Conference


06 Apr, 2009 - 08 Apr, 2009

New Perspectives in String Theory: opening conference

Abstract

Aim of this short conference is to provide an overview of the status of String Theory with particular attention to the recently emerging problems in such a way as to give a rich and far reaching start to the extended workshop.

Topics

Organizers

Costas Bachas (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France), Massimo Bianchi (University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy), Michel Green (DAMTP, Cambridge University, UK), Jeff Harvey (Chicago University, USA), Augusto Sagnotti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy), Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India)

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Poster session

The participants who would like to present a poster are kindly invited to send an email with the title and a short abstract to alice.bernamonti@unifuit before May 22, specifying for which week of the workshop. Since a limited number of panels is available, the organizers will select the posters shortly after the deadline.

week 3

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
11:30 - 12:30 Tomasevic Newenfeld Collin-Ellerin Caceres
13:00 - 14:30 lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Sorce Emparan
  • Elena Caceres: 'On Sparse SYK, wormholes, and chaos"
  • Sean Colin-Ellerin: "Bootstrapping wuantum extremal surfaces
  • Roberto Emparan: "Black tsunamis and naked singularities in AdS'
  • Dominik Neuenfeld: "Bounds on gravitational brane couplings and tomography in AdS3 black hole microstates"
  • Jonathan Sorce: "Bulk causality from boundary entanglement: the connected wedge theorem revisited"
  • Marija Tomasevic: 'ds through holography

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Talks
Date Speaker Title Type Useful Links
06 Apr, 2009 - 11:00- I. Antoniadis Aspects of string phenomenology
06 Apr, 2009 - 11:45- K. Becker Heterotic strings and fluxes: status and prospects
06 Apr, 2009 - 14:15- N. Kitazawa Tadpole resummationsand one-loop scalar masses in string models without supersymmetry
06 Apr, 2009 - 15:00- C. Angelantonj Finite-temperature superstring theory without Hagedorn transition
06 Apr, 2009 - 16:00- B. Schellekens RCFT orientifolds
06 Apr, 2009 - 16:45- F. Gmeiner Gauge couplings and threshold corrections in intersecting brane models
07 Apr, 2009 - 09:15- P. Sundell On geometry, observables and integrability in higher-spin gauge theory
07 Apr, 2009 - 10:00- S. Randjbar-Daemi Massive spin-2 particles in curved backgrounds
07 Apr, 2009 - 11:00- E. Sokatchev Scattering amplitudes/Wilson loops duality and symmetries
07 Apr, 2009 - 11:45- D. Seminara Supersymmetric Wilson loop in N=4 and their correlators
07 Apr, 2009 - 14:15- M. Bochicchio An S-matrix for the twistorial A-model of large-N Yang-Mills theory
07 Apr, 2009 - 15:00- L. Baulieu Relation between the DGP model and a confinement mechanism in QCD
07 Apr, 2009 - 16:00- C. Hull Double Field Theory, String Field Theory and Duality
07 Apr, 2009 - 16:45- T. Quella World-sheet dualities for superspace sigma-models
08 Apr, 2009 - 09:15- G. Dall'Agata Flow equations for Black Hole attractors
08 Apr, 2009 - 10:00- G. Cardoso Black hole partition functions and duality
08 Apr, 2009 - 11:00- B. Julia E11 and V-dualities
08 Apr, 2009 - 11:45- K. Stelle Universal BPS structure of stationary supergravity solutions
08 Apr, 2009 - 14:15- B. Craps Holographic models of cosmological singularities
08 Apr, 2009 - 15:00- S. Ross Holography for non-relativistic theories
Materials