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(2nd Week 6 – 13 September 2009)



Sunday 6/9


School Lectures

09h00 - 10h00

Problems in standard cosmology - (1)

G. Lazarides

10h00 - 11h00

Problems in standard cosmology- (2)

G. Lazarides

11h00 – 11h30

Coffee Break

11h30 - 12h30

SUSY and non-renormalisation theorems

J. Iliopoulos

12h30 - 13h30

Mass Generation in Broken SUSY and SUGRA

C. Savoy

13h30 - 16h30

Lunch Break

Workshop

16h30 -17h00

DeSitter and inflation in no-scale SUGRA

L. Covi

17h00 -17h30

Gravitino dark matter and LHC physics in R-violating SUSY

M. Lola

17h30 -18h00

Black holes, instantons, and harmonic functions

T. Mohaupt

18h00 - 18h30

Coffee Break


18h30 - 19h00

Theory and phenomenology of hideen U(1)s fromstring compactifications

A. Ringwald

19h00 - 19h30

Walking through a stable mini-landscape

S. Ramos-Sanchez

19h30 - 20h00

Vacuum stability beyond the MSSM

C. Delaunay



Monday 7/9


School Lectures

09h00 - 10h00

Colloquium in cosmology

M. Sasaki

10h00 - 11h00

Geometric flows and cosmology

M. Petropoulos

11h00 – 11h30

Coffee Break

11h30 - 12h30

Extended gauged supergravities and fluxes-(1)

B. de Wit

12h30 - 13h30

Extended gauged supergravities and fluxes-(2)

B. de Wit

13h30 - 16h30

Lunch Break

Workshop

16h30 -17h00

Formation and dynamics of cosmic superstrings

M. Sakellariadou

17h00 -17h30

Flavour mixing and vacuum energy in stringy model of space-time foam

N. Mavromatos

17h30 -18h00

Brane deformations and exact CFTs

K. Sfetsos

18h00-18h30

Coffee Break


18h30 - 19h00

Solitons in holographic models: from baryon to superconductor vortices

A. Pomarol

19h00 - 19h30

Higher derivative effects on eta/s at finite chemical potential

K. Hanaki

19h30 - 20h00

Bound states within AdS/CFT and their stability behavior

K. Siampos







Tuesday 8/9


School Lectures

09h00 - 10h00

Introduction to string theories and branes-(1)

C. Bachas

10h00 - 11h00

Introduction to string theories and branes-(2)

C. Bachas

11h00 - 11h30

Coffee Break

11h30 - 12h30

Effective supergravities and superstring dualities-(1)

C. Hull

12h30 - 13h30

Effective supergravities and superstring dualities-(2)

C. Hull

13h30 - 16h30

Lunch Break


Workshop

16h30 -17h00

First order flows for N=2 extremal black holes and duality invariants

A. Ceresole

17h00 -17h30

Orientifolds of linear sigma models

I. Brunner

17h30 -18h00

New type II supersymmetric AdS4 vacua

D. Tsimpis

18h00 - 18h30

Coffee Break

18h30 - 19h00

Recent progress in tachyon condensation

L. Bonora

19h00 - 19h30

Stochastic Quantalization and Holography

T. Petkou

19h30 - 20h00

Quark masses from gaugino condensation in string theories

C. Kokorelis





Wednesday 9/9


School Lectures

09h00 - 10h00

Low scale string phenomenology -(1)

I. Antoniadis

10h00 - 11h00

Low scale string phenomenology -(2)

I. Antoniadis

11h00 - 11h30

Coffee Break

11h30 - 12h30

String phenomenology

E. Dudas

12h30 - 13h30

Theories of higher spin fields

A. Sagnotti

13h30 - 16h30

Lunch Break



FREE AFTERNOON


Thursday 10/9


School Lectures

09h00 - 10h00

AdS/CFT and holography -(1)

K. Skenderis

10h00 - 11h00

AdS/CFT and holography -(2

K. Skenderis

11h00 - 11h30

Coffee Break

11h30 - 12h30

AdS/CFT integrability

J. Plefka

12h30 - 13h30

Scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM

E. Sokatchev

13h30 - 16h30

Lunch Break

Workshop

16h30 -17h00

Minimal standard heterotic string models (MSHSM)

A. Faraggi

17h00 -17h30

Towards classification of Pati-Salam Z_2 x Z_2 heterotic superstring vacua

I. Rizos

17h30 -18h00

Grand unification in the heterotic brane world

P. Vaudrevange

18h00 - 18h30

Coffee Break

18h30 - 19h00

Mass hierarchies in orientifolds

P. Anastasopoulos

19h00 - 19h30

Dual and deflected unification and SUSY breaking

S. Abel

19h30 - 20h00

Yukawa couplings and neutrinos in F-theory compactifications

R. Tatar



Friday 11/9


School Lectures

09h00 - 10h00

F-theory GUTs

R. Blumenhagen

10h00 - 11h00

F-theory GUTs

M. Wijnholt

11h00 - 11h30

Coffee Break

11h30 - 12h30

Superstring cosmology -(1)

C. Kounnas

12h30 - 13h30

Superstring cosmology -(2)

C. Kounnas

13h30 - 16h30

Lunch Break

Workshop

16h30 -17h00

Open problems in string cosmology

N. Toumbas

17h00 -17h30

Attractions to radiation eras in superstring cosmologies

H. Partouche

17h30 -18h00

Cosmological phases of the string thermal effective potential

J. Estes

18h00 - 18h30

Coffee Break

18h30 - 19h00

Holomorphic couplings in F-theory

A. Klemm

19h00 - 19h30

On deSitter vacua and inflation from geometric fluxes

M. Zagermann

19h30 - 20h00

Open and closed vs pure open string disc amplitudes

S. Stieberger



Saturday 12/9

School Lectures

09h00 - 10h00

Superstrings and physics in the LHC -(1)

D. Luest

10h00 - 11h00

Superstrings and physics in the LHC -(2)

D. Luest

11h00 - 11h30

Coffee Break

11h30 - 12h30

Supersymmetry and (generalized) complex geometry-(1)

U. Lindstrom

12h30 - 13h30

Supersymmetry and (generalized) complex geometry-(2)

U. Lindstrom

13h30 - 16h30

Lunch Break

Workshop

16h30 -17h00

Stability walls in heterotic theories

A. Lukas

17h00 -17h30

Susy-breaking, gauge mediation and model building

V. Khoze

17h30 -18h00

Completely twisted open strings

M. Berg

18h00 - 18h30

Coffee Break

18h30 - 19h00

Orbifold reductions of massive boson-fermion degenerac

I. Florakis

19h00 - 19h30

Possible string effects in 4D from a 5D anisotropic gauge theory in a mean-field background

N. Irges

19h30 - 20h00

Stringy instanton effects in models with rigid magnetised D-branes

C. E. Condeescu










Sunday 13/9


School Lectures

09h00 - 10h00

Holographic models for QCD -(1)

E. Kiritsis

10h00 - 11h00

Holographic models for QCD -(2)

E. Kiritsis

11h00 - 11h30

Coffee Break

11h30 - 12h30

Gravitational scattering, black-holes and information -(1)

S. Giddings

12h30 - 13h30

Gravitational scattering, black-holes and information-(2)

S. Giddings

13h30 - 16h30

Lunch Break

Workshop

16h30 -17h00

Proton hexality in GUTs and strings

S. Forste

17h00 -17h30

Scattering of charged tensor gauge bosons in gauge and superstring theories

G. Savvidy

17h30 -18h00

Open M2-brane

D. Smith

18h00 - 18h30

Coffee Break

18h30 - 19h00

Nearly-Kaehler dimensional reduction of the heterotic string

Th. Chatzistavrakidis

19h00 - 19h30

Contracted and expanded quantum algebraic structures

A. Doikou

19h30 - 20h00

A violation of the area law for entanglement entropy of quasi-free fermions

R. Helling