Strings 2008

from Sunday, 17 August 2008 (09:30) to Saturday, 23 August 2008 (13:45)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Aug 2008
19 Aug 2008
20 Aug 2008
21 Aug 2008
22 Aug 2008
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10:00 Welcome Talks   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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10:25 Forty years of high energy string collisions - Prof. Gabriele Veneziano (College de France)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Quantum gravity in three dimensions - Prof. Andrew Strominger (Harvard University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:30 String phenomenology on the eve of the LHC - Prof. Luis Ibanez (UAM-CSIC)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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10:25 F-theory, GUTs, and the weak scale - Prof. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 A new infinite class of anti-de Sitter flux vacua - Dr Alessandro Tomasiello (Harvard University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:30 Unveiling the structure of amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity - Prof. Lance Dixon (SLAC)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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10:25 Maximal supersymmetry, duality and scattering amplitudes - Prof. Michael B. Green (DAMTP Cambridge)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 What is the simplest quantum field theory? - Dr Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Institute)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:30 The gauge-string duality and QCD at finite temperature - Prof. Steven Gubser (Princeton University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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10:25 Integrability of the AdS/CFT system - Dr Matthias Staudacher (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Nonlinear fluid dynamics from gravity - Prof. Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:30 BPS black holes and topological strings: a review - Dr Boris Pioline (Laboratoire de Physique Theorique Jussieu)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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10:25 Extremal black holes and AdS2/CFT1 correspondence - Prof. Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Developments in BPS wall-crossing - Prof. Gregory Moore (Rutgers University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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PM
12:05 String theory and cosmology - Renata Kallosh (Stanford University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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12:40 Global warming of the de Sitter space - Prof. Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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13:15 --- Lunch Break ---
15:15 LHC machine status - Prof. Lyn Evans (CERN)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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16:00 Status of the LHC detectors: design, construction, commissioning - Prof. Jos Engelen (CERN)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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16:45 The search for new physics at the LHC - Prof. Oliver Buchmuller (CERN)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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18:00 --- Reception ---
12:05 D-brane instantons in Type II orientifolds - Dr Timo Weigand (University of Pennsylvania)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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12:40 Superstring amplitudes: formal progress and implications for LHC - Dr Stephan Stieberger (MPI Munich)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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13:15 --- Lunch Break ---
15:20 Heterotic standard models - Prof. Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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15:55 N=6 Chern Simons matter theories, M2 branes and supergravity - Prof. Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00 Lagrangians for multiple M2-branes - Dr Neil Lambert (Kings College London)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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17:35 Multiple membrane dynamics - Prof. Sunil Mukhi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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21:00 --- Concert ---
12:05 Fermionic T-duality - Prof. Nathan Jacob Berkovits (Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Sao Paulo)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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12:40 Dual superconformal symmetry of scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM - Prof. Emery Sokatchev (LAPTH-Annecy)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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13:15 --- Lunch Break ---
19:00 --- Banquet ---
12:05 Scattering amplitudes via AdS/CFT - Dr Luis Fernando Alday (Utrecht University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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12:40 Holographic recipes at finite density and low temperature - Dr Andrei Starinets (Institute for Advanced Study)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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13:15 --- Lunch Break ---
15:20 Holographic gauge mediation - Prof. Herman Verlinde (Princeton University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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15:55 General gauge mediation - Dr David Shih (IAS/Princeton)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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16:30 --- Coffe Break ---
17:00 4-loop perturbative Konishi from AdS5xS5 string sigma model - Dr Romuald Janik (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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17:35 Loop quantum gravity - Prof. Carlo Rovelli (Marseille University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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12:05 S-duality and boundary conditions in N=4 SYM - Dr Davide Gaiotto (IAS Princeton)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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12:40 Cosmological unification of string theories - Prof. Simeon Hellerman (Institute for Advanced Study)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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13:15 --- Lunch Break ---
15:20 Tadpole cancellation in the topological string - Dr Johannes Walcher (ETH Zurich)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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15:55 Remodeling the topological string, perturbatively and nonperturbatively - Prof. Marcos Marino Beiras (University of Geneva)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00 Summary - Prof. Hiroshi Ooguri (Caltech)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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17:50 Outlook - Prof. David Gross (KITP)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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