CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory 2010

25 Jan 2010, 08:00 → 29 Jan 2010, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

The CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory is the analytic continuation of the yearly training school of the former EC-RTN string network "Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe". The 2010 edition of the school is supported and organized by the CERN Theory Divison, and will take place from Monday January 25 to Friday January 29, at CERN. As its predecessors, this school is meant primarily for training of doctoral students and young postdoctoral researchers in recent developments in theoretical high-energy physics and string theory. The programme of the school will consist of five series of pedagogical lectures, complemented by tutorial discussion sessions in the afternoons. Previous schools in this series were organized in 2005 at SISSA in Trieste, and in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 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 edition of the school is not funded by the European Union. The school is funded by the CERN Theory Division, and the Arnold Sommerfeld Center at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Scientific committee: M. Gaberdiel, D. Luest, A. Sevrin, J. Simon, K. Stelle, S. Theisen, A. Uranga, A. Van Proeyen, E. Verlinde Local organizers: A. Uranga, J. Walcher

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Monday 25 January

1 Inflation in String Theory (I) (McAllister)

2 Recent advances in string model building (I) (Weigand)

Slides CERN-Weigand-Part1+2.pdf

3 Recent advances in string model building (II) (Weigand)

4 Black hole microstate counting and their macroscopic counterpart (I) (Sen)

Slides sen

5 Black hole microstate counting and their macroscopic counterpart (II) (Sen)

6 Reception

Tuesday 26 January

7 Recent advances in string model building (III) (Weigand)

Slides CERN-Weigand-Part3.pdf

8 Black hole microstate counting and their macroscopic counterpart (III) (Sen)

9 Classic results and recent developments in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory (I) (Gaiotto)

Paper CERNLectures.pdf

10 Inflation in String Theory (II) (McAllister)

11 Black hole microstate counting and their macroscopic counterpart (IV) (Sen)

Tutorial Inflation in String Theory (lectures L. McAllister)

Tutorial "Black hole microstate counting and their macroscopic counterpart" (Lectures A. Sen)

Tutorial "Recent advances in string model building" (Lectures T. Weigand)

Wednesday 27 January

12 The Large Hadron Collider: The Accelerator and the Experiments (J. Virdee)

Slides CERNTWS.pdf CERNTWS.pptx

13 Hidden simplicity in gauge theory amplitudes (I) (Drummond)

14 Inflation in String Theory (III) (McAllister)

15 Free Afternoon/La Vattay (Buses leave at 13:00 from bldg. 33)

Thursday 28 January

16 Classic results and recent developments in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory (II) (Gaiotto)

17 Hidden simplicity in gauge theory amplitudes (II) (Drummond)

18 Hidden simplicity in gauge theory amplitudes (III) (Drummond)

19 Inflation in String Theory (IV) (McAllister)

20 Recent advances in string model building (IV) (Weigand)

Slides CERN-Weigand-PartIV.pdf

Tutorial "Hidden simplicity in gauge theory amplitudes" (Lectures J. Drummond)

Tutorial Lectures D. Gaiotto

21 School Dinner

Friday 29 January

22 Hidden simplicity in gauge theory amplitudes (IV) (Drummond)

23 Classic results and recent developments in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory (III) (Gaiotto)

24 Classic results and recent developments in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory (IV) (Gaiotto)