Programme

Monday, October 9
Registration and Welcome
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome
Plenary Lectures
9:15-10:45 Konstantin ZaremboIntegrability and Bethe Ansatz in AdS/CFT
10:45-11.15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Thomas MohauptSupersymmetric Black Holes In String Theory
12:45-13:15 Discussion
Afternoon Session 1
14:30-14:50 Marta OrselliMatching the Hagedorn Temperature in AdS/CFT
14:50-15:10 Corneliu SochichiuMatrix models description of dilatations in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory.
15:10-15:30 Gianluca GrignaniAdS/CFT at string loops
15:30-15:50 Mohab Abou ZeidTwistor Strings and Supergravity
15:50-16:10 Pietro Antonio GrassiPure Spinors for Non-Critical Strings and Applications
16:10-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2
14:30-14:50 Tomas OrtinSupersymmetry, attractors and cosmic censorship
14:50-15:10 Giuseppe MilanesiSupersymmetric solutions in AdS/CFT
15:10-15:30 Jose A. De AzcarragaBPS preons and M-theory
15:30-15:50 Joris RaeymaekersMicrostates from near-horizon D-brane probes
15:50-16:10 Domenico OrlandoCompactifications on hyperbolic spaces
16:10-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
17:00-17:30 Yolanda LozanoPp-wave Matrix Models from Point-like Gravitons
17:30-18:00 Gabriel CardosoBlack hole entropy functions and attractor equations
18:00-18:30 Discussion
Social Event
19:00 Welcome Drink - Castel dell'Ovo
Tuesday, October 10
Plenary Lecture
9:00-10:30 Frederik DenefThe String Theory Landscape
10:30-11.00 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
11:00-11:30 Chiara NappiYangians in String Theory and Yang-Mills Theory
11:30-12:00 Matteo BertoliniDynamical Supersymmetry Breaking from D-branes at Singularities
12:00-12:30 Ilka BrunnerMatrix Factorizations and D-branes on K3
12:30-13:00 Discussion
Afternoon Session 1
14:30-14:50 Riccardo ArgurioMetastable Supersymmetry Breaking and Gauge/Gravity Duality
14:50-15:10 Luca MartucciSupersymmetric D-branes on flux backgrounds
15:10-15:30 Francesco BeniniFixing Moduli in Exact Type IIA Flux Vacua
15:30-15:50 Alexander Westphalde Sitter String Vacua from Perturbative Kahler Corrections and Consistent D-terms
15:50-16:10 Alberto MariottiNon supersymmetric meta-stable vacua in SU(N) SQCD with adjoint matter
16:10-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2
14:30-14:50 Niels ObersThree-charge black holes on a circle
14:50-15:10 Paul SmythThe Stability of D-term Cosmic Strings
15:10-15:30 Paolo AschieriNoncommutative Symmetries and Gravity
15:30-15:50 Maria Pilar Garcia Del MoralDiscretness of 2+1 NCSYM and Supermembrane with central charges
15:50-16:10 Pedro J. SilvaThermodynamics at the BPS bound for Black Holes in AdS
16:10-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Contact Person Meeting
17:00-19:30 Contact Person Meeting
Wednesday, October 11
Plenary Lectures
9:00-10:30 Fernando MarchesanoRecent Progress on D-brane Model Building
10:30-11.00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Edward WittenSurface Operators in Gauge Theory
12:30-13:00 Discussion
Afternoon Session 1
14:30-14:50 Roberto VolpatoHigher genus superstring amplitudes and the measure on the moduli space
14:50-15:10 Bo FengSpinor formulism and QCD Amplitudes
15:10-15:30 Pascal AnastasopoulosOrientifolds, Anomalies and the Standard Model
15:30-15:50 Aldo CotroneMeson decays from string splitting
15:50-16:10 Karl LandsteinerQuasinormal Modes and Meson Decay rates
16:10-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2
14:30-14:50 Joaquim GomisNon-linear Realizations, Super-branes and Kappa symmetry
14:50-15:10 Silvia VaulaN=1 domain wall solutions of massive type II supergravity as generalized geometries
15:10-15:30 Patrick MeessenSupersymmetric solutions of N=2 D=4 sugra
15:30-15:50 Jelle HartongSeven-branes in type IIB String Theory
15:50-16:10 Frank SaueressigString loop corrected hypermultiplet moduli spaces
16:10-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
17:00-17:30 Carlo AngelantonjAn Alternative for Moduli Stabilisation
17:30-18:00 Marios PetropoulosExact string backgrounds from boundary data
18:00-18:30 Discussion
Thursday, October 12
Midterm Meeting - public part
9:00-9:15 Introduction
9:15-10:30 Scientific presentations by young researchers
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Scientific presentations by young researchers
Free afternoon for people not involved in the Midterm Meeting
14:00-18:00 Midterm Meeting - closed part
Social Event
21:00 Banquet - Grand Hotel Vesuvio
Friday, October 13
Plenary Lecture
9:00-10:30 Sergei GukovTopological Strings and Knot Homologies
10:30-11.00 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
11:00-11:30 Elias KiritsisProduct CFTs, gravitational cloning, massive gravitons and the space of gravitational duals
11:30-12:00 Stefan VandorenHypermultiplets and topological strings
12:00-12:30 Marco BillòInstanton calculus in R-R background and the topological string
12:30-13:00 Discussion
Afternoon Session 1
14:30-14:50 Bert JanssenThe baryon vertex with magnetic flux
14:50-15:10 Jose EdelsteinD-brane probes in Superconformal Field Theories
15:10-15:30 Roberto CaseroTowards the String Dual of N=1 SQCD-like Theories
15:30-15:50 Oisin Mac ConamhnaAdS spacetimes in M-theory
15:50-16:10 Christoph SiegAdding D7-branes to the Polchinski-Strassler gravity background
16:10-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2
14:30-14:50 Sergio MontañezA Comment on Black Holes, Topological Strings and Quantum Distribution Functions
14:50-15:10 Florian GmeinerCalibrated cycles and T-duality
15:10-15:30 Nassiba TabtiGravitational theories coupled to matter as invariant theories under Kac-Moody algebras
15:30-15:50 Laura TamassiaSingleton strings
15:50-16:10 Diederik RoestClassification of supersymmetric backgrounds of string theory
16:10-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
17:00-17:30 Igor BandosTwistor string as tensionless superstring
17:30-18:00 Emil NissimovWeyl-Conformally Invariant Lightlike Branes
18:00-18:30 Discussion
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