Name: The Holographic Way: String Theory, Gauge Theory and Black Holes
Start: 2012-10-01T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-10-26T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Nordita

Monday, 1 October 2012

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Albanova
15:00 CFT probes of bulk geometry & causal holographic information - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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? - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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? - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Don Marolf Larus Thorlacius Steve Giddings Finn Larsen (chairman)
Panel discussion: Black hole firewalls, correspondence principle, holography and information paradox
- Don Marolf
- Larus Thorlacius
- Steve Giddings
- Finn Larsen (chairman)
16:15 - 17:30
Room: FD5
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
09:30 Universality or non-universality within gauge/gravity duality - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Elias Kiritsis (chairman) David Tong Hong Liu Shamit Kachru
Panel discussion: Ten years after eta/s: accomplishments of applied AdS/CFT
- Elias Kiritsis (chairman)
- David Tong
- Hong Liu
- Shamit Kachru
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Jay Armas
(Electro)elasticity from gravity
- Jay Armas
10:30 - 10:55
Room: 132:028
11:00 Holography and numerical transition to hydrodynamics - 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