Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics 2006: Talks and Events

July 24, 2006, Monday
9:00AM - 10:00AM		Welcome with coffee/tea and snack
10:00AM - 12:00PM		Organization meeting
July 25, 2006, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Sheldon Katz (Illinois Urbana-Champaign)	Geometric Methods in (0,2) Theories and a Generalization of Quantum Cohomology [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
July 26, 2006, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	David Lowe (Brown)	The Black Hole Information Paradox and AdS/CFT [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
July 27, 2006, Thursday
10:00AM - 4:00PM	Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)	The Landscape and the Swampland [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1] (Talk will be at Smith Point Beach (barring rain); leaving Stony Brook at 10:00am.)
July 28, 2006, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	James Sparks (Harvard)	The Geometry of AdS/CFT [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
July 31, 2006, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Melanie Becker (Texas A&M)	Inflation and Cosmic Strings in Heterotic M-theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
August 1, 2006, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Chris Beasley (Harvard)	Non-Abelian Localization for Chern-Simons Theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
August 2, 2006, Wednesday
10:00AM - 4:00PM	Juan Maldacena (IAS, Princeton)	On the Planar Spectrum of N=4 Super Yang-Mill Theory and Integrability [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2] (Talk will be at Smith Point Beach (barring rain); leaving Stony Brook at 10:00am.)
August 3, 2006, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Amer Iqbal (U. Washington)	Refining the Topological Vertex [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
August 4, 2006, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	David Sahakyan (NHETC, Rutgers University)	Chiral Symmetry Breaking From String Theory [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
August 7, 2006, Monday
10:00AM - 11:00AM	Li-Sheng Tseng (Harvard)	Heterotic Fluxes and Non-Kähler Geometries [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
11:15AM - 12:00PM	S.T. Yau (Harvard)	Heterotic Fluxes and Non-Kähler Geometries II [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
August 8, 2006, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Duong Phong (Columbia)	On String Perturbation Theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
August 9, 2006, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Bernard de Wit (Utrecht)	Microscopic and Macroscopic BPS Black Holes [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
August 10, 2006, Thursday
10:00AM - 4:00PM	Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard)	Quantum Gravity and Locality [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2] (Talk will be at Smith Point Beach (barring rain); leaving Stony Brook at 10:00am.)
August 11, 2006, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College, London)	A New Infinite Class of Supersymmetric AdS_3 Solutions [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
August 14, 2006, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Tim Hollowood (Swansea)	N=1 Thermodynamics, Black-holes and Bose-Einstein Condensation [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Sebastian Franco (Princeton)	Non-supersymmetric Meta-stable Vacua from Brane Configurations [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
August 15, 2006, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Kostas Skenderis (Amsterdam)	Holographic Anatomy [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
August 16, 2006, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Mina Aganagic (U.C. Berkeley)	Topological Strings, Monodromy and (almost) Modular Forms [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Dan Kabat (Columbia)	Local Bulk Operators in AdS/CFT [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
August 17, 2006, Thursday
10:00AM - 4:00PM	Isadore Singer (MIT)	Index Theory, Now and Then [audio files not available] (Talk will be at Smith Point Beach (barring rain); leaving Stony Brook at 10:00am.)
August 18, 2006, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht)	Aspects of Hypermultiplet Moduli Spaces [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Atish Dabholkar (Tata Institute)	Spectrum of Dyons in N=4 String Compactifications [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
August 21, 2006, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Herman Verlinde (Princeton)	String Phenomenology with D-branes at Singularities [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Dmitri Belov (Imperial College)	Holographic Action for Self-dual Fields [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
August 22, 2006, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	David Morrison (Duke & U.C. Santa Barbara)	Calabi-Yau Singularities [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Koenrad Schalm (Amsterdam)	Non-extremal Black Holes are BPS [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
August 23, 2006, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Sergei Gukov (Caltech)	The Physics of Knot Homologies [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Bartomeu Fiol (Amsterdam)	DeWitt Metrics in M-theory [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
7:30PM -		Party at Martin's
August 24, 2006, Thursday
10:00AM - 4:00PM	Gregory Moore (Rutgers)	Split Polar Attractors [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1] (Talk will be at Smith Point Beach (barring rain); leaving Stony Brook at 10:00am.)
August 25, 2006, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Sanjaye Ramgoolam (Queen Mary, U of London)	q-deformed 2D Yang-Mills and Hecke Algebras [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]