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Valandro - U(1)'s in F-theory/type IIB duality

Anderson - New aspects of Heterotic/F-theory Duality

Discussion: Achievements of F-theory in past 5 years and prospects

Savelli - F-theory on singular spaces

Discussion: Has the field become too technical?

Gray - Some constructions and properties of Calabi-Yau fourfolds

Hayashi - (p, q) webs and Nekrasov partition functions Abstract: We establish a method to compute the Nekrasov partition functions of theories which arises from (p, q) 5-brane webs or M-theory compactifications on their dual Calabi-Yau threefolds.The theories include certain non-Lagrangian theories such as the T_N theory. For that, it is important to remove the contributions which are decoupled from the theory. The web diagram encodes the decoupled contributions in a simple way.We also develop a prescription to compute the instanton partition functions of theories which are obtained by the Higgsing the T_N theory. The theories include the Sp(1) gauge theories with 6 or 7 flavors which have E7 or E8 flavor symmetry respectively at their fixed points.

Faraggi - string phenomenology: past, present and future

Ewerz - Applications of holography to strongly coupled plasmas

Tarrio: Holographic RG flows of d=3 super-Yang-Mills theories with fundamental degrees of freedom

Filev: A Quantum Critical Point from Flavours on a Compact Space

Meyer: Towards a holographic Bose-Hubbard model

Patrushev: Entanglement in field theory and extrinsic geometry

O'Bannon - A Holographic Model of the Kondo Effect

Wu: A Holographic Model of the Kondo Effect: Part II

Zhang, Hai-Qing: Quasi-normal modes and time evolution of a holographic superconductor after a quantum quench

Krippendorf: De Sitter vacua with chiral matter and softly broken supersymmetry

Mosaffa: Quantum Local Quench, AdS/BCFT and Yo-Yo String

Pradisi: Orbifolds and wrapping rules

Ammon: Recent progress in higher spin AdS/CFT correspondence -- Exploring the symmetries and spacetime notion of string theory

Kundu: Thermalization and Chemical Potential: a Toy Model from Holography

Iatrakis: The spectrum of holographic V-QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential

Klevers: Progress on Abelian and discrete gauge groups in F-theory -- the geometry of the gauge theory sector in quantum gravity

Massai - Metastability in bubbling AdS space

Zhang, Hongbao: Holographic Peierls metal-insulator transition

Petrini: Generalised Geometry for string compactifications and holography

Surowka: Parity violation and sound interactions in (2+1)-dimensional hydrodynamics

Krikun: Baryon and chiral symmetry breaking in holographic QCD

Russo: Localization in supersymmetric gauge theories: exact results and some applications

Arean: Disordered Holographic Superconductors

Seki: EPR = ER and Scattering

Marotta: Low-energy behaviour of string amplitudes

Musaev: Exceptional field theory: U-duality covariance