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Inaugural Workshop on Black Holes in Supergravity and M/Superstring Theory
September 9 - 11, 2010
320 Whitmore Lab
Workshop Program
| Thursday, September 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Welcome | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Lifshitz Solutions of String/M-Theory | Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Horava-Witten Constructions in D=7/D=6 | Kelly Stelle, Imperial College |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | TBA | Chris Pope, Texas A&M |
| 12:20 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | TBA | Frederik Denef, Harvard University |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Early Holographic Studies Inspired by Solitons in Superfluids and Transport during Hall Plateau Transition | Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Helsinki Institute of Physics |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | Break | |
| 4:20 - 5:20 | Extremal Black Holes from Nilpotent Orbits | Guillaume Bossard, AEI Potsdam |
| Friday, September 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Why Black Holes are Difficult | Jan de Boer, University of Amsterdam |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | TBA | Finn Larsen, University of Michigan |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Holographic Quantum Criticality and Magnetic Fields | Per Kraus, UCLA |
| 12:20 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in N=4 Super Yang Mills | Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Proof that Fuzzballs are Essential for Unitarity | Samir Mathur, Ohio State |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | Break | |
| 4:20 - 5:20 | Microstate Geometries and Non-BPS Black Holes and Black Rings | Nick Warner, University of Southern California |
| Saturday, September 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Charged Spinning Black Holes and Kerr/CFT | Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | N=2 BPS Black Holes: New Perspectives | Bernard de Wit, Utrecht University |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Special Geometry, Black Holes and Instantons | Thomas Mohaupt, University of Liverpool |
| 12:20 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Hidden Symmetries and Instantons in Euclidean N=4 Supergravity | Dmitry Gal'tsov, Moscow State University |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | TBA | Iosif Bena, Saclay |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | Break | |
| 4:20 - 5:20 | Discussion on Open Problems and Future Directions | |