Conformal
Field Theory Retreat
December 9-14, 2001
Location:
Lake Arrowhead, CA
Organizers: David Gieseker,
Eric D’Hoker, Per Kraus
Sunday, December 9, 2001- Dinner Session
1:30pm
Bus leaves IPAM
4:00pm
Bus arrives at Lake Arrowhead
6:30-8:00pm Dinner
8:00-9:00pm Social Hour
8:00-8:30am Breakfast
8:45-9:45am Hiroshi Ooguri,
Stanford University
"Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW model"
9:45-10:45am Per Berglund, USC
"Chiral Matter in Compactifications of M-theory"
10:45-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Paul Pearce, University of
Melbourne
"Percolation Transfer Matrix, Temperley-Lieb
Stochastic Processes and Alternating Sign Matrices"
12:15-1:30pm Lunch
Monday, December 10, 2001-Afternoon Session
1:30-4:00 Free Time
4:00-5:00 Gerald Höhn,
Universitaet Freiburg
"A Natural Construction of Borcherds' Fake Baby Monster
Lie Algebra"
5:00-6:00 Michael Flohr,
University of Hannover
"The Origin and Challenges of Logarithmic Conformal Field
Theories"
Monday, December 10, -Evening Session
6:00-6:30 Pre-Dinner Break
6:30-8:00 Dinner
8:00-9:00 Social Hour
8:00-8:30am Breakfast
8:45-9:45am Shamit Kachru, Stanford
University
"Brane-Flux Annihilation"
9:45-10:45am Clare Dunning, University
of York
"New Flows in W-Minimal Models"
10:45-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Itzhak Bars, USC
"Conformal Transformations in String Field Theory
and Noncommutative Geometry"
12:15-1:30pm Lunch
Tuesday, December 11, 2001-Afternoon Session
1:30 – 4:00 Free Time
4:00-5:00pm Anton Kapustin, Caltech
"Conformal Field Theory and Categorical Mirror Symmetry"
5:00 - 6:00 Per Kraus, University
of Chicago
"Noncommutative Instantons and the Seiberg-Witten Map"
Tuesday, December 11, -Evening Session
6:00-6:30 Pre-Dinner Break
6:30-8:00 Dinner
8:00-9:00pm Social Hour
8:00-8:30am Breakfast
8:45-9:45am Sema Salur,
Cornell University
"Mathematical Interpretations of Mirror Symmetry"
9:45-10:45am Kyungho Oh, Harvard
University
"Geometric Transitions"
10:45-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Oliver DeWolfe, UCSB
"Holography and Defect Conformal Field Theories"
12:15-1:30pm Lunch
Wednesday, December 12, 2001-Afternoon Session
1:30-6:30 Free Time
Wednesday, December 12, -Evening Session
6:30-8:00 Dinner
8:00-9:00pm Social Hour
8:00-8:30am Breakfast
8:45-9:45am Eva Silverstein,
Stanford University
"Nonperturbative Nonrenormalization in a Nonsupersymmetric
Nonlocal String Theory"
9:45-10:45am Patrick Jacob, Universite Laval
"From SU(2)/U(1) to OSP(1|2)/U(1) Parafermions;
a Fermionic Basis"
10:45-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Leonardo Rastelli, Princeton
University
"Conformal Transformations in String Field Theory
and Noncommutative Geometry"
12:15-1:30pm Lunch
Thursday, December 13, 2001-Afternoon Session
1:30 – 4:00 Free Time
4:00-5:00pm Louise Dolan, University of North
Carolina
"Conformal Operators for Partially Massless States"
5:00 - 6:00 Ken Intriligator,
UCSD
"A Geometric Unification of Dualities"
Thursday, December 13, -Evening Session
6:00-6:30 Pre-Dinner Break
6:30-8:00 Dinner
8:00-9:00pm Social Hour
8:00-8:30am Breakfast
8:45-9:45am Mina Aganagic,
Harvard University
TBA
9:45-10:45am Sabastian de Haro, UCLA
"Quantum Corrections to D-brane solutions"
10:45-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Patrick Dorey, University of
Durham
"Integrable models, ordinary differential equations, and some
problems in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics
12:15-1:30pm Lunch
Friday, December 14, 2001-Afternoon Session
1:30pm Bus leaves Lake Arrowhead
4:00pm Bus arrives at IPAM
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