The Third New England String Meeting
Brown University
Friday, October 24, 2008




Free Registration
The meeting is open to all, but it would be helpful to us if you please register by clicking here if you plan to attend.


About
The Third New England String Meeting will be a small, regional one-day conference open to all students, postdocs and faculty. The schedule will leave a generous amount of time for coffee breaks and meals, so people will have plenty of time to chat informally.

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Speakers
Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins)
Vijay Balasubramanian (Penn)
Zvi Bern (UCLA)
Frederik Denef (Harvard)
Gregory Moore (Rutgers)
Andrew Strominger (Harvard)



Final Schedule

10.30amCoffee
11.00amAndrew Strominger, "The Kerr/CFT Correspondence"
11.50amZvi Bern, "An overview of recent developments in scattering amplitudes"
12.40pmLunch at local restaurants
2.10pmVijay Balasubramanian, "Statistical predictions from effective field theory landscapes"
3.00pm Jonathan Bagger, "Three-algebras and theories of multiple M2-branes"
3.50pmCoffee
4.20pmGregory Moore, "Four-dimensional wall-crossing from three-dimensional field theory"
5.10pmFrederik Denef, "The M-theory landscape of holographic superconductors"
6.00pmDinner at local restaurants



Practical Information
The talks will be held in Room 190 of the Barus-Holley Building, which is located on the northwest corner of George Street and Hope Street.


Brown University is easily accessible by the MBTA from Boston as well as by Amtrak.
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Organizers
David Lowe
Marcus Spradlin
Anastasia Volovich