| Monday, March 21 |
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10:00
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REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST |
|
11:00
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Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin/Perimeter
Institute
Building Chiral Flux Vacua |
|
12:00
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BREAK FOR LUNCH |
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1:30
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Frederik Denef, Rutgers University
Landscape studies |
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2:30
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AFTERNOON TEA |
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3:10
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Mariana Grana, Ecole Normale Superieur-Paris
Hitchin Functionals in Supergravity |
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4:30
|
RECEPTION IN ATRIUM |
| Tuesday, March 22 |
| 9:00 |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST |
| 9:30 |
Bogdan Florea, Rutgers University
Moduli Stabilization in F-Theory Compactifications |
| 10:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00 |
Sergei Gukov, Harvard University
Heterotic Moduli Stabilization with Fractional Chern-Simons Invariants |
| 12:00 |
BREAK FOR LUNCH |
| 2:00 |
Ruben Minasian, École Polytechnique
On mirror symmetry with fluxes and branes |
| 3:00 |
AFTERNOON TEA |
| Wednesday, March 23 |
| 9:00 |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST |
| 9:30 |
B. S. Acharya, Abdus Salam ICTP
Statistics of M theory vacua and the Landscape |
| 10:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00 |
Alessandro Tomasiello, Stanford University
Towards generalized complex mirror symmetry |
| 12:00 |
BREAK FOR LUNCH |
| 2:00 |
Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania
Geometric transitions, integrable systems, and large N duality |
| 3:00 |
AFTERNOON TEA |
| Thursday, March 24 |
| 9:00 |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST |
| 9:30 |
Ralph Blumenhagen, Munich, Max Planck Institute
Recent Progress with Intersecting D-brane models |
| 10:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00 |
Volker Braun, University of Pennsylvania
A Heterotic Standard Model |
| 12:00 |
BREAK FOR LUNCH |
| 2:00 |
Anirban Basu, University of Chicago
(0,2) Duality |
| 3:00 |
AFTERNOON TEA |
| Friday, March 25 (note the Insitutue is closed
this day please enter through rear door) |
| 9:00 |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST |
| 9:30 |
Michael Schulz, California Institute of Technology
Mapping Flux to Geometry |
| 10:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00 |
Chris E. Beasley, Princeton University
New Instanton Effects in N=1 Supersymmetric String Compactifications |
| 12:00 |
BREAK FOR LUNCH |
| 2:00 |
Melanie Becker, University of Maryland
Flux Compactifications, Cosmology and the Standard Model of Elementary
Particles |
| 3:00 |
AFTERNOON TEA |
