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CROSSING THE BOUNDARIES
gauge dynamics at strong coupling
- May 14 to 17, 2009 -

Premininary Program

Thursday, May 14	[skip to Fri]	[skip to Sat]	[skip to Sun]

8:30 Registration	Hubert H. Humphrey Center, Atruim
8:50 Welcome
9:00 G. Dunne	Symmetries in the Gross-Neveu Phase Diagram
9:30 P. Ramond	Still in Light-Cone Superspace
10:00 N. Arkani-Hamed	Holography and the S-Matrix
10:30 Coffee
11:00 K. Konishi	Non-Abelian Vortices: Results in New Directions
11:30 D. Tong	The Partonic Nature of Instantons
12:00 F. Lenz	Instantons and Confinement
12:30 Lunch	Lunch, Carlson School Dining Room
2:00 R. Auzzi	Non-Abelian K-Vortices Dynamics in N=1 theory and its Gravity Dual
2:30 S. Bolognesi	The Many Faces of the Heterotic Vortex
3:00 Coffee
3:30 M. Unsal	Chiral Gauge Dynamics and Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking
4:00 K. Intriligator	Comments on SUSY Gauge Theories
4:30 P. Sikivie	Dark Matter Axions

[back to Thurs]	Friday, May 15	[skip to Sat]	[skip to Sun]

9:00 J. Schwarz	An Overview of Recent Explorations of AdS/CFT Duality
9:30 A. Tseytlin	Quantum strings in AdS and gauge-string duality
10:00 G. Korchemsky	Surprising Symmetries of Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theories
10:30 Coffee
11:00 I. Klebanov	Supersymmetric Gauge Theories as Curved Spacetimes
11:30 A. Ritz	Probing Universality in AdS/CFT
12:00 Z. Bern	Multiloop Amplitudes in Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge and Gravity Theories
12:30 Lunch	Holiday Inn Metrodome Hotel
2:00 I. Balitsky	High-energy amplitudes in N=4 SYM in the next-to-leading order
2:30 J. Kapusta	Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Soft-Wall AdS/QCD
3:00 Coffee
3:30 D. Son	Conformality Lost
4:00 J. Elrich	How well does AdS/QCD describe QCD?
4:30 T. Cohen	Chiral Symmetry and Holographic Models of the Baryon

[back to Thurs]	[back to Fri]	Saturday, May 16	[skip to Sun]

Conference Dinner 6:40 Bus Departs for Dinner Location 7:00 Social Hour 8:00 Dinner 10:00 Bus Departs for Holiday Inn
9:00 N. Seiberg	Comments About SUSY Breaking
9:30 A. Hanany	Brane Tilings, M2 Branes, and CS Theories
10:00 H. Georgi	Unparticle Interactions in a Toy Model (and Beyond)
10:30 Coffee
11:00 E. Shuryak	Deconfinement, Monopoles and New Phenomena in Heavy Ion Collisions
11:30 M. Stephanov	Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Holography
12:00 A. Kovner	High Energy Hadronic Scattering- The Quantum Evolution
12:30 Lunch	Holiday Inn Metrodome Hotel
2:00 M. Pospelov	Underground Hunting for Axions and Other Exotics
2:30 A. Zhitnitsky	Phase transitions in hot and dense QCD at large N
3:00 M. Wise	The Lee-Wick Standard Model
3:30 Coffee
4:00 A. Radyushkin	Quark Counting Rules: Old and New Approaches
4:30 A. Khodjamirian	Hadronic Form Factors: Combining QCD Calculations with Analyticity
5:00 E. Gubankova	Unusual vortex behavior in the exotic superfluid phases

[back to Thurs]
[back to Fri] [back to Sat] Sunday, May 17

9:00 H. Fritzsch	Flavor Symmetries, Quark Masses, Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Oscillations
9:30 G. Gabadadze	Strongly Coupled Condensate in Dwarf Stars
10:00 A. Monin	Effects of Extra Degrees of Freedom on a Decay Rate of Metastable Topological Objects
10:30 Coffee
11:00 T. ter Veldhuis	Solitons in AdS Space
11:30 R. Sundrum	Strong Coupling and Weak Scale SUSY
12:00 A. Turbiner	Double-well Potential: Perturbation Theory, Tunneling, WKB (Beyond of Instantons)
12:30	Concluding Remarks

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