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CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theories

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500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

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This Winter School on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge Theories will take place at CERN , Geneva, from Monday February 9 to Friday February 13, 2009. It is organized by the CERN TH group .
The school is an analytic continuation of a series of schools organized in the framework of the former EC-RTN network "Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe", hosted by CERN. This event is primarily meant for training of Ph.D. students and young postdoc researchers and will consist of general lectures in the mornings and working group sessions in the afternoons. Previous schools in this series were organized in 2005 at SISSA in Trieste, and in 2006 , 2007 and 2008 at CERN, Geneva. Other similar schools have been organized in the past by the former related RTN network "The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions". This year the school is not funded by the European Union. The school is funded by the CERN Theory Group, and the Arnold Sommerfeld Center of Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Scientific committee: J.L.F. Barbon, S. Ferrara, A. Sevrin, J. Simon, K. Stelle, S. Theisen, A. Uranga and A. Van Proeyen. Local organizing committee: J.-P. Derendinger, A. Uranga
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  • Monday 9 February
    • 09:30 → 10:30
      Gravity and hydrodynamics (I) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      Video in CDS
    • 10:30 → 11:30
      BSM physics at the LHC (I) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      These four lectures will provide a broad-brush, pedagogical overview of the present ideas on Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics at the TeV scale, and what the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can say about them. The target audience are PhD students and young postdocs in string theory, with only a basic knowledge of particle phenomenology. The plan of the lectures is the following: 1) critical review of the SM and of Higgs boson searches; 2) bottom-up approaches to BSM physics; 3) supersymmetry at the TeV scale; 4) other ideas for the TeV scale. Suggested reading:
      -G.Altarelli, New Physics and the LHC, arXiv:0805.1992 [hep-ph] -S.P.Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer, arXiv:hep-ph/9709356 -H.C.Cheng, Little Higgs, Non-standard Higgs, No Higgs and All That, arXiv:0710.3407 [hep-ph]. -C.Grojean, Electroweak symmetry breaking: to Higgs or not to Higgs, CERN Academic Training, January 2009
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 12:15 → 13:15
      Condensed matter applications of AdS/CFT (I) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      These lectures will discuss the application of ads/cft techniques to condensed matter systems. After motivating this endeavor, I will review the basic features of the ads/cft correspondence that will be used. I will review the physics of spectral functions and how they can be computed via AdS/CFT. Holographic superconductors will be discussed. The lectures will conclude with a discussion of open questions and future directions. References: - Holographic Superconductors. Sean A. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog, Gary T. Horowitz, JHEP 0812:015,2008, arXiv:0810.1563 [hep-th] - Ohm's Law at strong coupling: S duality and the cyclotron resonance, Sean A. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog,  Phys.Rev.D76:106012,2007, arXiv:0706.3228 [hep-th] - Gravity duals for non-relativistic CFTs. Koushik Balasubramanian, John McGreevy,  Phys.Rev.Lett.101:061601,2008, arXiv:0804.4053 [hep-th] - Toward an AdS/cold atoms correspondence: A Geometric realization of the Schrodinger symmetry. D.T. Son, Phys.Rev.D78:046003,2008, arXiv:0804.3972 [hep-th]
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 14:30 → 15:30
      Gravity and hydrodynamics (II) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Video in CDS
    • 15:30 → 16:30
      BSM physics at the LHC (II) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
      Show room on map
      These four lectures will provide a broad-brush, pedagogical overview of the present ideas on Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics at the TeV scale, and what the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can say about them. The target audience are PhD students and young postdocs in string theory, with only a basic knowledge of particle phenomenology. The plan of the lectures is the following: 1) critical review of the SM and of Higgs boson searches; 2) bottom-up approaches to BSM physics; 3) supersymmetry at the TeV scale; 4) other ideas for the TeV scale. Suggested reading:
      -G.Altarelli, New Physics and the LHC, arXiv:0805.1992 [hep-ph] -S.P.Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer, arXiv:hep-ph/9709356 -H.C.Cheng, Little Higgs, Non-standard Higgs, No Higgs and All That, arXiv:0710.3407 [hep-ph]. -C.Grojean, Electroweak symmetry breaking: to Higgs or not to Higgs, CERN Academic Training, January 2009
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 17:00 → 18:00
      Reception 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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  • Tuesday 10 February
    • 10:00 → 11:00
      Special LHC lecture 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Slides
      Video on CDS
    • 12:15 → 13:15
      BSM physics at the LHC (III) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
      Show room on map
      These four lectures will provide a broad-brush, pedagogical overview of the present ideas on Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics at the TeV scale, and what the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can say about them. The target audience are PhD students and young postdocs in string theory, with only a basic knowledge of particle phenomenology. The plan of the lectures is the following: 1) critical review of the SM and of Higgs boson searches; 2) bottom-up approaches to BSM physics; 3) supersymmetry at the TeV scale; 4) other ideas for the TeV scale. Suggested reading:
      -G.Altarelli, New Physics and the LHC, arXiv:0805.1992 [hep-ph] -S.P.Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer, arXiv:hep-ph/9709356 -H.C.Cheng, Little Higgs, Non-standard Higgs, No Higgs and All That, arXiv:0710.3407 [hep-ph]. -C.Grojean, Electroweak symmetry breaking: to Higgs or not to Higgs, CERN Academic Training, January 2009
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 14:30 → 15:30
      Condensed matter applications of AdS/CFT (II) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
      Show room on map
      These lectures will discuss the application of ads/cft techniques to condensed matter systems. After motivating this endeavor, I will review the basic features of the ads/cft correspondence that will be used. I will review the physics of spectral functions and how they can be computed via AdS/CFT. Holographic superconductors will be discussed. The lectures will conclude with a discussion of open questions and future directions. References: - Holographic Superconductors. Sean A. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog, Gary T. Horowitz, JHEP 0812:015,2008, arXiv:0810.1563 [hep-th] - Ohm's Law at strong coupling: S duality and the cyclotron resonance, Sean A. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog,  Phys.Rev.D76:106012,2007, arXiv:0706.3228 [hep-th] - Gravity duals for non-relativistic CFTs. Koushik Balasubramanian, John McGreevy,  Phys.Rev.Lett.101:061601,2008, arXiv:0804.4053 [hep-th] - Toward an AdS/cold atoms correspondence: A Geometric realization of the Schrodinger symmetry. D.T. Son, Phys.Rev.D78:046003,2008, arXiv:0804.3972 [hep-th]
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 15:30 → 16:30
      Gravity and hydrodynamics (III) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Video in CDS
    • 17:00 → 19:00
      Working groups 2, 3, 6 Room: see WG information

      Room: see WG information

      CERN
      • 17:00
        Working group 2: 3D gravity theories and the Kerr/CFT correspondence 2h Room 13-2-005

        Room 13-2-005

        CERN
      • 17:00
        Working group 3: Super-Chern-Simons field theories, multiple M2 branes, BLG models and tri-algebras 2h Room 6-2-024

        Room 6-2-024

        CERN
      • 17:00
        Working group 6: F-theory phenomenology 2h Room 60-6-002

        Room 60-6-002

        CERN
        Slides
  • Wednesday 11 February
    • 09:30 → 10:30
      The black hole information problem and the fuzzball proposal (I) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 10:30 → 11:30
      Cosmology (I) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Video in CDS
    • 12:15 → 13:15
      Condensed matter applications of AdS/CFT (III) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
      Show room on map
      These lectures will discuss the application of ads/cft techniques to condensed matter systems. After motivating this endeavor, I will review the basic features of the ads/cft correspondence that will be used. I will review the physics of spectral functions and how they can be computed via AdS/CFT. Holographic superconductors will be discussed. The lectures will conclude with a discussion of open questions and future directions. References: - Holographic Superconductors. Sean A. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog, Gary T. Horowitz, JHEP 0812:015,2008, arXiv:0810.1563 [hep-th] - Ohm's Law at strong coupling: S duality and the cyclotron resonance, Sean A. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog, Phys.Rev.D76:106012,2007, arXiv:0706.3228 [hep-th] - Gravity duals for non-relativistic CFTs. Koushik Balasubramanian, John McGreevy, Phys.Rev.Lett.101:061601,2008, arXiv:0804.4053 [hep-th] - Toward an AdS/cold atoms correspondence: A Geometric realization of the Schrodinger symmetry. D.T. Son, Phys.Rev.D78:046003,2008, arXiv:0804.3972 [hep-th]
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 14:30 → 15:30
      Cosmology (II) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Video in CDS
    • 16:00 → 18:00
      Working groups 1, 2, 4 Room: see WG information

      Room: see WG information

      CERN
      • 16:00
        Working group 1: Topological strings (Non-compact CY's) 2h Room 60-6-002

        Room 60-6-002

        CERN
      • 16:00
        Working group 2 (second session): 3D gravity theories and the Kerr/CFT correspondence 2h Room: 160-1-009

        Room: 160-1-009

        CERN
      • 16:00
        Working group 4: Type IIA superstrings in AdS_4 x CP^3 background 2h Room 6-2-024

        Room 6-2-024

        CERN
  • Thursday 12 February
    • 09:30 → 10:30
      The black hole information problem and the fuzzball proposal (II) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 10:30 → 11:30
      Condensed matter applications of AdS/CFT (IV) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      These lectures will discuss the application of ads/cft techniques to condensed matter systems. After motivating this endeavor, I will review the basic features of the ads/cft correspondence that will be used. I will review the physics of spectral functions and how they can be computed via AdS/CFT. Holographic superconductors will be discussed. The lectures will conclude with a discussion of open questions and future directions. References: - Holographic Superconductors. Sean A. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog, Gary T. Horowitz, JHEP 0812:015,2008, arXiv:0810.1563 [hep-th] - Ohm's Law at strong coupling: S duality and the cyclotron resonance, Sean A. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog,  Phys.Rev.D76:106012,2007, arXiv:0706.3228 [hep-th] - Gravity duals for non-relativistic CFTs. Koushik Balasubramanian, John McGreevy,  Phys.Rev.Lett.101:061601,2008, arXiv:0804.4053 [hep-th] - Toward an AdS/cold atoms correspondence: A Geometric realization of the Schrodinger symmetry. D.T. Son, Phys.Rev.D78:046003,2008, arXiv:0804.3972 [hep-th]
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 12:15 → 13:15
      BSM physics at the LHC (IV) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
      Show room on map
      These four lectures will provide a broad-brush, pedagogical overview of the present ideas on Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics at the TeV scale, and what the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can say about them. The target audience are PhD students and young postdocs in string theory, with only a basic knowledge of particle phenomenology. The plan of the lectures is the following: 1) critical review of the SM and of Higgs boson searches; 2) bottom-up approaches to BSM physics; 3) supersymmetry at the TeV scale; 4) other ideas for the TeV scale. Suggested reading:
      -G.Altarelli, New Physics and the LHC, arXiv:0805.1992 [hep-ph] -S.P.Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer, arXiv:hep-ph/9709356 -H.C.Cheng, Little Higgs, Non-standard Higgs, No Higgs and All That, arXiv:0710.3407 [hep-ph]. -C.Grojean, Electroweak symmetry breaking: to Higgs or not to Higgs, CERN Academic Training, January 2009
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 14:30 → 15:30
      Cosmology (III) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 15:30 → 16:30
      The black hole information paradox and the fuzzball proposal (III) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
      Show room on map
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 17:00 → 19:00
      Working groups 1, 5 Room: see WG information

      Room: see WG information

      CERN
      • 17:00
        Possible second session of other working groups 2h Room: to be announced

        Room: to be announced

        CERN
      • 17:00
        Working group 1: Progress on Topological Strings (compact CY's) 2h Room 60-6-002

        Room 60-6-002

        CERN
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Working group 5: Condensed matter applications of AdS/CFT 2h Room 6-2-024

        Room 6-2-024

        CERN
    • 19:30 → 22:00
      School Dinner 2h 30m Restaurant 1

      Restaurant 1

      CERN
  • Friday 13 February
    • 09:30 → 10:30
      Cosmology (IV) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 10:30 → 11:30
      Gravity and hydrodynamics (IV) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
      Show room on map
      Video in CDS
    • 12:15 → 13:15
      The black hole information problem and the fuzzball proposal (IV) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
      Show room on map
      Slides
      Video in CDS
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