Seminar Schedule

Monday 9

• J.I.Latorre (Univ. Barcelona)
  "Scheme independence", Seminar room, 11.15 h
• Andrei Slavnov (Steklov Math. Inst and Moscow Univ.)
  "Renormalization by enforcing a symmetry" , Seminar room, 18.00 h

Tuesday 10

• T. R. Morris (Univ. Southampton)
  "QCD ERG", Seminar room, 12.30 h
• G. Sierra (CSIC)
  "Integrability and conformal symmetry in the BCS model" , Seminar room, 18.30 h

Wednsday 11

• J. Zinn-Justin (Saclay)
  "Bose-Einstein condensate in weakly interacting gases" , Seminar room, 18.30 h

Thursday 12

• J. Gaite (Inst. Bioastrofísica)
  "Relative Entropy in Quantum Field Theory" , Seminar room, 12.00 h
• D. Espriu (Univ. Barcelona)
  "Strings and pions" , Seminar room, 12.45 h
• I. Shapiro (Univ. Zaragoza)
  "Anomaly-induced inflation and the need for the decoupling mechanism" , Seminar room, 18.00 h
• J. Soto (Univ. Barcelona)
  "Renormalizing the Lippmann-Schwinger equation for the one pion exchange potential" , Seminar room, 18.45 h

Friday 13

• S. Forte (INFN, Univ. Roma 3)
  "Leading log resummation and the renormalization group" , Seminar room, 10.00 h

Monday 16

• G. Gibbons (DAMTP, Univ. Cambridge)
  "Cohomogeneity one metrics of special holonomy", Seminar room, 15.15h

Tuesday 17

• A. Polyakov (Princeton Univ.)
  "Gauge invariant words and the 5th dimension", Casa de la Cultura, 12.30h
• D. Kutasov (Univ. Chicago)
  "Little string theory and AdS_3", Seminar room, 18:30h

Wednsday 18

• M. Berkooz (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  "Giant gravitons in CFT", Seminar room, 12.30h
• T. Banks (U.C. Santa Cruz, Rutgers Univ.)
  "Holography and cosmology", Seminar room, 18:30h

Thursday 19

• E. Rabinovici (Racah Inst.)
  "Aspects of NCOS thermodynamics", Casa de Cultura, 12.30h
• A. Strominger (Harvard)
  "The dS/CFT correspondence", Seminar room, 18:30h

Friday 20

• M. Douglas (Rutgers, IHES)
  "D-branes, derived categories and all that", Seminar room, 11:00h

Monday 23

• Jaume Gomis (Caltech)
  "Wrapped branes and exceptinal holonomy", Seminar room, 12:30h
• O. Aharony (Weizmann I. of Sc.)
  "Multi-trace operators and non-local string theories", Seminar room, 18:30h

Tuesday 24

• C. Pope (Texas A&M)
  "Deformed branes and special holonomy", Seminar room, 12:30h
• L. Rastelli (Princeton)
  "Vacuum string field theory", Seminar room, 18:30h

Wednesday 25

K. Skenderis (Princeton)
"Holographic Renormalization ", Seminar room, 12:30h
• A. Karch (MIT)
  "Open and Closed String Interpretation of SUSY CFT's on Branes with Boundaries", Seminar room, 18:30h

Thursday 26