Summer School on Particles, Fields and Strings

  • Start Date: 07/22/2008
  • End Date: 08/01/2008
Lecturer(s):

Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter)
Jaume Gomis (Perimeter)
Clifford Johnson (USC)
Veronika Hubeny (Durham)
Pavel Kovtun (UVic)
David Kutasov (Chicago)
Per Kraus (UCLA)
Mukund Rangamani (Durham)
Sang-Jin Sin (Hanyang U.)
Mark van Raamsdonk (Vancouver)

Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter), New Techniques in Perturbation Theory: Gauge Theory and Gravity
Jaume Gomis (Perimeter), Nonlocal Operators in Gauge Theory and Holography
Clifford Johnson (USC), Perturbative and Nonperturbative String Theory
Veronika Hubeny (Durham), The Fluid/Gravity Correspondence
Pavel Kovtun (UVic), Hydrodynamic Fluctuations
David Kutasov (Chicago), Holographic QCD
Per Kraus (UCLA), Black hole entropy in string theory
Mukund Rangamani (Durham), Gravity in Higher Dimensions: A Black Hole Menagerie
Sang-Jin Sin (Hanyang U.), Phases of AdS/QCD and Hadron Masses in Medium.
Mark van Raamsdonk (Vancouver), M2-branes, Three-Algebras and Chern-Simons Theory

Description: 

This will be the sixth in an ongoing series of annual summer schools in theoretical physics held in Canada. The first, second and fourth editions of these schools were held at the University of British Columbia. The third and fifth summer schools took place at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.

These schools are intended to educate graduate students and early career researchers on current developments in string theory. The theme of this year's school is Advances and Applications of AdS/CFT.

Places in the school, particularly for early career researchers - graduate students and postdoctoral fellows - will be awarded on a competitive basis.

Some scholarships for partial financial support of students and early career researchers are available. The number of scholarships, as well
as the number of spaces at the School are limited. Those who wish to
attend are asked to please complete the application form before May 25,
2008.
(Applications after the deadline will be considered if space
remains.)

Schedule: 

Week 1

 Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter), New Techniques in Perturbation Theory: Gauge Theory and Gravity  
 Clifford Johnson (USC), Perturbative and Nonperturbative String Theory  
 Pavel Kovtun (UVic), Hydrodynamic Fluctuations  
 Per Kraus (UCLA), Black hole entropy in string theory  
 Jaume Gomis (Perimeter), Nonlocal Operators in Gauge Theory and Holography


Week 1 Lectures Tuesday-Friday are ALL in Room 202 of the Hennings Building

 Tuesday Jul 22:

 09:00am Clifford Johnson
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am Freddy Cachazo
 11:45am Pavel Kovtun
 01:00pm lunch
 02:30pm Per Kraus
 03:45pm coffee break
 04:00pm Clifford Johnson

 Wednesday 23 July:

 09:00am Clifford Johnson
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am Freddy Cachazo
 11:45am Per Kraus
 01:00pm lunch
 02:30pm Clifford Johnson
 03:45pm coffee break
 04:00pm Freddy Cachazo

 7:30pm Summer School Dinner I
        Golden Ocean Seafood Restaurant

 Thursday 24 July

 09:00am Per Kraus
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am Pavel Kovtun
 11:45am Jaume Gomis

 Afternoon off


 Friday 25 July:

 09:00am Jaume Gomis
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am Pavel Kovtun
 11:45am Jaume Gomis
 01:00pm lunch
 03:00pm Research Seminar:
         B.-H. Lee
         Sogang University
         ``Giant Magnon and Spike Solutions''
 03:45pm coffee break
 04:00pm Taejin Lee,
         Kangwon University
        ``Some applications of string theory in condensed matter physics''

 Saturday 26 July
 Lectures are in Hennings 318

 09:00am Research Seminar:
         Don Witt
         University of British Columbia
         ``Geons in 3d Gravity''
 09:40am Research Seminar
         Pallab Basu
         University of British Columbia
         ``Dissolved Confinement''
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am Research Seminar:
         Gianluca Grignani,
         University of Perugia
         ``The SU(2)xSU(2) sector of Type IIA string theory on
               AdS_4xCP^3''
 11:45am Research Seminar:
         Ariel Zhtinitsky
         University of British Columbia
         ``Phase Transitions, Theta Behavior and Instantons in Hot and Dense QCD''

   Afternoon off

 ********************************************

 Week 2

 Veronika Hubeny (Durham), The Fluid/Gravity Correspondence  
 David Kutasov (Chicago), Holographic QCD  
 Mukund Rangamani (Durham), Gravity in Higher Dimensions: A Black Hole Menagerie  
 Mark van Raamsdonk (Vancouver), M2-branes, Three-Algebras, and Chern-Simons Theory  
 Sang-Jin Sin (Hanyang U.), Phases of AdS/QCD and Hadron Masses in Medium

 Week 2 Lectures are ALL in Hennings 201

 Monday 28 July


 09:00am Veronika Hubeny
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am Mark van Raamsdonk
 11:45am Mukund Rangamani
 01:00pm lunch
 02:30pm Sang-Jin Sin
 03:45pm coffee break
 04:00pm Research Seminars


 Tuesday 29 July


 09:00am Veronika Hubeny
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am David Kutasov
 11:45am Mukund Rangamani
 01:00pm lunch
 02:30pm Mark van Raamsdonk
 03:45pm coffee break
 04:00pm Sang-Jin sin

 07:30pm Summer School Dinner II
         Location and details to be announced.


 Wednesday 30 July

 09:00am Veronika Hubeny
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am David Kutasov
 11:45am Mukund Rangamani
 Afternoon off

 Thursday 31 July

 09:00am Veronika Hubeny
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am David Kutasov
 11:45am Mukund Rangamani
 01:00pm lunch
 02:30pm Mark van Raamsonk
 03:45pm coffee break
 04:00pm Sang-Jin Sin


Friday Aug. 1

 09:00am David Kutasov
 10:15am coffee break
 10:30am Mark van Raamsdonk
 11:45am Sang-Jin Sin
 01:00pm THE END

Organizers:

Joanna Karczmarek (University of British Columbia)
Moshe Rozali (University of British Columbia)
Gordon Semenoff (University of British Columbia)
Sang-Jin Sin (APCTP, Hanyang University)
Bum-Hoon Lee (Sogang University and CQUEST)

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Location
The Summer School will be held on the Campus of the University of British Columbia at the Hennings Physics Building, 6224 Agricultural Road, in Rooms 201 and 202.

 

Accommodation
Participants will be given information about accomodation at time of acceptance.
Contact information
Phone: (604) 822-3304
Fax: (604) 822-2833

 

Applications

To apply, please click here.

 

List of Participants

  • Arthur Lipstein, Caltech, arthur at theory dot caltech dot edu
  • Snigdhayan Mahanta, U of Toronto, snigdhayan_m at yahoo dot com, smahanta at math dot toronto dot edu
  • Miguel A. Bandres, Caltech, bandres at caltech dot edu
  • Yi Yang, Taiwan, yyang at phys dot cts dot nthu dot edu dot tw
  • Jaehyung Choi, Stony Brook, jj.jaehyung.choi at gmail dot com
  • Nicola Ambrosetti, nicola.ambrosetti at unine dot ch
  • Dhritiman Nandan, Brandeis University, dhriti at brandeis dot edu
  • Jonathan Sharman, thesharminator at hotmail dot com
  • Liu, Haitao, U. NewBrunswick, n28zb at unb dot ca
  • Rene Meyer, MPI Munich, meyer at mppmu dot mpg dot de
  • Marta Orselli, Niels Bohr Institute
  • Min Suh, USC, minsuh at usc dot edu
  • Peter McLachlan, pmclachl at uwo dot ca
  • Kwang Hyun, jokh38 at hanmail dot net
  • Keun young Kim, fortoe at gmail dot com
  • Brandon Robinson, U.Waterloo, b5robins at uwaterloo dot ca
  • Abrar Shaukat, UC Davis, ashaukat at ucdavis dot edu (Gomis)
  • Ethan Thompson, U.Washington, egthomps at u dot washington dot edu
  • Andre Blanchard, U. Western Ontario, ablanch5 at uwo dot ca
  • Xianhui Ge, APCTP gexh at www dot apctp dot org
  • Kyung Kiu Kim, Korean Institute for Advanced Study, kimeagle at kias dot re dot kr
  • Veselin Filev, University of Southern California, filev at usc dot edu
  • Shang-Yu Wu, loganwu at gmail dot com
  • Yunseok Seo, Hanyang U Korea, yseo at hanyang dot ac dot kr
  • WeiMing Chen, Taiwan, tainist at gmail dot com
  • Alexander Patrushev apatrushev at perimeterinstitute dot ca
  • Jishnu Bhattacharyya, U.New Hampshire, jishnu.b at unh dot edu
  • Jaewon Song, Caltech, jaewon at theory dot caltech dot edu
  • Si Young Nam, Sogang University, stringphy at gmail dot com
  • Minkyoo Kim, Sogang University, qftimaios at hotmail dot com
  • Pasha Bolokhov, U. of Pittsburg, pasha.bolokhov at gmail dot com
  • Jongwook Kim, Sogang University, jongwook at sogang dot ac dot kr
  • Imtak Jeon, Sogang University, imtak at sogang dot ac dot kr
  • Jaehoon Jeong. Yonsei University, jejechi at gmail dot com
  • Wooje Jang, Yonsei University, hootie9221 at paran dot com
  • Kanghoon Lee, Yonsei University, lkh at phya dot yonsei dot ac dot kr
  • Kristian McDonald, Triumf, klmcd at triumf dot ca
  • Daniel Lidstrom, University of British Columbia, lidstrom at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Brian Shieh, University of British Columbia, shieh at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Mathison Longton, University of British Columbia, mlongton at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Jianyang He, University of British Columbia. jyhe at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Henry Ling, University of British Columbia, hling at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Pallab Basu, University of British Columbia, pallab at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Anindya Mukherjee, University of British Columbia, anindaya at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Lionel Brits, University of British Columbia, lbrits at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • James Charbonneau, University of British Columbia, james at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Si Chen, University of British Columbia, sichen at phas dot ubc dot ca (Johnson)
  • Bojan Ramadanovic, Simon Fraser University, bramadan at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Greg van Anders, University of British Columbia, grva at phas dot ubc dot ca
  • Peter Winslow, University of British Columbia, pwinslow at phas dot ubc dot ca (Cachazo)
  • Hamed Karimi, University of British Columbia, hamed at phas dot ubc dot ca (Sin)
  • Gianluca Grignani, University of Perugia, Italy
  • Soonyeon Hyun, Korea
  • Bum-Hoon Lee, Sogang University, Korea
  • Taejin Lee, Kangwon University, Korea
  • Don Witt, University of British Columbia
  • Kristen Schleich, University of British Columbia
  • Silke Weinfurtner, University of British Columbia
  • Gordon Semenoff, University of British Columbia
  • Joanna Karczmarek, University of British Columbia
  • Moshe Rozali, University of British Columbia
  • Mark van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia
  • Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California
  • Per Kraus, UCLA
  • Pavel Kovtun, University of Victoria
  • Mukund Rangamani, Durham University
  • Veronika Hubeny, Durham University
  • David Kutasov, University of Chicago
  • Freddy Cachazo, Perimeter Institute
  • Jaume Gomis, Perimeter Institute
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