Abstract
String theory is the leading candidate for unifying quantum gravity with particle physics. The recent successes of string theory include detailed connections with the physics of black holes, with strongly coupled gauge theories, and with modern mathematics. In particular, dualities between gauge theories and strings have produced new insights into colour confinement and chiral symmetry breaking; they also provide new approaches to non-perturbative definitions of string theory.One of the main objectives of string theory is to make quantitative connections between string theory and experimental physics on microscopic and macroscopic scales, including particle physics in and beyond the Standard Model, and cosmological models of the early universe.During the workshop we plan to have regular seminars and discussions by the participants. During the first and the last weeks of the workshop there will also be two 3-day conferences open to a wider audience.

Topics
- String compactifications and resulting low-energy theories
- Applications of string theory to Cosmology
- Dualities between gauge fields and strings
- Applications of topological strings


Organizers
J. Gomis (University of Barcelona), I. Klebanov (Princeton University), A. Lerda (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria),
H. Ooguri (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena), A. Van Proeyen (University of Leuven)

Related events
String and M theory approaches to particle physics and cosmology (Conference) - Jun 13, 2007






Talks

Date	Speaker	Title	Type	Useful Links
Mar 26, 2007 - 16:00	A. Knauf	Geometric Transitions and Generalised Geometries
Mar 27, 2007 - 11:30	M. Wijnholt	Geometry of particle physics
Mar 28, 2007 - 11:30	C. Bachas	Conformal defects in string theory			Slides
Mar 29, 2007 - 11:30	L. Martucci	D-brane networks on flux vacua			Slides
Mar 30, 2007 - 11:30	F. Gmeiner	Wandering the Landscape-Statistics of Intersecting Brane Models
Apr 02, 2007 - 16:00	P.Townsend	Fake susy vs real susy			Slides
Apr 03, 2007 - 11:30	M. Bianchi	Non perturbative and flux superpotentials in Z_3 orientifolds
Apr 03, 2007 - 11:30	I. Klebanov	Conifolds: Warped, Resolved and Deformed	Extra discussion session		Slides
Apr 04, 2007 - 11:30	J. Rosseel	Pseudo supersymmetry: a tale of alternate realities			Slides
Apr 05, 2007 - 11:30	A. Zaffaroni	Sasaki-Einstein spaces and AdS/CFT	Discussion
Apr 06, 2007 - 11:30	K. Stelle	Kaluza-Klein Supersymmetry Breaking and a Natural Mass Hierarchy in a Type IIB Randall-Sundrum geometry
Apr 10, 2007 - 11:30	D. Roest	Supersymmetric string backgrounds: from bottom to top			Slides
Apr 11, 2007 - 11:30	R. Tatar	Metastable Vacua in Supersymmetric Field Theory and Geometric Engineering
Apr 12, 2007 - 10:00	G. Dall’Agata	Flux compactifications: the swampland program Part I			Slides
Apr 13, 2007 - 10:00	G. Dall’Agata	Flux compactifications: the swampland program Part II			Slides
Apr 16, 2007 - 16:00	R. Russo	The three-point function in N=4 SYM and its AdS dual
Apr 17, 2007 - 10:00	C. Nunez	Some uses of Gauge-Strings duality. Part I			Slides
Apr 18, 2007 - 11:30	M. Abou Zeid	Super-Yang-Mills, Supergravity and Twistor-Strings
Apr 19, 2007 - 10:00	C. Nunez	Some uses of Gauge-Strings duality. Part II			Slides
Apr 20, 2007 - 11:30	E. Bergshoeff	E11 from a Supergravity Point of View			Slides
Apr 23, 2007 - 10:00	R. Emparan	Black rings Part I			Slides
Apr 24, 2007 - 10:00	R. Emparan	Black rings Part II			Slides
Apr 26, 2007 - 11:30	M. Bertolini	Metastable non-supersymmetric states in gauge theories and in string theories
Apr 26, 2007 - 16:00	P. Di Vecchia	Chiral and scale anomalies of gauge theories from the gauge/gravity dual
Apr 27, 2007 - 11:30	T. Harmark	Matching the Hagedorn temperature in AdS/CFT; How to see free strings in Yang-Mills theory			Slides
Apr 30, 2007 - 16:00	F. Benini	Adding unquenched flavors to gauge/gravity duals
May 02, 2007 - 11:30	B. de Wit	Probing M-Theory degrees of freedom			Slides
May 03, 2007 - 11:30	P. West	E_{11}
May 04, 2007 - 11:30	L. Cornalba	Eikonal Methods in AdS/CFT			Slides
May 07, 2007 - 16:00	K. Becker	Moduli stabilization in non-geometric backgrounds
May 08, 2007 - 11:30	S. Vandoren	Instanton corrections to hypermultiplet moduli spaces
May 09, 2007 - 11:30	A. Lerda	Gauge Instantons from Open Strings and D-branes			Slides
May 10, 2007 - 11:30	G. Villadoro	String web dualities and consistency of p-branes in flux backgrounds
May 11, 2007 - 11:30	P. Vanhove	Non renormalisations theorems in superstring and maximal supergravity theories
May 14, 2007 - 16:00	F. Riccioni:	The E11 origin of gauged maximal supergravities			Slides
May 15, 2007 - 11:30	L. Rastelli	Solving open string field theory
May 16, 2007 - 11:30	P. Berglund	Topology from Cosmology: Aspects of Inflation in Large-Volume Compactifications
May 21, 2007 - 16:00	D. Orlando	Categorifying the dimer model: from the free fermion to SQM
May 22, 2007 - 11:30	L. Mezincescu	Symmetries of Super-Landau Models			Slides
May 23, 2007 - 11:30	G. Veneziano	Large-N and supersymmetry: some new ideas and results			Slides
May 24, 2007 - 11:30	J. Gauntlett	Supersymmetric AdS Solutions
May 25, 2007 - 11:30	L. Tamassia	Tensionless branes, higher spins and the singleton			Slides
May 28, 2007 - 16:00	N. Drukker	Wilson loops in 4d SYM, in 2d YM and in 0d
May 29, 2007 - 10:00	Susanne Reffert	String compactifications, orientifolds and applications Part I
May 30, 2007 - 11:30	S. Benvenuti	Cusp anomaly, integrablility and AdS/CFT			Slides
May 31, 2007 - 10:00	Susanne Reffert	String compactifications, orientifolds and applications Part II
Jun 01, 2007 - 11:30	A. Tanzini	Topological theories on local spaces and black hole entropy countings
Jun 04, 2007 - 16:00	Stephan Stieberger	Multi-Gluon and MHV Amplitudes in Superstring Theory
Jun 05, 2007 - 10:00	Hirosi Ooguri	Topological strings part I	lecture
Jun 06, 2007 - 10:00	Hirosi Ooguri	Topological strings part II
Jun 07, 2007 - 11:30	Raffaele Marotta	Magnetized Branes: Narain versus Non-abelian branes
Jun 08, 2007 - 11:30	Koenraad Schalm	Effective actions for gravity
Jun 11, 2007 - 16:00	Aldo Cotrone	Holography and unquenched quark-gluon plasmas
Jun 12, 2007 - 11:30	Jorge Zanelli	Chern-Simons gravity scenarios
Jun 18, 2007 - 16:00	Gianluca Grignani	Finite Size Spectrum of the Giant Magnon
Jun 19, 2007 - 11:30	Sunil Mukhi	String Webs and Dyons
Jun 20, 2007 - 11:30	Chris Pope	Kac-Moody Symmetries in Reductions to Two Dimensions			Slides
Jun 20, 2007 - 16:00	John Schwarz	String Theory -- The Early Years: a Personal Perspective	historical talk