October 2010 Southern California Strings Seminar

Program Friday, October 1, 2010
UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB), 4th Floor, Room 4-330

  • 9:30-10:45: Stephane Detournay (KITP): Warped AdS/(C)FT correspondences
  • 11:00-12:15: Christoph Keller (Caltech): The AdS3/CFT2 correspondence, modularity and extremal CFTs
  • 12:30-1:45: Lunch
  • 1:45-3:00: Arvind Rajaraman (UC Irvine): Infrared Divergences in dS/CFT
  • 3:15-4:30: Krzysztof Pilch (USC): Supergravity instabilities of non-supersymmetric quantum critical points

Program Saturday, October 2, 2010

  • 9:30-10:45: Martin Ammon (UCLA): AdS/CFT applied to condensed matter physics: A top-down approach
  • 11:00-12:15: Yu Nakayama (Caltech): Scale vs conformal invariance from holography