| July 26, 2010, Monday |
| 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 |
Luis Fernando Alday (IAS) |
Y-system for scattering amplitudes [Video]
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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 27, 2010, Tuesday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Mina Aganagic (Berkeley/LBL) |
Wall crossing, quivers and crystals [Video]
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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 Martin's
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| July 28, 2010, Wednesday |
| 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) |
Samson Shatashvili (Trinity College Dublin and IHES) |
SUSY gauge theories and quantum integrability [Video]
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| July 29, 2010, Thursday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Vasily Pestun (Harvard) |
Supersymmetric 't Hooft loops in N=4 SYM, localization and instantons in 2d YM [Video]
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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 30, 2010, Friday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Sergei Gukov (Caltech) |
Chern-Simons theory via vortex counting [Video]
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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 2, 2010, Monday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Sergio Cecotti (SISSA Trieste Italy) |
R-twisting in N=2 SUSY and (some) application [Video]
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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, 2010, Tuesday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Anton Kapustin (Caltech) |
Exact computation of the functional integral for supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions [Video]
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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, 2010, Wednesday |
| 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) |
Nathan Seiberg (IAS) |
Supercurrents and constraints on SUGRA [Video]
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| August 5, 2010, Thursday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Andrew Neitzke (University of Texas at Austin) |
4d and 2d-4d wall-crossing [Video]
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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 Martin's
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| August 6, 2010, Friday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook) |
The 4d superconformal index, S-duality and 2d topological field theory [Video]
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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 9, 2010, Monday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Gregory Moore (Rutgers) |
Topics in wall-crossing [Video]
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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, 2010, Tuesday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech) |
Instability and Chern-Simons terms [Video]
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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 Simons'
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| August 11, 2010, Wednesday |
| 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) |
Ashoke Sen (Harishchandra Research Institute) |
Extremal black hole entropy [Video]
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| August 12, 2010, Thursday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Robbert Dijkgraaf (University of Amsterdam) |
Chern-Simons theory and topological strings [Video]
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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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| 4:30PM |
Valerie Gonzalez (Aga Khan University) |
Special Lecture: Geometry as mode of visual expression and cultural signifier in Islam
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| August 13, 2010, Friday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Daniel Freedman (MIT) |
Superamplitudes and counterterms for N=8 supergravity [Video]
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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 16, 2010, Monday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook) |
The hottest science experiment on the planet: Exploring the strong interaction at RHIC [Video]
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| 2:00PM |
Steven Gubser (Princeton) |
Formal theory and aspects of RHIC collisions [Video]
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| 3:00PM |
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Snack
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| August 17, 2010, Tuesday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Amihay Hanany (Imperial College London) |
Chiral operators on hypermultiplet moduli spaces [Video]
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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, 2010, Wednesday |
| 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) |
Juan Maldacena (IAS) |
An operator product expansion for lightlike Wilson loops [Video]
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| August 19, 2010, Thursday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Alexander Polyakov (Princeton) |
Infrared features of unstable vacua [Video]
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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 20, 2010, Friday |
| 9:00AM |
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Breakfast
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| 10:00AM |
Hong Liu (MIT) |
Strange metals and quantum phase transitions from holography [Video]
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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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