The 23rd Nordic Network Meeting on "Strings, Fields and Branes"
from
Thursday, 16 April 2009 (12:00)
to
Saturday, 18 April 2009 (13:00)
Monday, 13 April 2009
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Thursday, 16 April 2009
12:00
Registration
Registration
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium C
13:00
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
)
13:00 - 13:50
Room: Auditorium A
13:50
Break
Break
13:50 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium C
14:00
AdS/QHE
-
Esko Keski-Vakkuri
(
Helsinki
)
AdS/QHE
Esko Keski-Vakkuri
(
Helsinki
)
14:00 - 14:20
Room: Auditorium A
14:20
Self-interacting fundamental strings and black holes
-
Diego Chialva
(
Nordita
)
Self-interacting fundamental strings and black holes
Diego Chialva
(
Nordita
)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Auditorium A
14:40
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
)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium A
15:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium C
15:30
Gravity and quantum criticality I
-
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
Gravity and quantum criticality I
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
15:30 - 16:20
Room: Auditorium A
16:20
Break
Break
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Auditorium C
16:40
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications I
-
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications I
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
16:40 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium A
Friday, 17 April 2009
09:00
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
)
09:00 - 09:50
Room: Auditorium A
09:50
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:50 - 10:20
Room: Auditorium C
10:20
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications II
-
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications II
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
10:20 - 11:10
Room: Auditorium A
11:10
Break
Break
11:10 - 11:20
Room: Auditorium C
11:20
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 - 11:40
Room: Auditorium A
11:40
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 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium A
12:00
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 - 12:20
Room: Auditorium A
12:20
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:20 - 14:30
Room: NBI Canteen
14:30
Gravity and quantum criticality II
-
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
Gravity and quantum criticality II
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
14:30 - 15:20
Room: Auditorium A
15:20
Break
Break
15:20 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium C
15:30
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
)
15:30 - 16:20
Room: Auditorium A
16:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:20 - 16:50
Room: Auditorium C
16:50
The virtual scaling function of AdS/CFT
-
Lisa Freyhult
(
Uppsala
)
The virtual scaling function of AdS/CFT
Lisa Freyhult
(
Uppsala
)
16:50 - 17:10
Room: Auditorium A
17:10
M2-branes, triple systems and superalgebras
-
Jakob Palmkvist
(
AEI Potsdam
)
M2-branes, triple systems and superalgebras
Jakob Palmkvist
(
AEI Potsdam
)
17:10 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium A
19:00
Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Room: Restaurant Tabak (directions will be provided)
Saturday, 18 April 2009
09:30
Gravity and Quantum Criticality III
-
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
Gravity and Quantum Criticality III
Petr Horava
(
Berkeley
)
09:30 - 10:20
Room: Auditorium A
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium C
10:50
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 - 11:10
Room: Auditorium A
11:10
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 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium A
11:30
Giant magnons in CP^3
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Olof Ohlsson-Sax
(
Uppsala
)
Giant magnons in CP^3
Olof Ohlsson-Sax
(
Uppsala
)
11:30 - 11:50
Room: Auditorium A
11:50
Break
Break
11:50 - 12:10
Room: Auditorium C
12:10
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications III
-
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
Instantons in String Theory and compactifications III
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht
)
12:10 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium A