Mar 27 15:00 Counting BPS in 1/2 K~3 S. Hosono (U. Tokyo) Mar 28 17:00 Supersymmetric nonlinear electrodynamics S. Kuzenko (U. Munich) ============= conference talks Apr 3 - 12 ===================== Apr 3 11:00 Asymmetric orbifolds, noncommutative geometry and type I string vacua R. Blumenhagen (Berlin) Apr 3 14:00 Black holes with R^2 interactions T. Mohaupt (Halle) Apr 3 15:30 BPS States and Amplitudes in M-theory D. Lüst (Berlin) Apr 3 16:30 Anomaly cancellation on D-branes and O-planes C. Scrucca (Munich) ------------------------ Tuesday ----------------------------- Apr 4 11:00 Aspects of the conformal OPE in AdS/CFT correspondence and not only A. Petkou (Kaiserslautern) Apr 4 14:00 Coulomb branch of gauge theories in AdS/CFT A. Brandhuber (CERN) Apr 4 15:30 RG-flows in gauged N=2 Supergravity J. Louis (Halle) Apr 4 16:30 Scalar Quartic Effective Action on AdS_5 G. Arutyunov (Munich) ----------------------- Wednesday ------------------------------ Apr 5 11:00 Reflexive polyhedra and their applications in string and F-theory H. Skarke (Berlin) Apr 5 14:00 Radiation from Accelerated Strings and Branes M. Abou-Zeid (Berlin) Apr 5 15:00 TBA T. Karki (Swansea) ----------------------- Thursday ------------------------------ Apr 6 11:00 Duality in Low-Dimensional Theories L. Jonke (Zagreb) Apr 6 14:00 The soft dilaton theorem and the string description of confinement C. Gomez (Madrid) Apr 6 15:30 The thermodynamic potentials of Kerr-AdS black holes and their CFT duals E. Lopez (CERN) Apr 6 16:30 Nonlinear instantons from branes R. Minasian (Paris) ----------------------- Friday ------------------------------ Apr 7 10:00 R-currents and trace anomalies in AdS/CFT correspondence R. Manvelyan (Kaiserslautern) Apr 7 11:00 Bulk Scalar Field, Goldberger-Wise Mechanism and Singularities - RG flows in Gravitationally Dressed AdS/CFT Correspondence S.-J. Rey (Seoul) ----------------------- Monday ------------------------------ Apr 10 11:00 AdS/CFT correspondence, exotic Brane-like States and Stochastic Quantization D. Polyakov (Trieste) Apr 10 14:00 Dynamics of D-branes on S^3 and field theory on the fuzzy sphere A. Recknagel (Potsdam) Apr 10 15:30 D-branes in group manifolds S. Stanciu (Utrecht) Apr 10 16:30 Branes in AdS_n x S^m geometry J. Pawelczyk (Munich) ------------------------ Tuesday ----------------------------- Apr 11 10:00 Brany Q-lumps P. Townsend (Cambridge) Apr 11 11:00 Do trialgebras appear in string theory? K.-G. Schlesinger (Wuppertal) Apr 11 15:00 Open string conformal field theory B. Schellekens (Amsterdam) Apr 11 16:00 Recent Developments on the Representation Theory of N=2 Superconformal Algebras B. Gato-Rivera (Madrid) ----------------------- Wednesday ------------------------------ Apr 12 10:00 UV/IR mixing in non-relativistic non-commutative field theory K. Landsteiner (CERN) Apr 12 11:00 Renormalization of noncommutative Yang-Mills theories R. Wulkenhaar (Wien) Apr 12 14:00 Non commutative space-time and gauge theories J.Wess (Munich) ====================================================================================== Apr 19 14:00 Brane SUSY and Brane SUSY Breaking A. Sagnotti (Rome) Apr 20 11:00 D-branes in group manifolds & flux quantization C. Schweigert (Paris) Apr 26 14:00 Supersymmetric boundary conditions in Gepner models J. Walcher (ETH Zuerich & CERN) Apr 27 15:30 On the origin of Black Hole entropy V. Mukhanov (Munich) May 2 9:30 The String Dual of a Confining Four-Dimensional Gauge Theory J. Polchinski (UCSB) May 2 17:30 Wolfgang Pauli und die Physik des 21. Jahrhunderts (9th ESI lecture) J. Polchinski (UCSB) May 23 14:00 D-instantons on K3 and heterotic/type-II triality E. Kiritsis (Crete) May 24 11:00 Introduction to D-branes and K-Theory J. Distler (Austin) May 25 14:00 Extending T-duality rotations to Ramond-Ramond fields and space-time spinors S.F. Hassan (Paris) Jun 5 11:00 D-branes in Gepner models I. Brunner (Rutgers) Jun 7 11:00 Brane worlds and the cosmological constant S. Förste (Bonn) Jun 9 11:00 Some issues in the presence of NS 5-branes E. Rabinovici (Jerusalem) Jun 9 15:00 Large N Approximations in Matrix Theory and Black Hole Entropy D. Lowe (Brown) Jun 16 11:00 Quantum Black Holes V. Radovanovic (Belgrade) Jun 20 11:00 Spin and electromagnetic dualit D. Olive (Swansea) Jun 21 11:00 What does the string / gauge duality teach us about confinement J. Sonnenschein (Tel Aviv) Jun 27 11:00 Superbranes in the Superembedding Approach D. Sorokin (Padova) Jun 28 11:00 Modular symmetries of VEV's in the mass-deformed N=4 SYM theory from gauge theory and from string theory O. Aharony (Rutgers) Jun 29 14:00 Tachyon Potentials in Stable Non-BPS Branes I. Sachs (Munich) Jul 3 11:00 Tachyon Condensation in String Field Theory A. Sen (Allahabad) Jul 4 11:00 Poisson Sigma Models, Deformation Quantization and Symplectic Groupoids A. Cattaneo (Zürich) Jul 4 14:00 Holographic reconstruction of spacetime and renormalization in the AdS/CFT correspondence K. Skenderis (Princeton) Jul 5 11:00 Non BPS D branes on orbifolds B. Stefanski (Cambridge) Jul 6 11:00 Poisson Sigma Models, Deformation Quantization and Symplectic Groupoids A. Cattaneo (Zürich) Jul 7 11:00 Conformal anomaly in (2,0) theory in 6 diemsions and $R$^4 corrections A. Tseytlin (Ohio)