Strings, Gauge Theory and the LHC
from
Monday 22 August 2011 (09:00)
to
Friday 2 September 2011 (18:00)
Monday 22 August 2011
09:00
Registration
Registration
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium C
10:00
Is there any torsion in your future?
-
Dimitri Diakonov
(
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
)
Is there any torsion in your future?
Dimitri Diakonov
(
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium A
11:00
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium C
11:30
Blackfolds, (an)isotropic charged fluids and thermal probes/strings
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Niels Obers
(
NBI
)
Blackfolds, (an)isotropic charged fluids and thermal probes/strings
Niels Obers
(
NBI
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium A
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium A
18:00
Welcome Drinks
Welcome Drinks
18:00 - 19:00
Room: NBIA Lounge
Tuesday 23 August 2011
10:00
Semiclassical correlation functions in holography
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Konstantin Zarembo
(
Nordita
)
Semiclassical correlation functions in holography
Konstantin Zarembo
(
Nordita
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium A
11:00
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium C
11:30
Renormalization in the unitarity method
-
Ruth Britto
(
IPhT, Saclay
)
Renormalization in the unitarity method
Ruth Britto
(
IPhT, Saclay
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium A
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium A
14:30
Quantum strings on AdS_4 x CP^3
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Gianluca Grignani
(
University of Perugia
)
Quantum strings on AdS_4 x CP^3
Gianluca Grignani
(
University of Perugia
)
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium A
Wednesday 24 August 2011
10:00
Holographic fixed points in D=3
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Gordon Semenoff
(
University of British Columbia
)
Holographic fixed points in D=3
Gordon Semenoff
(
University of British Columbia
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium A
11:00
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium C
11:30
The Status of SUSY after 1/fb at the LHC
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David Shih
(
IAS
)
The Status of SUSY after 1/fb at the LHC
David Shih
(
IAS
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium A
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium A
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium A
Contributions
16:00
Null polygonal Wilson loops in full superspace
-
Song He
(
AEI, Potsdam
)
16:30
The harmony of superstring disk amplitudes
-
Oliver Schlotterer
(
MPI, Munich
)
17:00
Analyticity and renormalization in nucleon scattering
-
Alejandro Jenkins
(
FSU
)
Thursday 25 August 2011
10:30
Ultraviolet Divergences and Counterterm Structure in Maximal Supergravity
-
Kelly Stelle
(
Imperial College, London
)
Ultraviolet Divergences and Counterterm Structure in Maximal Supergravity
Kelly Stelle
(
Imperial College, London
)
10:30 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium A
11:30
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium A
12:00
Scattering amplitudes from Wilson loops
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Simon Caron-Huot
(
IAS
)
Scattering amplitudes from Wilson loops
Simon Caron-Huot
(
IAS
)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium A
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium A
14:30
Black Holes and Spontaneously Broken Conformal Symmetry
-
Gerard 't Hooft
(
Utrecht U.
)
Black Holes and Spontaneously Broken Conformal Symmetry
Gerard 't Hooft
(
Utrecht U.
)
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium A
Friday 26 August 2011
10:30
QCD string: ten years later
-
Yuri Makeenko
(
ITEP, Moscow
)
QCD string: ten years later
Yuri Makeenko
(
ITEP, Moscow
)
10:30 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium A
11:30
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium A
12:00
Renormalization Group Flows in Four Dimensions
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Zohar Komargodski
(
IAS
)
Renormalization Group Flows in Four Dimensions
Zohar Komargodski
(
IAS
)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium A
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium A
14:30
New results from the LHC
-
Peter Jenni
(
CERN
)
New results from the LHC
Peter Jenni
(
CERN
)
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium A
15:30
Grassmannian Polytopes and Scattering Amplitudes
-
Nima Arkani-Hamed
(
IAS
)
Grassmannian Polytopes and Scattering Amplitudes
Nima Arkani-Hamed
(
IAS
)
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium A
19:00
Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Room: Famo Metro
Saturday 27 August 2011
Sunday 28 August 2011
Monday 29 August 2011
10:00
Hidden symmetry of four-point correlation functions and amplitudes in N=4 SYM
-
Gregory Korchemsky
(
IPhT, Saclay
)
Hidden symmetry of four-point correlation functions and amplitudes in N=4 SYM
Gregory Korchemsky
(
IPhT, Saclay
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium A
11:00
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium C
11:30
A massive S-matrix from massless amplitudes
-
Michael Kiermaier
(
Princeton U.
)
A massive S-matrix from massless amplitudes
Michael Kiermaier
(
Princeton U.
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium A
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium A
16:30
A Brief History of the NBI
-
Andrew Jackson
(
NBIA
)
A Brief History of the NBI
Andrew Jackson
(
NBIA
)
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium A
17:00
Welcome Back Drinks
Welcome Back Drinks
17:00 - 18:00
Room: NBIA Lounge
Tuesday 30 August 2011
10:00
TBA
-
Michael Green
(
DAMTP
)
TBA
Michael Green
(
DAMTP
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium A
11:00
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium C
11:30
TBA
-
Radu Roiban
(
Penn State
)
TBA
Radu Roiban
(
Penn State
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium A
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium A
14:30
Gluons for nothing, gravitons for free
-
John Joseph Carrasco
Gluons for nothing, gravitons for free
John Joseph Carrasco
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium A
Wednesday 31 August 2011
10:00
The Momentum Kernel of Gauge and Gravity Theories
-
Pierre Vanhove
(
IPhT, Saclay
)
The Momentum Kernel of Gauge and Gravity Theories
Pierre Vanhove
(
IPhT, Saclay
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium A
11:00
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium C
11:30
Analyticity in scale at leading order in 1/N in SU(N) gauge theory
-
Herbert Neuberger
(
Rutgers
)
Analyticity in scale at leading order in 1/N in SU(N) gauge theory
Herbert Neuberger
(
Rutgers
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium A
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium A
14:15
Mapping our Universe for Precision Cosmology
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Max Tegmark
(
MIT
)
Mapping our Universe for Precision Cosmology
Max Tegmark
(
MIT
)
14:15 - 15:15
Room: Auditorium A
NBIA Colloquium : Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture
Thursday 1 September 2011
10:00
TBA
-
Zvi Bern
(
UCLA
)
TBA
Zvi Bern
(
UCLA
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium A
11:00
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium C
11:30
Some applications of the analytic S-matrix ranging from type IIB to QCD
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Rutger Boels
(
Hamburg U.
)
Some applications of the analytic S-matrix ranging from type IIB to QCD
Rutger Boels
(
Hamburg U.
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium A
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium A
14:30
TBA
-
Jacobus Verbaarschot
(
Stony Brook University
)
TBA
Jacobus Verbaarschot
(
Stony Brook University
)
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium A
17:00
Dinner
Dinner
17:00 - 20:00
Friday 2 September 2011
10:00
Generalized quark-antiquark potential at weak and strong coupling
-
Nadav Drukker
(
Imperial College, London
)
Generalized quark-antiquark potential at weak and strong coupling
Nadav Drukker
(
Imperial College, London
)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium A
11:00
Tea and Coffee Break
Tea and Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium C
11:30
Manifestly duality symmetric actions in M-theory from generalized geometry
-
David Berman
(
QMUL
)
Manifestly duality symmetric actions in M-theory from generalized geometry
David Berman
(
QMUL
)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium A
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Auditorium A