Schedule

2006 PiTP

Tentative Program Schedule

July 17 - 28, 2006

For information on SUGGESTED PROGRAM PRE-READING, click here.

For a listing of lecture titles, please see bottom of this page.

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

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SCHEDULE CHANGE: BEGINNING WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, LUNCH BREAK WILL RUN UNTIL 2:30 P.M. AND AFTERNOON SESSIONS WILL BEGIN AT 2:30 P.M. FOR ALL REMAINING DAYS OF THE PROGRAM.

	July 17	July 18	July 19	July 20	July 21
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Greeting & Introduction
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Klebanov lecture lecture notes 1-3 combined Problem 1 Problem 2	Klebanov lecture lecture notes 1-3 combined Problem 3	Maldacena lecture Lecture Notes Problems	Beisert lecture (covered remainder of earlier lecture notes)	Klebanov lecture lecture notes 1-3 combined
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	COFFEE BREAK Fuld Hall Common Room
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Beisert lecture Lecture 1 notes Problem Set	Beisert lecture Lecture 2 Notes	Beisert lecture Lecture 3 Notes	Itzhaki lecture Lecture 2 notes	Intriligator lecture lecture 1 notes (revised) lecture 1 homework (revised)
11:40 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.	Itzhaki lecture Lecture 1 notes Problems 1 & 2 Problem solutions	Polchinski lecture Problems 1-3 Lecture Notes 1-2	Polchinski lecture Lecture Notes 1-2	Polchinski lecture Lecture Notes 3	Polchinski lecture Lecture Notes 4
12:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	LUNCH BREAK Institute Dining Hall (NOTE: Dining Hall serves only until 1:30 p.m.) Starting Wednesday July 19th, Lunch will now run until 2:30 p.m.				LUNCH & INSTITUTE APPAREL SALE Institute Dining Hall (sale in upper level)
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Tutorial w/ Maldacena	Tutorial w/ Klebanov	Tutorial w/ Itzhaki	Tutorial w/ Intriligator tutorial plan (revised) tutorial homework (revised)	Problem Sessions note changes in problem session locations Intriligator Problem Session, run by Shih in Bloomberg Lecture Hall Klebanov Problem Session, run by Dymarsky in Bloomberg Physics Library
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	AFTERNOON TEA BREAK Fuld Hall Common Room				AFTERNOON TEA
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Tutorial w/ Beisert Tutorial Notes	Problem Sessions Beisert Problem Session, run by Swanson in Bloomberg Lecture Hall Klebanov Problem Session, run by Dymarsky in Bloomberg Physics Library	Problem Sessions Itzhaki Problem Session, run by Baumann in Bloomberg Lecture Hall Polchinski Problem Session, run by Hellerman in Bloomberg Physics Library	Problem Sessions Polchinski Problem Session, run by Hellerman in Bloomberg Lecture Hall Beisert Problem Session, run by Swanson in Bloomberg Physics Library	Problem Sessions Maldacena Problem Session, run by Bena in Bloomberg Lecture Hall Intriligator 2nd Problem Session - MOVED TO AFTERNOON OF 7/24
Evening	Grocery Shuttles load (#1 @ 5:20 p.m.) (#2 @ 5:50 p.m.) In front of Fuld Hall		After Dinner Swim @ Nassau Swim Club (8:00 - 9:00 p.m.) See Bloomberg Bulletin Board for details	Pool & Pizza Party (5:00 - 8:00 p.m.) Olden Farm/ 97 Olden Lane

For information on SUGGESTED PRINCETON SITES/WEEKEND ACTIVITIES, click here.

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

	July 24	July 25	July 26	July 27	July 28
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Kachru lecture Kacru problems Kachru lecture 1 notes	Kachru lecture Kachru lecture 2 notes	Kachru lecture Kachru lecture 3 notes	Kachru lecture Kachru lecture 4 notes	Verlinde lecture
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	COFFEE BREAK Fuld Hall Common Room
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Cvetic lecture	Cvetic lecture	Verlinde lecture	Gubser lecture Gubser lecture notes & problemsREVISED (instructions for Windows users)	Gubser lecture Gubser lecture notes & problemsREVISED (instructions for Windows users)
11:40 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.	Intriligator lecture lecture 2 notes & problems pre-lecture 3 problems	Verlinde lecture Verlinde problems	Intriligator lecture Lecture 3 notes	Witten lecture	Witten lecture
12:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	LUNCH BREAK Institute Dining Hall (NOTE: Dining Hall serves only until 1:30 p.m.)
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Tutorial w/ Cvetic Cvetic tutorial problems	Tutorial w/ Witten Witten homework/ problems Witten reference: hep-th/9505186 Witten tutorial addendum	Tutorial w/ Gubser Gubser lecture notes & problemsREVISED (instructions for Windows users)	Tutorial w/ Verlinde	END OF PROGRAM
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	AFTERNOON TEA BREAK Fuld Hall Common Room
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Problem Session (moved from Friday, 7/21) Intriligator Problem Session, run by Shih in Bloomberg Lecture Hall	Problem Sessions Kachru Problem Session, run by Franco in Bloomberg Lecture Hall Cvetic Problem Session, run by Rabadan in Bloomberg Physics Library	Problem Sessions Verlinde Problem Session, run by Wijnholt in Bloomberg Lecture Hall (NOTE change in location) Kachru Problem Session, run by Franco in Bloomberg Physics Library (NOTE change in location)	Problem Sessions Witten Problem Session, run by Pestun in Bloomberg Lecture Hall Gubser Problem Session, run by Friess in Bloomberg Physics Library
Evening	Grocery Shuttles load (#1 @ 5:20 p.m.) (#2 @ 5:50 p.m.) (in front of Fuld Hall)	Participant Talks 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. (Bloomberg Lecture Hall) click here for detailed schedule of talks		Dinner Hosted by Goddards (6:30 p.m.) Institute Dining Hall

*This schedule is subject to change.

Lecturers and Lecture Titles

Niklas Beisert - "Integrability in AdS/CFT"

Mirjam Cvetic - "Construction of Semi-Realistic String Vacua"

Steven Gubser - "AdS/CFT and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions"

Ken Intriligator - Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking"

Nissan Itzhaki - The Evolving Cosmological Constant (Problem)"

Shamit Kachru - "Cosmology and Particle Physics from Flux Vacua"

Igor Klebanov - "D-branes on Cones and Gauge/String Dualities"

Juan Maldacena - "Giant Magnons"

Joseph Polchinski - "Cosmic Strings and Superstrings"

Herman Verlinde - "D-branes at CY Singularities"

Edward Witten - "Gauge Theory and The Geometric Langlands Program"