ESF School in High Energy Physics and Astrophysics
Cargèse Summer School, June 16 to June 28, 2008
CERN
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Université de Corte-Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis

Cargese 2008  

INSTITUT D'ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES DE CARGESE

JUNE 16 - JUNE 28, 2008

Theory and Particle Physics: the LHC perspective and beyond


PROGRAM

Lecture notesLecturers Title Suggested Reading

Orlando AlvarezSchwarzschild Spacetime without Coordinatesgr-qc/0701115

Nima Arkani-hamedFrom Scattering Amplitudes to the LHC

Jose BarbonHolographic avatars of entanglement entropy

Michael DineSupersymmetry Breaking and Gauge Mediation

Michael DouglasIntroduction to warped compactification

Amit GiveonStable and Metastable Vacua in Brane Constructions of SQCD S. Elitzur, A. Giveon and D. Kutasov, ``Branes and N = 1 duality in string theory,'' arXiv:hep-th/9702014
A. Giveon and D. Kutasov, ``Brane dynamics and gauge theory,'' arXiv:hep-th/9802067
A. Giveon and D. Kutasov, ``Gauge symmetry and supersymmetry breaking from intersecting branes,'' arXiv:hep-th/0703135
A. Giveon and D. Kutasov, ``Stable and Metastable Vacua in Brane Constructions of SQCD,'' arXiv:0710.1833
A. Giveon, A. Katz and Z. Komargodski, ``On SQCD with massive and massless flavors,'' arXiv:0804.1805

Robbert MyersHolographic Matter in the AdS/CFThep-th/0605046; hep-th/0610184; hep-th/0611099; hep-th/0701132; arXiv:0706.0162; arXiv:0709.1225; arXiv:0804.2168

Mairi SakellariadouCosmic strings and cosmic superstrings

Matthias StaudacherIntegrability and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
  1. Bill Sutherland, "Beautiful Models", World Scientific
  2. Ludwig Faddeev, "How Algebraic Bethe Ansatz works for integrable model", hep-th/9605187
  3. Keisuke Okamura, "Aspects of Integrability in AdS/CFT Duality" The last one, a recent Ph.D. thesis, is rather up-to-date, and contains many references to further review reading material.

Andrew StromingerGravity in three dimensions

PDFAshkoke SenExtremal black hole

Dam SonHydrodynamics from gauge/gravity duality

Eliezer RabinoviciOn symmetries and properties of effective topological theories

Lisa RandallTBA

Samsom ShatashviliSusy gauge theories and exact solvable models

Scott ThomasMacroscopic Supersymmetry


 
 
 

SCHEDULE

Mon 16 June Arrival
9h00 - 10h30 11h00 - 12h30 16h30 - 17h30 17h30 - 19h00
Tue 17 June Myers
part 1
Thomas
part 1
Free Dine
part 1
Welcome Party
Wed 18 June Dine
part 1
Sakellariadou
part 1
Alvarez Thomas
part 2
Thu 19 June Dine
part 2
Sakellariadou
part 2
Dine
part 3
Deboer
Fri 20 June Myers
part 2
Alvarez
Gong Show
Sat 21 June Giveon
part 1
Strominger
part 1
Free afternoon
9h00 - 10h30 11h00 - 12h30 16h30 - 18h00 18h00 - 19h00 19h00-....
Mon 23 June Son
part 1
Staudacher
part 1
Shatashvili
part 1
Giveon
part 2
Tue 24 June Barbon
part 1
Douglas
part 1
Sen
part 1
Baulieu
Wisdom Tree
Wed 25 June Son
part 2
Staudacher
part 2
Arkhani-Hamed
part 1
Rabinovici BBQ
Thu 26 June Barbon
part 2
Shatashvili
part 2
Arkhani-Hamed
part 2
Douglas
part 2
Fri 27 June Staudacher
part 3
Arkhani-Hamed
part 3
Sen
part 2
TBA
Sat 28 June Departure


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