Workshop Avant Strings

Speakers and Titles


Nathan Jacob Berkovits Superstring Multiloop Amplitudes using the Pure Spinor Formalism
An Alternative String Theory in Twistor Space for N=4 Super-Yang-Mills
S. Dimopoulos High-Scale Supersymmetry, Unification, and Signatures for Fine-Tuning at the LHC
Michael Douglas Finding and counting string theory vacua
Tohru Eguchi Modular bootstrap of N = 2 Liouville Theory
J.Figueroa-O'FarrillString backgrounds via quotients
Michael Green Non-perturbative aspects of Yang--Mills/string duality.
David Gross Open String Field Theory
Chris HullA Geometry for Non-Geometric String Backgrounds
Juan Maldacena Comments on the 2d black hole
Gregory Moore Topology and supergravity
Localized tachyon flows and Hirzebruch-Jung spaces
Lev Okun Phenomenology of neutrino oscillations
Alexander Polyakov Conformal fixed points of unidentified gauge theories
John H. Schwarz Studies of AdS/CFT in the plane-wave limit
Andrew Strominger Black Hole Attractors and the Topological String,
Time dependence in two dimensional string theory
Herman Verlinde Open/Closed Duality and Non-Critical Superstrings
Alexander Vilenkin Cosmic superstrings
Shing-Tung Yau Affine manifolds, SYZ geometry and ``Y'' vertex


Schedule of lectures


Monday, 14 Tuesday, 15 Wednesday, 16 Thursday, 17 Friday, 18
9:45-11:15 M.Green S.-T.Yau D.Gross J.Schwarz M.Douglas
11:30-13:00 J.Figueroa-O'Farrill G.Moore L.Okun D.Gross M.Green
13:15-14:15 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
14:30-16:00 S. Dimopoulos
Monday, 21 Tuesday, 22 Wednesday, 23 Thursday, 24 Friday, 25
9:45-11:15 J.Schwarz T.Eguchi J.Maldacena H.Verlinde M.Douglas
11:30-13:00 H.Verlinde A.Strominger A.Polyakov A.Strominger N.Berkovits
13:15-14:15 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
14:30-16:00 N.Berkovits A.Vilenkin G.Moore C. Hull