CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The spirit of this meeting lies in between a conference and a summer school. The main speakers will give some introductory lectures, followed by a seminar on their current research. Furthermore, junior researchers will have the opportunity to give some selected short talks. The aim is to provide an informal setting which encourages discussions among the participants.

 

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE


Monday
June 21 		Tuesday
June 22 		Wednesday
June 23 		Thursday
June 24 		Friday
June 25 		Saturday
June 26
9:00-10:00 8:30 Registration
9:30 Welcome 		de Boer Gibbons Banquet

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Excursion

(São João Holiday)

de Boer Gibbons
10:00-11:00 Gibbons Sagnotti Sagnotti Volovich Headrick
11:00-11:30 Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
11:30-12:30 Lozano Pope Martelli Spradlin Teitelboim
12:30-15:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
15:00-16:00 Minwalla Rastelli Teitelboim Minwalla
16:00-17:00 Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
17:00-18:00 Rastelli Minwalla Pope Rastelli
18:00-18:30 Cardoso
18:00-Later Reception São João

 

LECTURES

  • J. de Boer - String Theory and Nonperturbative Gauge Theory.
  • G. Gibbons - Uniqueness and Stability of Black Hole and Brane Metrics.
  • S. Minwalla - Gravitational Phase Transitions in Yang-Mills.
  • L. Rastelli - General Lessons for Open/Closed Duality from Non-Critical Strings.
  • A. Sagnotti - Higher Spin Gauge Fields.
  • C. Teitelboim - Cosmological Constant Decay and Black Holes.


    • SEMINARS

  • G. L. Cardoso - Dynamical Generation of Background Fluxes.
  • M. Headrick - The Large N Limit of C/Z_N and Supergravity.
  • Y. Lozano - Giant Gravitons, Fuzzy Cylinders and Fuzzy CP^2.
  • D. Martelli - M-Theory, Sasaki-Einstein Metrics, and New N=1 SCFTs.
  • C. Pope - Gauged Six-Dimensional Chiral Supergravity and its Origins from String Theory.
  • C. Pope - Kerr-de Sitter Black Holes in Higher Dimensions.
  • M. Spradlin - Yang-Mills Amplitudes from String Theory in Twistor Space 2.
  • A. Volovich - Yang-Mills Amplitudes from String Theory in Twistor Space 1.