Time

Tuesday, April 8

Wednesday, April 9

Thursday, April 10

Friday, April 11

Saturday, April 12

9:00-9:45

 

Lerda(ps)(pdf)

Brane constructions
and gauge theories

Antoniadis(pdf)

String physics at colliders

Vasiliev(pdf)

Higher-spin gauge theories

Blau(pdf)

Plane waves and Penrose limits

9:45-10:30

10:30-11:00

 

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

11:00-11:45

 

Gaberdiel(pdf)

D-branes in a
plane-wave background

Nicolai(pdf)

Chern -Simons vs. Yang Mills gaugings of 3d supergravities

Sundell(pdf)

Higher spins

 in various dimensions

Staudacher(pdf)

Plane wave strings, integrable spin  chains,
 and N=4 gauge theory

11:45-12:30

 

Kiritsis(pdf)

Exact string scatering amplitudes in pp-wave backgrounds

West(pdf)

Symmetries of M theory

 

Waldram(pdf)
Superstrings
and intrinsic torsion

Constable(pdf)

Intersecting Branes
and Defect CFT's

12:30-16:30

 

Lunch break

Lunch break

Lunch break 

and

Group Tour

to Siena

Lunch break

16:30-17:15

 

Kazakov(ps)(pdf)
Analytic curves
of matrix models

Bachas(pdf)
Open string on a pulse

Sonnenschein(pdf)

A string theory of Hadrons

17:15-18:00

 

Vandoren(pdf)
Instantons in supergravity
and type II strings
on CY manifolds

Sfetsos(pdf)

On the exact description

of NS5-branes in the

PP-wave limit

Lindstrom(pdf)

Boundary Conditions for Open Supersymmetric Sigma Models

18:00-18:30

Welcome

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

18:30-19:15

Fucito(pdf)

Exact evaluation of supersymmetric path integrals

Gibbons(pdf)
Some recent ideas in Cosmology

Baulieu(pdf)

N=1,d=11 supergravity  
and its origin as a   
topological quantum field theory

19:15-20:00

Kovacs(ps)(pdf)
Instanton-induced SYM correlation functions at large
N and their AdS duals

Green
Instantons and
multi-centered AdS

Rabinovici
Some aspects of String Theory
in time-dependent backgrounds

20:30

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

 

Morning Chairman

 

Sagnotti

Schellekens

Brink

Bianchi

Afternoon Chariman

 

Cappelli

Ferretti

 

Tomaras