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Antoine Van Proeyen
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
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
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.