MCTP: QCD and Strings workshop, 2003

1Lectures will take place in room 340 (3rd floor) of West Hall. My office along with the local organizers offices, are in Randall Lab on the 3rd floor. All visitor offices will also be in Randall Lab. Department of Physics (Randall Laboratory and West Hall) are connected with an enclosed bridge b/w the 2nd and 3rd floors. You will need to come to 340 West Hall to get all workshop materials and information for your visitor offices. Randall Lab and West Hall are located at 500 East University Ave (in the block of the corner of Church St. and S. University Ave).

You can reference to a map of central campus for the Physics buildings (Randall Lab and West Hall).

Information on the DTW airport, Ann Arbor, and ground transportation to Ann Arbor from the DTW can be found here.

Schedule of Talks

There will be two talks daily for the two week period of the workshop.

April 28-May 1 (10am-1pm)
May 2 (10-11:30am and 2:30-3:30pm)
May 5 (10-1pm)
May 6 (10-11:30am and 2:30-3:30pm)
May 7-9 (10-1pm)

Talks

Monday April 28
10:00AM S. Brodsky: Exclusive Processes and Evidence for Conformal Behavior in QCD
11:30AM A. Buchel: N=2 Thermodynamics

Tuesday April 29
10:00AM D. Mateos: Meson Spectroscopy in AdS/CFT
11:30AM R. Roiban: Hidden Symmetries of the AdS(5) x S(5) String
3:00PM C. Nunez: Aspects of the gauge/gravity duality

Wednesday April 30
10:00AM A. Belitsky: QCD Conformal Operators
11:30AM M. Kruczensky: Twist two Operators in N=4 SYM and Wilson Loops in Minkowski Signature

Thursday May 1
10:00AM A.Tseytlin: On Semiclassical Approximation and Spinning String Vertex Operatos in AdS(5)xS(5)
11:30AM G. Sterman: From Short to long Distances in Perturbative QCD
3:00PM E. Gimon: A Solvable String Theory of Hadrons

Friday May 2
10:00AM I. Klebanov: AdS/CFT Correspondence Beyond Supergravity
2:30AM A. Vainshtein: Supersymmetric Solitons

Monday May 5
10:00AM A. Zhitnitsky: QCD Domain Walls at Large N_c
11:30AM J. Sonnenschein: Supergravity Probing of Mesons of Confining Gauge Theories

Tuesday May 6
10:00AM J. de Boer: Non-Perturbative Superpotentials and Compactification to Three Dimensions
2:30AM G. Semenoff: Yang-Mills Dual of Strings on PP Background

Wednesday May 7
10:00AM M. Strassler: Small Angles, Small x -- An Early Viewpoint
11:30AM L. Pando Zayas: Hadronic Spectrum from String Theory
3:00PM R. Brower: QCD Strings and Lattice Data

Thursday May 8
10:00AM D. Vaman: Bit Strings from N=4 Super Yang-Mills
11:30AM A. Armoni: Exact Results in Non-supersymmetric Large N Orientifold Field Theories
3:00PM S. Pinsky: DLCQ Test of the Maldacena Conjecture