Meeting Program
 

Sunday 19 June

08:00 - 20:00

Arrivals

Monday 20 June

08:30 - 09:00

Welcome and Opening


Morning Session Chairman: E. Kiritsis

09:00 - 10:00

Y. Oz
(Tel-Aviv)

Holography and hydrodynamics

10:00 - 11:00

O. Aharony
(Weizmann)

Holographic duals for N=4 SYM on spaces with a boundary

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

G. Papadopoulos
(King's College)

Special geometry of black hole horizons

12:30 - 13:30

B. Kol
(Hebrew)

Classical effective theory for weak ultra relativistic scattering

13:30 - 15:30

Lunch


Afternoon Session Chairman: I. Bakas

15:30 - 16:00

I. Papadimitriou
(CERN)

Generalized holographic renormalization

16:00 - 16:30

A. Parnachev
(Leiden)

Comments on AdS/CFT for higher derivative gravity

16:30 - 17:00

M. Guica
(Saclay)

Microscopic realization of the Kerr/CFT correspondence

17:00 - 17:30

Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:00

D. Allahbakhshi
(IPM)

On holography of Julia-Zee dyon

18:00 - 18:30

T. Morita
(Crete)

What is the gravity dual of the confinement/ deconfinement transition in pure Yang-Mills theory?

18:30 - 19:00

R. Meyer
(Crete)

Holographic (de)confinement transitions in cosmological backgrounds

19:00 - 19:30

N. Irges
(NTUA )

Flavor corrections in the static potential in holographic QCD

19:30 - 20:00

A. Davody
(IPM)

Non-critical holographic QCD in external electric field

Tuesday 21 June


Morning Session Chairman: F. Ardalan

09:00 - 10:00

I. Antoniadis
(CERN)

Mass hierarchies in string theory and holography

10:00 - 11:00

G. Mandal
(Tata)

On the phase diagram of gauge theories with a large number of adjoint scalars

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

K. Skenderis
(Amsterdam)

The holographic fluid dual to vacuum Einstein gravity

12:30 - 13:30

J. Sonnenschein
(Tel Aviv)

On holographic nuclear interaction and nuclear matter

13:30 - 15:30

Lunch


Afternoon Session Chairman: G. Papadopoulos

15:30 - 16:00

E. Rabinovici
(Hebrew)

AdS crunches, CFT falls and cosmological complementarity

16:00 - 16:30 K. Papadodimas
(CERN)

Comments on AdS/CFT and the cosmological constant problem

16:30 - 17:00

N. Tetradis
(Athens)

New guises of the BTZ black hole and the entropy of 2d CFT

17:00 - 17:30

Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:00

H. Afshar
(IPM)

Holography of conformal Chern-Simons gravity

18:00 - 18:30

M. Lippert
(Crete)

Holographic models of the quantum Hall effect

18:30 - 19:00

M. Jarvinen
(Crete)

Rotons in a holographic quantum Hall model

19:00 - 19:30

G. Michalogiorgakis
(Purdue)

Shock waves in strongly coupled plasmas

19:30 - 20:00

K. Dimopoulos
( Lancaster)

DBI vector fluxes as curvatons

Wednesday 22 June


Morning Session Chairman: A. Schwimmer

09:00 - 10:00

C. Bachas
(ENS)

On the localization of gravity in string theory

10:00 - 11:00

A. Strominger
(Harvard)

From Navier-Stokes to Einstein

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

D. Luest
(LMU & MPI)

Non-commutative and non-associative closed string geometry from flux compactifications

12:30 - 13:30

S. Das
(Kentucky)

Time dependent backgrounds and holographic quantum quench

13:30 - 15:30

Lunch

15:30 - 20:00

Excursion

Thursday 23 June


Morning Session Chairman: S. Mukhi

09:00 - 10:00

A. Sen
(HRI)

What can black holes tell us about microstates?

10:00 - 11:00

D. Kutasov
(Chicago)

Conformal phase transitions at weak and strong coupling

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

M. Alishahiha
(IPM)

P-wave holographic insulator/superconductor

12:30 - 13:00

S. Wadia
(Tata)

2+1 dim Chern-Simons gauge theory coupled to fermions and W_{\infty} algebra


13:00 - 13:30
A. Schwimmer
(Weizmann)

Spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry and trace anomaly matching

13:30 - 15:30

Lunch


Afternoon Session Chairman: D. Anninos

15:30 - 16:00 K. Zoubos
(NBI)
Holographic three-point function of giant gravitons

16:00 - 16:30

G. Siopsis
(Tennessee)

Holographic superconductors at low temperatures

16:30 - 17:00

L. Papantonopoulos
(NTUA)

Holographic charge density waves

17:00 - 17:30

Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:00

B.S. Kim
(Crete)

Transport properties of high T_c superconductor at very low temperature and AdS/CFT

18:00 - 18:30

M. Ali-Akbari
(IPM)

Non-commutative holographic QCD and DC conductivity

18:30 - 19:00

M. Kroyter
(Tel-Aviv)

Democratic superstring field theory and its gauge fixing

21:00-

Banquet

Friday 24 June


Morning Session Chairman: S. Rouhani

09:00 - 10:00

D. Jafferis
(IAS & Harvard)

Sphere partition functions and the 3d superconformal R-charge

10:00 - 11:00

S. Mukhi
( Tata)

Unraveling the novel Higgs mechanism in 2+1 dimensions

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

J. David
(Bangalore)

Classical integrability in the BTZ black hole

12:30 - 13:30

E. Sezgin
(Texas A&M)

Aspects of higher spin gravity

13:30 - 15:30

Lunch


Afternoon Session Chairman: I. Bakas

15:30 - 16:00

F. Ardalan
(IPM)

Exact renormalization group equation and gauge invariance for QED

16:00 - 16:30

F. Hassan
(Stockholm)

Non-linear actions for massive gravity

16:30 - 17:00

R. Fareghbal
(IPM)

D-dimensional log gravity

17:00 - 17:30

Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:00

C. Kozcaz
(CERN)

A-B-C approaches to surface operators

18:00 - 18:30

D. Anninos
(Harvard)

Future infinity and the static patch De Sitter observer

18:30 - 19:00

S. Rouhani
(Sharif)

Characterization of rough surfaces using Schramm-Loewner evolution

19:00 - 19:30

G. Gur Ari
(Weizmann)

Brane inflation and moduli stabilization

19:30 - 20:00

A. Naseh
(IPM)

On holographic stress tensor of critical gravity

Saturday 25 June


Morning Session Chairman: E. Sezgin

09:00 - 10:00

Z. Komargodski
(Weizmann & IAS)

Exact results in softly broken supersymmetry

10:00 - 11:00

V. Niarchos
(Crete )

An intriguing example of F-maximization in 3D SCFTs

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

U. Gursoy
(CERN)

Spin models and holography

12:30 - 13:30

M. Garousi
(Ferdowsi)

S and T dualities of S-matrix

13:30 - 15:30

Lunch


Afternoon Session Chairman: E. Kiritsis

15:30 - 16:00

H. Isono
(Tata)

Holographic Wilsonian renormalization groups: flow diagrams, fermions

16:00 - 16:30

D. Elander
(Tata)

Multi-scale dynamics on the baryonic branch of Klebanov -Strassler

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee



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Sunday 26 June


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