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The quantum structure of spacetime and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions EXT Workshop Fundamental Interactions and the Structure of Spacetime Crete, 5-10 September 2004 |
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The quantum structure of spacetime and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions EXT Workshop Fundamental Interactions and the Structure of Spacetime Crete, 5-10 September 2004 |
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| Meeting Program |
| Sunday 5 September | |||
| 18:00 - 21:00 | Registration | ||
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Welcome drinks | ||
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Monday 6 September | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome | ||
| Morming Session Chairmam: N. Obers (Niels Bohr I.) | |||
| 09:15 - 10:45 |
J. Minahan
(Uppsala) |
Integrability of Super Yang Mills Theory (see also these lecture notes) |
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| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
G. Arutyunov
(AEI, Potsdam) |
Bethe Ansatz for Quantum Strings | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
N. Beisert
(AEI, Potsdam) |
SU(2) Spin Chains in AdS/CFT | |
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
G. D'Appollonio
(U. Paris VI-VII) |
D-branes and BCFT in pp-wave backgrounds | |
| 12:45 - 13:15 |
R. Minasian
(CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique) |
Generalized geometry and supersymmetry | |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: E. Bergshoeff (Groningen ) | |||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19:00 - 19:30 |
L. Huiszoon
(KU Leuven) |
Algebraic Intersecting Brane Worlds | |
| 19:30 - 20:00 |
A. Hammou
(U. of Crete) |
Classification and a toolbox for orientifold models. | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 |
T. Ott
(KU Leuven) |
The Supersymmetric Standard Model on the Z6-orientifold | |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Tuesday 7 September | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: A. Lerda (Torino) | |||
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
R. Kallosh
(Stanford) |
String and supergravity motivated cosmology | Lectures in pdf |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
A. Van Proeyen
(KU Leuven) |
N=1 supergravity with Fayet-Iliopoulos terms for string cosmology | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
S. Vandoren
(U. of Utrecht) |
Non-extremal D-instantons | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
M. Petropoulos
(CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique) |
Anti de Sitter deformations | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
S. Alexandrov
(U. of Utrecht) |
D-branes and complex curves in c=1 string theory | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Contact Person Meeting | ||
| Afernoon session chairman: D. Sorokin (Padova) | |||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Discussion Session | ||
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19:30 - 20:00 |
N. Drukker
(Nordita) |
Supertube domain-walls and elimination of closed timelike curves in string theory | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 |
D. Klemm
(U. of Milano) |
Black holes in Goedel-type universes | |
| 20:30 - 21:00 |
W. Mueck
(Napoli) |
Holographic Three-Point Functions | |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Wednesday 8 September | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairwoman: A. Ceresole (Torino Pol.) | |||
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
M. Bianchi
(Rome - Tor Vergata) |
Higher spins and stringy AdS5xS5 | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
S. Mathur
(Ohio State) |
The quantum structure of black holes | |
| Afternoon | Excursion | ||
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Thursday 9 September | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: K. Stelle (Imperial College) | |||
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
A. Klemm
(Wisconsin) |
New developments in topological string theory | |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Group Photo | ||
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
C. Hull
(Imperial College) |
A Geometry for Non-Geometric String Backgrounds | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
T. Mateos
(U. of Barcelona) |
Supersymmetry and tensionless rotating strings in AdS_5 x S^5 | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
M. Gaberdiel
(ETH, Zurich) |
D-brane charges in WZW models | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
N. Toumbas
(U. of Cyprus) |
Flux backgrounds in 2d string theory | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: S. Sciuto (Torino) | |||
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19:00 - 19:30 |
T. Harmark
(Niels Bohr Institute) |
New Phases of Near-Extremal Branes on a Circle | |
| 19:30 - 20:00 |
M. Trigiante
(Torino Politecnico) |
Type IIB flux-vacua from gauged extended supergravities | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 |
J. Gheerardyn
(U. of Torino) |
New aspects of N=2 theories | |
| 20:30 - 21:00 |
D. Israel
(ENS) |
Strings and branes in holographic backgrounds | |
| 21:00 - Late! | Conference Banquet | ||
| Friday 10 September | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: J. Gomis (Barcelona) | |||
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
J. Louis
(Hamburg) |
Generalized Calabi-Yau compactifications with D-branes and Fluxes | Lectures in pdf |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
M. Grana
(ENS) |
Supersymmetric Backgrounds from Generalized Calabi-Yau Manifolds | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
S. Stieberger
(HU Berlin) |
Effective action of Type IIB Orientifolds with D3/D7 - Branes | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
T. Petkou
(Milano U. and Crete U.) |
Status of the Holography of Higher-Spin Theories | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
C. Kounnas
(ENS) |
Fluxes and gaugings in Supergravity | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: A. Sevrin (UL Brussels) | |||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19:00 - 19:30 |
L. Martucci
(Milano U.) |
Semiclassical strings on confining backgrounds | |
| 19:30 - 20:00 |
C. Sourdis
(Osaka) |
WZW models at critical level | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 |
J. Kalkkinen
(Imperial College) |
Holonomies of Intersecting Branes | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 |
K. Behrndt
(AEI, Potsdam) |
Massive IIA compactifications with fluxes Branes | |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Saturday 11 September | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Departures | |||