Schedule

2008 PiTP

Final Program Schedule

July 14 - 25, 2008

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REGISTRATION/CHECK-IN: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 3:00 - 8:00 p.m. (in Bloomberg Hall Common Room)

WEEK 1: All events held in Wolfensohn Hall, unless otherwise noted.

	July 14	July 15	July 16	July 17	July 18
8:30 am - 9:00 am	Greeting & Introduction
9:00 am - 10:30 am	"Some Basic Superstring Theory" John Schwarz (1 of 2) Homework Video of Talk	"Some Basic Superstring Theory" John Schwarz (2 of 2) Homework Video of Talk	"LHC: a Crash Course" Nima Arkani-Hamed Video of Talk	"Supersymmetric Grand Unification" Stuart Raby (2 of 3) Lecture Notes (All) Homework Homework Solutions Video of Talk	"D-Brane Model Building" Luis Ibanez (3 of 3) Lecture 3 Notes REVISED Homework (#1 for lecture 1, #2-3 for Lecture 2, and #4 for Lecture 3)
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break (in Fuld Hall Common Room)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	"Supersymmetric Grand Unification" Stuart Raby (1 of 3) Lecture Notes (All) Homework Homework Solutions Video of Talk	"Some Basics of String Phenomenology" Herman Verlinde (1 of 2) Video of Talk	"D-Brane Model Building" Luis Ibanez (1 of 3) Lecture 1 Notes REVISED Homework (#1 for lecture 1, #2-3 for Lecture 2, and #4 for Lecture 3)	"D-Brane Model Building" Luis Ibanez (2 of 3) Lecture 2 Notes REVISED Homework (#1 for lecture 1, #2-3 for Lecture 2, and #4 for Lecture 3)	11:00 - 11:45 "Some Basics of String Phenomenology" Herman Verlinde (2 of 2) Video of Talk 11:45 - 12:30 Q & A Ibanez
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Lunch Break Institute Dining Hall (NOTES: Lunch tickets are valid only after 12:30 pm. Dining Hall serves only until 1:30 pm) (NOTES: Full Group Photo at start of lunch break on Thurs., July 17 - back of Fuld Hall) (NOTES: Institute Apparel Sale Fri., July 18 - upper level Dining Hall)
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Q & A Schwarz	Q & A Raby	Q & A Verlinde	Q & A Raby	2:00 pm Informal participant 3-minute presentations (Bloomberg Lecture Hall)
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Afternoon Tea Break (in Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Homework Schwarz/Verlinde	Homework Schwarz/Verlinde	Q & A + Homework Arkani-Hamed	Q & A + Homework Ibanez	FREE AFTERNOON
Evening	Grocery Shuttle (departs from in front of Fuld Hall) 5:25 pm Group # 1 5:55 pm Group # 2 6:25 pm Group # 3		Director's Welcome Dinner hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Goddard (6:30 pm) Institute Dining Hall

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WEEK 2: All events held in Wolfensohn Hall, unless otherwise noted.

	July 21	July 22	July 23	July 24	July 25
9:00 am - 10:30 am	"Heterotic Model Building" Hans-Peter Nilles Lecture Notes	"Supersymmetric Grand Unification" Stuart Raby (3 of 3) Lecture Notes (All) Homework Homework Solutions Video of Talk	NEW TOPIC "Introduction to F-theory" (some background material for Edward Witten's lectures) Herman Verlinde Video of Talk	"Phenomenology of Supersymmetry Breaking and Mediation" Hans-Peter Nilles (2 of 2) Lecture Notes	"String Compactifications" Edward Witten (2 of 2) Video of Talk
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break (in Fuld Hall Common Room)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	"Gauge/Gravity Duality and Strongly Coupled Model Building" Shamit Kachru (1 of 3) Homework Lecture 1 Notes	"Gauge/Gravity Duality and Strongly Coupled Model Building" Shamit Kachru (2 of 3) Homework Lecture 2 Notes	"Phenomenology of Supersymmetry Breaking and Mediation" Hans-Peter Nilles (1 of 2)	"String Compactifications" Edward Witten (1 of 2) Video of Talk	"Gauge/Gravity Duality and Strongly Coupled Model Building" Shamit Kachru (3 of 3) Homework Lecture Notes
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Lunch Break Institute Dining Hall (NOTES: Lunch tickets are valid only after 12:30 pm. Dining Hall serves only until 1:30 pm)
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Q & A Nilles	Q & A Raby	Q & A Verlinde	CANCELED Q & A + Homework (URL) Arkani-Hamed Homework solution here 2:30 - 3:30 LECTURE "Strings and Cosmology" Shamit Kachru Lecture Notes	PROGRAM ENDS WITH LUNCH
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Afternoon Tea Break (in Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Q & A Kachru	Homework for Kachru's Lectures (Led by Sebastian Franco) (in Bloomberg Lecture Hall)	Q & A Nilles	Q & A Witten
Evening	Grocery Shuttle (departs from in front of Fuld Hall) 5:25 pm Group # 1 5:55 pm Group # 2 6:25 pm Group # 3	7:00-8:45 pm Participant Talks - part 1 List of talks (in Bloomberg Lecture Hall)	PIZZA PARTY MOVED INTO THE DINING HALL TONIGHT AT 5:30 PM	7:00-8:30 pm Participant Talks - part 2 List of talks (in Bloomberg Lecture Hall)