Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich
STRINGS 2012
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, July 23rd to July 28th, 2012



Program

Monday
July 23
Tuesday
July 24
Wednesday
July 25
Thursday
July 26
Friday
July 27
Saturday
July 28
Registration
Chair:
Sen
Chair:
Ceresole
Chair:
Eguchi
Chair:
Kiritsis
Chair:
Lerche
Public Lectures
9:00-10:30
WelcomeChair: Lüst,
President LMU: Prof. Bernd Huber


Schwarz Opening Lecture (I)


Veneziano Opening Lecture (II)

9:00-10:00

YinHigher Spin Holography

9:00-10:00

UrangaUpdate on string phenomenology

9:00-10:00

DimopoulosWhat has the LHC done to Theory?

9:00-10:00

VafaTopological Strings and Their Diverse Applications

10:00-10:30
GaberdielMinimal Model Holography

10:00-10:30
CvetičNon-perturbative Effects in F-theory Compactifications

10:00-10:30
KortnerStatus and latest results of the LHC

10:00-10:30
AganagicKnots, Mirror Symmetry and Large N Duality

10:30-11:00
Break
10:30-11:00
Break
10:30-11:00
Break
10:30-11:00
Break
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:30
StromingerProgress in dS/CFT
11:00-11:30
WittenSuperstring Perturbation Theory Revisited

11:00-11:30
ZwiebachGlimpses of Double Field Theory Geometry

11:00-11:30
Nilles Heterotic supersymmetry: the legacy of D=10 and N=4

11:00-11:30
GaiottoDomain walls and RG flows

11:30-12:00
SilversteinRG and unitarity in spacetime-dependent QFT
11:30-12:00
CastroPath integrals in 3D gravity

11:30-12:00
HeckmanCovariant Non-Commutative Geometry From String Theory

11:30-12:00
AntoniadisAspects of string phenomenology in the new LHC era

11:30-12:00
YamazakiNetworks, Quivers and 3-manifolds

12:00-12:30
AldayMixed correlators in N=4 SYM
12:00-12:30
MaldacenaConstraining theories with higher spin symmetry

12:00-12:30
AndersonNew Aspects of Heterotic Geometry and Phenomenology

12:00-12:30
SeibergChern-Simons Contact Terms

12:00-12:30
DimofteClass R: A User's Guide

12:30-2:15
Lunch
12:30-2:15
Lunch
12:30-2:15
Lunch
12:30-2:15
Lunch
12:30-1:45
Lunch
Chair:
Nekrasov
Chair:
Staudacher
Excursion
12:30

Free Afternoon
Chair:
Wadia
Chair:
Nappi
2:15-3:15

KarchRecent Applications of the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence to QCD and Condensed Matter Physics

2:15-3:15

CarrascoGeneric multiloop methods for gauge and gravity scattering amplitudes, a guided tour with pedagogic aspiration

2:15-3:15

NicolaiAlternative approaches to quantum gravity: a brief survey

1:45-2:15
Bousso Black Holes and Firewalls

2:15-2:45
Komargodski Comments on the Renormalization Group and Diverse Applications

2:45-3:15
Bachas AdS4/CFT3 and Gravity Localization

3:15-3:45
KachruNew Horizons in Finite Density Field Theory and String Theory

3:15-3:45
Arkani-HamedScattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian

3:15-3:45
FreivogelPredictions from Eternal Inflation

3:15-3:45
Rastelli Bootstrapping the Superconformal Index

3:45-4:15
Break
3:45-4:15
Break
3:45-4:15
Break
3:45-4:15
Break
4:15-4:45
HorowitzWhy General Relativity is like a High Temperature Superconductor

4:15-4:45
SchlottererHidden simplicity in superstring amplitudes

4:15-4:45
GomezBlack holes as graviton condensates at the critical point of a quantum phase transition

4:15-4:45
KounnasNon-singular Superstring Cosmologies

4:45-5:15
IqbalFriedel oscillations and horizon charge in 1D holographic liquids

4:45-5:15
CachazoGravity in Twistor Space

4:45-5:15
PolyakovQuantum Instability of the de Sitter space

4:45-5:15

OoguriConference Summary


5:15-5:45

GrossOutlook/Vision

5:15-5:45
Rabinovici(In) Stabilities and complementarity in AdS/CFT

5:15-6:15

Gong Show


7:00Faculty of Physics, Dean:
Prof. Axel Schenzle

Reception
6:30
Concert
8:00
Dinner


Gong Show

S. Massai Anti-D3's - Singular to the bitter end
D. Klevers Fluxes and Warping in F-Theory
K. Lee Ramond-Ramond Cohomology and O(D,D) T-duality
P. Patalong Non-geometric fluxes in higher dimensions
A. Deser In a hurry to non-associative structures
M. Huang Refined topological string
A. Lipstein Scattering Amplitudes in Three Dimensions
A. Puhm Metastable Fuzzballs
D. Harlow The Wave Function of the Universe in Higher Spin Gravity
A. Gnecchi Duality invariance for black holes in N=2 gauged Supergravity
P. Sulkowski Super-A-polynomial
E. Hatefi All-order α' corrections to BPS/non-BPS brane world volume theories


Note: Conference desk is open: Sunday, 22 July at 4 PM - 7 PM
and opens on Monday, 23 July at 7:30 AM.

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