Strings 2005 Toronto

Scientific talks

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard: HEP circa 2010
Vijay Balasubramanian, Pennsylania: The Library of Babel: Holography and Quantum Foam
Melanie Becker, Maryland: M-theory Cosmology
Niklas Beisert, Princeton: Applying Integrability in AdS and CFT
Iosif Bena, UCLA: Geometric Transitions, Black Rings and Black Hole Microstates
Dick Bond, CITA, Toronto: Measuring Cosmic Parameters
Freddy Cachazo, Perimeter Institute: Recent Progress in Perturbative Gauge Theories
Atish Dabholkar, Tata Institute: Going beyond Bekenstein and Hawking
Frederik Denef, Rutgers: Constructions and distributions of string vacua
Albert de Roeck, CERN: ( no audio available) Physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC
Bernard de Wit, Institute for Theoretical Physics & Spinoza Institute, Utrecht: Supersymmetric Black Hole Partition Functions
Michael Dine, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics: Branches of the Landscape
Michael Douglas, I.H.E.S., Rutgers: Is the number of string vacua finite?
Henriette Elvang, UC Santa Barbara: Black rings
Sergey Frolov, Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationsphysik Albert-Einstein-Institut, Potsdam: Multi-parameter deformations of AdS_5 x S^5 geometry
Amihay Hanany, MIT: Brane Tilings, Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories
Petr Horava, California, Berkeley & LBNL: (no audio available) Noncritical M-Theory in 2+1 Dimensions as a Nonrelativistic Fermi Liquid
Gary Horowitz, UCSB: A new endpoint for Hawking evaporation
Shamit Kachru, SLAC, Stanford: A classical type IIA landscape
Renata Kallosh, Stanford: String cosmology and the index of the Dirac operator
Anton Kapustin, Caltech: Disorder operators in gauge theories and duality
Per Kraus, UCLA: Attractors, Anomalies, and Black Hole Entropy
Martin Kruczenski, Brandeis: Strings from N=1 superconformal gauge theories
Hong Liu, MIT: Black hole singularities in Yang-Mills theories
Oleg Lunin, IAS: Marginal deformations of field theories and their gravity duals
Juan Maldacena, IAS: Free fermions and BPS geometries
Dario Martelli, CERN: New results in AdS/CFT
Hirosi Ooguri, CalTech: Topological String Theory
Joseph Polchinski, KITP, UCSB: Update on cosmic strings
Fernando Quevedo, Cambridge: Exponentially large extra dimensions and soft supersymmetry breaking in type IIB flux compactifications
Vyacheslav Rychkov, ITFA, Amsterdam: Geometry quantization from supergravity
Nathan Seiberg, IAS: New Phenomena in 2d String Theory
Ashoke Sen, Harish-Chandra Research Institute: Extremal black holes in higher derivative gravity
Eva Silverstein, SLAC, Stanford: The Tachyon at the End of the Universe
Andrei Starinets, Perimeter Institute: Holography and hydrodynamics
Andrew Strominger, Harvard: Fun with Black Holes
Shigeki Sugimoto, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto: Analysis of QCD via Supergravity
Tadashi Takayanagi, Harvard: Time-like Linear Dilaton and Open-Closed Duality
Alessandro Tomasiello, ITP, Stanford: The Generalized Complex Geometry of Supersymmetry
Henry Tye, Cornell: Wavefunction of the Universe
Angel Uranga, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Infrared dynamics of duality cascades and warped throats
Erik Verlinde, ITF, Amsterdam: A Matrix Big Bang
Edward Witten, IAS: Axions in String Theory
Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard: Superstring theory with torsion
Barton Zwiebach, MIT: Is there a closed string tachyon vacuum?

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