590 ]
• L. Apolo, S. Detournay and W. Song, TsT, TTbar and black strings [JHEP06 (2020) 109, 1911.12359]
• L. Apolo and M. Porrati, Free boundary conditions and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence [JHEP1403 (2014) 116, 1401.1197]

Short CV

• Assistant Professor, Bimsa, 2023 - present
• Postdoc, University of Amsterdam, 2021 - 2023
• Postdoc, Tsinghua University, 2017 - 2020
• Postdoc, Stockholm University, 2014 - 2017
• Ph. D, New York University, 2014

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