Deserfest: A celebration
of the life and works of Stanley Deser

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340 West Hall
April 3 – 5, 2004

Schedule of Talks


Saturday, April 3

9:00 AM         Richard Arnowitt (TAMU)

                        “Results in M-Theory Inspired Phenomenology”

9:40 AM         Roman Jackiw (MIT)

                        “Wedding 4-d Gravity to the 3-d Chern-Simons Term”

10:20 AM        Morning refreshments (337 West hall)

10:50 AM       Marc Henneaux (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

                        “Dualities for Higher Spin Gauge Fields”

11:20 AM       Kelly Stelle (Imperial College)

                        “Bel-Robinson Counterterms, String Corrections and Special Holonomy Manifolds”

12:00 PM        LUNCH

2:00 PM          Frank Wilczek (MIT)

                        “The Structure of Baryons (It’s Not What You’ve Been Told)”

2:40 PM          Jeanette Nelson (Universita di Torino)

                        “Large Diffeomorphisms in (2+1) –dimensional Gravity”

3:20 PM          Afternoon refreshments (337 West Hall)

3:50 PM          Rafael Nepomechie (University of Miami)

                        “Integrability + Supersymmetry + Boundary: Life on the Edge is Not So Dull After All!”

4:20 PM          Howard Schnitzer (Brandeis University)

                        “Many Roads Lead to Seiberg-Witten Theory”


Sunday, April 4

9:00 AM         Lars Brink (Chalmers University of Technology)

                        “A Non-Geometric Approach to 11 d Supergravity”

9:40 AM         Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)        

                        “Cosmological Billiards and Lorentzian Kac-Moody Algebras”    

10:20 AM        Morning refreshments (337 West hall)

10:50 AM       Charles Misner (University of Maryland)

                        “Hyperboloidal Slices and Artificial Cosmology for Numerical Relativity”

11:20 AM       Lee Smolin (Perimiter Institute)

                        Loop Quantum Gravity: Main Results and Recent Directions”

12:00 PM        LUNCH

2:00 PM          Massimo Porrati (New York University)

                        “Three Roads to Massive Gravity”

2:40 PM          Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland)

                        “Einstein-Aether Theory”

3:20 PM          Afternoon refreshments (337 West Hall)

3:50 PM          Larry Abbott (Brandeis University)

                        “Causality and Learning in Neural Systems”

4:20 PM          Richard Woodard (University of Florida)

                        “QFT on a Locally de Sitter Manifold”


Monday, April 5

9:00 AM         Michael Duff (University of Michigan)

                        “M-theory Vacuum Supersymmetries: How Many?”

9:40 AM         Herman Nicolai (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

                        “Kaluza-Klein Supergravity on AdS3 x S3”

10:20 AM        Morning refreshments (337 West hall)  

10:50 AM       Andrew Waldron (UC Davis)

                        “Coadjoint Orbits, Spherical Vectors and the Wavefunction of the Universe”

11:20 AM       Gary Gibbons (DAMTP)

                        “Consistent Reductions of Higher Dimensional Gravity and Super-Gravity Theories””

12:00 PM        LUNCH

2:00 PM          Paul Howe (King’s College)

                        “On R^4 terms in supergravity and M theory”

2:40 PM          Domenico Seminara (Florence University)

                        “Supersymmetric (and not) Non-Commutative Topologically Massive Gauge Theories”

3:20 PM          Afternoon refreshments (377 West Hall)

3:50 PM          Dieter Brill (University of Maryland)

                        “Lattice Universe in 2+1-Dimensional Gravity”

4:20 PM          Sergio Ferrara (CERN)

                        “Generalized Chern-Simons Terms in N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories”

 

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