Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics 2005: Talks

July 25, 2005, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM		Organization meeting
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)	The swamp surrounding the landscape
3:00PM - 4:00PM		Math clinic
July 26, 2005, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Shyamoli Chaudhuri	CHL compactifications and beyond
July 27, 2005, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Dan Kabat (Columbia)	String gases and chaos [mp3] [RealAudio]
12:30PM		Pizza
July 28, 2005, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor (SLAC)	Type IIA flux compactifications [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
6:00PM		Dinner at Curry Club
July 29, 2005, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Sanjaye Ramgoolam (QMC)	Time-dependent branes, large-small duality, and the Jacobi inversion problem
4:00PM		Physics Dept. Keg
August 1, 2005, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Sergei Gukov (Harvard)	Asymptotic freedom and the spectral index of string vacua [Handout] [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
August 2, 2005, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Albrecht Klemm (Wisconsin)	Enumerative geometry on Enrique's surface [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
August 3, 2005, Wednesday
10:00AM - 4:00PM	Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)	Black holes and topological strings [mp3] [RealAudio] (Talk will be at Smith Point Beach (barring rain); leaving Stony Brook at 10:00am. Details to follow.)
August 4, 2005, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Eva Silverstein (Stanford & SLAC)	The Tachyon at the End of the Universe I [mp3] [RealAudio]
August 5, 2005, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Eva Silverstein (Stanford & SLAC)	The Tachyon at the End of the Universe II [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
4:00PM		Physics Dept. Keg
August 8, 2005, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Andrei Parnachev (Rutgers)	Hydrodynamics and String Theory [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
August 9, 2005, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Nathan Berkovits (Sao Paolo)	Pure Spinor Formalism as an N=2 String [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
August 10, 2005, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Edward Witten (IAS)	Gauge theory and the Geometric Langlands Program [mp3] [RealAudio] --Meet here at 10AM--Talk at Smith Point--Strings on the beach! (Details to follow).
August 11, 2005, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Koenraad Schalm (Columbia)	Can cosmological data contain stringy signatures? [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
7:00PM		Dinner at Martin Rocek's house (Details to follow)
August 12, 2005, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Juan Maldacena (IAS)	1/2 BPS states and Gravity [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
4:00PM		Physics Dept. Keg
August 15, 2005, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Anatoly Dymarsky (Princeton)	Double-trace operators in orbifold QFT [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
August 16, 2005, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Sergei Gukov (Harvard)	Unification of Knot Homologies [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
August 17, 2005, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)	Superstrings with torsion [mp3] [RealAudio] --Meet here at 10AM--Talk at Smith Point--Strings on the beach! (Details to follow).
August 18, 2005, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Sheldon Katz (Illinois)	Localization in Gromov-Witten theory via string theory [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
August 19, 2005, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Vasily Pestun (Princeton)	The Hitchin functionals and the topological B-model at one loop [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Minxin Huang (Wisconsin)	Testing Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture at higher genus [mp3] [RealAudio]
4:30PM		Physics Dept. Keg
August 22, 2005, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Chris Beasley (Princeton)	New Instanton Effects in String Theory [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] (Note place change: Math P-131)
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Kristian Kennaway (Toronto)	Dimer models and quiver gauge theories [mp3] [RealAudio] (Note place change: Math P-131)
August 23, 2005, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Michael Douglas (Rutgers and IHÉS)	Overview of Vacuum Counting and Selection [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook)	Minimal superstrings, topological strings and NSF5 branes [mp3] [RealAudio]
August 24, 2005, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Hirosi Ooguri (CalTech)	The Entropy of Small Black Holes [mp3] [RealAudio] --Meet here at 10AM--Talk at Smith Point--Strings on the beach! (Details to follow).
August 25, 2005, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Frederik Denef (Rutgers)	Counting open string vacua and the OSV conjecture [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
1:30PM - 2:45PM	Dan Freed (Austin)	The Uncertainty of Fluxes [mp3] [RealAudio]
2:45PM - 3:00PM		snack time
3:00PM - 5:00PM	Alexander Braverman (Brown)	Instanton counting via affine Lie algebras and quantum groups [mp3] [RealAudio]
August 26, 2005, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Sav Sethi (Chicago)	Can Time End? [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Misha Movshev (UC Davis)	Deformation theory of Yang-Mills algebra [mp3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] (snack break at 3pm)