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




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