Mathematical Challenges in String Phenomenology 2008

Workshop on

Mathematical Challenges in String Phenomenology

Sponsored by the

October 6 - 15, 2008

at the

Erwin Schrödinger International Institute
for Mathematical Physics in Vienna, AUSTRIA

organized by

The aim of the workshop is to bring together mathematicians, and theory-oriented physicists in order to make accessible, on the one hand, the most advanced tools for phenomenological studies and to identify, on the other hand, the most urgent accessible problems.

Program of the first week (Oct. 6 - 10)
Program of the second week (including HMS meeting organized by Ludmil Katzarkov)

PDF files of talks

For further information please contact:

Maximilian Kreuzer maximilian.kreuzer@tuwien.ac.at

Topics

In the first week each of the topics should be introduced by 1-2 overview lecture presenting the state of the art and pointing to important problems, to be followed by research talks and discussions. The workshop will extend into a second week, with Monday and Tuesday assigned to respectively, and with room for additional talks and discussions. 
Participants include:	 	         (attendence: Monday = Oct 6 ... Wednesday = Oct 15)
	    					M T W T F     M T W 
Lara Anderson (UPenn)				x x x x x * * x x x	
Christopher Beasley (Harvard)			x x x x x * * x x x
Katrin Becker (Texas A & M)			x x x x x
Melanie Becker (Texas A & M)			x x x x x * *
Massimo Bianchi (Tor Vergata, Roma)		  x x x x * * x x   
Marco Billo (Torino)				x x x x x
Ralph Blumenhagen (MPI Munich)			x x x x x *
Andreas Braun (Heidelberg)             
Volker Braun (UPenn)				x x x x x * * x x x
Davide Cassani (ENS, Paris)			x x x x x *
Michael Douglas (Stony Brook)			x x x x x * * x x x
Ron Donagi (UPenn)
James Gray (Oxford)				x x x x x * * x x x
Thomas Grimm (Bonn)				x x x x x
Yang-Hui He (Oxford)		
Manfred Herbst (CERN)				x x x x x * 
Chris Hull (Imperial College, London)		    x x x *
Hans Jockers (Stanford)				x x x x x
Benjamin Jurke					x x x x x *
Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor (Amsterdam)		x x x x x * * x x x
Johanna Knapp (LMU Munich)			x x x x x * * x x x 
Paul Körber (MPI Munich)			x x x x x *
Wolfgang Lerche (CERN)
Alberto Lerda (Alessandria & Turin)		x x x x x *
Andre Lukas (Oxford)				x x x x x * * x
Luca Martucci (LMU Munich)			x x x x x
Ilarion Melnikov (Chicago)			x x x x x
Alexander  Popolitov  (ITEP Moscow)		x x x x x * * x x x
Pavel Putrov  (ITEP Moscow)			x x x x x * * x x x
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (CalTech)			x x x x x * * x x x
Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld (MPI Munich)	x x x x x * * x x x
Emanuel Scheidegger (Augsburg)			x x x x x * * x x x
Alessandro Tomasiello (Harvard)				  * * x x x
Angel Uranga (UAM, Madrid)			x x x x x * * x
Johannes Walcher (IAS, Princeton)		
Martijn Wijnholt (AEI, Golm)			x x x x	   
Frederik Witt (Regensburg)			x x x x x * * x x x
Timm Wrase (Austin)				x x x x x *