Friday, March 31
1:00-1:10 pm |
Opening |
1:10-6:20 pm |
Afternoon
Session |
6:30 pm |
Conference Reception |
Saturday, April
1
9:30 am-12:30 pm |
Morning
Session |
2:00-4:40 pm |
Afternoon
Session |
5:00-6:20 pm |
Student
Talks |
Sunday, April 2
Note that
daylight savings time begins 2:00 am Sunday, April 2
9:30 am-12:50 pm |
Morning
Session |
12:50 pm |
Conference ends |
Opening session chair: Finn Larsen
(University of Michigan) |
|
1:00 pm | Opening |
1:10 pm | Malcolm Perry (Cambridge
University and University of Michigan) |
The
string genus expansion from
M-theory |
|
1:40 pm | Rob Leigh (University of Illinois) |
The big bang and decaying branes |
|
2:20 pm | Break |
Session
chair: Radu Roiban (Pennsylvania State University) |
|
2:40 pm | Annamaria Sinkovics (Cambridge
University and University of Michigan) |
Phase transition in 2D Yang-Mills
and topological strings |
|
3:00 pm | Ilarion Melnikov (University of Chicago) |
A-model correlations from the Coulomb branch | |
3:20 pm | Albrecht Klemm (University of Wisconsin) |
BPS states on the Enriques
Calabi-Yau |
|
4:00 pm | Andrei Starinets (Perimeter Institute) |
Recent AdS/CFT results
for near-equilibrium thermal gauge theories |
|
4:20 pm | Break |
4:40 pm | Diana Vaman (University of Michigan) |
Integrable perturbations
of 2D 0A strings with flux |
|
5:00
pm |
Samir
Mathur (Ohio State University) |
Dynamics
of supertubes |
|
5:40 pm | Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute) |
Cool
D3/D7 thermodynamics |
|
6:20 pm | End of afternoon session |
6:30 pm | Reception in 337 West Hall |
Session chair: Alfred Shapere
(University of Kentucky) |
|
9:30 am | Sav Sethi (University of Chicago) |
Toward the end of time |
|
10:10 am | David Kutasov (University of Chicago) |
NJL and QCD from string theory |
|
10:50 am | Break |
11:10 am | Justin Vazquez-Poritz (University
of Cincinnati and University of Kentucky) |
From marginal deformations to confinement | |
11:30 am | Minxin Huang (University of Wisconsin) |
Observational
signatures and
non-Gaussianities in general single field inflation |
|
11:50 am | Amihay Hanany (MIT) |
Tilings, dimers, and quiver gauge theories | |
12:30 pm |
End of morning session |
Session chair: Paul de Medeiros
(University of Michigan) |
|
2:00 pm | Sumit Das (University of Kentucky) |
Cosmological
singularitires from
matrices |
|
2:40 pm | Herman Verlinde (Princeton University) |
Open
strings and particle physics |
|
3:20 pm | Break |
3:40 pm | Matthew Lippert (University of Kentucky) |
The
decay of nearly flat space |
|
4:00 pm | Ian Ellwood (University of Wisconsin) |
Proving Sen's third conjecture in
open string field theory |
|
4:20
pm |
Partha
Mukhopadhyay (Cambridge University and University of Kentucky) |
Tachyon
condensation and "non-BPS" D-branes in a Ramond-Ramond plane wave background |
|
4:40 pm | Break |
5:00 pm | Student Talks |
6:20 pm | End of afternoon session |
Session chair: Alex Buchel
(University of Western Ontario and Perimeter Institute) |
|
9:30 am | Arkady Tseytlin (Ohio State
University and Imperial College) |
Towards
understanding the
spectrum of strings in AdS5 x S5 and AdS/CFT |
|
10:10 am | Akikazu Hashimoto (University of Wisconsin) |
Open/closed
string duality
for non-critical string theory |
|
10:30 am | Thomas Grimm (University of Wisconsin) |
Generalized
N=1 compactifications and mirror symmetry |
|
10:50 am | Break |
11:10 am | Jeremy Michelson (University of Kentucky) |
Black
hole vacua |
|
11:30 am | Philip Argyres (University of Cincinnati) |
S-duality in N=2 superconformal field theory | |
12:10 pm | Marcus Spradlin (University of Michigan) |
Recent string-inspired advances in Yang-Mills perturbation theory | |
12:50 pm | End of conference |