Abstract
The program focuses on diverse aspects of large-N gauge theories. The topics will range from AdS/CFT duality, large N phenomenology to lattice simulations. By bringing together researchers interested in various approaches to large-N physics we aim to provide a fertile environment where lattice and gauge theory experts can interact with string and AdS/CFT experts. There will be a conference in the middle of the program.

Topics
-- AdS/CFT duality.
-- Wilson loops and large-N gauge theory amplitudes.
-- Matrix models, phase transitions and large-N behavior.
-- Gravity/string theory approaches to QCD and flavor physics.
-- Finite temperature and plasma physics via duality. Phenomenology of the quark-gluon plasma.
-- Large-N phenomenology.
-- New large-N expansions. Planar equivalence.
-- Lattice simulations of large-N theories.

The workshop conference will be held at May 2-May 6

Organizers
A. Armoni (Swansea), T. Cohen (Maryland), G. Grignani (Perugia), H. Neuberger (Rutgers),
L. Yaffe (Seattle), A. Zaffaroni (Milano Bicocca).

Local organizer
Domenico Seminara

Contact
a.armoni@swansea.ac.uk

Related events
Large-N Gauge Theories Conference (Conference) - May 02, 2011

Talks

Date	Speaker	Title	Type	Useful Links
Apr 06, 2011 - 11:30	Jan Plefka	Scattering Amplitudes in AdS/CFT Integrability	Seminar		Slides
Apr 07, 2011 - 11:30	Rene Meyer	Strange Metallic Holography	Seminar
Apr 08, 2011 - 11:30	Stefano Cremonesi	AdS4/CFT3 and D6 branes	Seminar
Apr 12, 2011 - 11:30	Chris Korthals Altes	Facts and fancy in hot gluodynamics: lattice results versus theory	Seminar		Slides
Apr 13, 2011 - 11:30	Alex Buchel	AdS/CFT and the QGP: beyond the CFT and SUGRA	Seminar		Slides
Apr 14, 2011 - 11:30	Luigi Del Debbio	IR fixed points on the lattice	Seminar
Apr 20, 2011 - 11:30	Valentina Forini	Generalized quark-antiquark potential at weak and strong coupling	Seminar
Apr 21, 2011 - 11:30	Giuseppe D'Appollonio	High energy string-brane scattering	Seminar
Apr 22, 2011 - 11:30	Yuri Makeenko	QCD string and scattering amplitudes	Seminar		Slides
Apr 26, 2011 - 11:30	Bum-Hoon Lee	Phase transitions in holographic QCD with dense media	Seminar		Slides
Apr 27, 2011 - 11:30	Konstantin Zarembo	Holographic three-point function of semiclassical states	Seminar		Slides
Apr 28, 2011 - 11:30	Adi Armoni	Orientifold Planar Equivalence: An Update	Seminar
May 09, 2011 - 11:30	M.Nowak	Spectral shock waves in QCD	Seminar		Slides
May 10, 2011 - 11:30	Niels Obers	Blackfolds in supergravity and string theory	Seminar
May 11, 2011 - 11:30	Andreas Athenodorou	Stable and Quasi-Stable closed flux-tubes in D=2+1 SU(N) gauge theories as bosonic strings	Seminar		Slides
May 12, 2011 - 11:30	Ioannis Papadimitriou	Holographic renormalization of Improved Holographic QCD	Seminar
May 16, 2011 - 11:30	Ramgoolam Sanjaye	From numbers to strings and branes	Seminar		Slides
May 17, 2011 - 11:30	Tom DeGrand	Symmetric representations at (not so) large N	Seminar
May 18, 2011 - 11:30	Joyce Myers	QCD and SQCD at non-zero chemical potential	Seminar
May 19, 2011 - 11:30	Romuald Janik	Thermalization of boost-invariant plasma from AdS/CFT	Seminar
May 23, 2011 - 11:30	Raffaele Marotta	String Effective Actions in Magnetized Brane World	Seminar
May 24, 2011 - 11:30	Leonardo Rastelli	From N=4 Super Yang-Mills to Superconformal QCD	Seminar
May 25, 2011 - 11:30	Richard Lebed	Does Nature Have a Preferred 1/Nc Expansion?	Seminar		Slides
May 26, 2011 - 11:30	Peter Orland	Integrability and the sum of planar diagrams	Seminar
May 30, 2011 - 11:30	Alexander Krikun	Gluon condensate corrections to Wilson loops from holography	Seminar		Slides
May 31, 2011 - 11:30	Dario Martelli	The large N limit of quiver matrix models and Sasaki-Einstein manifolds	Seminar
Jun 01, 2011 - 11:30	Aldo Cotrone	Holographic Quark-Gluon Plasmas at Finite Quark Density	Seminar		Slides
Jun 03, 2011 - 11:30	Leopoldo Pando Zayas	Spectrum of Holographic Wilson Loops	Seminar
Jun 06, 2011 - 11:30	Veselin Filev	Unqenched Holographic Catalysis of mass generation in an external magnetic field	Seminar		Slides
Jun 07, 2011 - 11:30	Nadav Drukker	Generalized quark-antiquark potential at weak and strong coupling	Seminar		Slides
Jun 08, 2011 - 11:30	Rafael Hernandez	Semiclassical three-point functions	Seminar
Jun 09, 2011 - 11:30	Francesco Bigazzi	Hydrodynamics of holographic non-conformal plasmas	Seminar
Jun 14, 2011 - 11:30	Ariel Zhitnitsky	Entropy, Contact Interaction with Horizon, and Dark Energy	Seminar		Slides
Jun 15, 2011 - 11:30	Mikhail Shifman	World-sheet theories on non-Abelian strings and their large-N solution	Seminar		Slides
Jun 16, 2011 - 11:30	Prem Kumar	Strongly coupled dense matter and hedgehog black holes	Seminar