Thursday 13 July

Bakas Memorial Day

First Morning Session Chairman: E. Kiritsis

09:00 - 09:30

Various Tributes

E. Rabinovici
(Racah Institute of Physics Hebrew University)

Tribute to Ioannis Bakas

H. Arfaei
(IPM, Teheran)

Tribute to Ioannis Bakas

S. Wadia
(ICTS and TIFR)

Tribute to Ioannis Bakas

E.Kiritsis
(University of Crete & APC)

Tribute to Ioannis Bakas

9:30 - 10:00

Ignatios Antoniadis
Albert Einstein Center Switzerlandand LPTHE, Paris 6 CNRS

Scale hierarchies and string phenomenology

10:00 - 10:30

Costis Papageorgakis
Queen Mary College University of London

Deconstructing the BPS sector of (2,0) theories

10:30 - 11:00

Costas Bachas
Ecole Normale Superieure

D-brane charge from anomalies

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

Second Morning Session Chairman: A. Dabholkar

11:30 - 12:00

Dieter Lust
(LMU-München and MPI-München)

Non-associativity in M-theory and the magnetic monopole/R-flux paradigm

12:00 - 12:30

Kostas Skenderis
(University of Southampton)

Out of equilibrium dynamics and the Robinson-Trautman space times

12:30 - 13:00

Carlo Angelantonj
(University of Torino)

Topological Amplitudes and the Omega Background

13:15 - 17:00

Lunch

Afternoon Session Chairman: U. Lindstrom

17:00 - 17:30

Kostas Sfetsos
(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Interacting current algebra theories

17:30 - 118:00

George Papadopoulos
(Kings College London )

O(D,D) and T-duality

18:00 - 18:30

Coffee Break

18:30 - 19:00

Spenta Wadia
(ICTS and TIFR)

SYK/Tensor models and dual 2-dimquantum gravity

19:00 - 19:30

Cobi Sonnenschein
(Tel-Aviv University)

The decay width of stringy hadrons

20:00

Dinner

22:00