Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics Strings and Gauge Theories Workshop September 15-26, 2008 LECTURE HALL: 340 WEST HALL 1085 S. University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI, 48109
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“Recent Progress in Orientifold Effective Actions”
Alin Tirziu (Purdue University)
“Quantum Corrections to Spinning String in AdS_5 x S^5”
Jason Kumar (University of Hawaii)
“The WIMPless Miracle and the DAMA Puzzle”
John Wittig (University of Cincinnati)
“Argyres-Seiberg Duality and New SCFT’s”
Martin Kruczenski (Purdue University)
“Strings in AdS pp-waves”
Alex Buchel (Perimeter Institute)
“Aspects of Strongly Coupled Non-Conformal Gauge Theories at Finite Temperature”
Stephen Naculich (Bowdoin College)
“Iterative Structures in N=4 SYM and N=8 Supergravity Amplitudes”
Michael Duff (Imperial College)
“Black Holes and Qubits”
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Nelia Mann (University of Chicago)
Arkady Tseytlin (Imperial College London)
“Aspects of Superstring Theory in AdS5 x S5”
Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute)
Yuji Tachikawa (Institute for Advanced Study)
“Comments on non-relativistic AdS/CFT”
Aninda Sinha (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
“Holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling”
Takuya Okuda (Perimeter Institute)
“Matrix models for the black hole information paradox”
Ruth Britto (Fermilab)
“Singularities of Scattering Amplitudes”
Robert Pisarski (Brookhaven National Lab)
“Shear Viscosity of the ‘semi’-QGP”
Henriette Elvang (IAS)
“Generating functions in N=4 SYM and N=8 supergravity: how to calculate tree amplitudes by Grassmann differentiation”
Ben Burrington (University of Toronto)
“Coulomb Branch Gluon Scattering via AdS/CFT”
Thomas Faulkner (MIT)
“Meson Widths from String Worldsheet Instantons”
Arnab Kundu (University of Southern California)
"External fields and the dynamics of flavours in holographic duals of large N gauge theories"
Rob Leigh (Illinois)
“Torsion and the Gravity Dual of Parity Breaking”
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