Strings 2008

Contribution List

2. Welcome Talks

18/08/2008, 10:00

1. Forty years of high energy string collisions

Prof. Gabriele Veneziano (College de France)

18/08/2008, 10:25

0. Quantum gravity in three dimensions

Prof. Andrew Strominger (Harvard University)

18/08/2008, 11:30

3. String theory and cosmology

Renata Kallosh (Stanford University)

18/08/2008, 12:05

4. Global warming of the de Sitter space

Prof. Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton University)

18/08/2008, 12:40

5. LHC machine status

Prof. Lyn Evans (CERN)

18/08/2008, 15:15

6. Status of the LHC detectors: design, construction, commissioning

Prof. Jos Engelen (CERN)

18/08/2008, 16:00

7. The search for new physics at the LHC

Prof. Oliver Buchmuller (CERN)

18/08/2008, 16:45

8. String phenomenology on the eve of the LHC

Prof. Luis Ibanez (UAM-CSIC)

19/08/2008, 09:30

9. F-theory, GUTs, and the weak scale

Prof. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)

19/08/2008, 10:25

10. A new infinite class of anti-de Sitter flux vacua

Dr Alessandro Tomasiello (Harvard University)

19/08/2008, 11:30

11. D-brane instantons in Type II orientifolds

Dr Timo Weigand (University of Pennsylvania)

19/08/2008, 12:05

12. Superstring amplitudes: formal progress and implications for LHC

Dr Stephan Stieberger (MPI Munich)

19/08/2008, 12:40

13. Heterotic standard models

Prof. Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)

19/08/2008, 15:20

14. N=6 Chern Simons matter theories, M2 branes and supergravity

Prof. Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

19/08/2008, 15:55

15. Lagrangians for multiple M2-branes

Dr Neil Lambert (Kings College London)

19/08/2008, 17:00

16. Multiple membrane dynamics

Prof. Sunil Mukhi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

19/08/2008, 17:35

17. Unveiling the structure of amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity

Prof. Lance Dixon (SLAC)

20/08/2008, 09:30

18. Maximal supersymmetry, duality and scattering amplitudes

Prof. Michael B. Green (DAMTP Cambridge)

20/08/2008, 10:25

19. What is the simplest quantum field theory?

Dr Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Institute)

20/08/2008, 11:30

21. Fermionic T-duality

Prof. Nathan Jacob Berkovits (Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Sao Paulo)

20/08/2008, 12:05

20. Dual superconformal symmetry of scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM

Prof. Emery Sokatchev (LAPTH-Annecy)

20/08/2008, 12:40

22. The gauge-string duality and QCD at finite temperature

Prof. Steven Gubser (Princeton University)

21/08/2008, 09:30

23. Integrability of the AdS/CFT system

Dr Matthias Staudacher (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik)

21/08/2008, 10:25

24. Nonlinear fluid dynamics from gravity

Prof. Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR)

21/08/2008, 11:30

25. Scattering amplitudes via AdS/CFT

Dr Luis Fernando Alday (Utrecht University)

21/08/2008, 12:05

26. Holographic recipes at finite density and low temperature

Dr Andrei Starinets (Institute for Advanced Study)

21/08/2008, 12:40

27. Holographic gauge mediation

Prof. Herman Verlinde (Princeton University)

21/08/2008, 15:20

28. General gauge mediation

Dr David Shih (IAS/Princeton)

21/08/2008, 15:55

29. 4-loop perturbative Konishi from AdS5xS5 string sigma model

Dr Romuald Janik (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)

21/08/2008, 17:00

30. Loop quantum gravity

Prof. Carlo Rovelli (Marseille University)

21/08/2008, 17:35

31. BPS black holes and topological strings: a review

Dr Boris Pioline (Laboratoire de Physique Theorique Jussieu)

22/08/2008, 09:30

32. Extremal black holes and AdS2/CFT1 correspondence

Prof. Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

22/08/2008, 10:25

33. Developments in BPS wall-crossing

Prof. Gregory Moore (Rutgers University)

22/08/2008, 11:30

34. S-duality and boundary conditions in N=4 SYM

Dr Davide Gaiotto (IAS Princeton)

22/08/2008, 12:05

35. Cosmological unification of string theories

Prof. Simeon Hellerman (Institute for Advanced Study)

22/08/2008, 12:40

36. Tadpole cancellation in the topological string

Dr Johannes Walcher (ETH Zurich)

22/08/2008, 15:20

37. Remodeling the topological string, perturbatively and nonperturbatively

Prof. Marcos Marino Beiras (University of Geneva)

22/08/2008, 15:55

38. Summary

Prof. Hiroshi Ooguri (Caltech)

22/08/2008, 17:00

39. Outlook

Prof. David Gross (KITP)

22/08/2008, 17:50

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