22–26 Sept 2014
Europe/Berlin timezone

Scientific Programme

Overview Talks:

Fernando Marchesano (Madrid): "String Phenomenology Today" 
(String Phenomenology)
Dario Martelli (London): "Supersymmetric gauge theories, localization and holography" 
(Mathematical Aspects of Holography)
Tadashi Takayanagi (Kyoto): "Entanglement Entropy and Spacetime Geometry" 
(Entanglement Entropy)
Ivonne Zavala (Groningen): "String Theory and Cosmology in the 21st Century" 
(String Cosmology)


Special Interest Talks:

Ana Achúcarro (Leiden): "Strings and the Cosmic Microwave Background" 
(Strings and the Cosmic Microwave Background)

Lutz Köpke (Mainz): "IceCube Neutrino Observatory - PeV neutrinos from the cosmos" 
(IceCube Experiment at the South Pole)

 
Plenary Speakers include:

​Lilia Anguelova
Riccardo Argurio
Michae Berkooz 

Ralph Blumenhagen
Rutger Boels
Jan de Boer
Miguel Costa
Mirjam Cvetič
Aristomenis Donos
Nick Evans

Iñaki García Etxebarria
Valentina Forini
Jerome Gauntlett
Stefan Groot Nibbelink
Daniel Grumiller
Betti Hartmann
Luis Ibáñez
Renata Kallosh
Johanna Knapp
Charlotte Kristjansen
Karl Landsteiner
Yolanda Lozano
Sameer Murthy
Hans Peter Nilles
Burt Ovrut
Kyriakos Papadodimas
Domenico Seminara
Konstantinos Sfetsos
Gary Shiu
Marika Taylor
Katrin Wendland



Parallel Session Speakers include:

Daniel Arean
Alice Bernamonti
Michael Blaszczyk
Joan Camps
Michele Cirafici
Andre Coimbra
Pablo Diaz Benito
Lorenzo Di Pietro
Alcides Garat

Dimitrios Giataganas
Gianluca Grignani
Alessandra Gnecchi
Rajesh Gupta
Gianluca Inverso
Panagiota Kanti
Denis Klevers
Orchidea Maria Lecian
Carlo Maccaferri
Viraf Mehta
Vladimit Mitev
Achilleas Passias
Ekaterina Pozdeeva
Blaise Rollier
Jan Rosseel
Pradyumn Sahoo
Johannes Schmude
Wieland Staessens
Per Sundin
Hai Siong Tan
Alvaro Veliz-Osorio
Benjamin Withers



Working Groups:

Gauge/Gravity Duality
String Phenomenology
Cosmology and Quantum Gravity



Public MITP Lecture:

There will be a Public MITP Lecture by Prof. Dieter Lüst (Munich) on "Strings im Multiversum" (in German) at the Science Market Mainz on Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 6pm.


This is the 2nd meeting of the COST Action "The String Theory Universe".
There is an accompanying MITP scientific programme 1-26 September 2014.