| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8/3, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Mina Aganagic
KITP & UCB |
Topological Strings on CY Manifolds[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/5, 11:15 a.m. |
Dr. Emanuel Diaconescu
Rutgers University |
Pedagogical Lecture: Localization and Gromov-Witten theory I[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/5, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Bogdan Florea
Rutgers University |
Pedagogical Lecture: Localization and Gromov-Witten theory II[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/10, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Annamaria Sinkovics
KITP & University of Amsterdam |
Topological membrane[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Kentaro Hori
KITP & University of Toronto |
Mirror Symmetry and Reality[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/16, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Anton Kapustin
Caltech |
Informal Talk on Chiral de Rham complex (bcbetagamma systems)
[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/16, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Nathan Berkovits
University of Sao Paulo |
Progress in Pure Spinor Superstring[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/17, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Hiraku Nakajima
Kyoto University |
Instanton Counting in Five Dimensions[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Anton Kapustin
Caltech |
Magnetic Wilson Loops[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/22, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
IHÉS |
The Standard Model of the Physics-Mathematics Interaction[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
| 8/23, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Hiroaki Kanno
University of Nagoya |
On a Possibility of Refining the Topological Vertex[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/24, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Ezra Getzler
Northwestern University |
Open-Closed Topological String Operads[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Wolfgang Lerche
CERN |
Topological D-Branes, Mirror Symmetry and Landau-Ginzburg Models[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/30, 12:00 p.m. |
Organizational Meeting |
All Participants of the Strings Workshop Invited |
| 8/31, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Andrei Mikhailov
Caltech |
Bäcklund Transformations in the Sector of Fast Moving Strings[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Arkady Tseytlin
Ohio State |
Semiclassical States in Standard AdS/CFT and Its Deformations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/06, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Juan Maldacena
IAS Princeton |
The Plane Wave (BMN) Matrix Model and its Gravity Description[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/07, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Nigel Hitchin
University of Oxford |
Generalized Complex Structures: An Introduction[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jan Louis
Hamburg University |
Compactifications on Generalized Geometries[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/09, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. David Berenstein
UCSB |
Emergent Gravity from CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/09, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Amihay Hanany
MIT |
Quivers and Sasaki Einstein manifolds[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/12, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Amihay Hanany
MIT |
General Overview: Quivers and Sasaki Einstein manifolds[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/12, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech |
Probing Geometry by Strings[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
| 9/13, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Eva Silverstein
Stanford/SLAC |
New Handles on Stringy Spacetime Dynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/13, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Joe Polchinski
KITP |
Informal discussion group: Integrability in Gauge Theory and String Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/14, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Niklas Beisert
Princeton |
Integrability in AdS/CFT I[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Dave Morrison
KITP & Duke University |
How Much Mathematics Does a Theoretical Physicist Need to Know?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Colloquium |
| 9/15, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Matthias Staudacher
IAE, Golem |
Integrability in AdS/CFT II[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/16, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Ami Hanany
MIT |
Informal Seminar: Recent Progress in AdS/CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/16, 2:30 p.m. |
Dr. Dave Morrison
Duke Univ |
Informal Seminar: Topological Mirror Symmetry with Fluxes (following Tomasiello)[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sergio Benvenuti
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy |
New Sasaki Einstein Metrics and Their Dual Quivers[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/20, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Nelia Mann
UCSB |
Bethe Ansatz for a Quantum Supercoset Sigma Model[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/20, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Brian Wecht (MIT) |
A-Maximization and CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/21, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Jerome Gauntlett
Imperial College |
AdS Solutions and Some Deformations[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/22, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Nigel Hitchin
University of Oxford |
Invariant Functionals in Generalised Geometries[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/22, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Brian Wecht
MIT |
A-Maximization and AdS[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/22, 4:00 p.m. |
Dr. Radu Roiban
PSU |
The Beta Deformations of N=4 SYM and Integrability[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/23, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Chris Herzog
KITP |
An Exceptional Collection Tutorial[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/26, 2:00 p.m. |
AdS/CFT -- Dialogue with Mathematicians |
|
| 9/27, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Takuya Okuda
KITP |
Journal Club on hep-th/0509168[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/27, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Rafe Mazzeo
Stanford |
Mathematical Foundations for the Study of Poincare-Einstein Spaces[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/28, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Robin Graham
University of Washington |
Dirichlet-to-Neumann Map for Poincare-Einstein Metrics a.k.a. Stress-Energy Tensor for Pure Gravity AdS/CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/29, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Zvi Bern
UCLA |
The S-Matrix Reloaded: Twistors, Unitarity, Gauge Theories and Gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/30, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Leopoldo Pando Zayas
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Deforming Quiver Theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Ouyang
KITP |
Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking from a Calabi-Yau Singularity[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/04, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Iosif Bena
UCLA |
Geometric Transitions, Black Rings and Black Hole Microstates[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/05, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Joe Polchinski
KITP |
Open Heterotic Strings[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/06, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Isadore Singer
MIT |
The Projective Dirac Operator and its Rational Index |
| 10/07, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. David Vegh
MIT |
Brane Tilings from Toric Diagrams[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/11, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Greg Moore
KITP & Rutgers |
Mathematical Aspects of Fluxes[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/12, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Alessandro Tomasiello
Stanford |
Complex/Symplectic Mirrors[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/13, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Laurent Baulieu
LPTHE, Paris |
Closure of the Symmetry of N=4,D=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/18, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Teichner
UCB |
Generalized Cohomology and Supersymmetric Field Theories, Part I[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/19, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Graeme Segal
All Souls College, Oxford |
On the Locality of the Statespace of Quantum Field Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/20, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Stephan Stolz
University of Notre Dame |
Generalized Cohomology and Supersymmetric Field Theories, Part II[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/24, 11:00 a.m. |
Sir Michael Atiyah
University of Edinburgh |
Does the Universe Have a Memory?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/25, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Constantin Teleman
St. Johns College |
The Structure of 2D Semi-Simple Field Theories[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/27, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Mathai Varghese
University of Adelaide |
T-Duality Via Noncommutative Geometry[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/31, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Svrcek
Stanford |
Axions in String Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/01, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Tony Pantev
University of Pennsylvania |
Mirror Symmetry and Generalized Hodge Structures[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/02, 10:00 a.m. |
Dr. Michael Freedman
KITP |
Universal Manifold Pairings and "Quantum Media"[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/03, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Tom Bridgeland
University of Sheffield |
Stability Conditions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/08, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Andrew Strominger
Harvard |
Black Holes and Quiver Quantum Mechanics[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/09, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Wati Taylor
MIT |
Non-Geometric Flux Compactifications of String Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/10, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Matilde Marcolli
Max Planck Bonn |
Perturbative Renormalization in Quantum Field Theory and the Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence, Part I[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/15, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Matilde Marcolli
Max-Planck, Bonn |
Renormalization and the Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence, Part II[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/16, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Michael Douglas
Rutgers |
Computational Complexity of the Landscape[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/17, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Alain Connes
IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette |
Non-Commutative Geometry & Space-Time[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alain Connes
IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette |
Noncommutative Motives, Thermodynamics, and the Spectral Realization of Zeros of Zeta[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/23, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Frederik Denef
Rutgers |
Counting Black Hole Microstates as Open String Flux Vacua[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/29, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Christian Romelsberger
Perimeter Institute |
Counting BPS States in d=4 SCFT's[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/30, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Johannes Walcher
IAS |
Matrix Factorizations[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/01, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Hong Liu
MIT |
Black Hole Singularities in Yang-Mills Theories[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/02, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Albert Schwarz
UC Davis |
Integrality of Instanton Numbers and Topological Sigma-Models Over P-adic Numbers[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/06, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Boris Pioline
LPTHE Paris |
The Quantum Attractor Mechanism[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/07, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Sergei Gukov
Harvard |
Asymptotic Freedom and the Spectral Index of String Vacua[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/08, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Per Kraus
UCLA |
Black Hole Entropy and Anomalies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/09, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Murat Günaydin
Penn State |
Minimal Unitary Representations of U-Duality Groups, Conformal Quantum Mechanics and Extremal Black Holes[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Masaki Shigemori
Caltech |
Counting Small Black Rings[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/13, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Dmitriy Belov
Imperial College |
Holographic Approach to the Action of Self-Dual Fields and RR Fields[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Xi Yin
Harvard |
Exact Counting of 4D BPS Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/15, 1:30 p.m. |
Dr. Andrei Parnachev
Rutgers |
Thermo-and Hydrodynamics of Black Holes in String Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
