Workshop on N=1 Compactifications
Description
Bus Service Sunday March 27 to Waterloo
Please note, for participants attending the String Phenomenology Workshop (March 28 - April 1, 2005) immediately following the N=1 Workshop, at Perimeter Institute, there will be buses leaving the Fields Institute on March 27, 2005 at 1:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. travelling to the Four Points Sheraton in Kitchener/Waterloo. There will be sign-up sheets available to reserve a seat.
Confirmed Speakers:
B. S. Acharya, Abdus Salam ICTP
Anirban Basu, University of Chicago
Chris E. Beasley, Princeton University
Melanie Becker, University of Maryland
Ralph Blumenhagen, Munich, Max Planck Institute
Volker Braun, University of Pennsylvania
Frederik Denef, Rutgers University
Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania
Bogdan Florea, Rutgers University
Mariana Grana, Ecole Normale Superieur-Paris
Sergei Gukov, Harvard University
Ruben Minasian, École Polytechnique
Michael Schulz, California Institute of Technology
Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin/Perimeter Institute
Alessandro Tomasiello, Stanford University
Schedule
| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 12:00 to 13:30 |
Break for Lunch
|
| 13:30 to 14:30 |
Landscape studies
Frederik Denef, Rutgers University |
| 14:30 to 15:10 |
Afternoon Tea
|
| 15:10 to 16:10 |
Mariana Grana |
| 16:30 |
Reception in Atrium
|
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Continental Breakfast
|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Bogdan Florea, Rutgers University |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Sergei Gukov, California Institute of Technology |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Break for Lunch
|
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Ruben Minasian, Ecole Polytechnique |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Afternoon Tea
|
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Continental Breakfast
|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Statistics of M theory vacua and the Landscape
Bobby Acharya, Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences |
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Alessandro Tomasiello, Stanford University |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Break for Lunch
|
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Geometric transitions, integrable systems, and large N duality
Ron Donagi, U Penn and University of Pennsylvania |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Afternoon Tea
|
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Continental Breakfast
|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Recent Progress with Intersecting D-brane models
Ralph Blumenhagen, Max Planck Institute |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Volker Braun, University of Pennsylvania |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Break for Lunch
|
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Anirban Basu, University of Washington |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Afternoon Tea
|
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Continental Breakfast
|
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Michael Schulz, California Institute of Technology |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Christopher Beasly, Northeastern University |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Break for Lunch
|
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Melanie Becker, University of Maryland |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Afternoon Tea
|
