| July 27, 2009, Monday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 9:45AM |
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Welcome and Orientation
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| 10:00AM |
Nathan Berkovits (IFT, Brazil) |
Pure spinors and Ramond-Ramond backgrounds [arXiv] [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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| July 28, 2009, Tuesday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Jonathan Heckman (Harvard) |
Geometric unification in F-theory [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 29, 2009, Wednesday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN) |
Aspects of Strings Phenomenology
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| July 30, 2009, Thursday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Davide Gaiotto (IAS) |
N=2 field theories: wallcrossing, S-duality and relation to 2d Liouville theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
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| 2:00PM |
Hermann Verlinde (Princeton) |
S-duality of Wilson-'t Hooft loops in N=2 SCFT and Liouville modular geometry [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
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| July 31, 2009, Friday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Juan Maldacena (IAS) |
The gravity duals of Gaiotto's N=2 supersymmetric field theories [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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| August 3, 2009, Monday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Martijn Wijnholt (Max Planck) |
Higgs bundles and unification [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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| August 4, 2009, Tuesday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Kevin Costello (Northwestern) |
A mathematical approach to perturbative quantum field theory [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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| 5:00PM |
Claire Baulieu (Paris Opera Ballet School) |
Modern Dance Techniques - a hands-on lesson for all ages (Organized by Nina Douglas, Director of the Art and Science Program at the
Simons Center.)
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| August 5, 2009, Wednesday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
Ken Intriligator (UC San Diego) |
General gauge mediation and gauge messengers [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| August 6, 2009, Thursday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Johannes Walcher (CERN) |
The real topological vertex [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 2:00PM |
Misha Movshev (Stony Brook) |
informal math discussion of BV and supersymmetry [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| 6:00PM |
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Simons Workshop Party
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| August 7, 2009, Friday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Laurent Baulieu (LPTHE, Jussieu) |
Encoding of (part of) N=4 superconformal algebra into 4 twisted differential operators [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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| August 10, 2009, Monday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Amihay Hanany (Imperial) |
Brane-Tilings and superconformal field theories [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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| August 11, 2009, Tuesday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Masahito Yamazaki (Tokyo) |
Wall-crossing and M-theory [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 2:00PM |
Tudor Dimofte (CalTech) |
Tracking spin: wall crossing for refined BPS invariants [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| August 12, 2009, Wednesday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
Robert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam) |
Quantum Riemann Surfaces [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| August 13, 2009, Thursday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Daniel Jafferis (Rutgers) |
M2 branes, monopole operators, and CSM with flavor [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 2:00PM |
Diego Trancanelli (Santa Barbara) |
't Hooft meets Wilson: Disorder Operators, Matrix Models, and S-duality [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
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| August 14, 2009, Friday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Simone Giombi (Harvard) |
Supersymmetric Wilson loops from weak to strong coupling [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 2:00PM |
Thomas Grimm (Bonn) |
Global F-theory GUTs [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| August 17, 2009, Monday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Mirjam Cvetic (U. Penn) |
D-Instantons [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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| August 18, 2009, Tuesday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Patrick Meade (Stony Brook) |
Recent exciting developments for dark matter [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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| August 19, 2009, Wednesday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) |
Sasha Polyakov (Princeton) |
The breakdown of DeSitter space [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
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| August 20, 2009, Thursday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Radu Tatar (Liverpool) |
Yukawa couplings and right-handed neutrinos in F-theory [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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| 7:00PM |
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Party at John Morgan's
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| August 21, 2009, Friday |
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| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Sergei Gukov (Caltech) |
Surface Operators, Instanton Counting, and Liouville Theory [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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