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ITP Conference on
         New Dimensions in Field Theory and String Theory
        November 17-20, 1999
               Organizers:  D. Kutasov, L. Randall and M. Shifman

        FINAL  SCHEDULE

            All sessions to be held in ITP Main Seminar Room unless otherwise specified.
 

See photos from the Conference.

 
 
Wednesday,
 November 17, 1999:
Time:
Speaker: Title:
8:00 am
Registration  ITP Lobby
9:00
David Gross Welcome to the ITP[Audio]
  Mikhail Shifman Welcome to the Conference[Audio]
   
Session Chair: 
S. Elitzur
9:20 
Mikhail Shifman
(Univ of Minnesota)
Branes and Strings of Flesh and Blood
10:10
Matthew Strassler
(IAS)
How a CFT Can Make the (S)Flavor Problem Irrelevant[Audio]
11:00
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:30
Michael Dine
(UCSC)
Remarks on Moduli: Stabilization and Cosmology[Audio]
12:20 pm
Lunch  ITP Front Patio
 
Session Chair: 
A. Hanany
2:00
Savas Dimopoulos
(Stanford Univ)
Physics Inside the Extra Dimensions[Audio]
2:50
N. Arkani-Hamed
(UCB)
Unification and Exponentially Large Dimensions[Audio]
3:40
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
4:10
Markus Luty
(Univ. of Maryland)
Radius Stabilization and Anomaly-Mediated 
Supersymmetry Breaking [Audio]
5:00
James Wells
(UC Davis)
Collider Clues of Extra Dimensions[Audio]
5:50
Discussion
 6:30


Special Event:
6:30 - Munchies
6:45 - Dinner
ITP Front Patio
Thursday,
 November 18, 1999
Session Chair: 
S. Thomas
9:00 am
Hiroshi Ooguri
(UCB)
Strings in AdS_3, Beyond Supergravity Approximation[Audio]
9:50
Amihay Hanany
(MIT)
Magnetic Monopoles in Type I' String Theory[Audio]
10:40
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:20
Igor Klebanov
(Princeton)
Type 0 Strings and Gauge Theories[Audio]
12:10 pm
Lunch ITP Front Patio
Session Chair: 
B. de Wit
1:30
Raman Sundrum
(Stanford Univ)
Localized Gravity in Extra Dimensions[Audio]
2:10
Steve Giddings
UCSB
Gravitational Dynamics in Branification Scenarios[Audio]
2:50
Discussion* *Comments by E. Witten on Sundrum & Giddings talk[Audio]
3:10
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
3:40
Mark Wise
(CalTech) 
Stabilizing the Separation between 3-branes[Audio]
4:30
Joseph Lykken
(Fermilab.)
New Wrinkles in Extra Dimensions[Audio]
5:20
Ann Nelson
(Univ. of Washington)
New Dimensions and the Supersymmetric Flavor Problem[Audio]
6:10
Discussion
5:50
End of Session
Friday,
 November 19, 1999
Session Chair: 
J. Polchinski
9:00 am
Edward Witten 
(IAS/Caltech)
Connectedness Of Boundary In AdS/CFT Correspondence[Audio]
9:50
Burt Ovrut
(Univ. of Pennsylvania)
New Non-Perturbative Physics in Heterotic M-Theory[Audio]
10:40
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:10
P. Horava
(Caltech)
D-Brane Surprises[Audio]
12:00 pm
Lunch ITP Front Patio
Session Chair: 
P. Argyres
1:30
Michael Peskin
(SLAC)
TeV Strings and Collider Probes of New Space Dimensions[Audio]
2:10
Jonathan Feng
(IAS)
Supernatural Supersymmetry [Audio]
2:50
Discussion
3:10
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
3:40
Takeo Moroi
(IAS)
Anomalies in Supergravity Theories [Audio]
4:30
Georgi Dvali
(New York Univ.)
Folded Universe[Audio]
5:20
Discussion
 6:30

 

Special Event:
6:30 - Munchies
6:45 - Dinner
ITP Front Patio

 

Saturday,
November 20, 1999
Session Chair: 
S. Gubser
8:50 am
Andrei Smilga
(Univ of Nantes)
Normalized Supersymmetric Vacuum States in the d-10 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Quantum Mechanics with any Gauge Group[Audio]
9:40
Gordon Kane
(Univ of Michigan)
D-branes, Large Soft Supersymmetry Phases, and
CP Violation[Audio]
Discussion* *Comments by Michael Peskin on G. Kane talk
10:30
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:00
A. Vainshtein
(Univ. of Minnesota)
Anomaly and the Central Charge in 2d Theories with Minimal Supersymmetry [Audio]
11:50
Savdeep Sethi
(IAS)
Warped Compactifications[Audio]
12:40 pm
Lunch ITP Front Patio
Session Chair: 
A. Vainshtein
2:00
Vipul Periwal
(Princeton Univ.))
Gravity is Noise[Audio]
2:50
Steven Gubser
(Harvard) 
Renormalization Group Flows in AdS/CFT[Audio]
3:40
Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
4:10
Herman Verlinde
(Princeton Univ.)
Holography and Compactification[Audio]
5:00
Discussion* *Comments by S. Gubser on H. Verlinde talk
6:00
End of Conference

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