Meeting Program
 

Sunday 28 June
08:00 - 20:00 Arrivals
16:00 - 20:00 Registration
20:00-21:00 Welcome Drink
21:00- Dinner
Monday 29 June
08:00 - 08:55 Breakfast/Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and Opening
Morning Session Chairman: I. Bakas (University of Patras)  
09:30 - 10:30 M. Rangamani
(University of Durham) 		Hawking radiation at strong coupling
10:30 - 11:30 B. Kol
(Hebrew University, Jerusalem ) 		Renormalization in Classical Effective Field Theory
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:30 - 13:30 J. Sonnenschein
(Tel Aviv University) 		Baryons and nuclear interaction from holography
13:00- Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman:S. Elitzur (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)  
17:00 - 18:00 Y. Oz
(Tel Aviv University) 		Gravity and Turbulence
18:00 - 18:30 R. Woodard
(University of Florida and University of Crete) 		A Phenomenological Model of Inflation from Quantum Gravity
18:30 - 19:00 Coffee Break
19:00 - 19:30 M. Ali-Akbari
(IPM, Tehran) 		3d CFT and Multi M2-brane Theory on R x S**2
19:30 - 20:00 S. Miao
(University of Utrecht) 		Is Weinberg's Theorem Violated?
20:00 - 20:30 Discussion Session  
21:00- Dinner
Tuesday 30 June
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Morning Session Chairman:V. Hubeny (University of Durham)  
09:00 - 10:00 D. Kutasov
(University of Chicago) 		Dynamical vacuum selection in string theory''
10:00 - 11:00 O. Aharony
(Weizmann Institute ) 		On d=3 Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theories with "fractional branes" and their gravity duals
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 R. Brustein
(Ben Gurion University) 		Lessons from black holes -- Equations of motion and effective coupling of quantum gravity
12:30 - 13:00 I. Papadimitriou
(University of Swansea) 		Holographic Renormalization for Improved Holographic QCD and other backgrounds
13:00- Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman:J. Sonnenschein (Tel Aviv University)  
17:00 - 18:00 O. Aharony
(Weizmann Institute) 		On the effective action of the confining string
18:00 - 18:30 F. Nitti
(APC, Paris) 		Improved hQCD: comparison with data
18:30 - 19:00 Coffee Break
19:00 - 19:30 U. Gursoy
(University of Utrecht) 		Transport and drag force in QCD-like theories.
19:30 - 20:15 Discussion Session  
21:00- Dinner
Wednesday 1 July
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Morning Session Chairman: E. Rabinovici (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)  
09:00 - 10:00 I. Antoniadis
(CERN) 		Physics with magnetized branes
10:00 - 11:00 N. Obers
(Niels Bohr Institute) 		Black-folds: a new approach to higher-dimensional black holes
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 G. Papadopoulos
(King's College, London ) 		Supersymmetric heterotic backgrounds
12:30 - 13:00 S. Murthy
(LPTHE, Universite Paris 6) 		Quantum black holes, wall crossing and mock modular forms.
13:00- Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman: G. Papadopoulos (King's College, London)  
17:00 - 17:30 R. Fareghbal
(IPM, Tehran) 		2D Gravity on AdS_2 with Chern-Simons Corrections
17:30 - 18:00 G. Leontaris
(University of Ioannina) 		Stringy Instantons and Fermion Masses in Intersecting D-brane models
18:00 - 18:30 N. Irges
(University of Wuppertal) 		Possible string effects in 4D from a 5D anisotropic gauge theory in a mean-field background
18:30 - 19:00 Coffee Break
19:00 - 19:30 Q. Exirifard
(IPM, Tehran) 		Covariant approach to dark energy and dark matter
19:30 - 20:15 Discussion Session  
20:30- Banquet
Thursday 2 July
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 18:00 Excursion
21:00- Dinner
Friday 3 July
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Morning Session Chairman: S. Wadia (Tata Institute, Mumbai)  
09:00 - 10:00 N. Itzhaki
(Tel Aviv University) 		Stringy Inflation and Giant Structures
10:00 - 11:00 A. Dhar
(Tata Institute) 		Asymptotically free four-fermi theory in 4 dimensions at the z=3 Lifshitz-like fixed point
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 N. Sadooghi
(Sharif University, Tehran) 		The Speed of sound in magnetized Quark-Gluon Plasma
12:00 - 13:00 K. Papadodimas
(University of Amsterdam) 		Holographic neutron stars
13:00- Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman:U. Lindstrom (University of Uppsala)  
17:00 - 18:00 V. Hubeny
(University of Durham) 		Dynamical Black Holes and Expanding Plasmas
18:00 - 18:30 G. Kofinas
(University of Crete) 		Black holes in non-relativistic gravity
18:30 - 19:00 Coffee Break
19:00 - 19:30 D. Tsimpis
(LMU, Munich ) 		SU(3)xSU(3) structures in type II supergravities.
19:30 - 20:15 Discussion Session  
21:00- Dinner
Saturday 4 July
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Morning Session Chairman: A. Schwimmer (Weizmann Institute)  
09:00 - 10:00 R. Gopakumar
(Harish-Chandra Institute, Allahabad) 		Galilean Conformal Algebra and AdS/CFT
10:00 - 11:00 M. Taylor
(University of Amsterdam) 		Holographic realization of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 U. Lindstrom
(Uppsala University) 		Extended supersymmetry of N=(2,2) sigma models.
12:30 - 13:00 T. Inami
(Chuo University, Tokyo) 		A solution to the fine-tuning problem in the inflaton potential from higher- dimensional gauge theory
13:00- Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman:N. Tsamis (University of Crete)  
17:00 - 18:00 C. Kounnas
(ENS, Paris) 		Non-singular String Vacua in the Early Universe with Massive Boson-Fermion Degeneracy
18:00 - 18:30 N. Toumbas
(University of Cyprus) 		Tachyon free thermal string models
18:30 - 19:00 Coffee Break
19:00 - 19:30 C. de Wit-Morette
(University of Texas) 		The power of functional integration
19:30 - 20:15 Discussion Session  
21:00- Dinner
Sunday 5 July
09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
Morning Session Chairman: N. Sadooghi (Sharif University, Tehran)  
10:00 - 11:00 Z. Komargodski
(IAS, Princeton) 		Low Energy Aspects of SUSY Breaking
11:00 - 12:00 S. Bhattacharya
(Tata Institute) 		Weak Field Black Hole Formation in Asymptotically AdS Spacetimes
12:00 - 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 - 13:00 M. Mahato
(Tata Institute, Mumbai) 		Hydrodynamics from the D1-brane
13:00- Lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman: G. Leontaris (U. of Ioannina)  
17:00 - 17:30 P. Anastasopoulos
(University of Roma II ) 		On mass hierarchies in Orientifolds
17:30 - 18:00 T. Morita
(Tata Institute, Mumbai ) 		A toy model for time evolution of black string/hole transition
18:00 - 18:30 G. Papageorgakis
(Tata Institute, Mumbai ) 		The fuzzy S^2 structure of M2-M5 systems in ABJM
18:30 - 19:15 Discussion Session  
21:00- Dinner
Monday 6 July
07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast
Departures