Workshop on String Theory and Fundamental Physics

11 - 17 February, 2009

The Krisha Jungle Resort, Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India

Academic Programme

Thursday, February 12

9:00 - 9:45 Kumar : Fermions in Magnetic Field on torus

9:45 - 10:30 Mahato :Hydrodynamics from the D1 brane

11:00 - 11:45 Govindrajan : GKM algebras from CHL Dyons

11:45 - 12:30 Suryanarayana : Counting Wobbling Dual-giants

2:00 - 2:20 Papageorgakis : The fuzzy S2structure of M2-M5 systems in ABJM

2:20 - 2:40 Ezhuthachan : The 4-derivative BLG action

2:40 - 3:00 Chowdhury : Emission from non-extremal fuzzballs

3:30 - 3:50 Pal : Lifshitz-like fixed point

3:50 - 4:10 Gowdigere : Non-supersymmetric AdS black holes and their Entropy

4:10 - 4:30 Chandrasekhar: Hybrid Formalism Approach to OSV Conjecture

4:30 - 4:50 Morita: Navier Stokes equation in AdS/CFT

Friday, February 13

9:00 - 10:30 Gopakumar : From AdS to Free Fields

11:00 - 11:45 Aharony : On the effective action of confining strings

11:45 - 12:30 Sonnenshein : On stringy/holographic baryons

2:00 - 2:45 Lifschytz : Electric and magnetic properties of Holographic QCD

2:45 - 3:30 Bakas : Gravitational duality and holography

4:00 - 4:45 Das: Lessons from time dependent AdS/CFT

4:45 - 5:30 Discussions : (Aharony/Rabinovici)


Saturday, February 14

Tiger sightting trip in the morning

2:00 - 2:45 L. Alvarez-Gaume : Remarks on Scaling in gravity and in YM Theory

2:45 - 3:30 Kol : Classical Effective Field Theory applied to General Relativity

4:00 - 4:45 Minwalla : Asymptotically AdS Black hole formation at low amplitude.

4:45 - 5:30 Rabinovici: World sheet for world sheets revisited

5:30 - 6:15 Discussions: Wadia

Sunday, February 15

9:00 - 10:30 Dabholkar : Precision counting of black hole microstates

11:00 - 11:45 Sen : Quantum Entropy Function

11:45 - 12:30 David : Partition function of dyons in the STU model

2:00 - 2:45 Jatkar : Black hole hair removal

2:45 - 3:30 Brustein : Thermodynamics and Hydrodynamics of black branes in AdS

4:00 - 4:45 Mandal : Microstate Dependence of Scattering from the D1-D5 System

4:45 - 5:30 Discussions : Sen


Monday, February 16

9:00 - 10:30 Antoniadis : String and string inspired phenomenology

11:00 - 12:30 Brustein : Impact of future cosmological observations on fundamental physics

1:30 - 2:20: L. Alvarez-Gaume : Summary discussions

Tiger sightting trip in the evening