Branes and black holes (a London satellite meeting)

Workshop theme

Black holes have played an extremely important role in string theory during the last several years. Remarkable new developments have thrown light on the challenges of understanding black hole entropy and addressing the puzzle of information loss. More generally their study poses fascinating theoretical challenges for any theory of quantum gravity, and they are instrumental in applications of the gauge-gravity duality to strongly coupled systems at finite temperature.

The aim of the this workshop will be to review recent progress and to identify the most pressing open problems, to stimulate interaction and collaboration among participants, and hopefully trigger further outstanding developments in the field.

Applications for this workshop are now closed

The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:

The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Branes and black holes (a London satellite meeting), where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/F005431/1 and EP/I016392/1.

Timetable

Monday 28th May 2012
09:30 to 10:15	Registration	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:15 to 11:00	Frederik Denef Harvard University String glasses and beyond	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee - Great Hall Foyer	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:15	Iosif Bena CEA/Saclay Microstate Geometries - what do they tell us about Black Holes?	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:15 to 13:00	Lifshitz as a deformation of AdS	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch - Terrace	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:00 to 14:45	Sameer Murthy Universiteit Utrecht Some progress in computing exact black hole entropy using localization	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:45 to 15:30	Jan Manschot Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn D-branes on elliptic Calabi-Yau manifolds	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea - Great Hall Foyer	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:00 to 16:45	Simon Ross University of Durham Holography for asymptotically locally Lifshitz spacetimes	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:45 to 17:30	Monica Guica Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris Un-twisting the NHEK with spectral flows	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
18:00 to 19:00	Reception - Terrace	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Tuesday 29th May 2012
09:30 to 10:15	Sandip Trivedi Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bianchi Attractors: A Classification of Extremal Black Brane Geometries	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:15 to 11:00	Alejandra Castro McGill University Black hole monodromy	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee - Great Hall Foyer	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:15	Dario Martelli King's College London Supersymmetric field theories on curved manifolds and holography	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:15 to 13:00	Jelle Hartong Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen) Lifshitz Holographic Renormalization from AdS	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch - Terrace	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:00 to 14:45	Holographic Dual of BCFT	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:45 to 15:30	Sheer El-Showk CEA/Saclay The Resurgent Bootstrap and the 3D Ising Model	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:30 to 15:45	Afternoon Tea - Great Hall Foyer	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:45 to 16:30	Guillaume Bossard Centre de Physique Théorique de l’Ecole Polytechnique (CPHT) Octonionic black holes	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:30 to 17:15	Massimo Bianchi Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Massive and higher spin string scattering off D-brane bound-states	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
18:00 to 21:00	Banquet - Quaglino's	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Wednesday 30th May 2012
09:30 to 10:15	Andrew Strominger Harvard University Progress in dS/CFT	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:15 to 11:00	Flow equations for Black Holes in (gauged) supergravity	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee - Terrace	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:15	Borun Chowdhury Universiteit van Amsterdam Black holes spitting out supertubes	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:15 to 13:00	Davide Cassani King's College London Systematics of supersymmetric flows along the conifold	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
13:00 to 13:45	Jan de Boer Universiteit van Amsterdam Some thoughts on black hole microstates	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
13:45 to 18:00	Free afternoon	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Thursday 31st May 2012
09:30 to 10:15	Bernard de Wit Universiteit Utrecht Deformations of special geometry; in search of the topological string	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:15 to 11:00	George Papadopoulos King's College London Brane and black hole supergravity horizons	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee - Great Hall Foyer	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:15	Finn Larsen University of Michigan Conformal Symmetry for General Black Holes	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:15 to 13:00	Amitabh Virmani Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationphysik Subtracted Geometry From Harrison Transformations	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch - Great Hall Foyer	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:00 to 14:45	Constructing generic non-extremal black-hole solutions of N=2, d=4,5 supergravities	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:45 to 15:30	Arjun Bagchi University of Edinburgh Flat Space Holography as a limit of AdS/CFT	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea - Terrace	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:00 to 16:45	Maria J Rodriguez Harvard University Universal properties and the first law of black hole inner mechanics	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:45 to 17:30	Branes, permutations and oscillators	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Friday 1st June 2012
09:30 to 10:15	Roberto Emparan ICREA and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Black brane fluid flows	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:15 to 11:00	Wei Song Harvard University Comments on dipole theories	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee - Terrace	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:15	Steve Giddings University of California, Santa Barbara Black holes, Hilbert-space networks, and quantum information transfer	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:15 to 13:00	Harvey Reall University of Cambridge Black hole instabilities and local Penrose inequalities	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
13:00 to 14:00	Special lunch - Terrace	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Mathematics and applications of branes in string and M-theory

Speakers

Arjun Bagchi University of Edinburgh
Iosif Bena CEA/Saclay
Massimo Bianchi Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Guillaume Bossard Centre de Physique Théorique de l’Ecole Polytechnique (CPHT)
Davide Cassani King's College London
Alejandra Castro McGill University
Borun Chowdhury Universiteit van Amsterdam
Jan de Boer Universiteit van Amsterdam
Bernard de Wit Universiteit Utrecht
Frederik Denef Harvard University
Sheer El-Showk CEA/Saclay
Roberto Emparan ICREA and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Steve Giddings University of California, Santa Barbara
Monica Guica Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris
Jelle Hartong Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
Finn Larsen University of Michigan
Jan Manschot Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn
Dario Martelli King's College London
Sameer Murthy Universiteit Utrecht
George Papadopoulos King's College London
Harvey Reall University of Cambridge
Maria J Rodriguez Harvard University
Simon Ross University of Durham
Wei Song Harvard University
Andrew Strominger Harvard University
Sandip Trivedi Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Amitabh Virmani Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationphysik

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Branes and black holes (a London satellite meeting)

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