| Meeting Program |
| Sunday 10 June | ||
| Arrival Day | ||
| 19:45 | Welcome Drinks | |
| 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Monday 11 June | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 |
E. Kiritsis
(U. Crete) |
Introduction to String Theory |
| 10:00 - 10:50 |
E. Kiritsis
(U. Crete) |
Introduction to String Theory |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:20 |
E. Kiritsis
(U. Crete) |
Introduction to String Theory |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
K. S. Narain
(ICTP) |
String Theory Dualities |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Tuesday 12 June | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 |
E. Kiritsis
(U. Crete) |
Supergravity Description of D-branes |
| 10:00 - 10:50 |
K. S. Narain
(ICTP) |
Introduction to D-branes |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:20 |
K. S. Narain
(ICTP) |
Introduction to D-branes |
| 12:30 - 13:20 |
K. S. Narain
(ICTP) |
Introduction to D-branes |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Seminars (Abstracts) | ||
| Chair: E. Rabinovici | ||
| 18:30 - 19:00 |
N. Sadooghi
(Sharif Tech. U.) |
Global and Gauge Anomalies in Noncommutative Gauge Theories |
| 19:00 - 19:30 |
R. Abbaspour-Tamijani
(ISTPM, Tehran) |
A Noncommutative Superalgebra in 2 Dimensions |
| 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Wednesday 13 June | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| Seminars (Abstracts) | ||
| Chair: A. Schwimmer | ||
| 09:00 - 09:40 |
I. Bakas
(U. Patras) |
Periodic Solitons |
| 09:40 - 10:20 |
S. Wadia
(Tata Inst.) |
Matrix models and brane dynamics I |
| 10:20 - 10:50 |
A. Imaanpur
(ISTPM, Tehran) |
Instantons on D-branes in a background B-field |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 |
G. Mandal
(Tata Inst.) |
Matrix models and brane dynamics II |
| 12:10 - 12:50 |
M. Staudacher
(AEI Golm) |
Reduced D=10 Super Yang-Mills: d=4 Wilson Loops and d=1 Indices |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Seminars (Abstracts) | ||
| Chair: F. Ardalan | ||
| 18:30 - 19:00 |
A. H. Fatollahi
(INFN, Rome) |
Electrodynamics On Matrix Space: Non-Abelian By Coordinates |
| 19:00 - 19:40 |
S. Elitzur
(Hebrew U.) |
D branes on background of NS Branes |
| 19:40 - 20:20 |
S. R. Das
(Tata Inst.) |
Holograms of Unruh Radiation |
| 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Thursday 14 June | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 |
Y. Oz
(CERN) |
AdS/CFT Correspondence |
| 10:00 - 10:50 |
Y. Oz
(CERN) |
AdS/CFT Correspondence |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:20 |
Y. Oz
(CERN) |
AdS/CFT Correspondence |
| 12:30 - 13:20 |
Y. Oz
(CERN) |
AdS/CFT Correspondence |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 18:30 - 19:20 |
I. Antoniadis
(CERN) |
Low Scale String Theory |
| 19:30 - 20:20 |
I. Antoniadis
(CERN) |
Low Scale String Theory |
| 21:00 | Conference Banquet | |
| Friday 15 June | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 |
A. Giveon
(Hebrew U.) |
String Theory on AdS3 |
| 10:00 - 10:50 |
A. Giveon
(Hebrew U.) |
String Theory on AdS3 |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:20 |
D. Kutasov
(U. Chicago, Weizmann) |
Little String Theories |
| 12:30 - 13:20 |
D. Kutasov
(U. Chicago, Weizmann) |
Little String Theories |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Seminars (Abstracts) | ||
| Chair: I. Bakas | ||
| 18:00 - 18:40 |
E. Rabinovici
(Hebrew U.) |
On The Nature Of the Hagedorn transition in NCOS systems |
| 18:40 - 19:10 |
K. N. Anagnostopoulos
(U. Crete) |
The quantum geometry of string theory |
| 19:10 - 19:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 19:30 - 20:20 |
S. Minwalla
(Harvard) |
Non-Commutative Geometry and String Theory |
| 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Saturday 16 June | ||
| Daily Excursion to Santorini | ||
| Sunday 17 June | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Breakfast | |
| 10:00 - 10:50 |
S. Minwalla
(Harvard) |
Non-Commutative Geometry and String Theory |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:20 |
S. Shenker
(Stanford) |
Some Reflections on the State of String Theory |
| 12:30 - 13:20 |
S. Shenker
(Stanford) |
Some Reflections on the State of String Theory |
| 13:20 - | Discussion (Chairman S. Shenker) | |
| Lunch Break | ||
| Seminars (Abstracts) | ||
| Chair: S. Wadia | ||
| 18:00 - 18:40 |
J. Sonnenschein
(Tel Aviv U.) |
BPS domain walls from SW theory, MQCD and holography |
| 18:40 - 19:20 |
K. S. Narain
(ICTP) |
"Heterotic" like little string theories and non-BPS D-Branes |
| 19:20 - 19:50 |
A. Ghodsi Mahmoudzadeh
(ISTPM, Tehran) |
Closed bosonic string scattering from D-branes |
| 19:50 - 20:05 | Coffee Break | |
| 20:05 - 20:55 |
S. Minwalla
(Harvard) |
Non-Commutative Geometry and String Theory |
| 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Monday 18 June | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 |
R. Gopakumar
(Harvard) |
Non-Commutative Geometry and String Theory |
| 10:00 - 10:50 |
R. Gopakumar
(Harvard) |
Non-Commutative Geometry and String Theory |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Seminars (Abstracts) | ||
| Chair: S. Das | ||
| 11:30 - 12:10 |
C. Kounnas
(ENS) |
5-Brane Solutions Free of Strong Coupling Singularities |
| 12:10 - 12:40 |
T. Jayaraman
(IMS, Chennai) |
Exceptional Sheaves, Helices and D-branes on CY manifolds |
| 12:40 - 13:10 |
A. Krause
(U. Crete) |
Warped Geometry and OM-Stabilisation of Heterotic M-Theory |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Seminars (Abstracts) | ||
| Chair: | ||
| 18:00 - 18:40 |
O. H. Aharony
(Weizmann) |
Multiple trace operators and non-local string theories |
| 18:40 - 19:10 |
M. H. Yavartanoo
(ISTPM, Tehran) |
Topological charge for Non-commutative instantons |
| 19:10 - 19:50 |
S. Mukhi
(Tata Inst.) |
Derivative Corrections from Noncommutativity |
| 19:50 - 20:20 |
M. Alishahiha
(Amsterdam U.) |
One-loop correction in Boundary String Field Theory |
| 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Tuesday 19 June | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 |
S. Dimopoulos
(Stanford) |
Large Extra Dimensions |
| 10:00 - 10:50 |
S. Dimopoulos
(Stanford) |
Large Extra Dimensions |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:20 |
R. Gopakumar
(Harvard U.) |
Open-Closed String Dualities and M-Theory |
| 12:30 - 13:20 |
R. Gopakumar
(Harvard U.) |
Open-Closed String Dualities and M-Theory |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Wednesday 20 June | ||
| Departure Day | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |