The 23rd Nordic Network Meeting on "Strings, Fields and Branes"
from
Thursday, April 16, 2009 (12:00 PM)
to
Saturday, April 18, 2009 (1:00 PM)
Monday, April 13, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
12:00 PM
Registration
Registration
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Auditorium C
1:00 PM
Gauge/gravity duality at finite temperature and density I
-
Johanna Erdmenger
(
MPI, Munich
)
Gauge/gravity duality at finite temperature and density I
Johanna Erdmenger
(
MPI, Munich
)
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Room: Auditorium A
1:50 PM
Break
Break
1:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Auditorium C
2:00 PM
AdS/QHE
-
Esko Keski-Vakkuri
(
Helsinki
)
AdS/QHE
Esko Keski-Vakkuri
(
Helsinki
)
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: Auditorium A
2:20 PM
Self-interacting fundamental strings and black holes
-
Diego Chialva
(
Nordita
)
Self-interacting fundamental strings and black holes
Diego Chialva
(
Nordita
)
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Auditorium A
2:40 PM
BLG/ABJM M2-branes coupled to three-dimensional conformal supergravity
-
Bengt Nilsson
(
Chalmers
)
BLG/ABJM M2-branes coupled to three-dimensional conformal supergravity
Bengt Nilsson
(
Chalmers
)
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Auditorium A
3:00 PM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium C
3:30 PM
Gravity and quantum criticality I
-
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
Gravity and quantum criticality I
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Auditorium A
4:20 PM
Break
Break
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Auditorium C
4:40 PM
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications I
-
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications I
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Auditorium A
Friday, April 17, 2009
9:00 AM
Gauge/gravity duality at finite temperature and density II
-
Johanna Erdmenger
(
MPI, Munich
)
Gauge/gravity duality at finite temperature and density II
Johanna Erdmenger
(
MPI, Munich
)
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Auditorium A
9:50 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Auditorium C
10:20 AM
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications II
-
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications II
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
10:20 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Auditorium A
11:10 AM
Break
Break
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Auditorium C
11:20 AM
Instanton Corrections to the Universal Hypermultiplet and Automorphic Forms
-
Daniel Persson
(
Chalmers, ULB
)
Instanton Corrections to the Universal Hypermultiplet and Automorphic Forms
Daniel Persson
(
Chalmers, ULB
)
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Auditorium A
11:40 AM
A new deformation of the matrix model of M-theory
-
Hidehiko Shimada
(
AEI Potsdam
)
A new deformation of the matrix model of M-theory
Hidehiko Shimada
(
AEI Potsdam
)
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Auditorium A
12:00 PM
String Field Theory by Liberating Right and Left Movers
-
Holger Bech Nielsen
(
NBI
)
String Field Theory by Liberating Right and Left Movers
Holger Bech Nielsen
(
NBI
)
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Room: Auditorium A
12:20 PM
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: NBI Canteen
2:30 PM
Gravity and quantum criticality II
-
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
Gravity and quantum criticality II
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Auditorium A
3:20 PM
Break
Break
3:20 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium C
3:30 PM
Gauge/gravity Duality at Finite Temperature and Density III
-
Johanna Erdmenger
(
MPI, Munich
)
Gauge/gravity Duality at Finite Temperature and Density III
Johanna Erdmenger
(
MPI, Munich
)
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Auditorium A
4:20 PM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Auditorium C
4:50 PM
The virtual scaling function of AdS/CFT
-
Lisa Freyhult
(
Uppsala
)
The virtual scaling function of AdS/CFT
Lisa Freyhult
(
Uppsala
)
4:50 PM - 5:10 PM
Room: Auditorium A
5:10 PM
M2-branes, triple systems and superalgebras
-
Jakob Palmkvist
(
AEI Potsdam
)
M2-branes, triple systems and superalgebras
Jakob Palmkvist
(
AEI Potsdam
)
5:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Auditorium A
7:00 PM
Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Restaurant Tabak (directions will be provided)
Saturday, April 18, 2009
9:30 AM
Gravity and Quantum Criticality III
-
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
Gravity and Quantum Criticality III
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Auditorium A
10:20 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Auditorium C
10:50 AM
Superconformal Chern-Simons theories and AdS(4)/CFT(3) correspondence
-
MIkael Smedbäck
(
Uppsala/Princeton Univ
)
Superconformal Chern-Simons theories and AdS(4)/CFT(3) correspondence
MIkael Smedbäck
(
Uppsala/Princeton Univ
)
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Auditorium A
11:10 AM
Near-BMN limit of type IIA string in AdS_4 x CP^3
-
Valentina Giangreco Marotta Puletti
(
Uppsala
)
Near-BMN limit of type IIA string in AdS_4 x CP^3
Valentina Giangreco Marotta Puletti
(
Uppsala
)
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Auditorium A
11:30 AM
Giant magnons in CP^3
-
Olof Ohlsson-Sax
(
Uppsala
)
Giant magnons in CP^3
Olof Ohlsson-Sax
(
Uppsala
)
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Auditorium A
11:50 AM
Break
Break
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Auditorium C
12:10 PM
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications III
-
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications III
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Auditorium A