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Supergravity versus Superstring Theory in the Ultraviolet Workshop

August 27 - 30, 2009
320 Whitmore Lab


Workshop Program



Thursday, August 27
  9:30 - 10:30Registration and Coffee
10:45 - 12:00Niels Emil Bjerrum-Bohr - "No Triangle Hypothesis in Maximal N=8 Supergravity
and Simplicity of Unordered Amplitudes"
  2:00 -   3:15Dan Waldram - "New Consistent Truncations, N=2 and E7"
  3:15 -   3:45Break
  3:45 -   5:00Pierre Vanhove - "Structure of Gauge and Gravity Amplitudes in String and Field Theory"
Friday, August 28
  9:00 - 10:15Kelly Stelle - "Non-Renormalization Theorems in Maximal Supersymmetric Theories"
10:15 - 10:45Break
10:45 - 12:00Renata Kallosh - "UV Properties of N=8 SG"
12:00 -   2:00Lunch
  2:00 -   3:15Tom Banks - "Why I Don't Believe N=8 SUGRA is Finite"
  3:15 -   3:45Break
  3:45 -   5:00Zvi Bern - "The Multiloop Ultraviolet Structure of N=8 Supergravity"
Saturday, August 29
  9:00 - 10:15Mike Green - "Properties of Graviton Scattering in Maximally Supersymmetric String and Field Theory"
10:15 - 10:45Break
10:45 - 12:00Nathan Berkovits - "Pure Spinor Superspace"
12:00 -   2:00Lunch
  2:00 -   3:15Henriette Elvang - "Amplitudes with and without SUSY"
  3:15 -   3:45Break
  3:45 -   5:00John Joseph Carrasco - "N=8 Supergravity at Four Loops"
Sunday, August 30
  9:00 - 11:00Discussion on open problems and future directions - Chaired by Dan Freedman

Workshop sponsored by the Center for Fundamental Theory

Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University