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2012  
22 February Anastasios Taliotis (Crete)
Title: Multiplicities from black-hole formation in heavy-ion collisions
15 February Wilke van der Schee (UU)
Title: Strong coupling isotropization simplified
1 February O. Schlotterer (AEI Potsdam)
Title: The harmony of superstring disk amplitudes
27 January A. Guarino (Groningen)
Title: Dualities and the landscape of extended supergravity
20 January M. Goodsell (CERN)
Title: Dark Forces from the top down
2011  
15 December Christoph Keller
Title: The ABCDEFG of Instantons and W-algebras
14 December Sergei Alexandrov (Montpellier)
Title: Non-perturbative hypermultiplets, S-duality and quantum mirror symmetry
7 December Andre Henriques (Maths Department UU)
Title: 2d CFT as a compactification of Chern-Simons with defects
30 November A. Bagchi (Edinburgh)
Title: The Little Yellow Book and its Gravity dual
18 November S. Lal (HRI, Allahabad)
Title: Higher-Spin Theories in Odd Dimensions
11 November S. Murthy (UU)
Title: Exact quantum entropy of black holes: from Bekenstein-Hawking to AdS_2/CFT_1
9 November O. Chacaltana (ICTP)
Title: Gaiotto duality for the D_{N} series
4 November M. Larfors (LMU Munich)
Title: A ten-dimensional action for non-geometric fluxes
28 October O. Olsson-Sax (UU)
Title: Integrable spin-chains from AdS3/CFT2
26 October Oscar Varela (UU)
Title: New top-down scale-invariant supergravity solutions
21 October B. Sahoo (UU)
Title: Topologically massive higher spin gravity
7 October Ayan Mukhopadhyay (LPTHE)
Title: Quantum Kinetic Theory and Holography
28 September Dr. T. Mohaupt (University of Liverpool)
Title: Developments in Special Geometry
27 September Prof. H. Samtleben (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
Title: New superconformal models in six dimensions
23 September V. Reys (LPTNS)
Title: A twisted superalgebra for the N=1, d=4 supergravity
23 September Blaise Gouteraux (APC, Paris)
Title: Generalised Holographic Quantum Criticality at Finite Density
6 July Daniel Butter (U. of Western Australia)
Title: Conformal supergravity in superspace
6 July Iosif Bena (Saclay)
Title: BPS and non-BPS black hole microstate geometries: how to build them and what do they teach us about the information paradox
22 June M. Kaminski ( Princeton )
Title: Sum Rules from an Extra-Dimension
17 June Johanna Knapp (IPMU)
Title: Calabi-Yaus, F-theory, Toric Geometry and beyond
15 June Stefanos Katmadas (UU)
Title: Extremal black holes in N=2 supergravity
10 June Javier Tarrio (UU)
Title: Black holes and black branes in Lifshitz spacetimes
8 June G. Vartanov (Potsdam)
Title: From 4d superconformal indices to 3d partition functions
1 June G. Compère (UvA)
Title: The Relativistic Fluid and the Translation anomaly of Vacuum Einstein gravity
27 May Sungjay Lee (DAMPT)
Title: 2D/4D Duality and Quantum Integrable Systems.
25 May Lotte Hollands (Caltech)
Title: A 4d-2d correspondence for Sicilian quivers
16 May Rajesh Gopakamar ( ARI, India )
Title: A Large N Dual to 2d CFTs
13 May Prof. Veronika Hubeny (Durham)
Title: " Relativistic Beaming in AdS/CFT"
13 May Munkund Rangamani (Durham)
Title: "A geometric view on the Wilsonian renormalization group"
11 May Stijn van Tongeren (UU)
Title: Mirror, mirror T B A, can you be changed yet preserved some way?
29 April Steven Avery (IMSc, India)
Title: Deforming the D1D5 CFT: Twists as Bogolyubov Transformations
27 April A. Kashani-Poor (Paris)
Title: The topological string on toric Calabi-Yau as a matrix model
15 April Norihiro Iizuka (CERN)
Title: Rapid Thermalization by Baryon Injection in Gauge/Gravity Duality
13 April Sudipto Paul Chowdhury (IACS, India)
Title: A study in M2-branes: BLG perspective
1 April A. Virmani (Brussels)
Title: G2(2) Dualities, Black Strings, and Kerr-CFT
18 March Prof. A. Tseytlin
Title: Strings in AdS5 x S5 and anomalous dimensions in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory
11 March Alexander Westphal
Title: Observational consequences of chaotic inflation with nonminimal coupling to gravity
2 March A. Collinucci (Munich)
Title: Flux quantization in F-theory
25 February Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld
Title: 5d SYM and M5s on a circle
18 February Monica Guica
Title: Microscopic Realization of the Kerr/CFT correspondence
11 February Nils Carqueville
Title: Algebraic structures of open topological string theory
4 February Arthemy Kiselev (Groningen)
Title: Evolutionary BRST fields from variational Lie algebroids
2 February Troel Harmark
Title: Heating up the BIon
21 January Diederik Roest (Groningen)  
Title: Metastable supersymmetry breaking in extended supergravity
12 January Eran Palti (Paris)  
Title: Phenomenology of F-theory GUTs
2010  
17 December Umut Gursoy (Cern)  
Title: A Gravity/spin-model correspondence
10 December M. Heller (Amsterdam)
Title: Black brane entropy and hydrodynamics
8 December C. Meneghelli (Potsdam)
Title: Baxter Q-Operators and Representations of Yangians
3 December E. Joung (Pisa)
Title: Higher-spin symmetries, effective action and holography
1 December Dileep Jatkar (HRI, India)
Title: Non-relativistic Metrics from back-reacting Fermions
26 November J. Rosseel (Groningen)
Title: Massive supergravities in three dimensions
25 November Suvankar Dutta (Swansea University, UK)
Title: Holographic Hydrodynamics
24 November Dileep Jatkar (HRI, India)
Title: New Massive Gravity from AdS_4 Counter-terms
19 November T. Tugut (Gursey Institute, Istanbul)
Title: Renormalization in simple systems
17 November Oscar Varela (Potsdam)
Title: Gauged supergravity from string theory, exactly
12 November M. Trigiante (Torino)
Title: Black Holes and Integrability
10 November S. Frolov (Dublin)
Title: Scaling dimensions from the mirror TBA
4 November S. Frolov (Dublin)
Title: Non-SUSY solutions of RN-AdS black holes in 4D N=2 gauged supergravity
29 October Javier Tarrio (UU)
Title: A holographic QGP with unquenched flavor
27 October Rajesh Gupta (UU)
Title: Quantum Corrections to Entropy of Extremal Black Hole
22 October Masaki Shigemori
Title: (Not at All) exotic branes
15 October B. Haghighat
Wall crossing, mock modularity and multiple M5 branes - Part II
8 October B. Haghighat
Wall crossing, mock modularity and multiple M5 branes
29 September N.D. Hari Dass (Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Title: Some exact results on conformally invariant effective string theories
27 September Dietmar Klemm (Milano)
Title: Supersymmetric black holes in N=2, D=4 gauged supergravity and attractors
9 July Matthias Staudacher
Title: A Shortcut to the Q-Operator
25 June Kiril Hristov (UU)
Title: Black holes in N=2 D=4 gauged supergravity
16 June Clifford Will
Title: Cosmic Barbers: Counting the Hair on the Head of a Black Hole
9 June Carlos Nuñez
Title: Aspects of Gauge Strings duality
26 May Nicolas Moeller ( Lmu-Munich )
Title: Closed strings in open string field theory
21 May Daniel Grumiller ( Vienna Univ. of Technology )
Title: AdS_3/LCFT_2
7 May Christoph Sieg ( NBI- Copenhagen )
Title: Perturbative spectra of gauge theories with gravity duals
28 April Constantinos Papegeorgakis ( King's College )
Title: Connections between U (N) xU (N) and SU (N) xSU (N) Membrane Theories
23 April Rodolfo Russo
Title: Two-charge microstate geometries from string amplitudes
22 April Niels Obers ( NBI, Copenhagen )
Title: Black holes as effective fluids on dynamical worldvolumes
16 April Shinsei Ryu (UC Berkeley)
Title: Entanglement entropy and AdS/CFT
16 April Ipsita Mandal ( Allahabad, India & LPTHE, Paris )
Title: Supersymmetry, Localization and Quantum Entropy Function
9 April Paul McFadden ( UvA)
Title: The Holographic Universe
12 March Ashoke Sen
Title:  Black holes and discrete symmetry
5 March Giuseppe Policastro ( ENS-Paris )
Title: Supersymmetric hydrodynamics from AdS/CFT
25 Feb Konstantinos Zoubos
Title: Quantum Symmetries and Marginal Deformations
19 Feb Miguel Paulos ( DAMTP - Cambridge )
Title: Viscosity and conductivity in general theories of gravity
12 Feb. Umut Gursoy ( UU )
Title: Bulk viscosity, energy loss and Langevin dynamics in Non-critical Holographic QCD
5 Feb. Gabriel Cardoso ( IST-Lisbon )
Title: BPS black holes, the Hesse potential and the topological string
29 Jan Borun Chowdhury
Title: Information Paradox, Fuzzballs and Emission from the D1D5 CFT
22 Jan Adam Rej (Imperial College London)
The AdS / CFT correspondence at higher loops 
2009  
18 Dec Sara Pasquetti (CERN)
Large N duality beyond the genus expansion
16 Dec Thomas Grimm (BCTP, Bonn)
F-theory compactifications and GUTs
11 Dec Sera Cremonini
Probing strongly coupled gauge theories with AdS/CFT:
The violation of the shear viscosity to entropy bound. 
               
02 Dec Pablo Camara (CERN)
Gauged supergravity algebras: from 4d to 10d
27 Nov Nabamita Banerjee (UU)
Black Hole Hair Removal
25 Nov Thomas Quella (UvA)
Conformal Superspace Sigma Models
18 Nov Francesco Bigazzi (Universite' Libre de Bruxelles)
D3-D7 Quark-Gluon Plasmas
11 Nov Koenraad Schalm (LU)
06 Nov Thomas Klose
Monopoles for M2 branes
23 Oct

Marika Taylor (UvA)
The AdS/Logarithmic CFT correspondence

16 Oct Kiril Hristov (UU)
BPS solutions of D=4 N=2 gauged supergravity
07 Oct Stefanos Katmadas (UU)
Five dimensional BPS attractors with higher derivatives
02 Oct Kyriakos Papadodimas (UvA
Holographic Neutron Stars
25 Sept Erik Plauschinn (UU)
Model Building Constraints for type IIB Orientifolds