The 22nd Nordic Network Meeting on "Strings, Fields and Branes"

27 Nov 2008, 12:00 → 29 Nov 2008, 13:00 Europe/Stockholm

The AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

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

The workshop is the part of the program "Geometrical Aspects of String Theory" which runs October 15 - December 15 2008 at Nordita.

Invited speakers:

Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam), "Black holes as effective geometries"

Paul Howe (King's College, London), "The UV divergence question for maximally supersymmetric QFTs"

Neil Lambert (King's College, London), "Supersymmetry and M-Branes"

The workshop will be at held at the following locations:

• On Thursday, Nov 27:
  • 13.00-16.50: Lecture room FB53 at AlbaNova.
• On Friday, Nov 28:
  • 9.00-12.00: Lecture room K1 at Teknikringen 56 in the KTH area.
  • 13.30-18.00: Lecture room FD5 (Svedbergssalen) at AlbaNova
  • 18.30-: Dinner (at AlbaNova's restaurant 'Entré')
• On Saturday, Nov 29:
  • 9.30-13.10: Lecture room FD5 (Svedbergssalen) at AlbaNova

The time table can be downloaded as a PDF here.

Thursday, 27 November

1 Registration

2 Supersymmetry and M-Branes I

Speaker: Dr Neil Lambert (King's College)

14:00 Break

3 Buzzword bingo: MHV, CSW and BCFW in superstring amplitudes

Speaker: Niels Obers (Niels Bohr Institute)

4 AdS4xCFT3 - squashed, stretched, and warped

Speaker: Dr Thomas Klose (Princeton University)

14:50 Coffee Break

5 Matching E10 and gauged supergravity

Speaker: Mr Teake Nutma (University of Groningen)

6 New Results on Multiple 2-branes

Speaker: Prof. Eric Bergshoeff (University of Groningen)

16:00 Break

7 D-Brane Instanton Effects

Speaker: Mr Christoffer Petersson (CERN)

8 Black holes in higher dimensions

Speaker: Dr Troels Harmark (Niels Bohr Institute)

Friday, 28 November

9 The UV divergence question for maximally supersymmetric QFTs I

Speaker: Prof. Paul Howe (King's College)

10:00 Coffee Break

10 New adventures in 3D gravity

Speaker: Mr Niklas Johansson (Uppsala universitet)

11 Integrability and nonplanar ABJM theory

Speaker: Dr Konstantinos Zoubos (Niels Bohr Institute)

11:10 Break

12 Supergravity on the light-cone

Speaker: Dr Sung-Soo Kim (Chalmers University of Technology)

13 Anomalous radius shift in AdS4/CFT3

Speaker: Dr Shinji Hirano (Niels Bohr Institute)

12:00 Lunch break

14 Supersymmetry and M-Branes II

Speaker: Dr Neil Lambert (King's College)

14:30 Break

15 Black holes as effective geometries I

Speaker: Prof. Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)

15:40 Coffee Break

16 Black holes as effective geometries II

Speaker: Prof. Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)

17:10 Break

17 Isolated vacua in N=4 SYM on T^3

Speaker: Mr Fredrik Ohlsson (Chalmers University of Technology)

18 Tunneling in the string theory landscape

Speaker: Ms Magdalena Larfors (Uppsala Universitet)

18:30 Dinner

Saturday, 29 November

19 The UV divergence question for maximally supersymmetric QFTs II

Speaker: Prof. Paul Howe (King's College)

10:30 Coffee Break

20 Black holes as effective geometries III

Speaker: Prof. Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)

12:00 Break

21 Supersymmetry and M-Branes III

Speaker: Dr Neil Lambert (King's College)