| June 16, 2008, Monday |
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| 10:00AM |
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Welcome and Orientation
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| 2:00PM |
Sebastian Franco (Princeton) |
SUSY breaking mediation by D-brane instantons [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| June 17, 2008, Tuesday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Herman Verlinde (Princeton) |
Holographic gauge-mediation [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 2:00PM |
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Informal discussions
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| June 18, 2008, Wednesday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Martijn Wijnholt (MPI Potsdam) |
F-theory, GUTs and chiral matter [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
David Morrison (Santa Barbara) |
Informal minicourse for mathematicians: How could a
mathematician think about quantum field theory?
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| June 19, 2008, Thursday |
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
John Morgan (Columbia) |
Three dimensional geometry and topology [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| June 20, 2008, Friday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam) |
BPS Dyons, wall crossing and Borcherds algebra [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
David Morrison (Santa Barbara) |
Informal minicourse for mathematicians: How could a
mathematician think about quantum field theory?
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| June 23, 2008, Monday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Tony Pantev (Penn) |
Generalized Hodge structures and mirror symmetry [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
John Morgan (Columbia) |
John Morgan continues his introduction to 3-manifold geometry and topology [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| June 24, 2008, Tuesday |
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
Juan Maldacena (IAS) |
N=6 conformal Chern Simons theories, M2 branes and their gravity duals [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| June 25, 2008, Wednesday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Radu Tatar (Liverpool) |
Some new aspects of Heterotic <-> F-theory duality [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 1:00PM |
David Morrison (Santa Barbara) |
Informal minicourse for mathematicians: How could a mathematician think about quantum field theory?
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| 2:30PM |
John Morgan (Columbia) |
John Morgan continues his introduction to 3-manifold geometry and topology [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| 7:00PM |
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Party at Martin's house
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| June 26, 2008, Thursday |
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) |
F-theory and experimental predictions [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| June 27, 2008, Friday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Dave Morrison (Santa Barbara) |
Informal minicourse for mathematicians: How could a mathematician think about quantum field theory?
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| 2:00PM |
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Informal discussions
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| June 30, 2008, Monday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Alon Faraggi (Liverpool) |
Phenomelogical survey of quasi-realistic free fermionic heterotic string models [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
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Informal discussions
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| July 1, 2008, Tuesday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Sergei Gukov (Santa Barbara) |
Hypermultiplets and Duality [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
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Informal discussions
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| July 2, 2008, Wednesday |
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
Nikita Nekrasov (IHES) |
From beta functions to Bethe functions: quantum integrable systems and susy gauge/string theories [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| July 3, 2008, Thursday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Vincent Bouchard (Harvard) |
Perils and promises of heterotic Standard Models (with an all new construction!) [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
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Informal discussions
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| July 4, 2008, Friday |
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No talks (Independence Day)
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| July 7, 2008, Monday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
David Berenstein (Santa Barbara) |
Hitchhiker's guide to bottom up approach to stringy phenomenology [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
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Informal discussions
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| July 8, 2008, Tuesday |
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
Mike Douglas (Stony Brook) |
Balanced metrics and physics [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| July 9, 2008, Wednesday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Nathan Berkovits (IFT Sao Paolo) |
Surprises in the AdS_5xS^5 superstring [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
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Informal discussions
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| July 10, 2008, Thursday |
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
Jacques Distler (Texas Austin) |
Gauge mediation [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| July 11, 2008, Friday |
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| 9:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Johannes Walcher (ETH, Zurich) |
Tadpole cancellation in the topological string [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
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Informal discussions
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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