Program Details                                                                                    Date Name Topic Video Link  03 Jun 08 Berkooz On the conformal field theory duals of type IIA AdS_4 flux compactifications Part1    Part 2  04 Jun 08 Rama Intersecting (M) branes in cosmology Part1    Part2  05 Jun 08  Kumar  Theta Identitiies and Yukawa Couplings in Magnetized Branes  Part 1  06 Jun 08 Antoniadis  Introduction and issues in string phenomenology  Part 1    Part 2  09 Jun 08  Antoniadis  Introduction ann issue in string phenomenology (part -II)  Part 1  10 Jun 08  Berkooz  Weakly renormalized fermi surface operators in N=4 SYM  Part 1     Part 2  11 Jun 08  Maharana  Moduli Masses and Effective Actions in IIB flux Compactification  Part 1     Part 2  12 Jun 08  S. Panda  D-brane dynamics near NS5 branes and origin of geometric tachyon  Part 1     Part 2  13 Jun 08  Majumder  Disorder on the Landscape  Part 1  16 Jun 08  Gaberdiel  Pure Supergravity on AdS3 and extremal SCFTs  Part 1  17 Jun 08  Gaberdiel  Modular differential equations and extremal CFTs  Part 1  18 Jun 08  Kitazawa  Matrix Models on Curved Spacetime  Part 1  19 Jun 08  Schomerus  Duality in Holographic Backgrounds  Part 1  20 Jun 08  Schomerus  Duality in Holographic Backgrounds  Part 1  23 Jun 08  Murthy  Counting All dyons in N=4 string theory  Part 1  24 Jun 08  Drukker  Supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 SYM and reduced models  Part 1  25 Jun 08  Hashimoto  Exploring QCD with Sakai-Sugimoto model  Part 1  25 Jun 08  Sreerup  Discussion  Part 1  26 Jun 08  Justin  On the partition function of Dyons in N=2 string theories  Part 1  27 Jun 08  Alishahiha  Central charge of AdS_2 gravity nd AdS_2/CFT_1  correspondance  Part 1  30 Jun 08  Banerjee/Srivastava  Classification of T-duality invariants for Heterotic string theory on T 6 and dyon spectrum. /  Dyon partition function for torsion > 1  Part 1  01 Jul 08  Pioline  Instanton corrections and black hole partition functions  Part 1  02 Jul 08  Yaffe  Non-equilibrium dynamics in N=4 plasma  Part 1  Part 2  03 Jul 08  Nampuri/Banerjee  Duality Symmetry and Cardy Limit / Sixth derivative correction to statistical entropy function  Part 1  04 Jul 08  Yin  ZZ boundary states and AdS2 fragmentation  Part 1  07 Jul 08  Hubeny    Part 1  08 Jul 08  Maldacena  N=6 superconformal matter-Chern-Simons theory  Part 1        Part 2  09 Jul 08  Costis/Bhattacharya  From BLG to ABJM: an Overview / Indices for N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theories  Part 1  10 Jul 08  Raamsdonk  A Massive Study of M2-brane Proposals  Part 1  14 Jul 08  Rangamani  Twisting Strings into Things: A Galilean Hologram  Part 1  15 Jul 08  Marolf  Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics  Part 1  16 Jul 08  Reall  Extremal black holes  Part 1  17 Jul 08  Wiseman  Lattice simulations of thermal D0-branes  Part 1  18 Jul 08  Cheng  Wall Crossing, Discrete Attractor Flow, and Borcherds Algebra  Part 1  21 Jul 08  Hartnoll  Towards an ads/cmt correspondence  Part 1 Part2  22 Jul 08  Herzog  AdS/CFT and applications to condensed matter physics  Part 1  23 Jul 08  Intriligator  Surveying Pseudomoduli for Supersymmetry Breaking    24 Jul 08  Hori  Phases of N=2 Theories in 1+1 Dimensions  Part 1  24 Jul 08  Papadodimas  The chiral ring of AdS_3/CFT_2 and the attractor mechanism  Part 1  25 Jul 08  Mikhailov  Pure spinors in AdS  Part 1    Part 2  28 Jul 08  Takayanagi  Entanglement Entropy and Phase Transition in AdS/CFT Correspondence  Part 1  28 Jul 08  Craps  Holographic models of cosmological singularities  Part 1  29 Jul 08  Candelas  A Desirable Residence in the Landscape  Part 1  30 Jul 08  Ramagoolam  Enhanced symmetries, Conserved charges and the spectrum of gauge invariant operators  Part 1  30 Jul 08  Balasubramanian  Statistical Predictions From Field Theory Landscapes  Part 1  31 Jul 08  Zwiebach  Riemann surfaces for Schnabl gauge at one loop  Part 1    Part 2  31 Jul 08  Spradlin  Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in N=4 Yang-Mills Theory  Part 1  01 Aug 08  Gutperle  Exact half-BPS solutions in type IIB and M-theory  Part 1  01 Aug 08  Damle  (Perhaps) interesting quantum phase transitions in (simple) condensed matter systems  Part 1      Part 2  04 Aug 08  Parnachev  Two examples of holographic condensed matter physics: topological entanglement and phases of QCD  Part 1  05 Aug 08  Dorey  The large-spin limit in gauge theory and string theory  Part 1  06 Aug 08  Chen  Semi-classical strings in AdS_4 x CP 3    07 Aug 08  Razamat  From Fields to ``Strings''  Part 1  08 Aug 08  Roiban  Perturbative N=8 supergravity: then and now  Part 1