Schedule of Talks

[Program]

[Monday] [Tuesday] [Wednesday] [Thursday] [Friday] [Saturday]

MONDAY

9:00 AM - Michael Duff, Lee C. Bollinger, and Anthony H. Francis

Opening Remarks  

9:30 AM - Andrew Strominger (Harvard)

String Theory without Gravity

10:15 AM - BREAK

11:00 AM - Eva Silverstein (Stanford/SLAC)

Gauge Fields, Scalars, Warped Geometry, and Strings

11:30 PM - Finn Larsen (Chicago)

Strings as Noncommutative Solitons

12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00 PM - Jan Plefka (AEI)

Vertex Operators for the Supermembrane

2:30 PM - Kellogg Stelle (Imperial College)

Randall-Sundrum geometry from D3 branes

3:00 PM - Hirosi Ooguri (Berkeley)

Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW model

3:30 PM - BREAK

4:00 PM - Renata Kallosh (CERN & Stanford)

Supersymmetry in Singular Spaces and Domain Walls

4:30 PM - Edward Witten (IAS & Caltech)

Overview of K-Theory Applied to Strings

8:00 PM - Public Lecture - Brian Greene (Columbia)

Space and Time Since Einstein

TUESDAY

9:00 AM - Joseph Polchinski (ITP Santa Barbara)

N=2 Gauge-Gravity Duals

9:45 AM - James Liu (Michigan)

RG flows and the supergravity brane world

10:15 AM - BREAK

11:00 AM - Senarath de Alwis (Colorado)

Brane Worlds, String Theory, and the Cosmological Constant

11:30 AM - Shamit Kachru (Stanford)

Stringy Geometry of D-branes

12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00 PM - Kostas Skenderis (Princeton)

Holography and renormalization in the AdS/CFT correspondence

2:30 PM - Eric Bergshoeff (Groningen)

Non-Abelian Born-Infeld and Kappa-Symmetry

3:30 PM - Ali Chamseddine (CAMS/AUB)

Complex Gravity and Noncommutative Geometry

3:30 PM - BREAK

4:00 PM - Brian Greene (Columbia)

Aspects of Collapsing Cycles

4:30 PM - Lisa Randall (Princeton & MIT)

A Candidate Theory of Quasilocalization

WEDNESDAY

9:00 AM - Nathan Seiberg (IAS)

OM

9:45 AM - Nathan Berkovits (IFT Sao Paulo)

Covariant Quantization of the Superstring

10:15 AM - Louise Dolan (UNC Chapel Hill)

Vertex Operators for AdS_3 with Ramond Background

10:45 AM - BREAK

12:00 Noon - Conference Trip to Henry Ford Museum

06:30 PM - return from trip

THURSDAY

9:00 AM - Juan Maldacena (Harvard)

New twists on branes and large N field theories

9:45 AM - Daniel Kabat (Columbia)

Black hole thermodynamics for strongly coupled gauge theory

10:15 AM - BREAK

11:00 AM - Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN)

D-brane physics at low energies

11:30 AM - Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew University)

D-Branes in the Background of NS Fivebranes

12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00 PM - Steven Gubser (Princeton)

Ordered phases of non-commutative theories

2:30 PM - Mirjam Cvetic (Pennsylvania)

Domain Walls in Gauged Supergravities

3:00 PM - Arkady Tseytlin (Ohio State)

Superstrings in AdS in light cone gauge

3:30 PM - BREAK

4:00 PM - Tom Banks (Rutgers & Santa Cruz)

Cosmological M Theory, SUSY Breaking, and the Cosmological Constant

4:30 PM - Igor Klebanov (Princeton)

1+1 Dimensional NCOS and its U(N) Gauge Theory Dual

FRIDAY

9:00 AM - Jeffrey Harvey (Chicago)

D-branes as Non-commutative Solitons

9:45 AM - Gregory Moore (Rutgers)

Comments on branes, G-flux, and K-theory

10:15 AM - BREAK

11:00 AM - Matthew Strassler (IAS)

Inflated branes, D-balls, and other deformities in non-AdS/non-CFT duality

11:30 AM - Tamiaki Yoneya (Tokyo)

Space-time uncertainties and noncommutativity in string theory

12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00 PM - Burt Ovrut (Pennsylvania)

Non-Perturbative Physics in Brane Worlds

2:30 PM - Jaume Gomis (Caltech)

Noncommutative Field Theories: Unitarity and Decoupling

3:00 PM - Robert Myers (McGill)

Nonabelian D-branes and Noncommutative Geometry

3:30 PM - BREAK

4:00 PM - Sunil Mukhi (TIFR)

Stable non-BPS States and their Holographic Duals

4:30 PM - Herman Verlinde (Princeton)

Open/Closed String Duality, Or: How gravity couples to matter

SATURDAY

9:00 AM - Sergio Ferrara (CERN)

Superconformal interpretation of BPS states in AdS geometries

9:45 AM - Clifford Johnson (Durham)

The Enhançon, Multimonopoles and Fuzzy Geometry

10:15 AM - BREAK

11:00 AM - Bernard de Wit (Utrecht University)

M-Theory Duality and BPS-extended Supergravity

11:30 AM - David Gross (ITP Santa Barbara)

Monopoles and strings in noncommutative gauge theory

12:15 PM - Millennium Madness - presented by David Gross (ITP Santa Barbara)

Ten Questions in Fundamental Physics

 

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