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Summer School on Particles, Fields and Strings

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
July 22 - August 1, 2008


Topics and Speakers

  • Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter), New Techniques in Perturbation Theory: Gauge Theory and Gravity
  • Jaume Gomis (Perimeter), AdS/CFT
  • Clifford Johnson (UCSD), Perturbative and Nonperturbative String Theory
  • Veronika Hubeny (Durham), The Fluid/Gravity Correspondence
  • Pavel Kovtun (UVic), Hydrodynamic Fluctuations
  • David Kutasov (Chicago), Holographic QCD
  • Per Kraus (UCLA), TBA
  • Mukund Rangamani (Durham), Gravity in Higher Dimensions: A Black Hole Menagerie
  • Sang-Jin Sin (Hanyang U.), Phases of AdS/QCD and Hadron Masses in Medium.
  • Mark van Raamsdonk (Vancouver), Holography and Phase Transitions in Hot Large N Gauge Theory