Program
All talks will take place in the auditorium 099 on the terrace/entrance level of
the ExWi (Exakte Wissenschaften / Exact Sciences) building of the University of Bern.
For information / instructions how to get there, see the
Directions page.
Monday, September 2
| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30 | Gomis | Exact Results in Supersymmetric Field Theories |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Van Riet | A second look at uplifting anti-branes |
| 11:30 | Monnier | Global gravitational anomaly cancellation for five-branes |
| 12:00 | Cardoso | Deformed special geometry: the Hesse potential and the holomorphic anomaly equation |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Ricci Pacifici | Exact results in N=2 gauge theories |
| 14:30 | Tartaglino Mazzucchelli | New superspace techniques for conformal supergravity in three dimensions |
| 15:00 | Cassani | Taming superconformal anomalies on supersymmetric backgrounds |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | Siampos | Gravity duals of N=2 superconformal field theories with no electrostatic description |
| 16:30 | Keller | Constraints on 2d CFT partition functions |
| 17:00 | Aniceto | Resurgent Analysis in String Theory |
| 17:30 | Konechny | Bounds on boundary entropy |
| 18:00 | Welcome Reception |
Tuesday, September 3
| 09:30 | Beisert | Yangian Symmetry in the AdS/CFT Correspondence |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Guarino | On electromagnetic duality and the vacua of N=8 supergravity |
| 11:30 | Inverso | Unoriented quiver gauge theories with flavour |
| 12:00 | Butter | The N=2 Gauss-Bonnet and other higher derivative terms from conformal supergravity |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Zagermann | Cosmological Constant, Near Brane Behavior and Singularities |
| 14:30 | Abbott | Integrable strings in AdS_3 backgrounds |
| 15:00 | Garavuso | Analogues of Mathai-Quillen forms in sheaf cohomology and applications to topological field theory |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | Verde | Special Interest Talk Cosmology: The latest news from cosmology and their implications |
| 17:15 | Lüst | Public Lecture: Strings, Geometrie von Raum und Zeit und das Multiversum (in German) |
| 18:30 | End |
Wednesday, September 4
| 09:30 | Argurio | Holographic (Super)Current Correlators and (Super)Symmetry Breaking |
| 10:00 | Hartong | Sources and Vevs for Lifshitz Holography |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Porri | Holographic R-symmetric flows and the \tau_U conjecture |
| 11:30 | Camanho | Lovelock gravity, black holes and holography |
| 12:00 | Thakur | Second order transport from anomalies |
| 12:30 | Penati | Presentation of the COST Action "The String Theory Universe" |
| 12:50 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 | -- 18:00 | Administrative meetings (Faculty Room) / Free Afternoon |
| 14:15 | Official COST MC / Contact Person Meeting | |
| 17:00 | WG5: Gender Issue and Outreach Activities |
Thursday, September 5
| 09:30 | Hohm | Generalized spacetimes: double field theory, alpha' corrections and M-theory |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Obers | Blackfolds: long-wave length dynamics of black branes and applications |
| 11:30 | Armas | Brane Effective Actions and Black Hole Elasticity |
| 12:00 | Toldo | Phase transitions of hairy magnetic AdS_4 black holes |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Petkou | Holographic perfect fluidity and the Cotton-energy momentum tensor duality in three dimensions |
| 14:30 | Mukhopadhyay | Spacetime emergence via holographic RG flow and the fluid-gravity correspondence |
| 15:00 | Amado | Landau criterion for holographic superfluids |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | -- 18:00 | Working Group Activities |
| WG1 & WG3 | Discussions on Black Holes and AdS/CFT | |
| Gauntlett | Black Holes in AdS/CMT | |
| de Boer | A Discussion on Quantum Gravity | |
| WG2 | String Phenomenology | |
| Argurio, van Riet | Discussion on SUSY breaking in string theory and future directions in StringPheno | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner: Aperitif | |
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner |
Friday, September 6
| 09:30 | Honecker | Recent advances in string phenomenology - a biased overview |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Nampuri | Indefinite theta functions in black hole counting |
| 11:30 | Schmude | Superconformal indices and Sasaki-Einstein manifolds |
| 12:00 | Svanes | Heterotic supergravity, and the alpha' expansion |
| 12:30 | End of the conference |
