Starts 28 Mar 2011
Ends 5 Apr 2011
Central European Time
Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics | (smr 2230)
Trieste - Italy
Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
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:
• Strongly Coupled Quantum Fields and Condensed Matter Systems
• Toward Holographic Duality for Black Holes and Cosmology
• AdS3/CFT2 Duality
• Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 SYM
• Primordial Cosmology
• Dark Matter
• New Physics at LHC
LECTURERS INCLUDE:
L.F. ALDAY (University of Oxford)
F. CACHAZO (Perimeter Institute)
R. GOPAKUMAR (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
S.S. LEE (McMaster University)
A. MALONEY (McGill University)
S.P. TRIVEDI (Tata Institute)
J. WACKER (SLAC)
M. ZALDARRIAGA (IAS Princeton)
- Organizer(s)
- Directors: E. Gava (INFN), S. Minwalla (Tata Institute), K.S. Narain (ICTP), S. Randjbar-Daemi (ICTP), E. Silverstein (Stanford University)
- Laboratories
- none
- Collaborations
- the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
- Secretary
- N. van Buuren
Organizers
Directors: E. Gava (INFN), S. Minwalla (Tata Institute), K.S. Narain (ICTP), S. Randjbar-Daemi (ICTP), E. Silverstein (Stanford University)