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London Mathematical Society - EPSRC Durham Symposium
Non-Perturbative Techniques in Field Theory
Sunday 18th July - Sunday 25th July 2010

Programme

All lectures take place in room D110 in the Dawson building on the Science Site. Coffee and Tea are served in CM103. Meals are taken at Grey College where participants have their accommodation.

Monday 19th July
08:00Registration in Symposium Office, CM201, in the Maths Building
09:35Opening remarks
09:45-10:25R. GopakumarUnravelling the String Dual to the Gaussian Matrix Model
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:40S. P. KumarQuantum Phases of k-strings
11:45-12:25D. A. KosowerA Basis for Two-Loop Integrals
13:00Lunch at Grey College
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:10P. YiHolographic Baryons and a Matrix Model
17:15-17:55A. HananyChiral Operators on the Moduli space of Instantons
19:00Dinner at Grey
20:00Wine Reception in the Junior Common Room, Grey College
Tuesday 20th July
09:00-09:40D. Kutasova-Maximization, Global Symmetries and RG Flows
09:45-10:25O. AharonyStrongly coupled field theories in anti-de Sitter space
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:40N. BeisertIntegrability for scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills
11:45-12:25D. VolinY-systems and spin chains
13:00Lunch
14:00Symposium Photograph at Grey College
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:10A. TseytlinSuperstrings in AdS5 × S5: some perturbative results
17:15-17:55R. JanikFar from equilibrium plasma and AdS/CFT
19:00Dinner
Wednesday 21st July
09:00-09:40S RossHolography for non-relativistic CFTs
09:45-10:25A. BrandhuberSurprises in the Wilson loop/Amplitude Duality
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:40N. DoreyWall Crossing and Instantons in Compactified Gauge Theory
11:45-12:25N GromovY-system for AdS/CFT: News, Tests and Tools
13:00Lunch
14:00Day trip to Auckland Castle (confirm your participation at registration)
19:00Drinks in Grey JCR followed by the Conference Dinner
Thursday 22nd July
09:00-09:40J. GauntlettAdS/CMT and Consistent KK Truncations
09:45-10:25J. SonnenscheinNon-perturbative field theory- from 2d CFT to QCD in four dimensions
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:40M. RangamaniQuantum fields in curved spacetime: The strong coupling story
11:45-12:25M. StephanovAdS/QCD and Charmonium at Finite Temperature
13:00Lunch
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:10A. KarchA particle physicist's perspective on topological insulators.
17:15-17:55K. LeeSupersymmetric Theories on M2 Branes
19:00Dinner
Friday 23rd July
09:00-09:40R.W. JackiwThe physics of zero energy modes: Fractional Charge
09:45-10:25N.S. MantonVortices and complex geometry
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:40D G HarlandInstantons in dimensions greater than 4
11:45-12:25P. SutcliffeSkyrmions, instantons and holography
13:00Lunch
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:10EJ WeinbergMassless magnetic monopoles
17:15-17:55R. BattyeEvolution charged domain wall networks
19:00Dinner
Saturday 24th July
09:00-09:40M. PeyrardTalk: Nonlinear excitations as tools to analyze DNA thermodynamics and dynamics.
09:45-10:25L.G. YaffeLarge N volume independence in conformal and confining gauge theories
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:40M. PolikarpovTalk: Effects of strong magnetic field in lattice QCD
11:45-12:25E. ShuryakQCD topology and RHIC experiments
13:00Lunch
19:00Dinner
Sunday 25th July
Departure after breakfast