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field theory lectures: |||||||||| //Three nice old short reviews:// Is the String Field Big Enough ? B. Zwiebach. [|Fortschr.Phys.49 (2001) 387]. String Field Theory. Leonardo Rastelli ([|hep-th/0509129]) String Field Theory. Wati Taylor ([|hep-th/0605202]). //Open string field theory basics:// Tachyon potentials, star products and universality. Rastelli and Zwiebach ([|hep-th/0006240]) //For more recent developments:// Analytic solution ... M. Schnabl ([|hep-th/0511286]) Comments on Schnabl's ..... Y. Okawa ([|hep-th/0603159]) //A comprehensive recent review:// Analytical Solutions of Open String Field Theory. Fuchs and Kroyter [|0807.4722] || will be loosely based on these: |||||||||| [|hep-th/0209059] (Nathan's ICTP lecture notes), [|hep-th/0609006] (multiloop amplitudes and non-renorm. theorems), [|hep-th/0702083] (quantum consistency of AdS background). || and pure spinor review lectures ||  || 2:00 pm || FR
 * Announcement: Mini-conference on dualities in physics and mathematics (March 16-20)**
 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * < Mon, Jan 5 ||< 2:00 pm ||< Aud ||< **Program Organisers** ||< //Organisational Meeting with all Participants// ||<  ||
 * < Tue, Jan 6 ||< 11:00 am ||< MSR ||< **Barton Zwiebach** ||< //Introduction to String Field Theory I// ||<  ||
 * References for string
 * <  ||< 2:00 pm ||< MSR ||< **Nathan Berkovits** ||< //Introduction to Pure Spinors I// ||<   ||
 * Pure spinor lectures
 * < Wed, Jan 7 ||< 11:00 am ||< MSR ||< **Barton Zwiebach** ||< //Introduction to String Field Theory II// ||<  ||
 * <  ||< 3:30 pm ||< MSR ||< **Nathan Berkovits** ||< //Introduction to Pure Spinors II// ||<   ||
 * < Thu, Jan 8 ||< 11:00 am ||< MSR ||< **Martin Schnabl** ||< //Introduction to String Field Theory III// ||<  ||
 * <  ||< 3:30 pm ||< MSR ||< **Pierre Vanhove** ||< //Introduction to Pure Spinors III// ||<   ||
 * Fri, Jan 9 || 10:00 am || Aud ||  || //Discussion// of string field theory
 * < Mon., Jan 12 ||< 11:00 am ||< Aud ||< **Yuji Okawa** ||< //Introduction to String Field Theory IV// ||<  ||
 * <  ||< 2:00 pm ||< Aud ||< **Luca Mazzucato** ||< //Introduction to Pure Spinors IV// ||<   ||
 * Tues, Jan 13 || 10:30 am

Aud || Michael Kroyter


 * Dmitri Sorokin** || Informal discussion of open superstring field theory

//The complete AdS(4)xCP(3) superspace for the Type IIA superstring and D-branes// ||  || 2:00 pm || SSR
 * Wed, Jan 14 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Warren Siegel** || //Projective superspace// ||  ||
 * Thur, Jan 15 || 12:00 pm || Aud || **Michael Kiermaier** || //Riemann surfaces in Schnabl gauge// ||  ||
 * || 1:00 pm || Aud || **Yuji Okawa** || //The boundary state from open string fields// ||  ||
 * Tues, Jan 20 || 10:30 am

Aud || Everyone


 * Nikita Nekrasov** || Interesting open problems

//Pure spinors, beta-gammas, super-Yang-Mills and Chern-Simons// ||  || Rastelli || //Integrability and holography in the Veneziano limit?// ||  || [|arxiv/0901.3753] || Nameki || //A Toolkit for F-theory Model Building// ||  || AdS_4-ABJM// ||  || Geometry and Dualities ||  || March 11 || 10:30 am || Aud || Timo Weigand || Review of D-brane instantons in type II orientifolds ||  || March 12 || 12:30pm || Aud || Katrin Becker || Heterotic Torsional Geometries ||  || March 13 || 1:30pm || Aud || Ron Donagi || TBA ||  || March 24 || 2:00pm || Aud || Wolfgang Lerche || Matrix Factorizations, Disk Instantons and Mirror Symmetry ||  || March 25 || 10:30am || Aud || Wati Taylor || Freedom and Constraints in the Landscape of Intersecting/magnetized Branes ||  || March 31 || 2:00pm || Aud || Liam McAllister || Advances in Inflation in String Theory ||  || April 1 || 10:30am || Aud. || Eva Silverstein || TBA ||  || April 2 || 12:30pm || Aud. || Shamit Kachru || TBA ||  || Eva Silverstein || Discussion on Inflation ||  || 14 || 2pm || Aud || Joan Simon || Extremal Black Holes ||  ||
 * Wed, Jan 21 || 10:30 am || Aud || **Edward Frenkel** || //Instantons beyond topological theory// ||  ||
 * Thur, Jan 22 || 12:30 pm || Aud || **Kostas Skenderis** || //BRST derivation of the pure spinor amplitude prescription and anomalies// ||  ||
 * Thur, Jan 22 || 3:30 pm || SH 6635 || **Edward Frenkel** || //Langlands Duality and Mirror Symmetry, I// (UCSB Distinguished Lectures in the Mathematical Sciences) ||  ||
 * Fri, Jan 23 || 10:30 am || Aud || Nathan Berkovits || Informal discussion of beta-gamma systems and non-minimal fields ||  ||
 * Fri, Jan 23 || 3:30 pm || SH 6635 || **Edward Frenkel** || //Langlands Duality and Mirror Symmetry, II// (UCSB Distinguished Lectures in the Mathematical Sciences) ||  ||
 * Mon, Jan 26 || 10:30 am || Aud || Nikita Nekrasov || //Pure spinors, beta-gammas, super-Yang-Mills and Chern-Simons, part 2// ||  ||
 * Tues, Jan 27 || 2:00 pm || Aud || Leonardo
 * Wed., Jan 28 || 10:30 am || Aud || Brenno Vallilo || //Informal discussion of hybrid formalism and flux compactification// ||  ||
 * Thur, Jan 29 || 12:30 pm || Aud || Massimo Bianchi || //(Unoriented) T-folds with few T's and L-R asymmetric D-branes// ||  ||
 * Fri, Jan 30 || 1:30 pm || Aud || Pietro Grassi || //Informal discussion of lower-dimensional pure spinors and non-critical strings// ||  ||
 * Tues, Feb 3 || 2:00 pm || Aud || Matthias Staudacher || //Introduction to AdS/CFT integrability: What exactly is a magnon?// ||  ||
 * Weds, Feb 4 || 10:30 am || Aud || Andrei Mikhailov || //Overview of pure spinors and integrability// ||  ||
 * Thurs, Feb 5 || 12:30 pm || Aud || Vladimar Kazakov || //Integrability for the full spectrum of planar AdS/CFT// || [|arXiv/0812.5091]
 * Fri, Feb 6 || 1:30 pm || Aud || Nathan Berkovits || //Perturbative super-Yang-Mills and the topological AdS_5 x S^5 string// || [|arxiv/0812.5074] ||
 * Mon, Feb 9 || 2:00 pm || Aud || Charles Thorn || //Lightcone worldsheet approaches to Field/String duality// ||  ||
 * || 4:30 pm || FR || PierreVanhove || //Technical discussion on pure spinors// ||  ||
 * Tues, Feb 10 || 2:00 pm || Aud || Pedro Vieira || //Luscher formulas and the four loop Konishi operator// ||  ||
 * || 4:30 pm || FR || Yuri Aisaka || //Technical discussion on pure spinors// ||  ||
 * Weds, Feb 11 || 10:30 am || Aud || Stefan Zieme || //The virtual scaling function of AdS/CFT// ||  ||
 * || 4:30 pm || FR || Ido Adam || //Technical discussion on pure spinors// ||  ||
 * Thurs, Feb 12 || 12:30 pm || Aud || Hirosi Ooguri || //Crystal melting and quantum Calabi-Yau// ||  ||
 * || 3:30 pm || SSR || everyone || //Discussion:// Open questions and future directions in integrability and AdS/CFT (led by Volodya Kazakov) ||  ||
 * Fri, Feb 13 || 9:30 am-5:00 pm || MSR ||  || **Stanley Mandelstam Fest [|Schedule]** ||   ||
 * Tues, Feb 17 || 2:00 pm || Aud || Niklas Beisert || //Dual (Super) Conformal Symmetry and// //Integrability// ||  ||
 * Weds, Feb 18 || 10:30 am || Aud || Volker Schomerus || //Non-linear Superspace Sigma Models// ||  ||
 * Thurs, Feb 19 || 12:30 pm || Aud || Andy Strominger || //The Kerr/CFT correspondence// ||  ||
 * || 3:30 pm || MSR || Tristan McLoughlin || //AdS4/CFT and integrability// ||  ||
 * Mon, Feb 23 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tues, Feb 24 || 10:30am || Aud || Andy Strominger || //Chiral Gravity, Log Gravity and Extremal CFT// ||  ||
 * || 2:00 pm || Aud || Igor Klebanov || //Warped Conifolds and D-Brane Inflation// ||  ||
 * Weds. Feb 25 || 10:30 am || Aud || Didina Serban || //Pedagogical lecture: Bethe equations at strong coupling// ||  ||
 * Thurs, Feb26 || 10:00am || Aud || Juan Maldacena || //Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling// ||  ||
 * Tues, Mar3 || 2:00pm || SSR || everyone || //Discussion:// Topics for flux period ||  ||
 * Wed,Mar4 || 10:30am || Aud || Sakura-Schafer-
 * Thur, Mar5 || 12:30pm || Aud || Soo-Jong Rey || //Aspect of Wilson Loops in
 * Fri, Mar 6 || 10:30 am || Aud || Thomas Grimm || //GUTS in Type IIB Orientifolds// ||  ||
 * Tues, March10 || 2:00 pm || Aud || Ruben Minasian || Fluxes, Generalized Complex
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 * March 16-20 ||  ||   || Schedule: || Mini-conference on dualities in physics and mathematics ||   ||   ||
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 * Tues. Apr 7 || 2:00pm || Aud. || Mukund Rangamani || Overview of Galileen holography ||  ||
 * Weds. Apr 8 || 10:30am || Aud || Radu Roiban || UV finiteness of Pohlmeyer-reduced form of the AdS_5xS^5 superstring theory ||  ||
 * Thurs Apr 9 || 12:30pm || Aud || Ben Freivogel || Review of measures in eternal inflation ||  ||
 * Frid Apr10 || 1.30pm || Aud || moderator:
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 * Weds Apr 15 || 10:30am || Aud || Albion Lawrence || Seeing behind the horizon of a black hole ||  ||
 * Thurs Apr 16 || 12:30pm || Aud || Rob Myers || Beyond eta/s=1/4pi ||  ||
 * Fri Apr 17 || 1:30pm || SSR ||  || Integrability discussion: Arkady Tseytlin: Exponential effects; short string corrections. Valentina Forini: Reciprocity in AdS/CFT ||   ||
 * Weds Apr 22 || 10:30am || Aud || Jeff Harvey || The Pomeron contribution to p-p scattering in AdS/QCD ||  ||
 * Thurs Apr 23 || 12:30am || Aud || Sav Sethi || Non-geometries, Geometries and Fluxes  ||  ||
 * Tues Apr 28 || 2:00 pm || Aud || Ami Hanany || Brane Tilings, M2 Branes and Chern Simons theories ||  ||
 * Thurs Apr 30 || 12:30 pm || Aud || Joe Polchinski || Holography from CFT ||  ||
 * Fri May 1 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:30 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Josh Lapan || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Torsional Geometries and Linear Models || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tues May 5 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Morrison || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Non-geometric heterotic compactifications || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weds May 6 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10:30 am || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nick Dorey || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spiky Strings and Spin Chains || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thurs May 7 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:30 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Koji Hashimoto || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nuclear Force from String Theory || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fri May 8 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:30 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sarah Shandera || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Non-Gaussianity: Observing high-energy interactions || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tues May 12 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nadav Drukker || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Superprotected n-point functions of local operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weds May 13 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10:30 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Louis Leblond || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Perturbative Regime of Inflation and Loop Corrections || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thurs May 14 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:30 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rajesh Gopakumar || <span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Galilean Conformal Algebra and AdS/CFT <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:00 pm || **<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Broida 3302 **<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diego Trancanelli || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tHooft Meets Wilson: Disorder Operators, Matrix Models, and S-Duality || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fri May 15 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:30 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shiraz Minwalla || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rapid Scale Dependent Thermalization from Gravity || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mon. May 18 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.30pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Lowe || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black Hole Complementarity from AdS/CFT || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * //Miniworkshop on 3D Gravity//: ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//Tue.May 19// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//12.30pm

2.00pm// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//Aud// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//Melanie Becker

Geoffrey Compere// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//Overview of 3D Gravity

The Extremal Black Hole/CFT Correspondence// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//Wed. May 20// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//10.30am

12.30pm

1.00pm

1.30pm

2.00pm// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//Aud// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//Stephan Detournay

Matt Roberts

Sean Downes

Tomas Andrade

Aaron Amsel// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//Warped AdS_3 Space-Times in Gravity and String theory

No Dynamics in the Extremal Kerr Throat

Chiral Supergravity

Is Chiral Gravity a truncation of Log Gravity?

Supergravity at the Boundary of AdS Supergravity// || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> || Sokatchev || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scattering Amplitudes/Wilson Loops Duality, Dual Conformal Symmetry and all That || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> || Hubeny || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dynamical Black Holes and Holographic Dual of Entropy ||  || *Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, SH=South Hall (across campus)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Th. May 21 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.30pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud. || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emery
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fr.May 22 || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.30pm || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aud. || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Veronika
 * Tues May 26 || 12:30 pm || MSR || Aaron Bergmann || Gauge Theories and D-branes at Singularities ||  ||
 * Wed May 27 || 10:30 am || Aud || Sera Cremonini || <span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Higher derivative corrections and the violation of the viscosity to entropy bound ||  ||
 * Thurs May 28 || 12:30 pm || Aud || Matt Headrick || Tachyon Actions in String Theory ||  ||
 * Frid. May 29 || 1:30pm || Aud || Amihay Hanany || Finding M-theory dual to type IIA backgrounds with RR flux ||  ||


 * For recorded talks and lecture notes, go to** [|**KITP Online**]

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