Strings 2008

Talks

Talks

We expect the few missing videos to appear soon.

 

Review and Summary Talks

Speaker	Affiliation	Title/Link to slides	Vid.
Bloch, P.	CERN	Public talk about the LHC, in french
Buchmüller, O.	CERN	The Search for New Physics at the LHC
Dixon, L.	SLAC	Unveiling the structure of amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity
Engelen, J.	CERN	Status of the LHC detectors: design, construction, commissioning
Evans, L.	CERN	LHC Machine Status
Gross, D.	KITP	Outlook, and public talk
Gubser, S.	Princeton U	The gauge-string duality and QCD at finite temperature
Ibanez, L.	UAM-CSIC	String Phenomenology on the eve of the LHC
Ooguri, H.	Caltech	Conference Summary
Pioline, B.	LPTHE	BPS Black holes and topological strings: a review

 

Research Talks

Speaker	Affiliation	Title/Link to slides	Vid.
Alday, L.	U Utrecht	Scattering Amplitudes via AdS/CFT
Berkovits, N.	U Sao Paulo	Fermionic T-Duality
Cachazo, F.	Perimeter Inst.	What is the Simplest Quantum Field Theory?
Donagi, R.	U Penn	Heterotic Standard Models
Gaiotto, D.	IAS Princeton	S-duality and Boundary Conditions in N=4 SYM
Green, M.	DAMTP	Maximal Supersymmetry, Duality and Scattering Amplitudes
Hellerman, S.	IAS Princeton	Cosmological Unification of String Theories
Janik, R.	Cracow	4-loop perturbative Konishi from AdS_5xS^5 string sigma model
Kallosh, R.	Stanford U	String theory and Cosmology
Lambert, N.	Kings College	Lagrangians for Multiple M2-branes
Maldacena, J.	IAS Princeton	N=6 Chern Simons matter theories, M2 branes and supergravity
Marino, M.	U Geneva	Remodeling the topological string, perturbatively and nonperturbatively
Minwalla, S.	Tata Institute	Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics from Gravity
Moore, G.	Rutgers U	Developments in BPS wall-crossing
Mukhi, S.	Tata Institute	Multiple Membrane Dynamics
Polyakov, A.	Princeton U	Global warming of the de Sitter space
Rovelli, C.	U Marseille	Loop Quantum Gravity
Sen, A.	Harish-Ch.Inst	Extremal black holes and AdS_2/CFT_1 correspondence
Shih, D.	Princeton U	General Gauge Mediation
Sokatchev, E.	LAPTH	Dual superconformal symmetry of scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills
Starinets, A.	IAS Princeton	Holographic recipes at finite density and low temperature
Staudacher, M.	AEI Golm	Integrability of the AdS/CFT System
Stieberger, S.	MPI Munich	Superstring Amplitudes: Formal Progress and Implications for LHC
Strominger, A.	Harvard U	Quantum Gravity in Three Dimensions
Tomasiello, A.	Harvard U	A new infinite class of anti-de Sitter flux vacua[keynote.zip]
Vafa, C.	Harvard U	F-theory, GUTs, and the Weak Scale
Veneziano, G.	CdF, CERN	Forty years of high energy string collisions
Verlinde, H.	Princeton U	Holographic gauge mediation
Walcher, J.	ETH Zurich	Tadpole Cancellation in the Topological String
Weigand, T.	U Penn	D-brane instantons in Type II orientifolds