| Monday 19th July |
| 08:00 | Registration in Symposium Office,
CM201, in the Maths Building |
| 09:35 | Opening remarks |
| 09:45-10:25 | R.
Gopakumar | Unravelling the String Dual to
the Gaussian Matrix Model |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00-11:40 | S.
P. Kumar | Quantum Phases of k-strings |
| 11:45-12:25 | D.
A. Kosower | A Basis for Two-Loop Integrals |
| 13:00 | Lunch at Grey College |
| 16:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16:30-17:10 | P.
Yi | Holographic Baryons and a Matrix Model |
| 17:15-17:55 | A.
Hanany | Chiral Operators on the Moduli
space of Instantons |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Grey |
| 20:00 | Wine Reception in the Junior Common
Room, Grey College |
| Tuesday 20th July |
| 09:00-09:40 | D.
Kutasov | a-Maximization, Global Symmetries
and RG Flows |
| 09:45-10:25 | O.
Aharony | Strongly coupled field theories
in anti-de Sitter space |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00-11:40 | N.
Beisert | Integrability for scattering
amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills |
| 11:45-12:25 | D.
Volin | Y-systems and spin chains |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Symposium Photograph at Grey College |
| 16:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16:30-17:10 | A.
Tseytlin | Superstrings in AdS5 × S5: some
perturbative results |
| 17:15-17:55 | R.
Janik | Far from equilibrium plasma and
AdS/CFT |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 21st July |
| 09:00-09:40 | S
Ross | Holography for non-relativistic CFTs |
| 09:45-10:25 | A.
Brandhuber | Surprises in the Wilson
loop/Amplitude Duality |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00-11:40 | N.
Dorey | Wall Crossing and Instantons in
Compactified Gauge Theory |
| 11:45-12:25 | N
Gromov | Y-system for AdS/CFT: News, Tests
and Tools |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Day trip to Auckland
Castle (confirm your participation at registration) |
| 19:00 | Drinks in Grey JCR followed by the
Conference Dinner |
| Thursday 22nd July |
| 09:00-09:40 | J.
Gauntlett | AdS/CMT and Consistent KK
Truncations |
| 09:45-10:25 | J.
Sonnenschein | Non-perturbative field
theory- from 2d CFT to QCD in four dimensions |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00-11:40 | M.
Rangamani | Quantum fields in curved
spacetime: The strong coupling story |
| 11:45-12:25 | M.
Stephanov | AdS/QCD and Charmonium at
Finite Temperature |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 16:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16:30-17:10 | A.
Karch | A particle physicist's perspective
on topological insulators. |
| 17:15-17:55 | K.
Lee | Supersymmetric Theories on M2 Branes |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Friday 23rd July |
| 09:00-09:40 | R.W.
Jackiw | The physics of zero energy modes:
Fractional Charge |
| 09:45-10:25 | N.S.
Manton | Vortices and complex geometry |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00-11:40 | D
G Harland | Instantons in dimensions
greater than 4 |
| 11:45-12:25 | P.
Sutcliffe | Skyrmions, instantons and
holography |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 16:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16:30-17:10 | EJ
Weinberg | Massless magnetic monopoles |
| 17:15-17:55 | R.
Battye | Evolution charged domain wall
networks |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Saturday 24th July |
| 09:00-09:40 | M.
Peyrard | Talk: Nonlinear excitations as
tools to analyze DNA thermodynamics and dynamics. |
| 09:45-10:25 | L.G.
Yaffe | Large N volume independence in
conformal and confining gauge theories |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00-11:40 | M.
Polikarpov | Talk: Effects of strong
magnetic field in lattice QCD |
| 11:45-12:25 | E.
Shuryak | QCD topology and RHIC experiments |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Sunday 25th July |
| Departure after breakfast |