The 28th Nordic Network Meeting on "Strings, Fields and Branes"

1 Dec 2011, 08:00 → 3 Dec 2011, 14:00 Europe/Stockholm

AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

Maxim Zabzine (Uppsala University), Ulf Lindström (Uppsala University)

The workshop is the part of the Nordita scientific program " Geometry of Strings and Fields" which runs November 1 - 30 2011 at Nordita.

The program of the meeting will consist of three lecture series by invited speakers, and short talks by students and young researchers.

Invited speakers:

Ioannis Bakas, "Geometric flows and their physical applications"

Chris Hull, "Introduction to duality, double geometry and non-geometric backgrounds"

Marcos Marino, "Localization at large N"

The workshop will be at held at the following locations:

• On Thursday, Dec 1:
  • 13.00-18.00: Lecture room FB52 at AlbaNova.
• On Friday, Dec 2:
  • 9.00-12.00: Lecture room FB42 at AlbaNova
  • 13.30-18.00: Lecture room FB51 at AlbaNova
  • 18.30-: Dinner
• On Saturday, Dec 3:
  • 9.30-14.00: Svedbergssalen at AlbaNova

The deadline for registration is November 15, 2011. This is also the deadline for submission of talks. To register, follow the "Registration Form" link on the left.

Accommodation will be available free of charge to Nordic PhD students. Travel expenses can unfortunately not be covered. Other participants are requested to arrange for their own accommodation. Follow the "Accommodation" link on the left for the suggestion for the local hotels.

Thursday 1 December

1 Geometric flows and their physical applications (lecture 1)

Speaker: Ioannis Bakas (University of Patras)

14:00 break

2 Holography of conformal Chern-Simons gravity

Speaker: Niklas Johansson

3 Dyonic Lifshitz black holes

Speaker: Tobias Zingg

14:50 coffee break

4 Tensor hierarchies, Borcherds algebras and E11

Speaker: Palmkvist Jakob

5 3D higher spin fields in analogy to 3D massive gravity

Speaker: Yihao Yin

16:00 break

6 Introduction to duality, double geometry and non-geometric backgrounds (lecture 1)

Speaker: Chris Hull

17:10 break

7 Vacua analysis in extended supersymmetry compactifications

Speaker: Giuseppe Dibitetto

8 Friedel Oscillations from Holographic Fermi Surfaces

Speaker: Sean Nowling

Friday 2 December

9 Localization at large N (lecture 1)

Speaker: Marcos Marino

10:00 coffee break

10 Chern-Simons theory from a new perspective

Speaker: Johan Källén

11 Holographic correlation functions of giant gravitons

Speaker: Konstantinos Zoubos

11:10 break

12 (2,0) theory on circle fibrations

Speaker: Fredrik Ohlsson

13 Non-extremal black holes of N=2, d=4 supergravity

Speaker: Jan Perz

12:00 lunch break

14 Geometric flows and their physical applications (lecture 2)

Speaker: Ioannis Bakas

14:30 break

15 Introduction to duality, double geometry and non-geometric backgrounds (lecture 2)

Speaker: Chris Hull

15:40 coffee break

16 Localization at large N (lecture 2)

Speaker: Marcos Marino

17:10 break

17 A ten-dimensional action for non-geometric fluxes

Speaker: Magdalena Larfors

18 Logarithmic CFT's from Gravitational Models

Speaker: Wout Merbis

18:30 Dinner

Saturday 3 December

19 Geometric flows and their physical applications (lecture 3)

Speaker: Ioannis Bakas

10:30 coffee break

20 Localization at large N (lecture 3)

Speaker: Marcos Marino

12:00 break

21 Introduction to duality, double geometry and non-geometric backgrounds (lecture 3)

Speaker: Chris Hull