The Holographic Way: String Theory, Gauge Theory and Black Holes
from
Monday, 1 October 2012 (08:00)
to
Friday, 26 October 2012 (18:00)
Monday, 1 October 2012
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
15:00
CFT probes of bulk geometry & causal holographic information
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Veronika Hubeny
(
Durham University
)
CFT probes of bulk geometry & causal holographic information
Veronika Hubeny
(
Durham University
)
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 132:028
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
10:30
Thermal brane probes
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Gianluca Grignani
(
University of Perugia
)
Thermal brane probes
Gianluca Grignani
(
University of Perugia
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
15:00
Black brane hydrodynamics and the membrane paradigm
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Mukund Rangamani
(
Durham University
)
Black brane hydrodynamics and the membrane paradigm
Mukund Rangamani
(
Durham University
)
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 132:028
17:30
Reception
Reception
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Nordita building
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
10:30
Towards a holographic realization of the quarkyonic phase
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Jan de Boer
(
Institute for Theor Physics, Amsterdam
)
Towards a holographic realization of the quarkyonic phase
Jan de Boer
(
Institute for Theor Physics, Amsterdam
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
15:00
Localizing the black M2-M5 intersection
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Vasilis Niarchos
(
University of Crete
)
Localizing the black M2-M5 intersection
Vasilis Niarchos
(
University of Crete
)
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 132:028
18:00
Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Albanova
Thursday, 4 October 2012
10:30
Double field theory and string duality
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Chris Hull
(
Imperial College
)
Double field theory and string duality
Chris Hull
(
Imperial College
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
13:30
Superconducting instabilities of R-charged black branes
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Simon Gentle
(
Durham University
)
Superconducting instabilities of R-charged black branes
Simon Gentle
(
Durham University
)
13:30 - 13:55
Room: 132:028
14:00
Black branes as piezoelectrics
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Jakob Gath
(
Niels Bohr Institute
)
Black branes as piezoelectrics
Jakob Gath
(
Niels Bohr Institute
)
14:00 - 14:25
Room: 132:028
14:30
Thermal DBI at weak and strong coupling
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Andrea Marini
(
Perugia University
)
Thermal DBI at weak and strong coupling
Andrea Marini
(
Perugia University
)
14:30 - 14:55
Room: 132:028
Friday, 5 October 2012
10:30
ABJ partition function
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Shinji Hirano
(
Nagoya University
)
ABJ partition function
Shinji Hirano
(
Nagoya University
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
Saturday, 6 October 2012
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Monday, 8 October 2012
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
15:00
Black holes without firewalls
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Larus Thorlacius
(
NORDITA
)
Black holes without firewalls
Larus Thorlacius
(
NORDITA
)
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 132:028
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
10:30
Does the Chern-Simons formulation provide the microscopic completion of BTZ black hole entropy?
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Bo Sundborg
(
Stockholm University
)
Does the Chern-Simons formulation provide the microscopic completion of BTZ black hole entropy?
Bo Sundborg
(
Stockholm University
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
13:30
Transport in Holographic Lattices
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Gary Horowitz
(
UC Santa Barbara
)
Transport in Holographic Lattices
Gary Horowitz
(
UC Santa Barbara
)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 132:028
15:15
Nobel price 2012 announcement
Nobel price 2012 announcement
15:15 - 16:15
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
10:30
An infalling observer in AdS/CFT
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Kyriakos Papadodimas
(
CERN
)
An infalling observer in AdS/CFT
Kyriakos Papadodimas
(
CERN
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
15:00
Is Alice burning or fuzzing? or Information, Unitarity and Holography
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Borun Chowdhury
(
University of Amsterdam
)
Is Alice burning or fuzzing? or Information, Unitarity and Holography
Borun Chowdhury
(
University of Amsterdam
)
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 132:028
18:00
Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Albanova
Thursday, 11 October 2012
10:30
Recovering the bulk QFT from the boundary CFT
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Gilad Lifschytz
(
University of Haifa at Oranim
)
Recovering the bulk QFT from the boundary CFT
Gilad Lifschytz
(
University of Haifa at Oranim
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
13:30
Topologically gauged M2-branes with eight supersymmetries: some new results
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Bengt EW Nilsson
(
Fundamental physics, Chalmers
)
Topologically gauged M2-branes with eight supersymmetries: some new results
Bengt EW Nilsson
(
Fundamental physics, Chalmers
)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 132:028
Friday, 12 October 2012
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
Saturday, 13 October 2012
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Monday, 15 October 2012
09:30
Holographic models for QCD in the Veneziano Limit
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Elias Kiritsis
(
UoC and APC
)
Holographic models for QCD in the Veneziano Limit
Elias Kiritsis
(
UoC and APC
)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: FA32
10:15
30 min break/Registration for conference
30 min break/Registration for conference
10:15 - 10:45
Room: FA32
10:45
Holographic dual of the lowest Landau level
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David Tong
(
University of Cambridge
)
Holographic dual of the lowest Landau level
David Tong
(
University of Cambridge
)
10:45 - 11:30
Room: FA32
11:30
15 min break
15 min break
11:30 - 11:45
Room: FA32
11:45
Towards a taxonomy of extremal black brane horizons
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Shamit Kachru
(
Stanford
)
Towards a taxonomy of extremal black brane horizons
Shamit Kachru
(
Stanford
)
11:45 - 12:30
Room: FA32
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Albanova
14:00
Renormalized entanglement entropy and the number of degrees of freedom
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Hong Liu
(
MIT
)
Renormalized entanglement entropy and the number of degrees of freedom
Hong Liu
(
MIT
)
14:00 - 14:45
Room: FA32
15:15
Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture: Quantum Chromodynamics, strings and black holes
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Juan Maldacena
(
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
)
Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture: Quantum Chromodynamics, strings and black holes
Juan Maldacena
(
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
)
15:15 - 16:15
Room: lecture hall E1
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
09:30
Complementarity vs. Firewalls: Are there surprising quantum effects at black hole horizons?
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Don Marolf
(
UCSB
)
Complementarity vs. Firewalls: Are there surprising quantum effects at black hole horizons?
Don Marolf
(
UCSB
)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: FD5
10:15
30 min break
30 min break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: FD5
10:45
Probing higher spin black holes
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Per Kraus
(
UCLA
)
Probing higher spin black holes
Per Kraus
(
UCLA
)
10:45 - 11:30
Room: FD5
11:30
15 min break
15 min break
11:30 - 11:45
Room: FD5
11:45
A toy model for black hole interiors
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Juan Maldacena
(
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
)
A toy model for black hole interiors
Juan Maldacena
(
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
)
11:45 - 12:30
Room: FD5
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Albanova
14:00
Hairy black holes and solitons in global AdS
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Ricardo Monteiro
(
Niels Bohr Institute
)
Hairy black holes and solitons in global AdS
Ricardo Monteiro
(
Niels Bohr Institute
)
14:00 - 14:45
Room: FD5
14:45
15 min break
15 min break
14:45 - 15:00
Room: FD5
15:00
Lifshitz holography for undoped Weyl semimetals
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Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht University
)
Lifshitz holography for undoped Weyl semimetals
Stefan Vandoren
(
Utrecht University
)
15:00 - 15:45
Room: FD5
15:45
30 min break
30 min break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: FD5
16:15
Panel discussion: Black hole firewalls, correspondence principle, holography and information paradox
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Larus Thorlacius
Finn Larsen (chairman)
Steve Giddings
Don Marolf
Panel discussion: Black hole firewalls, correspondence principle, holography and information paradox
Larus Thorlacius
Finn Larsen (chairman)
Steve Giddings
Don Marolf
16:15 - 17:30
Room: FD5
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
09:30
Universality or non-universality within gauge/gravity duality
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Johanna Erdmenger
(
Max Planck Institute for Physics
)
Universality or non-universality within gauge/gravity duality
Johanna Erdmenger
(
Max Planck Institute for Physics
)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: FD5
10:15
30 min break
30 min break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: FD5
10:45
Gravitational turbulent instability of AdS space
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Oscar Dias
(
Saclay
)
Gravitational turbulent instability of AdS space
Oscar Dias
(
Saclay
)
10:45 - 11:30
Room: FD5
11:30
15 min break
15 min break
11:30 - 11:45
Room: FD5
11:45
A holographic approach to general gauge mediation
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Matteo Bertolini
(
SISSA
)
A holographic approach to general gauge mediation
Matteo Bertolini
(
SISSA
)
11:45 - 12:30
Room: FD5
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Albanova
14:00
Black brane fluid flows
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Roberto Emparan
(
ICREA & University of Barcelona
)
Black brane fluid flows
Roberto Emparan
(
ICREA & University of Barcelona
)
14:00 - 14:45
Room: FD5
14:45
15 min break
15 min break
14:45 - 15:00
Room: FD5
15:00
The D3-D7 holographic dual of relativistic materials in (2+1)D
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Gordon Semenoff
(
UBC
)
The D3-D7 holographic dual of relativistic materials in (2+1)D
Gordon Semenoff
(
UBC
)
15:00 - 15:45
Room: FD5
15:45
30 min break
30 min break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: FD5
16:15
Panel discussion: Ten years after eta/s: accomplishments of applied AdS/CFT
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David Tong
Hong Liu
Shamit Kachru
Elias Kiritsis (chairman)
Panel discussion: Ten years after eta/s: accomplishments of applied AdS/CFT
David Tong
Hong Liu
Shamit Kachru
Elias Kiritsis (chairman)
16:15 - 17:30
Room: FD5
19:00
Holographic Way Conference Dinner
Holographic Way Conference Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Room: Kvarnen restaurant
Thursday, 18 October 2012
10:00
The wave function of quantum de Sitter
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Alejandra Castro
(
McGill University
)
The wave function of quantum de Sitter
Alejandra Castro
(
McGill University
)
10:00 - 10:45
Room: 132:028
10:45
30 min break
30 min break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: 132:028
11:15
Remarks on 3d flat cosmological horizon holographic descriptions
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Joan Simon
(
University of Edinburgh
)
Remarks on 3d flat cosmological horizon holographic descriptions
Joan Simon
(
University of Edinburgh
)
11:15 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Albanova
14:00
Unitarity, near-locality, and Hilbert space networks
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Steve Giddings
(
University of California
)
Unitarity, near-locality, and Hilbert space networks
Steve Giddings
(
University of California
)
14:00 - 14:45
Room: 132:028
14:45
15 min break
15 min break
14:45 - 15:00
Room: 132:028
15:00
Black hole bound state metamorphosis
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Ashoke Sen
(
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
)
Black hole bound state metamorphosis
Ashoke Sen
(
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
)
15:00 - 15:45
Room: 132:028
15:45
30 min break
30 min break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: 132:028
16:15
Quantization and the black hole horizons
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Finn Larsen
(
University of Michigan
)
Quantization and the black hole horizons
Finn Larsen
(
University of Michigan
)
16:15 - 17:00
Room: 132:028
Friday, 19 October 2012
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Sunday, 21 October 2012
Monday, 22 October 2012
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
15:00
Unitarity constraints along the renormalization group flow
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Manuela Kulaxizi
(
Universite Libre de Bruxelles and International Solvay Institutes
)
Unitarity constraints along the renormalization group flow
Manuela Kulaxizi
(
Universite Libre de Bruxelles and International Solvay Institutes
)
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 132:028
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
10:30
Holographic tachyon: strongly interacting fermions and walking technicolor
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Andrei Parnachev
(
Leiden University
)
Holographic tachyon: strongly interacting fermions and walking technicolor
Andrei Parnachev
(
Leiden University
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
13:30
World-sheet Form Factors
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Thomas Klose
(
Uppsala University
)
World-sheet Form Factors
Thomas Klose
(
Uppsala University
)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 132:028
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
10:30
On the applicability of linearized Einstein’s equations in the studies of holographic isotropization
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Michal Heller
(
University of Amsterdam
)
On the applicability of linearized Einstein’s equations in the studies of holographic isotropization
Michal Heller
(
University of Amsterdam
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
15:00
Conformal symmetry and the Gregory-Laflamme instability
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Joan Camps
(
Durham
)
Conformal symmetry and the Gregory-Laflamme instability
Joan Camps
(
Durham
)
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 132:028
18:00
Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Albanova
Thursday, 25 October 2012
10:30
Lifshitz UV and Hyperscaling Violating IR
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Jelle Hartong
(
Niels Bohr Institute
)
Lifshitz UV and Hyperscaling Violating IR
Jelle Hartong
(
Niels Bohr Institute
)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
15:00
Quantum phase transitions in charged holographic matter
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Benjamin Withers
Quantum phase transitions in charged holographic matter
Benjamin Withers
15:00 - 15:25
Room: 132:028
15:30
Hydrodynamics of charged black branes
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Adriana Di Dato
Hydrodynamics of charged black branes
Adriana Di Dato
15:30 - 15:55
Room: 132:028
Friday, 26 October 2012
10:30
(Electro)elasticity from gravity
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Jay Armas
(Electro)elasticity from gravity
Jay Armas
10:30 - 10:55
Room: 132:028
11:00
Holography and numerical transition to hydrodynamics
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Przemek Witaszczyk
Holography and numerical transition to hydrodynamics
Przemek Witaszczyk
11:00 - 11:25
Room: 132:028
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova