Programme for DIOFEST

Programme

last updated 14/05/04

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	Wednesday 24th March	Thursday 25th March	Friday 26th March	Saturday 27th March
		Chair: L. Brink	Chair: P. West	Chair: D. Fairlie
09.00		N. Nekrasov Spacetime foam and strings	B. Julia Non-abelian p-forms, algebraic surfaces, and M-theory symmetries	A. Fring The importance of hermitian analyticity in integrable models
09.45		J. Harvey Branes and anomalies	C. Montonen Unitarity and analyticity when Lorentz invariance is broken	E. Corrigan Some aspects of affine Toda theory
10.30		Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
		Chair: C. Hull	Chair: E. Corrigan
11.00		A. Tseytlin Aspects of AdS/CFT duality	D. Fairlie What did David do before the string model?	W. Nahm Monopoles and Olive-Montonen duality
11.45		J. de Boer Wrapped branes and non-perturbative gauge theories	L. Brink Strings as consistent quantum theories: the search for dual loops	P. West Symmetries of M theories
12.30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
	Chair: N. Dorey	Chair: M. Green	Chair: N. Manton
14.00	I. Klebanov historical overview Pentaquarks: chiral soliton models confront experiments	N. Seiberg Minimal string theory	D. Tong Instantons, vortices, monopoles and kinks
14.45	C. Hull Duality and geometry	H. Ooguri Large N duality	B. Acharya Observations on the space of 4d String and M theory compactifications
15.30	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
16.00	M. Green Supersymmetry and the low energy effective action	O.Aharony The Hagedorn/deconfinement phase transition in weakly coupled large N gauge theories	E. Rabinovici Thermodynamical aspects of some co-set CFTs
16.45