Current Trends in String Theory, Including Cosmological Applications
Conveners: Jaume Gomis (Caltech)
and Anastasia Volovich (KITP)
Click on "A" to view the abstract, "T" to view the talk
and "P" to view the paper (when available).
| Session I: Friday 1:30 - 3:00 Watkins Hall 2240 |
| 1:30 |
Cosmic F and D Strings |
Joseph Polchinski
(KITP, UC Santa Barbara) |
A T P |
| 2:00 |
One Ring to Rule Them All |
Nicholas Warner
(USC) |
A T P |
| 2:30 |
Fast Strings and AdS/CFT |
Tseytlin Arkady
(Ohio State U.) |
A T P |
| Session II: Friday 3:30 - 5:00 Watkins Hall 2240 |
| 3:30 |
Yang-Mills Amplitudes from String Theory in Twistor Space |
Marcus Spradlin
(Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) |
A T P |
| 3:48 |
D-Strings and the Warped Deformed Conifold |
Christopher Herzog
(KITP, UCSB) |
A T P |
| 4:06 |
AdS/CFT, Wormholes and Cosmology |
Alexander Maloney
(Stanford) |
A T P |
| 4:24 |
Comments on Supersymmetry Algebra and Contact Term in Matrix String Theory |
Sanefumi Moriyama
(California Institute of Technology) |
A T P |
| 4:42 |
Antibrane Cosmology |
James Ellison
(Sussex University, England) |
A T P |
| Session III: Saturday 1:30 - 3:00 Watkins Hall 2240 |
| 1:30 |
Holographic Mesons: Addding Flavor to the AdS/CFT Duality |
Rob Myers
(Perimeter Institute) |
A T P |
| 2:00 |
Accelerating Universes and String Theory |
Vijay Balasubramanian
(University of Pennsylvania) |
A T P |
| 2:30 |
S-brane solutions in String theory |
Michael Gutperle
(UCLA) |
A T P |
| Session IV: Saturday 3:30 - 5:00 Watkins Hall 2240 |
| 3:30 |
Single-trace operators and null-surfaces |
Andrei Mikhailov
(Caltech) |
A T P |
| 3:48 |
Effects of Strings in Inflation and Reheating |
Andrew Frey
(California Institute of Technology) |
A T P |
| 4:06 |
Geometric transitions, Non-Kahler Geometries and String Vacua |
Radu Tatar
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Theoretical Phys. Group, Berkeley,CA,94720) |
A T P |
| 4:24 |
Non-abelian dynamics on giant gravitons from their AdS/CFT dual realization. |
David Berenstein
(UCSB) |
A T P |
| 4:42 |
Planck Mass Plasma Analog of String Theory |
Friedwardt Winterberg
(University of Nevada Reno, Nevada) |
A T P |
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