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  • Monday, 15 August 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Registration
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 09:00 Registration 1h0'
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Opening and welcome remarks
      • 10:00 Opening and welcome remarks 30'
        Speaker: Fernando Quevedo (Director ICTP)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 Superfluid dynamics and the second law
      • 11:00 Superfluid dynamics and the second law 1h0'
        Speaker: Amos Yarom (Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 16:30 Round Table Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Lundqvist Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Round Table Session 2h30'
  • Tuesday, 16 August 2011
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Holographic matter: deconfined string at criticality
      • 10:00 Holographic matter: deconfined string at criticality 1h0'
        Speaker: Sung-Sik Lee (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Two approaches to holographic baryons
      • 11:30 Two approaches to holographic baryons 1h0'
        Speaker: Piljin Yi (Korean Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 16:30 Round Table Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Lundqvist Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Round Table Session 2h30'
  • Wednesday, 17 August 2011
    • 10:00 - 11:00 The dual of the Dirichlet problem
      • 10:00 The dual of the Dirichlet problem 1h0'
        Speaker: Ramalingam Loganayagam (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Fluid-gravity duality at a cutoff surface
      • 11:30 Fluid-gravity duality at a cutoff surface 1h0'
        Speaker: Cynthia Keeler (University of Harvard & University of Michigan, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:30 Round Table Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Lundqvist Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Round Table Session 1h30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Conformal phase transition at weak and strong coupling
      • 15:30 Conformal phase transition at weak and strong coupling 1h0'
        Speaker: Andrei Parnachev (Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands)
  • Thursday, 18 August 2011
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Real time AdS/CFT and applications: jet quenching and second order hydrodynamic coefficients
      • 10:00 Real time AdS/CFT and applications: jet quenching and second order hydrodynamic coefficients 1h0'
        Speaker: Diana Vaman (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Holography for asymptotically locally Lifshitz spacetimes
      • 11:30 Holography for asymptotically locally Lifshitz spacetimes 1h0'
        Speaker: Simon Ross (Durham University, Durham, UK)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 16:30 Round Table Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Lundqvist Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Round Table Session 2h30'
  • Friday, 19 August 2011
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Relativistic heavy ion collisions, entropy and thermalization
      • 10:00 Relativistic heavy ion collisions, entropy and thermalization 1h0'
        Speaker: Berndt Mueller (Duke University, Durham, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Holographic thermalization
      • 11:30 Holographic thermalization 1h0'
        Speaker: Ben Craps (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 16:30 Round Table Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Lundqvist Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Round Table Session 2h30'
  • Monday, 22 August 2011
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Equilibration of fluctuations in hot AdS_5
      • 10:00 Equilibration of fluctuations in hot AdS_5 1h0'
        Speaker: Derek Teaney (Stony Brook University, New York, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Near horizon solutions of D3 branes ending on D5 branes
      • 11:30 Near horizon solutions of D3 branes ending on D5 branes 1h0'
        Speaker: Micha Berkooz (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 16:30 Round Table Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Lundqvist Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Round Table Session 2h30'
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
  • Tuesday, 23 August 2011
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Holographic Fermi and non-Fermi liquids
      • 10:00 Holographic Fermi and non-Fermi liquids 1h0'
        Speaker: Sandip Trivedi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Holographic entanglement entropy
      • 11:30 Holographic entanglement entropy 1h0'
        Speaker: Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 16:30 Round Table Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Lundqvist Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Round Table Session 2h30'
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
  • Wednesday, 24 August 2011
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Fermion spectral functions from the top
      • 10:00 Fermion spectral functions from the top 1h0'
        Speaker: Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College, London, UK)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Comments on AdS2 in AdS/CMT
      • 11:30 Comments on AdS2 in AdS/CMT 1h0'
        Speaker: Shamit Kachru (Stanford University & SLAC, Palo Alto, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 16:30 Round Table Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Lundqvist Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Round Table Session 2h30'
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
  • Thursday, 25 August 2011
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Holography for strongly correlated fermions
      • 10:00 Holography for strongly correlated fermions 1h0'
        Speaker: Larus Thorlacius (NORDITA and the University of Iceland)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Towards a holographic description of the Fermi liquid
      • 11:30 Towards a holographic description of the Fermi liquid 1h0'
        Speaker: Koenraad Schalm (Institut Lorentz, Leiden, Netherlands)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 16:30 Round Table Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Lundqvist Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Round Table Session 2h30'
    • 16:30 - 17:15 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 45'
  • Friday, 26 August 2011
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Comments on horizons and scrambling
      • 10:00 Comments on horizons and scrambling 1h0'
        Speaker: Joan Simon (University of Edinburgh, UK)
    • 11:00 - 11:15 Closing remarks
      • 11:00 Closing remarks 15'
    • 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 11:15 Coffee Break 30'