Continuous Advances in QCD 2006
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Minneapolis, May 11-14, 2006
Plenary Sessions
9:00 -9:45 Strongly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC 9:45 - 10:30 ZVI BERN A tour of the S-matrix: QCD, Super-Yang-Mills and Supergravity Friday, May 12 9:00 -9:45 New Charmonium Spectroscopy 9:45 -10:30 Planar Equivalence Saturday, May 13 9:00 -9:45 Baryons, and the Light-Cone 9:45 -10:30 Gauge Theories, Strings and Cosmology Sunday, May 14, Afternoon 9:30 -10:15 Flavour Physics from Lattice QCD 10:15 -11:00 Solitons in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories 11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK 11:30 -12:15 Twistor String Theory 12:15 -1:00 The Pomeron and Gauge/String Duality
Parallel Sessions
AdS/QCD 11:00 -11:45 Tilings, Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories LEOPOLDO PANDO ZAYAS
Particle Spectroscopy from the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence 11:45 -12:30 JOHANNES HIRN
OPE from the 5th Dimension VERONICA SANZ
The S Parameter in Holographic Technicolor Heavy Quark Physics 11:00 -11:45 Effective Field Theories for Systems with Two and Three
Heavy Quarks ANDREJ CZARNECKI
Inclusive Hadronic and Semileptonic Decays of b Quarks 11:45 -12:30 EINAN GARDI
Sudakov Resummation and Renormalons in Inclusive Decay Spectra Constraining Extra Dimensions Through B Decays High temperature/ density physics 11:00 -11:45 Charm and Charmonium in Medium 11:45 -12:30 Confinement-Deconfinement Phase Transition and Fractional
Instanton Quarks in Dense Matter JACOBUS VERBAARSCHOT
Surprises for QCD at Nonzero Chemical Potential
12:45 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK Solitons in Gauge Theories 2:15 -3:00 More on Monopoles, Vortices, and Confinement 3:00 -3:45 Strings on Domain Walls Magnetic Quasi-Particles in QCD Heavy Quarks Physics 2:15 -3:00 Light-Cone Sum Rules with B-Meson Distribution Amplitudes Charm as a Massive Collinear Quark 3:00 -3:45 Threshold Resummation in Momentum Space from Effective
Field Theory ALEXEY PETROV
Heavy Meson Molecules in Effective Field Theory
Lattice Methods 2:15 -3:00 Straggered Fermions and Power-Counting DAVID KAPLAN
Supesymmetric Yang-Mills Theories on the Lattice 3:00 -3:45 A New Method of Interpolation Between the Weak and Strong
Coupling Regimes of the Plaquette Expectation in Quenched
Lattice QCD Chiral Lattice Gauge Theories from Warped Domain Walls
and Ginsparg-Wilson Fermions
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK General Aspects of QCD and Gauge Theories 4:15 -5:00 FRANCESCO SANNINO
Strong Interactions: From QCD to LHC Mass Dependence of Fermion Determinant in Instanton
Background and New Results for Determinants 5:00 -5:45 FRIEDER LENZ
Dynamics of Wilson Loops in QCD ALEX KOVNER
Perturbative Calculation of Monopole Condensate
Light Quarks and Gluons 4:15 -5:00 The Lowest Resonance of QCD Restoration of Chiral and U(1)_A Symmetries in Excited
Hadrons in the Semiclassical Regime 5:00 -5:45 Neglected Symmetry: Parity Doubling Among the Baryons THOMAS COHEN
Is There a No-go Theorem for Effective Chiral
Restoration in the Hadron Spectrum ?
Solitons in Gauge Theories 11:00 -11:45 ADAM RITZ
Domain Wall Junctions in N=1 SYM and Quantum-Hall Edges Large N Limit of Multi-vortices and Multi-monopoles and their
Bag Models Description 11:45 -12:30 D-Branes from Field Theory Bulk-Brane Duality Heavy Quark Physics 11:00 -11:45 Recent Results on NRQCD Nonperturbative Jet Bremsstrahlung and the OPE 11:45 -12:30 Radiative Transitions and the Quarkonium Magnetic Moment B -> K* Gamma vs B -> rho Gamma Large N 11:00 -11:45 JOSE GOITY
Understanding Baryons with 1/N_c Expansion RICHARD LEBED
Baryons and Large N_c in Happy Resonance 11:45 -12:30 RAJAMANI NARAYANAN
Large N Gauge Theories-Numerical Results
12:45 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK AdS/QCD 2:15 -3:00 JOSHUA ERLICH
Emerging Holography MISHA STEPHANOV
AdS/QCD 3:00 -3:45 ANDREI BELITSKY
Higher-loop Integrability of gauge Theories GREGORY KORCHEMSKY
Sudakov Asymptotics in Gauge/String Correspondence High temperature/ density physics 2:15 -3:00 ELENA GUBANKOVA
Stability Conditions and Fermi Surface Topologies in a Superconductor Recent Results in Color Superconductivity Multiparton amplitudes 3:00 -3:45 MHV Verices and On-Shell Recursion Relations
Light Cone 2:15 -3:00 The Nucleon Electric Dipole Moment in Light-Front QCD Masses and Boost-invariant Wave Functions of Heavy Quarkonia
from the Light-front Hamiltonian of QCD 3:00 -3:45 Lattice QCD Near the Light-Cone Light-front Wave Functions and QCD Phenomena at the Amplitude Level
3:45 - 4:15 COFFEE BREAK General Aspects of QCD and Gauge Theories 4:15 -5:00 Towards Reggeon Field Theory in QCD JAN MARTIN PAWLOWSKI
Confinement from RG-Flows 5:00 -5:45 GREGORY GABADADZE
An Axiball in QCD ? Particle Decay in False Vacuum
Multiparton Amplitudes 4:15 -5:00 Perturbative Yang-Mills Theory from a String Theory in Twistor Space Loop Amplitudes in Gauge Theories from MHV Diagram 5:00 -5:45 From Trees to Loops and Back HARALD ITA
Similarities of Gauge and Gravity Amplitudes
Light Quarks and Gluons 4:15 -5:00 MAXIM POSPELOV
CP-volation in the Top-Higgs sector and Hadronic EDMs at Two Loops ANGELO RAFFAELE FAZIO
Yang-Mills Theories in the Maximal Abelian Gauge 5:00 -5:45 QCD Vacuum Topology and Glueballs or Infrared Degrees
of Freedom of Yang-Mills Theory
General Aspects of QCD and Gauge Theories 11:00 -11:45 MITHAT UNSAL
Large N Orbifold/Orientifold Equivalences or Supersymmetric Deformations
of type II B Matrix Model as Matrix Regularization of N=4 SYM ALEXANDER YELNYKOV
On Glueball Mass Spectrum of Pure Yang-Mills Theory in 2+1 Dimensions 11:45 -12:30 Baryons and Skyrmions in QCD with Quarks in Higher Representations Light Quarks and Gluons 11:00 -11:45 Holographic Wave Functions, Meromorphization and Counting Rules High-energy Effective Action from Scattering of QCD Shock Waves 11:45 -12:30 Weakly Bound Diquarks and Efimov Hyperons in QCD EVGENI KOLOMEITSEV
Hadron Genesis High temperature/ density physics 11:00 -11:45 Heavy Quark Bound States at Finite Temperature LARRY YAFFE
Heavy Quarks in Strongly Coupled Plasmas: Energy Loss from AdS/CFT 11:45 -12:30 Theta-Dependence of QCD at Finite Isospin Density The Deconfining Phase of SU(2) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics
12:45 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK AdS/QCD 2:15 -3:00 Gauge-string Duality, Spin Chains Some Issues in AdS/QCD 3:00 -3:45 A Holographic Model of Deconfinement and Chiral Symmetry Restoration Instantons on D7 Brane Probes and Ads/CTF with Flavor Multiparton Amplitudes 2:15 -3:00 Recursive Computation of One-Loop Amplitudes in QCD DARREN FORDE
On-shell Recursion Relations for N-point QCD Multiparton amplitudes 3:00 -3:45 DIANA VAMAN
QCD Recursion Relations form the Largest Time Equation Hidden Beauty in N=4 Gauge Theories
Light Cone 2:15 -3:00 Supersymmetric Two-dimensional QCD at finite Temperature Hadrons on the Light-Front 3:00 -3:45 A Sum-Rules Calculation in the Light-Cone Representation One Loop Glue-Glue Scattering in the Lightcone Worldsheet Formalism
3:45 - 4:15 COFFEE BREAK Ads/QCD 4:15 -5:00 Mapping String States into Partons: Form Factor and the
Hadron Spectrum in AdS/QCD Properties of Hadrons fom D4/D8-Brane System 5:00 -5:45 BAYRAM TEKIN
Energy in AdS