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Welcome to Strings 2008, which will be held at CERN in the year during which the LHC starts up.ย  This conference, the largest and most important one on String Theory, runs annually and usually draws several hundred participants, mostly active researchers in the field. The main purpose of the conference is to review the latest developments for experts, but there will also be free talks for the general public. For more details about the conference, see the links on the left.

The lectures will take place in the CERN main auditorium.ย  All participants must register in order to get admitted to the lecture hall. There will be about 40 talks, most of which are summaries of 30 minutes each, but each day there will also be one or two more comprehensive, one hour review talks. The speakers will be nominated by the committee, and self-applications are discouraged. The precise schedule will be announced on this web site shortly before the meeting.

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  • Monday 18 August
    • 10:00 → 10:25
      Welcome Talks 25m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Video in CDS
    • 10:25 → 11:00
      Forty years of high energy string collisions 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Prof. Gabriele Veneziano (College de France)
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 11:00 → 11:30
      Coffee Break 30m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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    • 11:30 → 12:05
      Quantum gravity in three dimensions 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Prof. Andrew Strominger (Harvard University)
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      Video in CDS
    • 12:05 → 12:40
      String theory and cosmology 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Renata Kallosh (Stanford University)
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      Video in CDS
    • 12:40 → 13:15
      Global warming of the de Sitter space 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Prof. Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton University)
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 13:15 → 15:15
      Lunch Break 2h Restaurant

      Restaurant

      CERN
    • 15:15 → 16:00
      LHC machine status 45m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Prof. Lyn Evans (CERN)
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      Video in CDS
    • 16:00 → 16:45
      Status of the LHC detectors: design, construction, commissioning 45m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Prof. Jos Engelen (CERN)
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      Video in CDS
    • 16:45 → 17:30
      The search for new physics at the LHC 45m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Oliver Buchmuller (CERN)
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      Video in CDS
    • 18:00 → 22:00
      Reception 4h United Nations (pickup at parking lot)

      United Nations

      pickup at parking lot
  • Tuesday 19 August
    • 09:30 → 10:25
      String phenomenology on the eve of the LHC 55m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Prof. Luis Ibanez (UAM-CSIC)
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 10:25 → 11:00
      F-theory, GUTs, and the weak scale 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
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      Video in CDS
    • 11:00 → 11:30
      Coffee Break 30m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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    • 11:30 → 12:05
      A new infinite class of anti-de Sitter flux vacua 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Dr Alessandro Tomasiello (Harvard University)
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      Video in CDS
    • 12:05 → 12:40
      D-brane instantons in Type II orientifolds 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Dr Timo Weigand (University of Pennsylvania)
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      Video in CDS
    • 12:40 → 13:15
      Superstring amplitudes: formal progress and implications for LHC 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Dr Stephan Stieberger (MPI Munich)
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 13:15 → 15:20
      Lunch Break 2h 5m Restaurant

      Restaurant

      CERN
    • 15:20 → 15:55
      Heterotic standard models 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
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    • 15:55 → 16:30
      N=6 Chern Simons matter theories, M2 branes and supergravity 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
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      Video in CDS
    • 16:30 → 17:00
      Coffee Break 30m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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    • 17:00 → 17:35
      Lagrangians for multiple M2-branes 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Dr Neil Lambert (Kings College London)
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      Video in CDS
    • 17:35 → 18:10
      Multiple membrane dynamics 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Sunil Mukhi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
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      Video in CDS
    • 21:00 → 22:30
      Concert 1h 30m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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  • Wednesday 20 August
    • 09:30 → 10:25
      Unveiling the structure of amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity 55m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Prof. Lance Dixon (SLAC)
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      Video in CDS
    • 10:25 → 11:00
      Maximal supersymmetry, duality and scattering amplitudes 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Michael B. Green (DAMTP Cambridge)
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      Video in CDS
    • 11:00 → 11:30
      Coffee Break 30m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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    • 11:30 → 12:05
      What is the simplest quantum field theory? 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Dr Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Institute)
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    • 12:05 → 12:40
      Fermionic T-duality 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Nathan Jacob Berkovits (Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Sao Paulo)
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      Video in CDS
    • 12:40 → 13:15
      Dual superconformal symmetry of scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Prof. Emery Sokatchev (LAPTH-Annecy)
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 13:15 → 15:20
      Lunch Break 2h 5m Restaurant

      Restaurant

      CERN
    • 19:00 → 22:00
      Banquet 3h Unimail Geneva

      Unimail Geneva

      CERN
  • Thursday 21 August
    • 09:30 → 10:25
      The gauge-string duality and QCD at finite temperature 55m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Steven Gubser (Princeton University)
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      Video in CDS
    • 10:25 → 11:00
      Integrability of the AdS/CFT system 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Dr Matthias Staudacher (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik)
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 11:00 → 11:30
      Coffee Break 30m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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    • 11:30 → 12:05
      Nonlinear fluid dynamics from gravity 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR)
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      Video in CDS
    • 12:05 → 12:40
      Scattering amplitudes via AdS/CFT 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Speaker: Dr Luis Fernando Alday (Utrecht University)
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      Video in CDS
    • 12:40 → 13:15
      Holographic recipes at finite density and low temperature 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Dr Andrei Starinets (Institute for Advanced Study)
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 13:15 → 15:20
      Lunch Break 2h 5m Restaurant

      Restaurant

      CERN
    • 15:20 → 15:55
      Holographic gauge mediation 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Herman Verlinde (Princeton University)
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      Video in CDS
    • 15:55 → 16:30
      General gauge mediation 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Dr David Shih (IAS/Princeton)
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      Video in CDS
    • 16:30 → 17:00
      Coffe Break 30m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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    • 17:00 → 17:35
      4-loop perturbative Konishi from AdS5xS5 string sigma model 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Dr Romuald Janik (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
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      Video in CDS
    • 17:35 → 18:10
      Loop quantum gravity 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Carlo Rovelli (Marseille University)
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      Video in CDS
  • Friday 22 August
    • 09:30 → 10:25
      BPS black holes and topological strings: a review 55m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Dr Boris Pioline (Laboratoire de Physique Theorique Jussieu)
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      Video in CDS
    • 10:25 → 11:00
      Extremal black holes and AdS2/CFT1 correspondence 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
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      Video in CDS
    • 11:00 → 11:30
      Coffee Break 30m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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    • 11:30 → 12:05
      Developments in BPS wall-crossing 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Gregory Moore (Rutgers University)
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    • 12:05 → 12:40
      S-duality and boundary conditions in N=4 SYM 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Dr Davide Gaiotto (IAS Princeton)
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    • 12:40 → 13:15
      Cosmological unification of string theories 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Simeon Hellerman (Institute for Advanced Study)
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      Video in CDS
    • 13:15 → 15:20
      Lunch Break 2h 5m Restaurant

      Restaurant

      CERN
    • 15:20 → 15:55
      Tadpole cancellation in the topological string 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Dr Johannes Walcher (ETH Zurich)
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    • 15:55 → 16:30
      Remodeling the topological string, perturbatively and nonperturbatively 35m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Marcos Marino Beiras (University of Geneva)
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      Video in CDS
    • 16:30 → 17:00
      Coffee Break 30m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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    • 17:00 → 17:50
      Summary 50m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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      Speaker: Prof. Hiroshi Ooguri (Caltech)
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    • 17:50 → 18:30
      Outlook 40m 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Speaker: Prof. David Gross (KITP)
      Video in CDS
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