February 3 - 6, 2009

Tentative Agenda

All talks will be held in Physics-Astronomy C520, except where indicated.

B. Bringoltz	The approach to N=infinity: lattice perspective
M. Buchoff	Dimensional reduction, orbifolds, & adjoint fermions
A. Cherman	A novel large Nc relation as a probe for Skyrmions and their holographic cousins
T. Cohen	Center symmetry, confinement and the Hagedorn spectrum
L. Del Debbio	Minimal technicolor on the lattice
M. Hanada	Monte-Carlo study of SYM in lower spacetime dimensions and gauge/gravity duality
A. Hietanen	The vector meson mass in the large N limit of QCD
J. Kiskis	Computation of the string tension in three dimensional and four dimensional Yang-Mills theory using large N reduction
R. Lebed	The 1/N expansion for baryons
Y. Meurice	Dyson's instability in the large-N limit
J. Myers	Phase diagrams of SU(N) gauge theories with fermions in various representations
V.P. Nair	The Hamiltonian approach to Yang-Mills (2+1): Part 1: basics and update
R. Narayanan	Large N QCD in two dimensions with a baryonic chemical potential
H. Neuberger	Universal properties of Wilson loops
D. Nogradi	Flavour number and representation dependence of QCD-like theories
A. Patella	Center symmetry and effective strings in orientifold QCD
E. Poppitz	On the index theorem on R3x S1
S. Sharpe	Quenched Eguchi-Kawai
H. Thacker	Domain walls, tachyon crystals, and large N QCD
M. Unsal	Magnetic bions and confinement
H. Vairinhos	New phases in Eguchi-Kawai models
P. Vranas	Studying the flavor dependence of SU(3) gauge theory with lattice simulations
J. Wosiek	On phase transition, duality and correspondences in a simple gauge system at large N
L. Yaffe	Large-N limits & equivalences
A. Yelnikov	The Hamiltonian approach to Yang-Mills (2+1): Parge 2: an expansion scheme and corrections to string tension
A. Zhitnitsky	Confinement-deconfinement phase transition in hot and dense QCD at large N