Workshop: Adventures in Superspace

April 19 - 20 2013

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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Tentative Schedule

Venue: Board Room, Physics Department, Rutherford Lab, McGill University

 

Day 1: Friday April 19

9:00 coffee and croissants
9:30 Dean Martin Grant: Welcome
9:45 Jim Gates: "M. Grisaru & the Eden of Supergravity"
10:30 coffee
11:00 Martin Rocek: "Gauge multiplets and gauging in D=2 sigma-models"
11:35 Peter van Nieuwenhuizen: "Anomaly multiplets, regrisaruzation & solitons"
12:10 lunch (catered)
14:00 Warren Siegel: "TBA"
14:35 Paul Townsend: "3D strings: an open-and-shut case"
15:10 coffee
15:40 Ulf Lindstrom: "Generalized Kaehler geometry and sigma models"
16:15 Antoine van Proeyen: "Superconformal symmetry and higher-dimensional lagrangians"
16:50 Bernard de Wit: "A Superspace Odyssey"
18:30 dinner

 

Day 2: Saturday April 20

9:30 coffee and light refreshments
10:00 Renata Kallosh: "UV properties of N=8 and N=4 supergravities"
10:35 Kelle Stelle: "UV divergences in maximal and half-maximal supergravity"
11:10 coffee
11:40 Dan Freedman: "The holographic dual of F-maximization"
12:15 lunch (on own)
14:00 Michael Duff: "Vanish without a trace"
14:35 McGill group members present themselves
15:10 coffee
15:40 Tirthabir Biswas: "Towards consistent nonlocal theories of gravity"
16:15 Cliff Burgess: "Supersymmetric cancellations without superpartners: having your cake and eating it too"
16:50 closing of the formal part of the workshop