| Meeting Program and Proceedings |
| Thursday 23 June | |||
| 08:00 - 20:00 | Arrivals | ||
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Registration | ||
| 21:00 - | Dinner | ||
| Friday 24 June | |||
| 08:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: U. Lindstrom (Uppsala U.) | |||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | I. Antoniadis (CERN) |
Magnetic fluxes, moduli stabilization and split supersymmetry (pdf) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | I. Antoniadis (CERN) |
Magnetic fluxes, moduli stabilization and split supersymmetry (pdf) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | R. Gopakumar (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Alahabad)) |
From Space-time to World-sheet (pdf) | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: F. Ardalan (IPM, Teheran) | |||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | A. Naqvi (U. of Amsterdam) |
The Topological G_2 String (powerpoint) | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| 19:30 - 20:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 20:00 - 20:30 | U. Lindstrom Uppsala University |
Generalized Complex Geometry and Supersymmetric Non-linear Sigma Models (pdf) | |
| 20:30 - 21:00 | G. Siopsis University of Tennessee |
Black holes and Unitarity (pdf) | |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Saturday 25 June | |||
| 08:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: M. Floratos (Athens U.) | |||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | C. Sonnenschein (Tel-Aviv University) |
Non-critical strings and gauge/gravity duality (pdf) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | C. Sonnenschein (Tel-Aviv University) |
Non-critical strings and gauge/gravity duality (pdf) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | S. Trivedi (Tata Institute, Mumbai) |
Fixing Moduli With Fluxes | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: S. Randjbar-Daemi (Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste) | |||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | H. Arfaei (IPM, Teheran) |
Anomalies in Non-Commutative Gauge Theories | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Discussion Session | ||
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19:30 - 20:00 | A. Paredes CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique |
Non-critical holography and four-dimensional CFT's with fundamentals (pdf) | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | N. Sadooghi Sharif University of Technology |
Konishi anomalies and exact superpotential of noncommutative susy field theory (pdf) | |
| 20:30 - 21:00 | Welcome Drinks | ||
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Sunday 26 June | |||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: K. Narain (Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste) | |||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | M. Alishahiha (IPM, Teheran) |
deSitter space and holography (pdf) | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | M. Alishahiha (IPM, Teheran) |
deSitter space and holography (pdf) | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | A. Giveon (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) |
String/Black Hole Transitions and Phases of Gravity (pdf) | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: C. Kounnas (LPT, ENS) | |||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| 18:30 - 19:00 | The Organizers | The spirit of the Crete Regional Meeting | |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19:30 - 20:00 | N. Prezas Neuchatel Univesity |
D-branes and SQCD in non-critical superstring theory (pdf) | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | O. Bergman Technion University |
Tachyon-Bubble Duality (pdf) | |
| 20:30 - 21:00 | S. Murthy Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste |
D-branes, non-critical strings and minimal Super Yang Mills theory (pdf) | |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Monday 27 June | |||
| 08:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: A. Giveon (Hebrew University, Jerushalem) | |||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | R. Gopakumar (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad) |
String theory and baby universes (pdf) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | S. Wadia (Tata Institute, Mumbai) |
The small Schwarzschild black hole of AdS_5 and unitary matrix models (pdf) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | C. Kounnas (LPT, ENS) |
Geometric fluxes and gauging (pdf) | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: S. Wadia (Tata Institute, Mumbai) | |||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | S. Randjbar-Daemi Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste |
A model for the emergent gauge and gravitational fields (powerpoint) | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| 19:30 - 20:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 20:00 - 20:30 | A. Imaanpur IPM, Teheran |
A New Deformation of N=4 SYM Theory via RR Flux (pdf) | |
| 20:30 - 21:00 | A. Ghodsi IPM, Teheran |
Brane-world Inflation (powerpoint) | |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Tuesday 28 June | |||
| 08:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: E. Rabinovici (Hebrew University, Jerushalem) | |||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | A. Dabholkar (Tata Institute, Mumbai) |
Going Beyond Bekenstein and Hawking-- Black Hole Entropy in String Theory. | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | A. Dabholkar (Tata Institute, Mumbai) |
Going Beyond Bekenstein and Hawking-- Black Hole Entropy in String Theory. (powerpoint) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | G. Papadopoulos (King's College, London) |
On the classification of supersymmetric backgrounds: a spinorial geometry approach.(pdf) | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Light Lunch | ||
| 13:00 - 20:00 | Excursion | ||
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Wednesday 29 June | |||
| 08:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: H. Arfaei (IPM, Teheran) | |||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | O. Aharony (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot) |
Plasma-balls in large N gauge theories, Vol I (pdf) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | S. Minwalla (Tata Institute and Harvard University) |
Plasma-balls in large N gauge theories, Vol II | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | T. Petkou (University of Crete) |
Higher-Spins, Holography and Duality (pdf) | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: M. Alishahiha (IPM, Teheran) | |||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Discussion Session | ||
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 18:30 - 19:00 | A. Polychronakos City College of the CUNY |
Bosonization as a Seiberg-Witten transformation (pdf) | |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | P. Anastasopoulos Crete U. and CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique |
Anomalies, Chern Simons terms and Z's at LHC (pdf) | |
| 19:30 - 20:00 | R. Brustein Ben Gurion University |
The entanglement interpretation of black hole entropy | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | K. Dimopoulos University of Lancaster |
The cosmology of string moduli fields | |
| 20:30 - | Banquet | ||
| Thursday 30 June | |||
| 08:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: S. Minwalla (Harvard University and Tata Institute) | |||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | J. Plefka (AEI, Potsdam) |
Lectures on Spinning strings and integrable spin chains in AdS/CFT (pdf) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | J. Plefka (AEI, Potsdam) |
Lectures on Spinning strings and integrable spin chains in AdS/CFT (pdf) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | D. Kutasov (University of Chicago) |
Fun with tachyons (pdf) | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: A. Schwimmer (Weizmann Institute of Science) | |||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19:00 - 19:30 | J. David Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste |
Structure constants of planar N=4 Yang-Mills and string bits (pdf) | |
| 19:30 - 20:00 | D. Orlando CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique |
Three Dimensional Black Holes with Electric Fluxes (pdf) | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | A. Mosaffa
IPM, Teheran |
LLL Vs LLM; 1/2 BPS sector of N=4 SYM and Quantum Hall System (pdf) | |
| 20:30 - 21:00 | Y. Oz
Tel Aviv University |
Non-critical covariant superstrings | |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Friday 1 July | |||
| 08:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Morning Session Chairman: J. Plefka (AEI/MPG, Golm, Germany) | |||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | J. Schwarz (Caltech) |
Lectures on world-volume theories (pdf) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | J. Schwarz (Caltech) |
Lectures on world-volume theories (pdf) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | M. Sheikh-Jabbari (IPM, Teheran) |
Tiny Graviton Matrix Theory: A Model for DLCQ of Strings on the plane-wave and AdS_5xS^5 (pdf) | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session Chairman: C. Sonnenschein (Tel Aviv U.) | |||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | K. Peeters AEI/MPG, Golm Germany |
Loop Quantum Gravity: An outside view (pdf) | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| 19:30 - 20:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 20:00 - 20:30 | N. Irges University of Crete |
Scherk-Schwarz supersymmetry breaking and intersecting branes (pdf) | |
| 20:30 - 21:00 | M. Zamaklar AEI/MPG, Golm Germany |
Towards the quantum string on AdS_5xS^5 | |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Dinner | ||
| Saturday 2 July | |||
| 08:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00 - | Departures | ||