SIS
23 July 2007 to 21 December 2007
Two central theories in modern theoretical physics are gauge fields and strings. Quantum gauge fields form the basis of the standard model of elementary particle physics, and are also rich mathematically - indeed, a rigorous derivation of their spectrum is one of the Clay Institute's seven millennium prize problems in mathematics. String theory potentially unifies quantum physics with gravity, and has offered a rich vein of mathematical exploration for over thirty years. Right from the early days, when string theory was envisaged as a model of strongly interacting particles, and more recently exemplified in the AdS/CFT correspondence, it has been clear that there is a close and rather mysterious relationship between the two.
The programme starts with some open issues in QCD, the gauge theory of quarks and gluons. Both conceptual issues such as dynamical mass generation and color confinement, and phenomenological ones such as properties of the quark-gluon plasma studied in ultra-relativistic ion collisions and the nature of matter at high baryon density, can be tackled by a variety of non-perturbative approaches involving lattice simulations, the properties of topologically non-trivial solutions of the Yang-Mills field equations, or random matrix models.We then consider more theoretical questions, in particular involving supersymmetry and large-rank gauge groups, where pure N = 1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories (SYM) are directly connected with QCD. The increased analytic control offered by such models coupled with new techniques based on duality symmetries have enabled many exciting new, exact results in recent years, including bounds on transport coefficients which may potentially inform RHIC phenomenology. The same ideas, for varying degrees of supersymmetry, naturally recur in matrix models and string theory, and lead on to the central theme of the programme, the gauge/string correspondence. A recent feature of this has been the ubiquitous appearance of 'integrability', the exact solubility of certain classical and quantum models. Integrability appears on both sides of the AdS/CFT correspondence, with spin-chain techniques enabling the calculation of anomalous dimensions in the N = 4 SYM which match string states which are those of classical integrable systems, while the hidden symmetries of the full AdS string sigma models are yet to be unravelled. Another important recent development is the reformulation of weakly-coupled Yang-Mills theory as a string theory in twistor space, leading to a resurgence in the application of string-inspired techniques to perturbative calculations in gauge theories.
The programme thus encompasses a broad sweep of interests and techniques, from strong-interaction phenomenology and lattice simulation through theoretical aspects of gauge fields and strings to integrability. In our view there has never been a more fertile time for workers from different ranges of this spectrum to interact and exchange ideas and insight. The programme will be supplemented by workshops on Deconfinement in QCD (in August) and Integrability and the gauge/string correspondence (December) and a school on Gauge fields and strings (September).
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Title | Year | Programme |
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Determination of $ {\it F_\pi} $ from distributions of Dirac operator eigenvalues with imaginary densityAuthors: Poul H Damgaard, Gernot Akemann |
2007 | SIS |
Hadron spectrum in a two-colour baryon-rich mediumAuthors: Simon Hands, P Sitch, JI Skullerud |
2007 | SIS |
Gauge symmetry and supersymmetry of multiple M2-branesAuthors: N Lambert, J Bagger |
2007 | SIS |
Electron fractionalization for two-dimensional Dirac fermionsAuthors: C Hou, R Jackiw, C Mudry, S Pi, ET Al, C Chamon |
2007 | SIS |
Strings on conifolds from strong coupling dynamics: quantitative resultsAuthors: SA Hartnoll, David Berenstein |
2007 | SIS |
On T-duality and integrability for strings on AdS backgroundsAuthors: R Ricci, Arkady Tseytlin, M Wolf |
2007 | SIS |
Algebra of transfer-matrices and Yang-Baxter equations on the string worldsheet in $AdS$$_5$ x $S$$^5$Authors: Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Andrei Mikhailov |
2007 | SIS |
Quenched mesonic spectrum at large $N$Authors: C Pica, Luigi Del Debbio, Biagio Lucini, A Patella |
2007 | SIS |
Pohlmeyer reduction of $AdS$$_5$ x $S^5$ superstring sigma modelAuthors: Arkady Tseytlin, Maxim Grigoriev |
2007 | SIS |
Rho meson condensation at finite isospin chemical potential in a holographic model for QCDAuthors: Kasper Peeters, J Sonnenschein, M Zamaklar, Ofer Aharony |
2007 | SIS |
Spinning superstrings at 2-loops: strong-coupling corrections to dimensions of large-twist SYM operatorsAuthors: Arkady Tseytlin, Radu Silviu Roiban |
2007 | SIS |
Nonlinear fluid dynamics from gravityAuthors: Veronika Hubeny, S Minwalla, Mukund Rangamani, S Bhattacharyya |
2007 | SIS |
Heavy quarkonium in any channel in resummed hot QCDAuthors: Mikko Laine, M Vepsalainen, Y Burnier |
2007 | SIS |
Mastering the master spaceAuthors: A Hanany, Yang-Hui He, Alberto Zaffaroni, D Forcella |
2007 | SIS |
On the supergravity description of boost invariant conformal plasma at strong couplingAuthors: A Buchel, Michal P. Heller, Romuald Janik, P Benincasa |
2007 | SIS |
Supergravitations from one loop perturbative $N$ = 4 SYMAuthors: Maciej Trzetrzelewski, Romuald Janik |
2007 | SIS |
Boundary spectra in superspace sigma-modelsAuthors: Volker Schomerus, T Creutzig, T Quella |
2007 | SIS |
Higher representations on the lattice: perturbative studiesAuthors: MT Frandsen, H Panagopoulos, Francesco Sannino, Luigi Del Debbio |
2007 | SIS |
Mesonic quasinormal modes of the Sakai-Sugimoto model at high temperatureAuthors: Edward Threlfall, Nicholas John Evans |
2007 | SIS |
Quantum giant magnonsAuthors: Konstantin Zarembo |
2007 | SIS |
The diagonal cosets of the Heisenberg GroupAuthors: G D'apollonio, T Quella |
2007 | SIS |
Cohomological gauge theory, quiver matrix models and Donaldson-Thomas theoryAuthors: A Sinkovics, Richard Szabo, M Cirafici |
2007 | SIS |
Principal chiral model on superspheresAuthors: T Quella, Volker Schomerus, V Mitev |
2007 | SIS |
20 August 2007 to 24 August 2007
17 September 2007 to 27 September 2007
8 October 2007 to 8 October 2007
10 December 2007 to 14 December 2007
Wednesday 25th July 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Simon Hands |
Room 1 |
Thursday 26th July 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Radu Tatar University of Liverpool |
Room 1 |
Friday 27th July 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Jacobus Verbaarschot State University of New York |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 31st July 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 1st August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 2nd August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
David Tong University of Cambridge |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 8th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Ken Intriligator University of California, San Diego |
Room 2 |
Thursday 9th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Ofer Aharony University of California, Irvine and Weizmann Institute of Science |
Room 2 |
Friday 10th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Herbert Neuberger |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 14th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Kei-Ichi Kondo Chiba University |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 15th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Thursday 16th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Mikhail Stephanov University of Illinois |
Room 1 |
Friday 17th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Kim Splittorff Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 28th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Arkady Vainshtein University of Minnesota |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 29th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Thursday 30th August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Prem Kumar University of Wales, Swansea |
Room 1 |
Friday 31st August 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Pietro Antonio Grassi |
Room 1 |
Monday 3rd September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 4th September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Mukund Rangamani Durham University |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 5th September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Kasper Peeters |
Room 2 |
Thursday 6th September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Luigi Del Debbio University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 |
Friday 7th September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Stefano Bolognesi Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 15:30 |
Valentin V Khoze Durham University |
No Room Required |
Tuesday 11th September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Stephen Hsu University of Oregon |
Room 1 | |
Wednesday 12th September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Thursday 13th September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Giuseppe Policastro |
Room 1 |
Friday 14th September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Pierre van Baal |
Room 1 |
Thursday 27th September 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Valentin V Khoze Durham University |
Room 1 |
Friday 28th September 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Veronika Hubeny Durham University |
Room 2 |
Monday 1st October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Alberto Zaffaroni |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 2nd October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 3rd October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Christopher Hull Imperial College London |
Room 1 |
Thursday 4th October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Yang-Hui He |
Room 1 |
Monday 8th October 2007 | |||
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15:30 to 16:00 | Room 1 | ||
18:00 to 18:45 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 9th October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Simon Catterall Syracuse University |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:30 |
So Matsuura Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 10th October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Arkady Tseytlin Imperial College London |
Room 1 |
Thursday 11th October 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:30 |
Quark confinement and other mysteries of the strong nuclear force |
Room 1 |
Monday 15th October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Peter Orland City University of New York |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 16th October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Chong-Sun Chu University of Durham |
Room 1 |
Friday 19th October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Biagio Lucini University of Wales, Swansea |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 23rd October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Alessandro Torrielli Acclarogen Limited |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 24th October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Thursday 25th October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Jonathan Mark Evans University of Cambridge |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 30th October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Matthew James Strassler |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 31st October 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Thomas Klose Princeton University |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 1st November 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Tristan McLoughlin |
Room 1 | |
Friday 2nd November 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Timothy Hollowood University of Wales, Swansea |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 6th November 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 7th November 2007 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Kenichi Konishi |
Room 1 | |
Monday 12th November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Frank Ferrari |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:15 |
Konstantinos Zoubos Birkbeck, University of London |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 13th November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
David Berenstein University of California, Santa Barbara |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:15 |
David Berenstein University of California, Santa Barbara |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 14th November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Cesar Gomez Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 15th November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Oisin Aengus Padraig Mac Conamhna Imperial College London |
Room 1 | |
Monday 19th November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Abhishek Agarwal |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 22nd November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Toby Wiseman Imperial College London |
Room 1 | |
Friday 23rd November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Charles Young University of Durham |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 27th November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 28th November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Volker Schomerus |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 29th November 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Gabriele Travaglini Queen Mary University of London |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 4th December 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Pedro Vieira CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 5th December 2007 | |||
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11:30 to 12:45 |
Supergroups for disordered Dirac fermions: the quantum Hall transition |
Room 1 |
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