Schedule

2004 PiTP

Tentative Program Schedule

July 19 - 30, 2004

Week 1* (Click on lecturer name or scroll down to see topic and references)

	July 19	July 20	July 21	July 22	July 23
9:30 a.m.	Nathan Seiberg Lecture Notes	Curtis Callan Lecture Notes	Igor Klebanov Lecture Notes	Igor Klebanov Lecture Notes	Curtis Callan Lecture Notes
10:30 a.m.	Charles Thorn Lecture Notes	Charles Thorn Lecture Notes	Louise Dolan Lecture Notes	Kenneth Intriligator Lecture Notes	Paul Steinhardt
11:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:45 a.m.	Stephen Shenker	Stephen Shenker	Kenneth Intriligator	Burt Ovrut	Burt Ovrut
1:00 p.m.	Lunch (Dining Hall serves till 1:30 p.m.)
2:15, 2:45 and 3:15 p.m.	Grocery Shuttle departs from Fuld Hall
2:30-3:15 p.m.		Discussion with Charles Thorn in BH Lecture Hall	Discussion with Stephen Shenker in BH Lecture Hall	Discussion with Kenneth Intriligator in BH Lecture Hall	Discussion with Burt Ovrut in BH Lecture Hall
3:15-3:45 p.m.	Afternoon Tea
3:45-4:30 p.m.		Shenker discussion rescheduled to July 21 @ 2:30 p.m.		Discussion with Igor Klebanov in BH Lecture Hall
4:45 p.m.				Grocery Shuttle departs from Fuld Hall
8:00-10:00 p.m.			Pool Party & Pizza at Nassau Swim Club

Week 2* (Click on lecturer name or scroll down to see topic and references)

	July 26	July 27	July 28	July 29	July 30
9:30 a.m.	Nathan Seiberg Lecture Notes	Edward Witten Lecture Notes1	Juan Maldacena	Leonardo Rastelli Lecture Notes	Juan Maldacena
10:30 a.m.	Steven Gubser Lecture Notes	Louise Dolan Lecture Notes	Nissan Itzhaki	Nissan Itzhaki	Edward Witten Lecture Notes2 Lecture Notes3
11:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:45 a.m.	Alexander Polyakov	Steven Gubser Lecture Notes	Leonardo Rastelli Lecture Notes	Alexander Polyakov	Discussion with Juan Maldacena and Edward Witten in BH Lecture Hall
1:00 p.m.	Lunch (Dining Hall serves till 1:30 p.m.)
1:00-2:30 p.m.		Institute Apparel Sale (Upper Level, Dining Hall)			CLOSE OF PROGRAM
2:30-3:15 p.m.	Discussion with Nathan Seiberg in BH Lecture Hall	Discussion with Steven Gubser in BH Lecture Hall		Discussion with Nissan Itzhaki and Leonardo Rastelli in BH Lecture Hall (will run until 3:30 p.m.)
3:15-3:45 p.m.	Afternoon Tea
3:45-4:30 p.m.		Discussion with Louise Dolan in BH Lecture Hall
4:00 p.m.	Grocery Shuttle departs from Fuld Hall
6:30 p.m.		Dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Goddard (Dining Hall)

*This schedule is subject to change. More lectures may be scheduled in the afternoon, if needed.

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LECTURE TOPICS AND REFERENCES

Nathan Seiberg, Institute for Advanced Study
Topic: Matrix Models

References:
LECTURES ON 2-D GRAVITY AND 2-D STRING THEORY.
By Paul H. Ginsparg (Los Alamos), Gregory W. Moore (Yale U.),. YCTP-P23-92, LA-UR-92-3479, (Received Apr 1993). 230pp.
Lectures given at TASI summer school, Boulder CO, June 11-19, 1992.
Published in Boulder TASI 92:277-470 (QCD161:T45:1992)
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9304011

2-D GRAVITY AND RANDOM MATRICES.
By P. DiFrancesco (Saclay), Paul J. Ginsparg (Los Alamos), J. Zinn-Justin (Saclay),. LA-UR-93-1722, SACLAY-SPH-T-93-061, Jun 1993. 168pp.
Published in Phys.Rept.254:1-133,1995
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9306153

Charles Thorn, University of Florida in Gainesville
Topic: Quantum Field Theory in the Language of String

References: 
hep-th/0405018
hep-th/0209102
hep-th/0203167
hep-ph/0112326
hep-th/0110301

Stephen Shenker, Stanford University
Topic: Behind the Horizon

References:
hep-th/0306170, MAGOO review hep-th/9905111 on AdS/CFT

Curtis Callan, Princeton University
Topic: Aspects of string quantization in AdS5xS5: perturbative approaches and comparison with N=4 SYM

References:
hep-th/0307032
hep-th/0404007
hep-th/0405153
hep-th/0407096

Igor Klebanov, Princeton University
Topic: D-branes on the Conifold and Gauge/Gravity Duality

References:
D-BRANES ON THE CONIFOLD AND N=1 GAUGE / GRAVITY DUALITIES.
By Christopher P. Herzog, Igor R. Klebanov, Peter Ouyang (Princeton U.),. PUPT-2039, May 2002. 41pp.
e-Print Archive: hep-th/0205100

SYMMETRY BREAKING AND AXIONIC STRINGS IN THE WARPED DEFORMED CONIFOLD.
By Steven S. Gubser (Princeton U.), Christopher P. Herzog (Santa Barbara, KITP), Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton U.),. PUPT-2120, NSF-KITP-04-71, May 2004. 26pp.
e-Print Archive: hep-th/0405282

Louise Dolan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Topic: Integrability in superconformal Yang Mills theory

References:
L. Dolan, C. Nappi, and E. Witten, "A Relation Between Approaches to Integrability in Superconfomal Gauge Theory'', hep-th/0308089.
L. Dolan, C. Nappi, and E. Witten, "Yangian Symmetry in D=4 superconformal Yang-Mills Theory'', hep-th/0401243.
L. D. Faddeev, "How Algebraic Ansatz Works for Integrable Models'', hep-th/9605187.
L. D. Faddeev, "Algebraic Aspects of Bethe Ansatz'', hep-th/9404013.
J. Minahan and K. Zarembo, "The Bethe Ansatz for N=4 Super Yang-Mills'', hep-th/0212208.
N. Beisert, "The Complete One Loop Dilatation Operator of N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory, hep-th/0307015.
N. Beisert, C. Kristjansen and M. Staudacher, "The Dilatation Operator of Conformal N=4 Super Yang-Mills'', hep-th/0303060.
I. Bena, J. Polchinski, and R. Roiban, "Hidden Symmetries of the AdS5 x s5 Superstring'', hep-th/0305116.

Kenneth Intriligator, University of California at San Diego
Topic: 4D Superconformal field theories and c-theorems

References:
Zamolodchikov: JETP Lett. 43 (1986), 73
Cardy Phys. Lett. B215 (1988) 749.
hep-th/9708042
hep-th/0304128
hep-th/0312098

Burt Ovrut, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Physical Vacua in Heterotic Theory

References:
TBA

Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
Topic: Contracting Universes and the Big Crunch/Big Bang Singularity

References:
astro-ph/0404480, The Cyclic Model Simplified

Steven Gubser, Princeton University
Topic: Scalar interactions in the dark sector

References:
hep-th/0402225

Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University
Topic: Two Talks in Search of a Title

References:
TBA

Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study
Topic: Twistor String Theory

References:
TBA

Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study
Topic: Strings in two dimensions

References:
LECTURES ON 2-D GRAVITY AND 2-D STRING THEORY
By Paul H. Ginsparg, Gregory W. Moore
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9304011

A NEW HAT FOR THE C=1 MATRIX MODEL
Douglas, Klebanov, D. Kutasov, J. Maldacena, E. Martinec, N. Seiberg
e-Print Archive: hep-th/0307195

Nissan Itzhaki, Princeton University
Topic: Unstable D-branes and closed strings

References:
hep-th/0203211
hep-th/0203265
hep-th/0302146
hep-th/0303139
hep-th/0304192

Leonardo Rastelli, Princeton University
Topic: General lessons for open/closed duality from non-critical strings

Abstract:
How does open/closed duality work? In some non-critical (often topological) string theories we can answer this question exactly. We begin by reviewing the relevant geometry of the moduli space of open and closed Riemann surfaces. We then describe some simplex matrix models and their precise interpretation as the open string duals to topological closed string theories. We attempt to draw general lessons about AdS/CFT.

References:
TBA