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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Université de Corte-Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis

Cargese 2006

INSTITUT D'ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES DE CARGESE

May 22 - JUNE 3, 2006

Strings and Branes:
The present paradigm for gauge interactions and cosmology

PROGRAM

*Lecturers*	*Title*	*Suggested Reading*

I. Antoniadis	Topological amplitudes and physical couplings in sting theory

N. Arkani-hamed	Causality and analyticity in effective field theories

L. Baulieu	Shadow Fields and Renormalization of SYM theories

M. Berkooz	Time dependence and space-like singularities in String theory

A. Connes	From Renormalization as Birkhoff Decomposition to the Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence, The Cosmic Galois group, the Group of Diffeographisms and Diffeomorphisms of Coupling Constants, the Role of Motivic Galois Theory. A Candidate Mental Picture of Space-Time, after Renormalization and Taking the Standard Model Seriously	Alain Connes' lecture pdf

A. Dabholkar	Counting Black Holes Big and Small	Black Holes in Supergravity and String Theory, T. Mohaupt, hep-th/0004098 Exact Counting of Black Hole Microstates, Dabholkar hep-th/0409148 Counting Dyons in N=4 String Theory, Dijkgraaf, Verlinde, Verlinde, hep-th/9607026 Elliptic Genera of Symmetric Products and Second Quantized Strings, Dijkgraaf, Moore, Verlinde, Verlinde, hep-th/9608096 Recounting Dyons in N=4 String Theory, Shih, Strominger, Yin, hep-th/0505094 Dyon Spectrum in CHL Models, Jatkar, Sen, hep-th/0510147 Spectrum of dyons and black holes in CHL orbifolds using Borcherds lift, Dabholkar, Nampuri, hep-th/0603066

B. de Wit	BPS Black Holes	Black hole partition functions and duality, Cardoso, de Wit, Kaeppeli and Mohaupt, hep-th/0601108 Black Holes in Supergravity and String Theory Mohaupt hep-th/0004098 Introduction to black hole entropy and supersymmetry de Wit, hep-th/0503211

M. Douglas	Mapping the Stringy Landscape	A Review of Distributions on the String Landscape Kumar, hep-th0601053 Distributions of nonsupersymmetric flux vacua Denef and Douglas, hep-th/0411183

G. Gabadadze	Dark energy and modified gravity

J. Harvey	NJL and QCD from string theory	Nambu and Jona-Lasinio, Phys. Rev. 122:345 (1961) Low energy hadron physics in holographic QCD Sakai and Sugimoto, hep-th/0412141 NJL and QCD from String Theory Antonyan, Harvey, Jensen and Kutasov, hep-th/0604017

S. Kachru	Strings, Cosmology and Supersymmetry Breaking	What would we learn by detecting a gravitational wave signal in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy? D. Lyth, hep-ph/9606387 Out of this world supersymmetry breaking L. Randall and R. Sundrum, hep-th/9810155 Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications S. Giddings et al, hep-th/0105097 Towards inflation in string theory S. Kachru et al, hep-th/0308055 Cosmic superstrings revisited J. Polchinski, hep-th/0410082 Gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking in string theory B. Florea et al, hep-th/0512170 Bounds on masses of bulk fields in string compactifications S. Kachru et al, hep-th/0601111

W. Lerche	Matrix Factorizations and D-branes

O. Lunin	Gravitational descriptions of field theories

N. Nekrasov	Curved beta-gamma systems, Morse theory, topological strings, and logarithmic CFT in 2 and 4 dimensions	Supersymmetry and Morse theory, by E.Witten, 1982, J.Diff.Geom.17:661-692,198 Two-dimensional models with (0,2) supersymmetry: Perturbative aspects. E. Witten, hep-th/0504078 On first order formalism in string theory A. Losev, A. Marshakov, A. Zeitlin hep-th/0510065 Mirror symmetry in two steps: A-I-B. E. Frenkel, A. Losev hep-th/0505131 Lectures on curved beta-gamma systems, pure spinors, and anomalies N. Nekrasov hep-th/0511008 Kodaira-Spencer theory of gravity and exact results for quantum string amplitudes M. Bershadsky, S. Cecotti, H. Ooguri, C. Vafa, hep-th/9309140

E. Rabinovici	Multitrace deformations of vector and adjoint theories and their holographic duals	Multitrace deformations of vector and adjoint theories and their holographic duals S. Elitzur, A. Giveon , M. Porrati, E. Rabinovici, hep-th/0511061

A. Uranga	The Standard Model in String Theory from D-branes	Chiral four-dimensional string compactifications with intersecting D-branes. hep-th/0301032 Toward realistic intersecting D-brane models. hep-th/0502005

A. Strominger	Black Holes, Attractors and Topological Strings

H. Verlinde	Open Strings and Particle Physics

SCHEDULE

Mon 22 May	*Arrival*
	9h00 - 10h30	11h00 - 12h30		17h30 - 18h30
Tue 23 May	de Wit part 1	Strominger part 1	Free	Uranga part 1	Welcome Party
Wed 24 May	Berkooz part 1	Kachru part 1	de Wit part 2	Rabinovici
Thu 25 May	Antoniadis part 1	Uranga part 2	Kachru part 2	Berkooz part 2
Fri 26 May	Antoniadis part 2	Douglas	Cow Bell Show
Sat 27 May	Nekrasov part 1	Dabholkar part 1	Free afternoon

Sun 28 May	*free - social activities will be organized*

	9h00 - 10h30	11h00 - 12h30	16h30 - 17h30	18h00 - 19h00

Mon 29 May	Verlinde part 1	Strominger part 2	Nekrasov part 2	Dabholkar part 2
Tue 30 May	Gabadadze part 1	Arkani-hamed part 1	Verlinde part 2	Connes part 1
Wed 31 May	Harvey part 1	Connes part 2	Baulieu	Arkani-hamed part 2
Thu 1 June	Lunin part 1	Lerche part 1	Gabadadze part 2	Wisdom Tree
	9h00 - 10h30	11h00 - 12h00	14h00 - 15h00	14h00 - 15h00
Fri 2 June	Harvey part 2	Lerche part 2	Lunin part 2	Concluding Remarks

Sat 3 June	*Departure*

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INSTITUT D'ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES DE CARGESE

Strings and Branes: The present paradigm for gauge interactions and cosmology

PROGRAM

SCHEDULE

Strings and Branes:
The present paradigm for gauge interactions and cosmology