CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theories

Europe/Zurich
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

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Description
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
Participants
  • Alberto Lerda
  • Alberto Mariotti
  • ALBERTO PALOMO-LOZANO
  • Alberto Santambrogio
  • Aleksandar Zejak
  • Alessandro Vichi
  • Alex Hamilton
  • Alexander Haupt
  • Alexander Sevrin
  • Alexander Wijns
  • Alexey Koshelev
  • Alfonso Ramallo
  • Andrea Brini
  • Andrea Mauri
  • Andrea Prinsloo
  • Andreas Liberis
  • Andres Collinucci
  • Andrew Low
  • Andrew O'Bannon
  • Andrey Bagrov
  • Andrey Zayakin
  • Angel Uranga
  • Anna Ceresole
  • Antoine Van Proeyen
  • Anton F. Faedo
  • Antonio Amariti
  • Ardian Nata Atmaja
  • Arnaud LE DIFFON
  • Artem Antonov
  • Artur Alho
  • Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis
  • Benjamin Withers
  • Bert Vercnocke
  • Blaise Rollier
  • Boris Stoyanov
  • Bram Gaasbeek
  • Branislav Cvetkovic
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Camillo Imbimbo
  • Carlo Angelantonj
  • CarloAlberto Ratti
  • Carlos Barragán
  • Carlos Fuertes
  • Cecilia Garraffo
  • Chethan Krishnan
  • Clare O'Hara
  • clement RUEF
  • Cornelius Schmidt-Colinet
  • Cyril Closset
  • Daniel Arean
  • Daniel Krefl
  • Daniel McNamee
  • Daniel Persson
  • Daniel Thompson
  • Daniele Dorigoni
  • Daniele Marmiroli
  • David Geissbuehler
  • Diederik Roest
  • Diego Mansi
  • Dieter Lust
  • Dietmar Klemm
  • Dimitri Terryn
  • Dimitrios Manolopoulos
  • Dmitri Bykov
  • domenico seminara
  • Duminda Dahanayake
  • Duncan Steele
  • Eduardo Conde Pena
  • Efstratios Tsatis
  • Elias Kiritsis
  • Ella Jamsin
  • Emanuele Orazi
  • Emanuele Zorzan
  • Emiliano Imeroni
  • Emmanuel Floratos
  • Enrique Fernandez
  • Eoin Quinn
  • Eric Bergshoeff
  • Erling J. Brynjolfsson
  • Ernst van Eijk
  • Fabio Zwirner
  • Federico Elmetti
  • Felip Alàez Nadal
  • Felix Bruemmer
  • Fernando Marchesano
  • Forcella Davide
  • Francesco Aprile
  • Francesco Fiamberti
  • Francisco Gil Pedro
  • Francisco Peña
  • Franco Pezzella
  • Francois Dehouck
  • Frederik De Roo
  • Gaston Giribet
  • George Georgiou
  • Gianguido Dall'Agata
  • Giovanni Tagliabue
  • Giovanni Villadoro
  • Giuseppe Dibitetto
  • Giuseppe Milanesi
  • Glenn Barnich
  • Grigory Vartanov
  • Göksel Daylan Esmer
  • Hai Ngo
  • Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Hiroyuki Fuji
  • Hugo Looyestijn
  • Igor Bandos
  • igor pesando
  • Ioannis Florakis
  • Irene Amado
  • Jackson Wu
  • Jakub Jankowski
  • Jan Rosseel
  • Jan De Rydt
  • Jan Perz
  • Javier Abajo
  • Javier Martinez
  • Javier Tarrio
  • Jawad Arshad
  • Jay Armas
  • Jeff Murugan
  • Jelle Hartong
  • Jerome Gaillard
  • Joan Camps
  • Joao Gomes
  • Johannes Walcher
  • Jonathan Shock
  • Jorge Russo
  • Jose Edelstein
  • JOSHUA ADJEI-KUMI
  • Josu Cantero
  • João Laia
  • Juansher Jejelava
  • Karl Koller
  • Kelly Stelle
  • khaled rebiai
  • Konstadinos Siampos
  • Konstantinos Zoubos
  • Larus Thorlacius
  • Laura Andrianopoli
  • Laura Tamassia
  • Leandro Lombardi
  • Leron Borsten
  • Linus Wulff
  • Liuba Mazzanti
  • Livia Ferro
  • Lorenzo Seri
  • Lotta Mether
  • Luca Griguolo
  • Luca Sommovigo
  • Luciano Girardello
  • Mahdi Torabian
  • Marcel Vonk
  • Marco Billo'
  • Marco Stefano Bianchi
  • Maria Schimpf
  • Maria Schimpf
  • Mariano Chernicoff
  • Mario Trigiante
  • Marisa Bonini
  • Marius de Leeuw
  • Marta Gomez-Reino
  • Martin Ammon
  • Massimo Siani
  • Matias Leoni Olivera
  • Matthias Blau
  • Matthias Kaminski
  • Mechthild Hübscher
  • Michele Cirafici
  • Mohab Abou Zeid
  • Mohamed Sofiane Boucenna
  • Monica Guica
  • Mukund Rangamani
  • Nick Halmagyi
  • Nicola Ambrosetti
  • Nicola Luigi Bragazzi
  • Nikolaos Prezas
  • Norberto Gutierrez Rodriguez
  • Olaf Hohm
  • Oleg Evnin
  • Oliver Schlotterer
  • Olivera Miskovic
  • Orestis Vasilakis
  • Oscar Chacaltana
  • Pablo Soler
  • Pantelis Tziveloglou
  • Paolo Di Vecchia
  • Patrick Kerner
  • Patrick Meessen
  • Paulina Suchanek
  • Pawel Caputa
  • Raffaele Marotta
  • Raffaele Troise
  • Raju Roychowdhury
  • Rakesh Teja K
  • Ricardo Schiappa
  • Riccardo Argurio
  • Riccardo D'Auria
  • Rodrigo Olea
  • Sam Kitchen
  • Samir Mathur
  • Sangmin Lee
  • Sean Hartnoll
  • sergio ferrara
  • seth agyei opare
  • Sharaz Butt
  • Silvia PENATI
  • Sophie de Buyl
  • Spyros Avramis
  • SRINIVASA RAGHAVA KANDURU
  • Stephane Detournay
  • Sung-Soo Kim
  • Sven Krippendorf
  • Svetlana Lukashevich
  • Tassos Petkou
  • Thomas Wyder
  • Timm Wrase
  • Tobias Zingg
  • Tomas Ortin
  • Tomasz Lukowski
  • Tomáš Procházka
  • Umut Gursoy
  • Valeria Lucia Gili
  • Veselin Filev
  • Viatcheslav Mukhanov
  • Vincenzo Calo'
  • Vishnu Jejjala
  • Vladimir Dobrev
  • Waldemar Schulgin
  • Walter Van Herck
  • Wieland Staessens
  • William Rubens
  • Wolfgang Lerche
  • Wolfgang Mueck
  • Yolanda Lozano
    • 09:30 10:30
      Gravity and hydrodynamics (I) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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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
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      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

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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

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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
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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
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      Video in CDS
    • 17:00 18:00
      Reception 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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      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
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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
    • 14:30 15:30
      Condensed matter applications of AdS/CFT (II) 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
    • 15:30 16:30
      Gravity and hydrodynamics (III) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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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
    • 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

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    • 10:30 11:30
      Cosmology (I) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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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
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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]
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      Video in CDS
    • 14:30 15:30
      Cosmology (II) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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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

    • 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

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      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]
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      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
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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
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      Video in CDS
    • 14:30 15:30
      Cosmology (III) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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    • 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

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    • 17:00 19:00
      Working groups 1, 5 Room: see WG information

      Room: see WG information

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      • 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

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      • 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

    • 09:30 10:30
      Cosmology (IV) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

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    • 10:30 11:30
      Gravity and hydrodynamics (IV) 1h 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

      CERN

      400
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      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

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      Video in CDS