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Continuous Advances in QCD (CAQCD-08)
May 15-18, 2008

Program

 

Thursday, May 15
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8:30 Registration
Room EE/CS 3-176
Plenary Session - Room EE/CS 3-180
9:00 Welcome
 
9:10 K. Konishi
Vortices which do not dynamically Abelianize: Semi-classical origin of non-Abelian monopoles
9:50 S. Bolognesi
Domain Walls, Confinement and Localization
10:20 Coffee
 
11:00 L. McLerran
Finite Temperature and Density QCD in the Large N Limit
11:30 J. Verbaarshot
QCD at Finite Density: Lessons from Random Matrix Theory
12:00 M. Unsal
Dualities, confinement and new topological excitations in QCD-like gauge theories
12:30 Lunch
 
Parallel Sessions
Room EE/CS 3-180
2:00 G. Dunne
Crystalline condensate in the chiral Gross-Neveu model
2:30 R. Auzzi 
Skyrmion in Yang-Mills with Adjoint Quarks
3:00 L. Aldrovandi 
TBA
Room Phys. 435
2:00 A. Zhitnitsky
From RHIC Physics to Cosmology: 511 KeV Line and Other Diffuse Emissions as a Trace of the Dark Matter
2:30 T. Schaefer
QCD and baryonic matter at low density
3:00 K. Splittorf
Statistical QCD with non-positive measure
3:30 Coffee
 
Room EE/CS 3-180
4:00 S.B. Gudnason 
HyperKahler Quotients and Lumps in SO(N) and USp(N) gauge theories
4:30 W. Vinci
Constructing Non-Abelian Vortices with Arbitrary Gauge Groups
5:00 J. Wittig
Infinite coupling duals of supersymmetric gauge theories and new rank 1 superconformal field theories
Room Phys. 435
4:00 J. Giedt 
Gluino condensation at the CCNI: 4096 CPUs weigh in
4:30 B. Tekin
Calorons in Weyl gauge: How do periodic fields tunnel ?
5:00 J. Goity
Baryon Regge Trajectories and  the 1/Nc Expansion

 

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Friday, May 16 [skip to Sat] [skip to Sun]
Plenary Session - Room EE/CS 3-180
9:00 Z. Bern  
The S-matrix reloaded: Recent advances in perturbative gauge and gravity theories
9:30 A. Zaffaroni
The master space of N=1 gauge theories
10:00 I. Balitsky
NLO evolution of color dipoles in QCD and N 4 SYM
10:30 Coffee
 
11:00 A. Lenz
Bs mixing
11:30 M. Steinhauser
Heavy Quark Masses
12:00 Lunch
 
Parallel Sessions
Room EE/CS 3-180
2:00 B. Basso 
Cusp anomalous dimension in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling
2:30 F.Lenz 
Gauge fields in accelerated frames
3:00 E. Poppitz
Enhanced R-symmetry solution to the supersymmetric flavor problem
Room Phys. 435
2:00 A. Petrov
D0-anti-D0 mixing
2:30 R. Hill 
Some new implications of the anomalous baryon current
3:00 A. Vainshtein 
On anomalies and anomalous interactions of vector particles
3:30 Coffee
 
Plenary Session - Room EE/CS 3-180
4:00 Y. Meurice 
QCD at complex coupling, large order in perturbation theory and the gluon condensate.
4:30 Y. Hoshino
Infrared behaviour of fermion propagator in unquenched QED3 with finite threshold effects
5:00 S.-O. Moch
Hard QCD at hadron colliders
5:30 M. Eto
Static Interactions of non-Abelian Vortices

Saturday, May 17

Plenary Session - Room EE/CS 3-180
9:00 N. Evans
Holographic QCD
9:30 J. Maldacena
Energy correlations in conformal field theories
10:00 R. Myers 
The fast life of holographic mesons
10:30 Coffee
 
11:00 G. Sterman
Leading and nonleading poles in dimensionally-regularized QCD hard-scattering amplitudes
11:30 J. Kuehn
Hadronic Z- and tau-Decays in Order alpha_s-exp-4
12:00 E. Braaten
Charmonium States above the Charm Meson Threshold
12:30 Lunch
 
Parallel Sessions
Room EE/CS 3-180
2:00 B. Batell  
Soft-wall dynamics in AdS/QCD
2:30 H. Forkel
Holographic Glueball Structure
3:00 D. Vaman
The Space-Cone Gauge, Lorentz Invariance and On-shell Recursion for One-Loop Yang-Mills Amplitudes
Room Phys. 435
2:00 A. Czarnecki 
Positronium and polyelectrons
2:30 M. Czakon
Towards a complete NNLO prediction of the b to s gamma decay rate   
3:00 J. Piclum  
Recent perturbative results on heavy quark decays
3:30 Coffee
 
Plenary Session - Room EE/CS 3-180
4:00 I. Kirsch  
Holographic Heavy-Light Mesons
4:30 S. Sugimoto
Properties of Baryons from D-branes and Instantons
Conference Dinner

Sunday, May 18

Plenary Session - Room EE/CS 3-180
9:00 G. Gabadadze
Metanuclei: ordinary and supersymmetric
9:30 L. Pando Zayas
TBA
10:00 C. Nunez 
Aspects of Gauge-Strings duality
10:30 Coffee
 
11:00 R. Lebed 
The Pion Form Factor in AdS/QCD
11:30 A. Parnachev
Topological entanglement, holography and confinement
12:00 V. Sanz
Holography: a tool for the LHC
 
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