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During the Workshop a series of seminars for a general audience including PhD students and young PostDoc will be organized.
They will consist in 5 cycles of lectures for a total of 4 hours each, according to the following scheme:


Speaker: Gianguido Dall'Agata (Padova)
Title: "Flux compactifications: the swampland program"
Dates: April 12 and April 13

Speaker: Carlos Nunez (Swansea)
Title: "Some uses of Gauge-Strings duality" PART I PART II
Dates: April 17 and April 19

Speaker: Roberto Emparan (Barcelona)
Title: "Black rings"
Dates: April 23 and April 24

Speaker: Susanne Reffert (Amsterdam)
Title: "String compactifications, orientifolds and applications"
Dates: May 29 and May 31

Speaker: Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech)
Title: "Topological strings"
Dates: June 5 and June 6

 

 

 

 


Past events:

Week: June,18 - June,23

Monday, June 18

Gianluca Grignani: ""Finite Size Spectrum of the Giant Magnon""
Room B, 16:00

Tuesday, June 19

Sunil Mukhi: "String Webs and Dyons".
Room B, 11:30

Wednesday, June 20

Chris Pope: "Kac-Moody Symmetries in Reductions to Two Dimensions"
Room B, 11:30

John Schwarz historical talk: "String Theory -- The Early Years: a Personal Perspective''
Room B, 16:00

Drinks and refreshments will be offered after the talk.

 

Week: June,11 - June,12

Seminars:

Monday, June 11

Aldo Cotrone: "Holography and unquenched quark-gluon plasmas".
literature :hep-ph/0605178; hep-th/0605158; hep-th/0703284
Room B, 16:00

Tuesday, June 12

Jorge Zanelli: "Chern-Simons gravity scenarios".
literature: hep-th/0605186.
Room B, 11:30

 

 

Seminars of the week: June,4 - June,8

Monday, June 4

Stephan Stieberger: "Multi-Gluon and MHV Amplitudes in Superstring Theory"
Room B, 16:00

 

Tuesday, June 5

lecture
Hirosi Ooguri: "Topological strings", part I
Room A,10:00

Wednesday, June 6

lecture
Hirosi Ooguri: "Topological strings", part II
Room B, 10:00

 

Thursday, June 7

Raffaele Marotta: "Magnetized Branes: Narain versus Non-abelian branes"
background material: hep-th/0610327 and hep-th/0601067
Room B, 11:30

Friday, June 8

Koenraad Schalm: "Effective actions for gravity"
Room B, 11:30

 

Seminars of the week: May,28 - June,1

Monday, May 28

N. Drukker: "Wilson loops in 4d SYM, in 2d YM and in 0d"
reference: arXiv:0704.2237
Room B,16:00

 

Tuesday, May 29

lecture
Susanne Reffert (Amsterdam) "String compactifications, orientifolds and applications", part I
Room A,10:00

 

Wednesday, May 30

S. Benvenuti: "Cusp anomaly, integrablility and AdS/CFT"
Room B,11:30

 

Thursday, May 31

lecture
Susanne Reffert (Amsterdam) "String compactifications, orientifolds and applications", part II
Room A,10:00

 

Friday, June 1

A. Tanzini: "Topological theories on local spaces and black hole entropy countings"
Room B, 11:30

Seminars of the week: May, 21 - 25

Monday, May 21

D. Orlando: "Categorifying the dimer model: from the free fermion to SQM"
Room B, 4.00 p.m.

 

Tuesday, May 22

L. Mezincescu: "Symmetries of Super-Landau Models "
background material: hep-th/0612300, hep-th/0510019, quant-ph/0507015
Room B,11:30

 

Wednesday, May 23

G. Veneziano: "Large-N and supersymmetry: some new ideas and results "
Room B, 11:30

 

Thursday,May 24

J. Gauntlett: "Supersymmetric AdS Solutions"
Room B, 11:30

 

Friday, May 25

L. Tamassia: "Tensionless branes, higher spins and the singleton."
references: J. Math. Phys. 4, 901 (1963), Lett. Math. Phys. 2, 421 (1978),
hep-th/0204051, hep-th/0204226, hep-th/0508124, hep-th/0701051, hep-th/0701081.
Room B, 11:30

 

 

Seminars of the week: May, 14 - 19

 

Monday, May 14
F. Riccioni: "The E11 origin of gauged maximal supergravities "
background material is hep-th/0212239, hep-th/0412173, hep-th/0612001
Room B 16.00 p. m.

Tuesday, May 15
L. Rastelli: "Solving open string field theory"
related literature: hep-th/0006240 ,0105168 ,0511286 ,0603159,0606131, 0611110 ,0701248 ,0701249
Room B 11.30 a. m.


Wednesday, May 16
P. Berglund: "Topology from Cosmology: Aspects of Inflation in Large-Volume Compactifications"
related literature: hep-th/0408054, hep-th/0502058, astro-ph/0605371
Room B 11.30 a.m.


Thursday, May 17
Jaume Gomis: "Open Strings as Closed Strings"
Room B 11.30 a.m.

Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 19
CONFERENCE : "The birth of string theory",
see: http://theory.fi.infn.it/colomo/string-birth/

 

 

Seminars of the week: May, 7 - 11

 

Monday, May 7

K. Becker: "Moduli stabilization in non-geometric backgrounds"
suggested literature: hep-th/0611001, 0505160, 9906070,0005247,04041137.
Room B 16.00 p. m.

 

Tuesday, May 8

S. Vandoren: ""Instanton corrections to hypermultiplet moduli spaces"
suggested literature: hep-th/9507158; hep-th/9608079; hep-th/0512206; hep-th/0612027; arXiv:0704.2229 [hep-th]
Room B 11.30 a. m.


Wednesday, May 9

A. Lerda: "Gauge Instantons from Open Strings and D-branes"
suggested literature: hep-th/0211250; hep-th/0606013
Room B 11.30 a.m.

 

Thursday, May 10

G. Villadoro: "String web dualities and consistency of p-branes in flux backgrounds."
Suggested literature: hep-th/0602120 (Sec.3 and 4), hep-th/0505208; hep-th/0606271
Room B 11.30 a.m.

 

Friday, May 11

P. Vanhove: "Non renormalisations theorems in superstring and maximal supergravity theories"
Room B 11.30 a.m.

 

Seminars of the week: April, 30 - May 4

Monday, April 30

F. Benini: "Adding unquenched flavors to gauge/gravity duals";
suggested literature: hep-th/0205236, hep-th/0602027, hep-th/0612118
Room B 16.00 p. m.

Tuesday, May 1

NATIONAL FESTIVITY
The Institute will be closed.


Wednesday, May 2

B. de Wit: "Probing M-Theory degrees of freedom "
Room B 11.30 a.m.


Thursday, May 3

P. West: " E_{11} "
Room B 11.30 a.m.

Friday, May 4

L. Cornalba: "Eikonal Methods in AdS/CFT"
suggested literature: hep-th/0611123; hep-th/0611122; hep-th/0603115; hep-ph/9610276; Phys.Lett.B197:81,1987.
Room B 11.30 a.m.

 

Seminars of the week: April, 23 - 28

 

Monday, April 23

Roberto Emparan (Barcelona): lecture "Black rings", part I
Background reading: hep-th/0608012
Room A 10.00 a. m.

 

Tuesday, April 24

Roberto Emparan (Barcelona): lecture "Black rings", part II
Background reading: hep-th/0608012
Room A 10.00 a. m.

 

Wednesday, April 25

ITALIAN NATIONAL HOLIDAY
The Institute will be closed.

 

Thursday, April 26

Matteo Bertolini: “Metastable non-supersymmetric states in gauge theories and in string theories”
Room B 11.30 a.m.

Extra discussion session:

Paolo Di Vecchia: "Chiral and scale anomalies of gauge theories from the gauge/gravity dual"
Review to read: Sect.s 1 and 2 of hep-th/0503156 and hep-th/0303160.
Room B 16:00

 


Friday, April 27

Troels Harmark: "Matching the Hagedorn temperature in AdS/CFT; How to see free strings in Yang-Mills theory"
Background reading: hep-th/0608115
Room B 11.30 a.m.

 

Seminars of the week: April, 16 - 20

Monday, April 16

Rodolfo Russo: "The three-point function in N=4 SYM and its AdS dual"
Background reading: hep-th/0409233
Other papers relavant to the discussion: hep-th/0404190, hep-th/0409261, hep-th/0703141
Room B 16.00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 17

Carlos Nunez (Swansea): lecture "Some uses of Gauge-Strings duality", part I
Room A 10.00 a.m.

Wednesday, April 18

Mohab Abou-Zeid: "Super-Yang-Mills, Supergravity and Twistor-Strings"
Background reading: hep-th/0312171; hep-th/0402045 ; hep-th/0406051 ; hep-th/0606272.
Room B 11.30 a.m.

Thursday, April 19
Carlos Nunez (Swansea): lecture "Some uses of Gauge-Strings duality", part II
Room A 10.00 a.m.


Friday, April 20

Eric Bergshoeff: "E11 from a Supergravity Point of View"
Room B 11.30 a.m.

 

Seminars of the week: April, 9 - 13

 

Tuesday, April 10

Diederik Roest: "Supersymmetric string backgrounds: from bottom to top"
Room A 11.30 a.m.



Wednesday, April 11

Radu Tatar: "Metastable Vacua in Supersymmetric Field Theory and Geometric Engineering"
Room A 11.30 a.m.



Thursday, April 12

Gianguido Dall’Agata: lectures on "Flux compactifications: the swampland program" part I
Room A 10.00 a.m.



Friday, April 13

Gianguido Dall’Agata: lectures on "Flux compactifications: the Swampland program" part II
Room A 10.00 a.m.

 

Seminars of the week: April, 2 - 6

 

Monday, April 2

Paul Townsend: ``Fake susy vs real susy''
Room B 04.00 p.m.

 

Tuesday, April 3

Massimo Bianchi: "Non perturbative and flux superpotentials in Z_3 orientifolds"
Room A 11.30 a.m.

Extra discussion session:

"Conifolds: Warped, Resolved and Deformed"
Discussion led by Igor Klebanov

Background reading: hep-th/0205100

More recent relevant papers:
hep-th/0701064 , hep-th/0511254 , hep-th/0412187

Wednesday, April 4

Jan Rosseel: "Pseudo supersymmetry: a tale of alternate realities"
Room A 11.30 a.m.

 

Thursday, April 5

Alberto Zaffaroni: discussion on "Sasaki-Einstein spaces and AdS/CFT"
Room A 11.30 a.m.

 

Friday, April 6

Kelly Stelle: "Kaluza-Klein Supersymmetry Breaking and a Natural Mass Hierarchy in a Type IIB Randall-Sundrum geometry"
Room A 11.30 a.m.

 

Seminars Week March 26 - 30.

Monday, March 26

A. Knauf: "Geometric Transitions and Generalised Geometries"
Room A 04.00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27

M. Wijnholt: "Geometry of particle physics"
Room A 11.30 a.m.

Wednesday, March 28

C. Bachas: "Conformal defects in string theory"
Room A 11.30 a.m.

Thursday, March 29


L. Martucci: "D-brane networks on flux vacua"
Room A 11.30 a.m.


Friday, March 30

F. Gmeiner: "Wandering the Landscape-Statistics of Intersecting Brane Models "
Room A 11.30 a.m.


The initial conference, March 21-23. Here is the program, with links to files of talks.