Meeting Program
 

Sunday 10 June
08:00 - 20:00 Arrivals
Dinner
Monday 11 June
08:00 - 08:55 Breakfast/Registration
08:55 - 09:00 Welcome and Opening
Morning Session Chairman: J. Iliopoulos  
09:00 - 10:00 A. Giveon
(Hebrew University, Jerusalem ) 		Fundamental strings and black holes
10:00 - 11:00 R. Brustein
( Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva) 		Models of modular inflation and their observable predictions
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 G. Papadopoulos
(Kings College, London ) 		Geometry of all type I supersymmetric backgrounds
12:30 - 13:00 A. Tavanfar
(IPM Tehran ) 		Black holes and large order quantum geometry
Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman: I. Bakas  
17:00 - 17:30 P.M. Petropoulos
(Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau ) 		Axionic gaugings in N=4 supergravities
17:30 - 18:00 V. Niarchos
(Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau ) 		Stability and asymptotic supersymmetry in perturbative string theory
18:00 - 18:30 N. Sadooghi
(Sharif University, Tehran ) 		Field theory in a strong magnetic field vs. non-commutative field theory
18:30 - 19:00 Coffee Break
19:00 - 19:30 A.E. Mosaffa
(IPM, Tehran ) 		New spiky string solutions
19:30 - 20:15 Discussion Session  
Dinner
Tuesday 12 June
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Morning Session Chairman: A. Schwimmer  
9:00 - 10:00 K. Skenderis
(University of Amsterdam ) 		Holographic methods and applications to black holes
10:00 - 11:00 J. Sonnenschein
(Tel-Aviv University ) 		Progress report on holographic chiral symmetry
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 S. Minwalla
(TIFR, Mumbai ) 		Plasma rings in large N gauge theories
12:30 - 13:00 U. Gursoy
(Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau ) 		Phase structure of N=4 SYM and topology changes
Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman: H. Arfaei  
17:00 - 17:30 E. Rabinovici
(Hebrew University, Jerusalem ) 		Issues in holographic Hagedorn systems
17:30 - 18:00 I. Papadimitriou
(DESY, Hamburg ) 		AdS boundary conditions, stability and M-theory instantons
18:00 - 18:30 A. Imaanpur
(IPM, Tehran ) 		Solitons and vortices in holographic QCD
18:30 - 19:00 Coffee Break
19:00 - 19:30 G. Siopsis
(University of Tennessee ) 		Ring tones of black holes hydrodynamics
19:30 - 20:15 Discussion Session  
Dinner
Wednesday 13 June
07:00 - 07:30 Breakfast
Excursion
Visit to the archeological site and the museum of ancient Olympia followed by swimming, food, drinks and fun at a nearby sandy beach
Dinner
Thursday 14 June
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Morning Session Chairman: E. Rabinovici  
09:00 - 10:00 A. Neitzke
(IAS, Princeton ) 		Quaternionic geometry, black holes and the topological string
10:00 - 11:00 N. Toumbas
(University of Cyprus, Nicosia ) 		A wave-function for stringy universes
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 N. Itzhaki
(Tel-Aviv University ) 		Some dynamical aspects of moduli stabilization
12:30 - 13:30 C. Kounnas
(Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris ) 		Inflationary de Sitter solutions from superstrings
Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman: S. Elitzur  
17:00 - 17:30 H. Partouche
(Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau ) 		Instanton transition in deformed de Sitter cosmology
17:30 - 18:00 A. Kehagias
(NTUA, Athens ) 		The cosmological slingshot scenario
18:00 - 18:15 Coffee Break
18:15 - 18:45 A. Koshelev
(University of Crete ) 		Non-local SFT tachyon and cosmology
18:45 - 19:15 Discussion Session  
Banquet
at the traditional greek tavern "The Mill"
Friday 15 June
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Morning Session Chairman: F. Ardalan  
09:00 - 10:00 I. Antoniadis
(CERN, Geneva ) 		Physics with magnetized branes
10:00 - 11:00 Hong Liu
(MIT, Boston ) 		Black hole singularities and large N Yang-Mills theories
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 M. Sheikh-Jabbari
(IPM, Tehran ) 		Lovelock gravity at the crossroads of Palatini and metric formulations
12:30 - 13:00 G. Savvidy
(Demokritos Reserach Center, Athens ) 		String field theory and non-abelian tensor gauge fields
Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman: K. Narain  
17:00 - 17:30 M. Tsulaia
(University of Crete ) 		Interacting bosonic higher spins on AdS(D)
17:30 - 18:00 K. Zoubos
(Queen Mary College, London ) 		One-loop MHV rules and pure Yang-Mills
18:00 - 18:30 C. Papageorgakis
(TIFR, Mumbai ) 		Twistor strings with flavour
18:30 - 19:00 Coffee Break
19:00 - 19:30 N. Irges
( University of Crete ) 		A string theory realization of Kramers-Wannier duality
19:30 - 20:15 Discussion Session  
Dinner
Saturday 16 June
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Morning Session Chairman: E. Kiritsis  
09:00 - 10:00 Y. Oz
(Tel-Aviv University ) 		Strings on RR backgrounds
10:00 - 11:00 J. David
(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Alahabad ) 		Dyonic black hole in N=4 string compactifications
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 M. Alishahiha
( IPM, Tehran) 		R2 corrections for extremal black holes
12:30 - 13:00 C. DeWitt-Morette
(University of Texas at Austin ) 		Backreaction of the Hawking radiation
Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman: I. Bakas  
17:00 - 17:30 G.R. Maktabdaran
(IPM, Tehran ) 		Field equations at horizon of a BTZ black hole
17:30 - 18:00 N. Tetradis
(University of Athens ) 		Brane cosmology and the generalized dark radiation
18:00 - 18:30 K. Goldstein
(TIFR Mumbai ) 		One entropy function to rule them all
18:30 - 19:00 Coffee Break
19:00 - 19:30 M. Cirafici
(University of Patras ) 		Towards Donaldson-Thomas theory on orbifolds
19:30 - 20:15 Discussion Session  
Dinner
Sunday 17 June
07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast
Departures