Saturday, April
26
| 8:30 am-12:45 pm |
Morning Session |
| 2:15 pm-6:45 pm |
Afternoon Session |
Sunday, April 27
| 9:00 am-1:00 pm |
Morning
Session |
| 2:30 pm-4:00 pm |
Afternoon
Session |
| 4:00 pm |
Conference ends |
| Session chair: Akikazu Hashimoto (Wisconsin) |
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| 8:30 am | Opening Remarks |
| 8:45 am | Sera Cremonini (University of Michigan) |
| AdS/CFT and Bubbling Geometries: Going Beyond the 1/2 BPS Sector |
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| 9:15 am | Alejandra Castro (University of Michigan) |
| String theory effects on 5D black strings |
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| 9:45 am | Samir Mathur (Ohio State) |
| How Fuzzballs Resolve the Information Paradox |
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| 10:15 am | Borun Chowdhury (Ohio State) |
| Radiation from the non-extremal fuzzball |
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| 10:45 am | Break |
| Session chair: Bret Underwood (Wisconsin) |
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| 11:15 am | Martin Kruczenski (Purdue) |
| Spiky strings, light-like Wilson loops and a pp-wave anomaly | |
| 11:45 am | Alin Tirziu (Purdue) |
| Circular Wilson Loop and the dual open string solution at 1-loop in strong coupling | |
| 12:15 pm | Jaume Gomis (Perimeter) |
| Nonlocal Gauge Theory Operators and Holography | |
| 12:45 pm |
End of morning session |
| Session chair: Gary Shiu (Wisconsin) |
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| 2:15 pm | Mikhail Shifman (University of Minnesota) |
| Heterotic strings as solitons in N=1 super-Yang-Mills |
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| 2:45 pm | Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago) |
| Non-supersymmetric string theory |
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| 3:15 pm | Mark Jackson (Fermilab) |
| Detecting Cosmic Superstrings |
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| 3:45 pm | Ian Ellwood (University of Kentucky) |
| Observables in string field theory and the closed string tadpole |
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| 4:15 pm | Break |
| Session chair: Peter Ouyang (Wisconsin) |
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| 4:45
pm |
Shiying Dong (Illinois-Urbana) |
| Topological Entanglement Entropy in Chern-Simons Theory |
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| 5:15 pm | Philip Argyres (University of Cincinnati) |
| Deformations of N=2 SCFTs |
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| 5:45 pm | John Wittig (University of Cincinnati) |
| S-duality and new N=2 SCFT's |
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| 6:15 pm | Alfred Shapere (University of Kentucky and IAS) |
| Central Charges of 4D Superconformal Field Theories |
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| 6:45 pm | End of afternoon session |
| Session chair: Heng-Yu Chen (Wisconsin) |
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| 9:00 am | Julian Sonner (Cambridge) |
| Supersymmetry and Berry Phase of Branes |
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| 9:30 am | Sumit Das (Kentucky) |
| Time-dependent background in AdS/CFT |
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| 10:00 am | Jock McOrist (Chicago) |
| (0,2) Correlators from the Coulomb Branch |
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| 10:30 am | Josh Guffin (Illinois-Urbana) |
| A-twisted Landau-Ginzburg Models |
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| 11:00 am | Break |
| Session chair: Ian Ellwood (Kentucky) |
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| 11:30 am | Willie Merrell (University of Kentucky) |
| T-duality in Generalized Kahler Geometry |
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| 12:00 pm | Peter Moomaw (Cincinnati) |
| Strings and Meson Melting | |
| 12:30 pm | Leo Pando-Zayas(University of Michigan) |
| On Scattering Amplitudes in Nonconformal Theories | |
| 1:00 pm | End of morning session |
| Session chair: Min-xin Huang (CERN) |
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| 2:30 pm | Scott Watson (Michigan) |
| Cosmological Moduli, Dark Matter, and Possible Implications for the LHC |
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| 3:00 pm | Konstantin Bobkov (Michigan) |
| Moduli Stabilization and Supersymmetry Breaking in M-theory on G2 Manifolds |
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| 3:30 pm | Hong Liu (MIT) |
| Causality Violation and Viscosity Bound |
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| 4:00 pm | End of conference |