The 23rd Nordic Network Meeting on "Strings, Fields and Branes"

16 Apr 2009, 12:00 → 18 Apr 2009, 13:00 Europe/Copenhagen

Auditorium A (Niels Bohr International Academy)

General The 23rd Nordic Network Meeting on "Strings, Fields and Branes" is organised by the High Energy Theory Group of the Niels Bohr Institute and will be hosted by the Niels Bohr International Academy in Copenhagen. The meeting will start around noon on Thursday, April 16th and end in the early afternoon on Saturday, April 18th. The primary aim of this series of meetings is to provide opportunities for PhD students, postdocs and researchers within the Nordic community to interact and exchange ideas at regular intervals. The previous meeting took place in Stockholm in November 2008. The deadline for registration was March 20. Scientific Programme In the spirit of previous Nordic meetings, the programme will include lectures by three invited speakers as well as shorter talks by younger researchers. Confirmed lecturers include: Johanna Erdmenger (Munich): "Gauge/gravity Duality at Finite Temperature and Density" Petr Hořava (Berkeley): "Gravity and Quantum Criticality" Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht): "Instantons in String Theory and Compactifications" Financial Assistance There is financial support available to cover accommodation expenses for Nordic PhD students (including students from Groningen and Hamburg) . Details are provided in the accommodation section. Travel expenses will have to be covered via other sources. Dinner A dinner for all participants will be organised on Friday, April 17th. Please indicate during registration whether you would like to participate in the dinner.

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Thursday, 16 April

12:00 Registration

1 Gauge/gravity duality at finite temperature and density I

Speaker: Prof. Johanna Erdmenger (MPI, Munich)

13:50 Break

2 AdS/QHE

Speaker: Dr Esko Keski-Vakkuri (Helsinki)

3 Self-interacting fundamental strings and black holes

Speaker: Dr Diego Chialva (Nordita)

4 BLG/ABJM M2-branes coupled to three-dimensional conformal supergravity

Speaker: Prof. Bengt Nilsson (Chalmers)

15:00 Coffee Break

5 Gravity and quantum criticality I

Speaker: Prof. Petr Horava (Berkeley)

16:20 Break

6 Instantons in String Theory and compactifications I

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht)

Friday, 17 April

7 Gauge/gravity duality at finite temperature and density II

Speaker: Prof. Johanna Erdmenger (MPI, Munich)

09:50 Coffee Break

8 Instantons in String Theory and compactifications II

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht)

11:10 Break

9 Instanton Corrections to the Universal Hypermultiplet and Automorphic Forms

Speaker: Mr Daniel Persson (Chalmers, ULB)

10 A new deformation of the matrix model of M-theory

Speaker: Dr Hidehiko Shimada (AEI Potsdam)

11 String Field Theory by Liberating Right and Left Movers

Speaker: Prof. Holger Bech Nielsen (NBI)

12:20 Lunch Break

12 Gravity and quantum criticality II

Speaker: Prof. Petr Horava (Berkeley)

15:20 Break

13 Gauge/gravity Duality at Finite Temperature and Density III

Speaker: Prof. Johanna Erdmenger (MPI, Munich)

16:20 Coffee Break

14 The virtual scaling function of AdS/CFT

Speaker: Dr Lisa Freyhult (Uppsala)

15 M2-branes, triple systems and superalgebras

Speaker: Dr Jakob Palmkvist (AEI Potsdam)

19:00 Workshop Dinner

Saturday, 18 April

16 Gravity and Quantum Criticality III

Speaker: Prof. Petr Horava (Berkeley)

10:20 Coffee Break

17 Superconformal Chern-Simons theories and AdS(4)/CFT(3) correspondence

Speaker: Dr MIkael Smedbäck (Uppsala/Princeton Univ)

18 Near-BMN limit of type IIA string in AdS_4 x CP^3

Speaker: Ms Valentina Giangreco Marotta Puletti (Uppsala)

19 Giant magnons in CP^3

Speaker: Mr Olof Ohlsson-Sax (Uppsala)

11:50 Break

20 Instantons in String Theory and compactifications III

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht)