String Theory-2005

2005, July 17-29

Monday, July 18 11:00h General Meeting   Seminar Room 18:00h Entropy of supersymmetric black holes   B. De Wit Tuesday, July 19 12:30h Conserved charges + thermodynamics for asymptotically locally AdS spacetimes   Skenderis 18:00h N=1-1/N_c SUSY orbifold/orientifold gauge theories   J. Barbón Wednesday, July 20 12:30h Plasma-balls in large N gauge theories + localized black holes   S. Minwalla 18:00h Precision counting of small black holes   B. Pioline Thursday, July 21 12:30h Why are 3 dimensions of space special?   L. Randall 18:00h Non-relativistic strings in AdSxS   Joaquim Gomis Friday, July 22 12:30h Black rings   D. Mateos 16:30h Holographic Probes of Cosmological Singularities   A. Maloney 18:00h Kac-Moody algebras and M theory   P. West Monday, July 25 12:30h Thoughts on the Quantum theory of de Sitter space   T. Banks 18:00h Matrix Big Bang   B. Craps Tuesday, July 26 12:30h The super R symmetry   K. Intrilligator 18:00h Matrix strings in a pp-wave big bang   S. Das Wednesday, July 27 12:30h Singularity is almost invariably a clue, Watson   P. Townsend 17:00h discussion on c-theorem and entropy   J. I. Latorre 18:00h Z-maximization   J. Sparks Thursday, July 28 12:30h D-branes and quantum field theory   D. Tong 18:00h Rotating AdS Black Holes and their uses   G. Gibbons