The Status of M-theory
mini-conference
Tuesday, April 6
9:30 AM Sergio
Ferrara (CERN PH-TH Division)
"Special Geometry, Orientifolds
and Brane Coordinates"
10:15 AM
Arkady Tseytlin (Ohio State / Imperial)
"Large Spin Limit of Strings in
AdS5 x S5 and Effective Actions for Spin Chains"
11:00 AM Morning refreshments (337 West hall)
11:15 AM
Jerome Gauntlett (Perimeter Institute)
"Classifying Supersymmetric AdS_5
Solutions in M-theory"
12:00 PM LUNCH
2:00 PM
George Papadopoulos (King's College, London)
"TBA"
2:45 PM
Bernard Julia (Ecole Normale Paris)
"TBA"
3:30 PM Afternoon refreshments (337 West Hall)
4:00 PM
Eric Bergshoeff (University of Groningen)
"Multiple Domain Walls and CSO-gauged
Supergravities"
Wednesday, April 7
9:30 AM
Chris Hull (Imperial College, London)
"TBA"
10:15 AM
Ergin Sezgin (Texas A&M)
"Progress in Higher Spin Gauge
Theories"
11:00 AM Morning refreshments (337 West hall)
11:15 AM
Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute)
"TBA"
12:00 PM LUNCH
2:00 PM
Chris Pope (Texas A&M)
"The General Kerr-de Sitter Metrics
in All Dimensions"
2:45 PM
Brian Greene (Columbia University)
"TBA"