The String Theory Universe

22 Sept 2014, 08:30 → 26 Sept 2014, 16:00 Europe/Berlin

2nd COST MP1210 Meeting
and

20th European Workshop on String Theory
and
Conference of the MITP programme
String Theory and its Applications

JGU Mainz, 22.-26. September 2014

Poster StringTheoryUniverse2014.pdf

Monday 22 September

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:00 Special Interest Talk: Achucarro

09:00 Achucarro - Strings and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Slides Achucarro_Mainz2014.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Chair: Silvia Penati

10:00 Kallosh - Recent developments in string theory/supergravity cosmology

Slides Kallosh_Mainz2014.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary: Chair: Silvia Penati

11:00 Shiu - Large Field Inflation in String Theory

Slides Shiu_Mainz2014.pdf

11:30 Seminara - Supersymmetric Wilson loops and the Bremsstrahlung function in N=6 Super Chern- Simons with matter

Slides Seminara_Mainz2014.pdf

12:00 Taylor - Generalized entanglement entropy

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Plenary: Chair: Anna Ceresole

14:00 Lozano - New AdS/CFT duals through non-Abelian T-duality

Slides Lozano_Mainz2014.pdf

14:30 Wendland - Mathieu Moonshine: Facts and Fantasies

Slides Wendland_Mainz2014.pdf

15:00 Hartmann: Stability of black holes and solitons in Anti-de Sitter space-time

Slides Hartmann_Mainz2014.pdf

15:30 Boels - String theory in target space

Slides Boels_Mainz2014.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 18:00 Parallel: Chair: Ammon

16:30 Bernamonti - Holographic entanglement entropy in excited states from 2d CFT

17:00 Rosseel - Newton-Cartan geometry for holography

Slides Rosseel_Mainz2014.pdf

17:20 Giataganas - Anisotropic Gauge/Gravity Dualities

Slides Giataganas_Mainz2014.pdf

17:40 Rollier - New warped holography

Slides Rollier_Mainz2014.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Parallel: Chair: Blumenhagen

16:30 Klevers: Global F-Theory Models with U(1)'s and Discrete Gauge Groups

Slides Klevers_Mainz2014.pdf

17:00 Mayrhofer - Four-Dimensional F-Theory Compactifications with Discrete Gauge Symmetries via Higgsing

Slides Mayrhofer_Mainz2014.pdf

17:20 Di Pietro - A Cardy-like formula in 4d

Slides DiPietro_Mainz2014.pdf

17:40 Diaz Benito - Charges and restricted Schur polynomials for CFT's with classical gauge groups

16:30 → 18:00 Parallel: Chair: Ceresole

16:30 Grignani - Holographic Bilayers

Slides Grignani_Mainz_2014.pdf

17:00 Cirafici - Line defects in N=2 QFT: framed quivers and cluster algebras

Slides Cirafici_Mainz2014.pdf

17:20 Schmude - Super Yang-Mills theory in curved space-time and localisation

Slides Schmude_Mainz_2014.pdf

17:40 Sundin - The quantum light-cone gauge

Slides Sundin_Mainz_20014.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Welcome Reception and Poster Session

18:00 Poster Session

• Amaro - Mapping String Solitons • Bagrov - Pairing induced superconductivity in holography • Conti - Wavefunctions and dS/CFT • Datta - Entanglement entropy of W-algebra CFTs and holography • Ecker - Rigour and Rigidity: Systematics on particle physics D6-brane models on Z2xZ6 • Koltermann - Circling the square: Deforming fractional D-branes in Type II/OR Orientifolds • Lala - Magnetic response of holographic Lifshitz superconductors • Leoni - Four-point amplitudes in N=2 SCQCD • Malek - Timelike dualities and U-dual fluxes in extended generalised geometry • Mishra - Cylindrically Symmetric Cosmic Strings Coupled with Maxwell Fields in Bimetric Relativity • Oehlmann - The social network of toric F-theory fibrations • Pinzani Fokeeva - Testing the membrane paradigm with holography • Sonoda - QCD instability induced by a strong electromagnetic field in AdS/CFT • Tursunov - Current-Carrying String Loop and its Astrophysical Applications • Van Pol - Near Horizon Geometry of Strings Ending on Intersecting D8/D4-branes • Vescovi - Two-loop cusp anomaly in ABJM at strong coupling

Tuesday 23 September

09:00 → 10:00 Overview Talk: Takayanagi

09:00 Takayanagi - Entanglement Entropy and Spacetime Geometry

Slides Takayanagi_Mainz2014.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Chair: Johanna Erdmenger

10:00 Evans - Dynamic AdS/QCD and Nc,Nf Dependence of Gauge Theory

Slides Evans-Mainz2014.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 13:00 Plenary: Chair: Johanna Erdmenger

11:00 Anomalous magneto-response and the Stueckelberg axion in holography

Slides Landsteiner_Mainz2014.pdf

11:30 Gauntlett - Holographic lattices, metals and insulators

Slides Gauntlett_Mainz2014.pdf

12:00 Kristjansen - A Holographic Quantum Hall Ferromagnet and its Conductivity Tensor

Slides Kristjansen_Mainz2014.pdf

12:30 Sfetsos - Integrable interpolations in σ-models and in supergravity

Slides Sfetsos_Mainz2014.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Special Interest Talk: Koepke: IceCube Neutrino Observatory - PeV neutrinos from the cosmos

14:30 Koepke - IceCube Neutrino Observatory - PeV neutrinos from the cosmos

Slides Koepke_Mainz2014.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Plenary: Chair: Carlo Ewerz

15:30 Camps - Generalized entropy and higher derivative gravity

Slides Camps_Mainz2014.pdf

16:00 Costa - Thermodynamics of the BMN matrix model at strong coupling

Slides Costa_Mainz2014.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee

17:00 → 18:30 Discussion: Working Group 1: Gauge/Gravity Duality - Discussion Leaders: Johanna Erdmenger and Tassos Petkou

17:00 WG1 Discussion Session

WG 1 DISCUSSION SESSION For the WG 1 discussion session on gauge/gravity duality on Tuesday afternoon, we have asked some of the speakers to suggest a paper related to their talk. These papers will be serving as basis for the discussion. Participants wishing to prepare for the discussion session are encouraged to take a look at these papers. Questions and comments will be very welcome! - Note that the topic of entanglement entropy will be discussed in the WG 3 discussion session. For WG1, we have collected the following papers: Yolanda Lozano: 1408.0912 Nick Evans: 1307.4896 Karl Landsteiner: arXiv:1207.5808 Jerome Gauntlett: 1406.4742 Charlotte Kristjansen: 1408.3320 Kostas Sfetsos: 1405.7803 Miguel Costa: 1311.5607 --------------------------- Moreover, WG 1 vice-leader Anastasios Petkou will prepare a discussion on higher spin theories, based on these papers: 1404.1094, 1407.4574, 1403.4545

Wednesday 24 September

09:00 → 10:00 Overview Talk: Marchesano

09:00 Marchesano - String Phenomenology Today

Slides Marchesano_Mainz2014.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Chair: Timo Weigand

10:00 Cvetic - F-theory Compactification with Abelian Sector

Slides Cvetic_Mainz2014.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 13:00 Plenary: Chair: Timo Weigand

11:00 Ibanez - Higgs versus inflation in string theory

Slides Mainz-2014-Ibanez.pdf

11:30 Nilles - Aligned natural inflation in string theory

Slides Nilles_Mainz2014.pdf

12:00 Ovrut - R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry, LSP Decays and the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy

Slides Ovrut_Mainz2014.pdf

12:30 Groot Nibbelink - Non-supersymmetric heterotic model building

Slides GrootNibbelink_Mainz2014.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Discussion: Working Group 2: String Phenomenology - Discussion Leaders: Michela Petrini and Angel Uranga

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 18:00 Administrative COST Meeting

Thursday 25 September

09:00 → 10:00 Overview Talk: Zavala

09:00 Zavala - String Theory and Cosmology in the 21st Century

Slides Zavala_Mainz_2014.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Chair: Van Proeyen

10:00 Murthy - Quantum entropy of black holes

Slides Murthy_Mainz_2014.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:00 Plenary: Chair: Van Proeyen

11:00 Grumiller - Flat space higher spin holography

Slides Grumiller_Mainz_2014.pdf

11:30 De Boer - Differential entropy

Slides deBoer_mainz_0914.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lledo: On gender, science and all that

Slides Lledo_Mainz2014.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:30 Parallel: Chair: Ceresole

14:30 Kanti - Cosmological Solutions in Dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet Theory

Slides Kanti_talk.pdf

14:50 Gupta - Logarithmic Corrections to Extremal Black Hole Entropy

Slides Gupta_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:10 Tan - Closed String Partition Function of Doubled Geometries

Slides Tan_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:30 Maccaferri - Background independence of open string field theory

Slides Maccaferri_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:50 Sahoo - Higher Dimensional Bianchi Type-III universe with strange quark matter attached to string cloud in general relativity

Slides Sahoo_Mainz_2014.pdf

16:10 Garat - New tetrads in Riemannian geometry and new ensuing results in group theory, gauge theory and fundamental physics in Einstein-Maxwell spacetimes.

Slides Garat_Mainz2014.pdf

14:30 → 16:30 Parallel: Chair: Lozano

14:30 Arean - Holographic Noise

Slides Arean_Mainz_2014.pdf

14:50 Withers - Breaking translational symmetry in holography

Slides Withers_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:10 Korovin - Scale versus Conformal Invariance in Holography with Higher Derivative Corrections

Slides Korovin_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:30 Gnecchi - First order flow for non-extremal AdS black holes

Slides Gnecchi_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:50 Veliz Osorio - Attractive c-functions from holography

Slides Veliz-Osorio_Mainz_2014.pdf

16:10 Passias - Advances in AdS(6)/CFT(5) correspondence

Slides Passias_Mainz_2014.pdf

14:30 → 16:30 Parallel: Chair: Marchesano

14:30 Staessens - Rigour & Rigidity: Systematics of Intersecting D6-brane Model Building on T6/Z2×Z6 with DiscreteTorsion

Slides Wieland_Mainz_2014.pdf

14:50 Mehta - Orbifolds as free fermion models

Slides Mehta_StringUniverse_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:10 Blaszczyk - Tachyons (or not) in N=0 heterotic compactifications

Slides Blaszczyk_Mainz2014.pdf

15:30 Inverso - Symplectic deformations of gauged supergravities

Slides Inverso_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:50 Coimbra - Generalised Special Holonomy and N=1 Backgrounds

Slides Coimbra_Mainz_2014.pdf

16:10 Oehlmann - The Social Network of toric F-Theory Fibrations

Slides Oehlmann_Mainz_2014.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee

17:00 → 18:30 Discussion: Working Group 3: Cosmology and Quantum Gravity - Discussion Leaders: Jan de Boer and Roberto Emparan

19:30 → 22:00 Banquet

Friday 26 September

09:00 → 10:00 Overview Talk: Martelli

09:00 Martelli - Supersymmetric gauge theories, localization and holography

Slides Martelli_Mainz_2014.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Chair: Wendland

10:00 Anguelova - Glueballs as inflatons

Slides Anguelova_Mainz_2014.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary: Chair: Wendland

11:00 Blumenhagen - Large field inflation and moduli stabilization

Slides Blumenhagen_Mainz_2014.pdf

11:30 Papadodimas - The Black Hole interior in AdS/CFT and the information paradox

Slides Papadodimas_Mainz_2014.pdf

12:00 Forini - Sigma model perturbation theory and AdS/CFT spectrum

Slides Forini_Mainz_2014.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Plenary

14:00 Garcia Etxebarria - Torsion, Duality and the Wilderness of Orientifolds

Slides GarciaEtxebarria_Mainz_2014.pdf

14:30 Knapp - D-branes in non-abelian gauged linear sigma models

Slides Knapp_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:00 Argurio - Anatomy of new SUSY-breaking holographic RG-flows

Slides Argurio_Mainz_2014.pdf

15:30 Conference Summary & Outlook