Organizers:
Dam T. Son
son@phys.washington.edu

Misha Stephanov
misha@uic.edu

Matthew Strassler
strassler@physics.rutgers.edu

Derek Teaney
derek.teaney@stonybrook.edu

Program Coordinator:
Laura Lee
lee@phys.washington.edu
(206) 685-3509

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Workshop "String Theory Methods in the Real World"

May 12-15, 2008


Schedule:

Monday 5/12

Time
Speaker
Title
9:00-10:00
Zajc
How RHIC discovered the fluid formerly known as QGP
10:00-10:30
Coffee break

10:30-11:15
Casalderrey-Solana
Probing the AdS/CFT plasma with heavy quarks
11:15-12:00
Yarom
Studying jet correlations at RHIC via AdS/CFT
12:00-2:00
Lunch break

2:00-2:45
Natsuume
Hydrodynamics and beyond in AdS/CFT
2:45-3:30
Romatschke
A gravity-dual toy model of heavy-ion collisions
3:30-4:00
Coffee break

4:00-4:45
Faulkner
Dispersion relations for holographic mesons: the real and imaginary stories
4:45-5:30
Bergman
The E&M of holographic QCD

Tuesday 5/13

Time
Speaker
Title
9:00-10:00
Nagle
The three Q's: Quasi-particles, Quarkonia, and Quantitative analyses
10:00-10:30
Coffee break

10:30-11:15
Erdmenger
Holographic mesons at finite temperature and density
11:15-12:00
Mateos
Universal peaks in holographic photon production
12:00-2:00
Lunch break

2:00-2:45
Moore
Transport coefficients at next-to-leading order
2:45-3:30
Karch
Jets in strongly coupled N=4 super Yang-Mills theory
3:30-4:00
Coffee break

4:00-4:45
Hartnoll
AdS/CFT and tabletop physics
4:45-5:30
Murugan
Entanglement and confinement

Wednesday 5/14

Time
Speaker
Title
9:00-9:45
Thorn
Subcritical string and large N QCD
9:45-10:30
Tseytlin
Quantum strings in AdS5xS5
10:30-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-11:45
Belitsky
Integrability and Baxter equations in super Yang-Mills theories
11:45-12:30
Iancu
Partons and jets in gauge theories at strong coupling
12:30-2:15
Lunch break

2:15-3:00
Evans
Holographic QCD and hadronization
3:00-3:45
Katz
Lessons from 2D QCD
3:45-4:15
Coffee break

4:15-5:00
Erlich
Electroweak symmetry breaking from the D4-D8 system

Thursday 5/15

Time
Speaker
Title
9:00-9:45
Pomarol
Baryon physics from five-dimensional skyrmions
9:45-10:30
Gherghetta
Dynamical soft-wall AdS/QCD
10:30-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-11:45
Parnachev
Topological entanglement, holography, and confinement
11:45-12:30
Radyushkin
Hadronic form factors in AdS/QCD
12:30-2:15
Lunch break

2:15-3:00
Bak
Puzzles in a defect thermodynamics
3:00-3:45
DeWolfe
A gravity dual of metastable dynamical supersymmetry breaking I
A gravity dual of metastable dynamical supersymmetry breaking II
3:45-4:15
Coffee break

4:15-5:00
Katz
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