Monday, November 15, 2004
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Morning Session
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| 9:15am |
David Gross
(KITP)
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Welcome [Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am |
Julius Kuti
(UCSD)
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Bosonic String Formation in QCD [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:20am |
MORNING BREAK |
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| 10:50am |
Valentin Zakharov
(MPI Munich)
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Two-dimensional vacuum defects in four-dimensional lattice Yang-Mills theory [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:40am |
Steven S. Gubser
(Princeton)
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Confinement without a mass gap from strings on the deformed conifold [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session
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| 2:00pm |
Raman Sundrum
(John Hopkins)
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Structure and safety from warped compactifications [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:50pm |
Andreas Karch
(U. Washington)
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AdS/CFT without supersymmetry [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:40pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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| 4:10pm |
DISCUSSION |
From QCD to strings, and back again [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:10pm |
SESSION END |
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| 5:30pm |
VAN TO BWSCI |
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
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Morning Session
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| 9:00am |
Freddy Cachazo
(IAS)
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Computing tree and one-loop amplitudes in gauge theory [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:50am |
Zvi Bern
(UCLA)
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Loop amplitudes and twistor space [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:40am |
MORNING BREAK |
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| 11:10am |
Valentin Khoze
(U. Durham)
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MHV rules for amplitudes with Higgs and many gluons [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm |
DISCUSSION |
Twistors, strings, and perturbative methods [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session
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| 2:00pm |
Henri Kowalski
(DESY)
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Small-x, diffraction and QCD results from HERA [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:50pm |
Joe Polchinski
(KITP)
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Regge physics in gauge/string duality [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:40pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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| 4:10pm |
Alex Kovner
(U. Connecticut)
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Perturbative saturation [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:00pm |
DISCUSSION |
Physics at small-x and high energies [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm |
SESSION END |
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| 5:30pm |
WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION |
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| 6:15pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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| 8:00pm |
VAN TO BWSCI |
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
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Morning Session
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| 9:00am |
William Zajc
(Columbia)
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RHIC experimental overview: What we have (not) learned [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:50am |
Dam Son
(INT, U. Washington)
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Viscosity from black hole physics [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:40am |
MORNING BREAK |
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| 11:10am |
Edward Shuryak
(SUNY, Stony Brook)
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Strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma, in QCD and N=4 SUSY YM [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm |
DISCUSSION |
QCD at high temperatures and densities [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:45pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Free
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Thursday, November 18, 2004
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Morning Session
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| 9:00am |
Niklas Beisert
(Princeton)
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Integrable spin chains in N=4 SYM and QCD [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:50am |
Matthias Staudacher
(AEI Potsdam)
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Non-diffractive scattering in the CFT/AdS system [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:40am |
MORNING BREAK |
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| 11:10am |
Gregory Korchemsky
(LPT, U. Paris XI)
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Integrability in high-energy QCD [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm |
DISCUSSION |
Integrability in field theory and string theory [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session
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| 2:30pm |
Dimitra Karabali
(CUNY)
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On mass gap and confinement in (2+1) Yang-Mills theory [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:20pm |
Nissan Itzhaki
(Princeton)
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The large N harmonic oscillator as a string theory [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:10pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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| 4:40pm |
Oleg Lunin
(IAS)
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AdS/CFT correspondence for half-BPS states [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm |
SESSION END |
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| 5:40pm |
WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION |
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| 6:15pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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| 8:00pm |
VAN TO BWSCI |
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Friday, November 19, 2004
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Morning Session
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| 9:00am |
Hirosi Ooguri
(Caltech)
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q-deformed 2d YM, black hole entropy, and non-perturbative definition of topological string theory [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:50am |
Leonardo Rastelli
(Princeton)
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The elusive pentaquark [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:40am |
MORNING BREAK |
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| 11:10am |
Aneesh Manohar
(UCSD)
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1/N meets reality [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm |
Giuseppe Marchesini
(Milan-Bicocca U.)
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Jet evolution, fragmentation and Monte Carlo modeling [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:50pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session
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| 2:30pm |
Larry Yaffe
(U. Washington)
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Large N gauge theories: old and new [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:20pm |
Misha Shifman
(TPI, U. Minnesota)
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Planar equivalence: from supersymmetric gluodynamics to one-flavor QCD [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:10pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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| 4:40pm |
DISCUSSION |
New directions and future prospects [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm |
CONFERENCE END |
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| 5:45pm |
VAN TO BWSCI |
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