Workshop:  Recent developments in string effective actions and D-instantons

Munich, November 14 - 16, 2007,  Max-Planck Institut für Physik, Föhringer Ring 6,  Main Lecture Hall

Time
 Wednesday, November, 14
 Thursday, November, 15
 Friday, November, 16
Chair
 Dieter Lüst Ralph Blumenhagen                             
Stephan Stieberger                       
9:00-9:45
 Alberto Lerda
 
Instantons from open
strings and D-branes
 Fernando Quevedo

Perturbative vs nonperturbative
effects for moduli stabilisation
and cosmology 		Melanie Becker

Heterotic Fluxes
9:45-10:30
 Giovanni Villadoro

Branes in flux backgrounds
and dualities
Massimo Bianchi

Unoriented D-brane
Instantons vs Heterotic
Worldsheet Instantons		 Amir Kashani-Poor
 
Beyond Calabi-Yau 
compactifications
10:30-11:00
 Coffeebreak Coffeebreak Coffeebreak
11:00-11:20
 Christopher Petersson

Stringy Instanton
Superpotentials
with(out) orientifolds 		Emanuel Scheidegger
Worldsheet instantons, 
Torsion Curves, and 
Superpotentials
 Sebastian Moster
 
Instanton effects in chiral 
large volume scenarios
11:20-12:05
 Timo Weigand

D-brane instantons in
Type II orientifolds 		Burt Ovrut

Heterotic Instanton
Superpotentials		 Michael Haack

Quantum corrections and
large volume compactifications
12:05-14:00
 Lunchbreak Lunchbreak Lunchbreak
Chair
 Marco Zagermann
 Christian Romelsberger
 Mirjam Cvetic
14:00-14:45 Bert Schellekens
Neutrino masses from 
Instantons in
RCFT orientifolds
 Wolfgang Lerche
Matrix Factorizations, 
Disk Instantons and 
Homological Mirror Symmetry
 Chris Beasley
Which Instanton Sums 
Vanish?
14:45-15:30
 Stefan Vandoren

Instantons in N=2 D=4 string
theory compactifications 		Albrecht Klemm
Entropy and Instantons
 Natalia Saulina

Stringy Instantons and
Quiver Gauge Theories
15:30-16:00
 Coffeebreak
 Coffeebreak Coffeebreak
16:00-16:45
 Nikolas Akerblom

Holomorphic Couplings
and D-instantons 		Angel Uranga

Non-perturbative
superpotentials across
lines of marginal stability
Eric Sharpe
 
Some recent developments 
in heterotic strings
Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld
 
Gauge thresholds and Kaehler
metrics for toroidal intersecting 
D-brane models
 Robert Richter

Instanton Recombination
16:45-17:30
Amihay Hanany
 
Baryonic Moduli Spaces
and Counting Chiral Operators


Dinner 19:30
Kaisergarten
Program is finalized.  This program as pdf-File