Friday, March 31
| 1:00-1:10 pm |
Opening |
| 1:10-6:20 pm |
Afternoon
Session |
| 6:30 pm |
Conference Reception |
Saturday, April
1
| 9:30 am-12:30 pm |
Morning
Session |
| 2:00-4:40 pm |
Afternoon
Session |
| 5:00-6:20 pm |
Student
Talks |
Sunday, April 2
Note that
daylight savings time begins 2:00 am Sunday, April 2
| 9:30 am-12:50 pm |
Morning
Session |
| 12:50 pm |
Conference ends |
| Opening session chair: Finn Larsen
(University of Michigan) |
|
| 1:00 pm | Opening |
| 1:10 pm | Malcolm Perry (Cambridge
University and University of Michigan) |
| The
string genus expansion from
M-theory |
|
| 1:40 pm | Rob Leigh (University of Illinois) |
| The big bang and decaying branes |
|
| 2:20 pm | Break |
| Session
chair: Radu Roiban (Pennsylvania State University) |
|
| 2:40 pm | Annamaria Sinkovics (Cambridge
University and University of Michigan) |
| Phase transition in 2D Yang-Mills
and topological strings |
|
| 3:00 pm | Ilarion Melnikov (University of Chicago) |
| A-model correlations from the Coulomb branch | |
| 3:20 pm | Albrecht Klemm (University of Wisconsin) |
| BPS states on the Enriques
Calabi-Yau |
|
| 4:00 pm | Andrei Starinets (Perimeter Institute) |
| Recent AdS/CFT results
for near-equilibrium thermal gauge theories |
|
| 4:20 pm | Break |
| 4:40 pm | Diana Vaman (University of Michigan) |
| Integrable perturbations
of 2D 0A strings with flux |
|
| 5:00
pm |
Samir
Mathur (Ohio State University) |
| Dynamics
of supertubes |
|
| 5:40 pm | Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute) |
| Cool
D3/D7 thermodynamics |
|
| 6:20 pm | End of afternoon session |
| 6:30 pm | Reception in 337 West Hall |
| Session chair: Alfred Shapere
(University of Kentucky) |
|
| 9:30 am | Sav Sethi (University of Chicago) |
| Toward the end of time |
|
| 10:10 am | David Kutasov (University of Chicago) |
| NJL and QCD from string theory |
|
| 10:50 am | Break |
| 11:10 am | Justin Vazquez-Poritz (University
of Cincinnati and University of Kentucky) |
| From marginal deformations to confinement | |
| 11:30 am | Minxin Huang (University of Wisconsin) |
| Observational
signatures and
non-Gaussianities in general single field inflation |
|
| 11:50 am | Amihay Hanany (MIT) |
| Tilings, dimers, and quiver gauge theories | |
| 12:30 pm |
End of morning session |
| Session chair: Paul de Medeiros
(University of Michigan) |
|
| 2:00 pm | Sumit Das (University of Kentucky) |
| Cosmological
singularitires from
matrices |
|
| 2:40 pm | Herman Verlinde (Princeton University) |
| Open
strings and particle physics |
|
| 3:20 pm | Break |
| 3:40 pm | Matthew Lippert (University of Kentucky) |
| The
decay of nearly flat space |
|
| 4:00 pm | Ian Ellwood (University of Wisconsin) |
| Proving Sen's third conjecture in
open string field theory |
|
| 4:20
pm |
Partha
Mukhopadhyay (Cambridge University and University of Kentucky) |
| Tachyon
condensation and "non-BPS" D-branes in a Ramond-Ramond plane wave background |
|
| 4:40 pm | Break |
| 5:00 pm | Student Talks |
| 6:20 pm | End of afternoon session |
| Session chair: Alex Buchel
(University of Western Ontario and Perimeter Institute) |
|
| 9:30 am | Arkady Tseytlin (Ohio State
University and Imperial College) |
| Towards
understanding the
spectrum of strings in AdS5 x S5 and AdS/CFT |
|
| 10:10 am | Akikazu Hashimoto (University of Wisconsin) |
| Open/closed
string duality
for non-critical string theory |
|
| 10:30 am | Thomas Grimm (University of Wisconsin) |
| Generalized
N=1 compactifications and mirror symmetry |
|
| 10:50 am | Break |
| 11:10 am | Jeremy Michelson (University of Kentucky) |
| Black
hole vacua |
|
| 11:30 am | Philip Argyres (University of Cincinnati) |
| S-duality in N=2 superconformal field theory | |
| 12:10 pm | Marcus Spradlin (University of Michigan) |
| Recent string-inspired advances in Yang-Mills perturbation theory | |
| 12:50 pm | End of conference |