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Avatars of M-Theory
June
5-8, 2001
Organizers: S. Giddings, S. Kachru, E. Silverstein, W. Taylor
All sessions to be held in ITP Main Seminar Room unless otherwise specified.
| June 5, 2001 | ||
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8:00 am
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Registration | ITP Lobby |
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8:45 am
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Daniel Hone
(Deputy Director, ITP) |
Welcome to the ITP[Aud][Cam] |
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Steven Giddings (UCSB) |
Welcome to the Conference[Aud][Cam] |
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9:00 am
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Joseph Polchinski
(ITP, UCSB) |
Hierarchies from Fluxes[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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9:55 am
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Jan De Boer
(Univ. of Amsterdam) |
Point Particles in AdS3 and All That [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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10:50 am
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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11:20 am
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Nima Arkani-Hamed
(Harvard/UC Berkeley) |
Deconstructing Dimensions [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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12:15 pm
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Lunch | ITP Front Patio |
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2:00 pm
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Mina Aganagic
(Harvard) |
Mirror Symmetry, Disk Instantons and a G2 Flop[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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2:55 pm
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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3:45 pm
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Cumrun Vafa
(Harvard) |
Dualities as Geometric Transitions[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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5:00 pm
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Special Event: Light Reception |
ITP Front Patio |
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6:00 pm
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Special Event:
Buffet Dinner |
ITP Front Patio |
| June 6, 2001 | ||
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9:00 am
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Thomas Banks
(Rutgers/UC Santa Cruz) |
Holography and Cosmology[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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9:55 am
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Gregory Moore
(Rutgers) |
Komments on Brane Charges [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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10:50 am
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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11:20 am
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Eva Silverstein
(SLAC) |
Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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12:15 pm
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Lunch | ITP Front Patio |
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2:00 pm
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Bobby Acharya
(Rutgers) |
M-theory, Singular G2-Holonomy Spaces and N=1 Theories in Four Dimensions[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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2:55 pm
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
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3:45 pm
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Edward Witten
(Institute for Advanced Study) |
M-Theory Dynamics On A Manifold of G2 Holonomy[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
| June 7, 2001 | ||
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9:00 am
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Juan Maldacena
(Institute for Advanced Study) |
Eternal Black Holes in AdS[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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9:55 am
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Gary Horowitz
(UCSB) |
Fate of the Black String Instability [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
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10:50 am
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
11:20 am
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Barton Zwiebach
(MIT) |
Vacuum String Field Theory and the Sliver State [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
12:15 pm
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Lunch | ITP Front Patio |
2:00 pm
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Savas Dimopoulos
(Stanford) |
Way Beyond the Standard Model[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
2:55 pm
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
3:45 pm
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Ashoke Sen
(Mehta Research Institute) |
Vacuum String Field Theory and D-brane Solutions[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
5:00 pm
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Special Event: Light Reception |
ITP Front Patio |
6:00 pm
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Special Event:
Buffet Dinner |
ITP Front Patio |
| June 8, 2001 | ||
9:00 am
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Igor Klebanov
(Princeton) |
Remarks on Gravity Duals of N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
9:55 am
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David Gross
(ITP, UCSB) |
Split String Field Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
10:50 am
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
11:20 am
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Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu
(Institute for Advanced Study) |
D-Branes and Categories [Slides][Aud][Cam] |
12:15 pm
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Lunch | ITP Front Patio |
2:00 pm
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Willy Fischler
(Univ. of Texas, Austin) |
The Acceleration of the Universe, a Challenge for String Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
2:55 pm
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Refreshment Break | ITP Front Patio |
3:45 pm
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John Schwarz
(Caltech) |
Anomaly Analysis of Brane-Antibrane Systems[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
4:40 pm
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Joseph Polchinski (ITP, UCSB) |
Conference Summary[Aud][Cam] |
5:00 pm
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End of Conference |