| Monday, May 2 |
|
9:00
|
REGISTRATION & MORNING COFFEE |
|
9:30
|
Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Holographic Description of a Cosmological Singularity |
|
10:30
|
COFFEE BREAK |
|
11:00
|
Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute and Harvard
University
Plasma Balls in Confining Large N Gauge Theories |
|
12:00
|
BREAK FOR LUNCH |
|
2:00
|
Short talks |
|
3:00
|
AFTERNOON TEA |
| 3:30 |
free time |
| 4:30 |
RECEPTION |
| Tuesday, May 3 |
|
9:00
|
MORNING COFFEE |
|
9:30
|
Bernard de Wit, Utrecht University
Variational principles for BPS black hole entropy |
|
10:30
|
COFFEE BREAK |
|
11:00
|
Antoine Van Proeyen, K.U. Leuven - Belgium
The geometry and landscape of supergravity |
|
12:00
|
BREAK FOR LUNCH |
|
2:00
|
Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College
AdS solutions and some deformations |
|
3:00
|
AFTERNOON TEA |
| Wednesday, May 4 |
|
9:00
|
MORNING COFFEE |
|
9:30
|
"The Fellowship of the Ring"
Harvey Reall, University of California, Santa Barbara
Supersymmetric black rings |
| 10:00 |
"The Fellowship of the Ring"
David Mateos, Perimeter Institute
Microscopics of black rings |
|
10:30
|
COFFEE BREAK |
|
11:00
|
"The Fellowship of the Ring"
Henriette Elvang, University of California, Santa Barbara
Non-supersymmetric black rings |
| 11:30 |
"The Fellowship of the Ring"
Roberto Emparan, Universitat de Barcelona
Nutty black rings and 4D black holes |
|
12:00
|
BREAK FOR LUNCH |
|
|
afternoon free |
| 3:00 |
AFTERNOON TEA |
| Thursday, May 5 |
|
9:00
|
MORNING COFFEE |
|
9:30
|
Alex Maloney, SLAC and Stanford University
Stringy resolution of null singularities |
|
10:30
|
COFFEE BREAK |
|
11:00
|
Renata Kallosh, Stanford University
A simple example of moduli fixing |
|
12:00
|
BREAK FOR LUNCH |
|
2:00
|
Miguel Costa, Porto University
Chronology protection in string theory |
|
3:00
|
AFTERNOON TEA |
| Friday, May 6 |
|
9:00
|
MORNING COFFEE |
|
9:30
|
Eva Silverstein, Stanford University
The uses of tachyons |
|
10:30
|
COFFEE BREAK |
|
11:00
|
Sumit Das, University of Kentucky
Time dependent backgrounds in 2D string theory |
|
12:00
|
Simon Ross, University of Durham
Non-supersymmetric smooth geometries and D1-D5-P bound states
|
| 1:00 |
BREAK FOR LUNCH |
|
|
afternoon free |
| 3:00 |
AFTERNOON TEA |
