SPEAKERS AND TITLES 2.1
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard Sergey Frolov, Max-Planck-Institut fur HEP circa 2010 Gravitationsphysik Albert-Einstein-Institut Multi-parameter deformations of AdS_5 x Vijay Balasubramanian, Pennsylania S^5 geometry The Library of Babel: Holography and Quantum Foam Amihay Hanany, MIT Brane Tilings, Dimers and Quiver Gauge Melanie Becker, Maryland Theories M-theory Cosmology Petr Horava, California, Berkeley & LBNL Niklas Beisert, Princeton Noncritical M-Theory in 2+1 Dimensions as Applying Integrability in AdS and CFT a Nonrelativistic Fermi Liquid
Iosif Bena, UCLA Gary Horowitz, UCSB Geometric Transitions, Black Rings and A new endpoint for Hawking evaporation Black Hole Microstates Anton Kapustin, Caltech Dick Bond, CITA, Toronto Disorder operators in gauge theories and Measuring Cosmic Parameters duality
Freddy Cachazo, Perimeter Shamit Kachru, SLAC, Stanford Recent Progress in Perturbative Gauge A classical type IIA landscape Theories Renata Kallosh, Stanford Atish Dabholkar, Tata Institute String cosmology and the index of the Dirac Going beyond Bekenstein and Hawking operator
Frederik Denef, Rutgers Per Kraus, UCLA Constructions and distributions of string Attractors, Anomalies, and Black Hole vacua Entropy
Michael Dine, Santa Cruz Institute for Martin Kruczenski, Brandeis Particle Physics Strings from N=1 superconformal gauge Branches of the Landscape theories
Michael Douglas, I.H.E.S., Rutgers Hong Liu, MIT Is the number of string vacua finite? Black hole singularities in Yang-Mills theories Henriette Elvang, UC Santa Barbara Black rings Oleg Lunin, IAS Marginal deformations of field theories and their gravity duals
SPEAKERS AND TITLES 2.1
Shigeki Sugimoto, Yukawa Institute for Juan Maldacena, IAS Theoretical Physics, Kyoto Free fermions and BPS geometries Analysis of QCD via Supergravity
Dario Martelli, CERN Tadashi Takayanagi, Harvard New results in AdS/CFT Time-like Linear Dilaton and Open-Closed Duality Hirosi Ooguri, CalTech Topological String Theory Alessandro Tomasiello, ITP, Stanford The Generalized Complex Geometry of Joseph Polchinski, KITP, UCSB Supersymmetry Update on cosmic strings Henry Tye, Cornell Fernando Quevedo, Cambridge Wavefunction of the Universe Exponentially large extra dimensions and soft supersymmetry breaking in type IIB flux Angel Uranga, Universidad Autónoma de compactifications Madrid Infrared dynamics of duality cascades and Albert de Roeck, CERN warped throats Physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC Erik Verlinde, ITF, Amsterdam A Matrix Big Bang Vyacheslav Rychkov, ITFA, Amsterdam Geometry quantization from supergravity Bernard de Wit, Institute for Theoretical Physics & Spinoza Institute, Utrecht Ashoke Sen, Harish-Chandra Research Supersymmetric Black Hole Partition Institute Functions Extremal black holes in higher derivative gravity Edward Witten, IAS Axions in String Theory Nathan Seiberg, IAS New Phenomena in 2d String Theory Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard Superstring theory with torsion Eva Silverstein, SLAC, Stanford The Tachyon at the End of the Universe Barton Zwiebach, MIT Is there a closed string tachyon vacuum? Andrei Starinets, Perimeter Holography and hydrodynamics
Andrew Strominger, Harvard Fun with Black Holes