Venue

Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden

General

The 29th Nordic Network Meeting on ''Strings, Fields and Branes'' will be held 7-9 November 2013 and hosted by Nordita, which is located near the AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm. The meeting will start on Thursday the 7th at around 13.00 and end on Saturday the 9th at around 13.00. The lectures and talks will be in the AlbaNova Main Building, lecture rooms FB42 (Thursday and Saturday) and FD5 (Friday).

Program

The program will consist of three lecture series by invited speakers, and short talks by students and young researchers who wish to contribute.

  • Ben Craps: Holographic entanglement entropy
  • Slava Rychkov: Recent advances in conformal bootstrap
  • Guido Festuccia: Rigid supersymmetry on curved manifolds

Application

For PhD students, the deadline to apply for accommodation and the opportunity to give a short talk is 20 October, 2013. For other participants, registration is always possible after this date.

Accommodation and Financial Support

Accommodation will be available free of charge only for PhD students who apply before the deadline. Other participants are requested to arrange their own accommodation or can make use of hotels provided by Nordita for roughly 1000 SEK/night.

Travel expenses can unfortunately not be covered by Nordita.

Organization

Local organizing committee: Paolo Di Vecchia, Blaise Goutéraux, Sven Bjarke Guðnason, Alexander Krikun, Daniele Marmiroli, Lárus Thorlacius, Konstantin Zarembo

Sponsored by

Nordita