APCTP Focus Program on Current Trends in String Field Theory

Dec. 7 - 18, 2009

APCTP Headquarters, Pohang, Korea

Time Table
DateTimeSpeaker/Title
7(Mon) 10:00-10:20 Opening address:
Swan Kim (APCTP), Bum-Hoon Lee (CQUeST), Yoonbai Kim (Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Chair: Bum-Hoon Lee
10:20-11:20 Nobuyuki Ishibashi
Light-cone Gauge String Field Theory in Noncritical Dimensions
8(Tue) Chair: Nobuyuki Ishibashi
09:30-10:20 Leonardo Rastelli
Pedagogical Lecture (I)
10:30-11:20 Leonardo Rastelli
Pedagogical Lecture (II)
11:40-12:40 O-Kab Kwon
Pure gauge solutions around the tachyon vacuum
9(Wed) Chair: Hyun Seok Yang
09:30-10:20 Martin Schnabl
Pedagogical Lecture (III)
11:00-12:00 Driba D. Tolla
Tachyon vacuum solution in open string field theory with constant B field
Chair: Leonardo Rastelli
14:00-14:40 Hyun Seok Yang
Lie Algebroid/Groupoid and Emergent Gravity
14:40-15:20 Sung-Soo Kim
Superconformal theories in Light-Cone Superspace
15:20-16:00 Hiroaki Nakajima
Instanton Calculus in R-R 3-form Background and Deformed N=2, 4 Super Yang-Mills Theories
16:20-17:20 Seok Kim
Indices for Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories
17:20-18:00 Min-Young Choi
Aspects of dyonic instantons
18:30-20:30 Dinner together
10(Thu) Chair: Driba Tolla
09:30-10:30 Loriano Bonora
The ghost sector in SFT: analysis and applications (I)
10:30-11:30 Carlo Maccaferri
The ghost sector in SFT: analysis and applications (II)
11:50-12:50 Irina Aref'eva
Analytical solutions in SFT and cosmological applications
11(Fri) Chair: Loriano Bonora
09:30-10:20 Martin Schnabl
Pedagogical Lecture (IV)
11:00-12:00 Isao Kishimoto
On identity based solutions in open string field theory
Chair: Yuji Okawa
14:00-16:00 Discussion on string field theory
12(Sat) Excursion to gyeongju
14(Mon) Chair: O-Kab Kwon
09:30-10:20 Yuji Okawa
Pedagogical Lecture(V)
11:00-12:00 Taichiro Kugo
Gauge fixing problem in Superstring Field Theory
15(Tue) Chair: Irina Aref'eva
09:30-10:30 Michael Kroyter
Superstring Field Theory in the Democratic Picture
11:00-12:00 Martin Schnabl
CS-WZW correspondence in OSFT
Chair: Taichiro Kugo
13:40-14:20 Yoonbai Kim
Interaction between M2-branes and bulk form fields
14:20-15:00 Shinsuke Kawai
Vortex solutions on non-relativistic M2 branes
15:00-15:40 Chanju Kim
DBI theory as a source of dark energy in cosmology
16:00-16:40 Inyong Cho
Cotton-free strings in Horava-Lifshitz gravity
16:40-17:20 Corneliu Sochichiu
Graphene vs. string theory: similarities and differences
17:20-18:00 Antonio Ricco
Brane superpotentials
18:30-20:30 Banquet
16(Wed) Chair: Corneliu Sochichiu
09:30-10:20 Yuji Okawa
Pedagogical Lecture(VI)
11:00-12:00 Theodore G. Erler
Comments on the tachyon vacuum in nonpolynomial superstring field theory
17(Thu) Chair: Michael Kroyter
09:30- Current trends of research directions in string field theory
18(Fri) Chair: Carlo Maccaferri
09:30- Summary and discussion


APCTP Focus Program on Current Trends in String Field Theory, Pohang, Korea, Dec. 7-18, 2009
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