School and Workshop on D-brane Instantons, Wall Crossing and Microstate Counting | (smr 2188)
Starts 15 Nov 2010
Ends 20 Nov 2010
Central European Time
Trieste - Italy
The Aim of the activity is to provide pedagogical treatment of these subjects in the form of a series of lectures by individual speakers. The activity is intended for theoretical physicists or mathematicians with knowledge of quantum field theory, general relativity and string theory.
TOPICS:
• D-Brane Instantons
• Wall Crossing
• Entropy Enigmas
• Precision counting
• Black Holes and Attractors
• Black Holes in AdS
LECTURERS INCLUDE:
R. Blumenhagen (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)
A. Dabholkar (LPTHE & TIFR)
F. Larsen (University of Michigan)
S. Minwalla (TIFR)
J.F. Morales Morera (INFN Rome)
B. Pioline (LPTHE)
M. Bianchi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata"), S. Ferrara (CERN & INFN), E. Kiritsis (University of Crete), K. Narain (ICTP), S. Randjbar-Daemi (ICTP) and A. Sen (HRI)