Departamento de Física de Partículas

and

Instituto Gallego de Física de Altas Energías (IGFAE)

Seminars and Courses (Theory)

 2007

20 Jul 07 Francesco Benini (SISSA & INFN, Trieste) Warped models in String Theory.

19 Jul 07 Roberto Emparan (Univ. Barcelona) Black Ring basics.

11 Jul 07 Leopoldo Pando Zayas (Univ. Michigan) Black holes in cascading theories.

09 Jul 07 Yuli M. Shabelski (Univ. Santiago de Compostela & PNPI, Gatchina) Tetraquarks and pentaquarks in string models.

27 Jun 07 Alex Prygarin (Tel Aviv University) BFKL Pomeron Calculus.

13 Jun 07 Stefano Cremonesi (SISSA & INFN, Trieste) Backreacting Flavors in Cascading Gauge Theories.

31 May 07 Manuel Pérez-Victoria (Univ. Granada) Reconstructing Migdal's Holograms.

22 May 07 Diederik Roest (Univ. Barcelona) Supersymmetric string backgrounds: an introduction to their classification.

16 May 07 Andrés Anabalón (CECS, Valdivia) The Universe as a topological defect.

11 May 07 Cristián Martínez (CECS, Valdivia) Higher-dimensional black holes with a conformally invariant Maxwell source.

26 Apr 07 Romuald Janik (Jagellonian University) An AdS/CFT description of a boost-invariant expanding plasma.

24 Apr 07 Paolo Grinza (Univ. Torino) Finite-size behaviour of anti-ferromagnetic anomalous dimensions in N=4 SYM.

13 Apr 07 Angel Paredes (École Polytechnique) Chiral symmetry breaking as tachyon condensation.

12 Apr 07 Silvia Vaulá (IFT & Univ. Autónoma de Madrid) On the underlying E11 symmetry of the D=11 Free Differential Algebra.

30 Mar 07 Sergey Cherkis (Trinity College, Univ. Dublin) Instantons on Gravitons.

07 Mar 07 Rodrigo Olea (INFN, Milano) Regularization of AdS gravity: Kounterterms.

16 Feb 07 Cristina Manuel (IEEC/CSIC, Barcelona) A strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma in RHIC?.

06 Feb 07 Mikhail A. Braun (St. Petersburg State Univ.) Long range correlations in perturbative QCD.

23 Jan 07 Jaime Álvarez Muñiz (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) Hadronic models and ultra high energy cosmic rays: the role of percolation.

8 Jan 07 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana (LBL, Berkeley) Mean Transfered Momentum to a Quark from a N=4 SYM Plasma.

 2006

22 Dec 06 Carlos Salgado (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza") Highlights from the 19th Quark-Matter Conference.

15 Dec 06 Alessio Celi (Univ. Barcelona) Null Deformed Domain Wall.

29 Nov 06 Angel Paredes (École Polytechnique) On unquenched N=2 holographic flavor.

27 Nov 06 Prem Kumar (Univ. Wales, Swansea) A quantum effective potential for thermal N=4 theory on S3 and emergent geometry.

24 Nov 06 Prem Kumar (Univ. Wales, Swansea) What is the phase structure of N=4 theory at finite temperature?.

7 Nov 06 Sergey Bondarenko (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) Pomerons: way to unitarization.

25 Oct 06 Joaquim Gomis (Univ. Barcelona) Non-linear realizations and branes.

19 Oct 06 J. Luis Miramontes (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) T-duality in massive integrable field theories.

18 Oct 06 Ingo Kirsch (ETH, Zurich) Spin-1/2 operators and backreaction in AdS/CFT with flavor.

4 Oct 06 Sergio Pastor (IFIC, Univ. Valencia) Weighting neutrinos with cosmological observables.

19 Sep 06 Carlos Pajares (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) Resumen del Congreso "Quark confinement and hadron spectrum".

18 Sep 06 Carlos Núñez (Univ. Wales, Swansea) Towards the string dual of N=1 SQCD-like theories II.

15 Sep 06 Carlos Núñez (Univ. Wales, Swansea) Towards the string dual of N=1 SQCD-like theories I.

19 Jul 06 Alejandro Ayala (ICN-UNAM) Piones y protones en RHIC ó "size does matter".

30 Jun 06 Diego Rodríguez-Gómez (Univ. Oviedo & Univ. Autónoma de Madrid) Computing Wilson lines with dielectric branes.

27 Jun 06 Jorge Zanelli (CECS) Formas de transgresión o el universo como un subsistema.

14 Jun 06 Umut Gursoy (École Polytechnique) Universality in gravity duals of N=1 SYM and the Gamma-deformations.

12 May 06 Luca Martucci (Univ. Leuven) D-branes on N=1 backgrounds: generalized calibrations, superpotentials and D-terms.

24 Apr 06 Andrés Anabalón (CECS, Valdivia) Kappa symmetric analysis in superconformal mechanics.

21 Apr 06 Alberto Iglesias (New York University) Cuerdas cósmicas F y D estabilizadas dinámicamente.

7 Apr 06 Gevorg H. Arakelyan (Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia) Lambda-Production in Pion-p and Kaon-p Collisions.

5 Apr 06 Paul Sutcliffe (Univ. Kent, Canterbury) Aspects of Skyrmions.

31 Mar 06 Valentina Riva (Univ. Oxford) Introduction to Stochastic Loewner Evolution (SLE) II.

29 Mar 06 Valentina Riva (Univ. Oxford) Introduction to Stochastic Loewner Evolution (SLE) I.

28 Mar 06 Yuli M. Shabelski (PNPI, Gatchina) Nuclear effects in hard and soft interactions.

27 Mar 06 Cristián Martínez (CECS) Asymptotic analysis of anti-de Sitter gravity with scalar fields.

10 Mar 06 Luis F. Alday (Univ. Utrecht) Towards a string bit formulation of N=4 super Yang-Mills.

24 Feb 06 Manuel Asorey (Univ. Zaragoza) Transiciones de Fase y Energía del vacío theta.

21 Feb 06 Mikhail Ioffe (St. Petersburg State Univ.) SUSY approach in two dimensional QCD.

21 Feb 06 Roberto Emparan (Univ. Barcelona) Non-perturbative materialization of ghosts.

10 Feb 06 Helmut Satz (IST/Bielefeld) The nature of deconfinement.

20 Jan 06 David Newton (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) Measuring the Lateral Distribution function of Extensive Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory.

16 Jan 06 Patricia Hansen (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) Flux of atmospheric muons.

12 Jan 06 Bartomeu Fiol (Univ. Amsterdam) The entropic principle.

11 Jan 06 Marcos Alvarez (City College of London) Introducción a estructuras de spin-c en variedades de cuatro dimensiones.

10 Jan 06 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana (Stony Brook University) Conical Flow in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions.

 2005

9 Dec 05 Paolo Merlatti (Univ. Hamburg) Engineering N=1 super-Yang-Mills.

5 Dec 05 Pedro Silva (Univ. di Milano & IFAE, Barcelona) Rational foundation of General Relativity in terms of statistical mechanics in the AdS/CFT framework.

24 Nov 05 Pere Talavera (Univ. Politécnica de Catalunya) Semiclassical string spectrum dual to large N QCD.

21 Nov 05 Francisco J. Ynduráin (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid) Pion-pion scattering, dispersion relations and Chiral Perturbation Theory.

18 Nov 05 Néstor Armesto (Univ. de Santiago de Compostela) Highlights of Quark Matter 2005.

17 Nov 05 Andrei Rostovtsev (ITEP, Moscow) Universalities in hadronic spectra and genesis of power-law statistical distributibutions.

9 Nov 05 César Fosco (Instituto Balseiro & Centro Atómico Bariloche) Quiralidad.

3 Nov 05 César Fosco (Instituto Balseiro & Centro Atómico Bariloche) Entanglement Entropy.

25 Oct 05 César Fosco (Instituto Balseiro & Centro Atómico Bariloche) Regularized Symmetries.

14 Oct 05 Jorge Alfaro (Univ. Católica de Chile & Univ. Autónoma de Madrid) Quantum Gravity and Lorentz Invariance Violation in the Standard Model.

6 Oct 05 Andrzej Wereszczynski (Jagiellonian University) Eikonal knots: applications and generalizations.

29 Sept 05 Jorge Zanelli (CECS) (Super)Gravities of a different sort.

22 Sept 05 Marta Gómez-Reino (Brandeis) Racetrack Inflation.

14 Jul 05 Brijesh Srivastava (Purdue University) Fluctuations and correlations in STAR.

4 Jul 05 Johanna Erdmenger (Max Planck Inst., Munich) Spectral flow, Higgs potential and thermal phase transtion in gauge/gravity duals with flavour.

29 Jun 05 José M. Izquierdo (Univ. Valladolid) Some aspects of the relation between the M-theory superalgebra and D=11 supergravity.

23 Jun 05 Ricardo Schiappa (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa) BRST cohomology of pure spinors.

16 Jun 05 Dario Martelli (CERN) New results in AdS/CFT and Sasaki-Einstein geometry III.

15 Jun 05 Dario Martelli (CERN) New results in AdS/CFT and Sasaki-Einstein geometry II.

14 Jun 05 Dario Martelli (CERN) New results in AdS/CFT and Sasaki-Einstein geometry I.

3 Jun 05 Jose Barbón (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid) Topology and Unitarity in Quantum Black Holes.

26 May 05 Guy de Teramond (Univ. Costa Rica) A Holographic Dual of QCD.

18 May 05 Aldo Cotrone (Univ. de Barcelona) New checks of AdS/CFT and a-maximization.

10 May 05 Stanislav Kuperstein (Tel Aviv Univ.) Non critical supergravity.

26 Apr 05 Alex Pomarol (Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona) Chiral symmetry breaking from five dimensional spaces.

20 Apr 05 Michela Petrini (École Polytechnique & Univ. Tours) A family of deformations of the Klebanov-Strassler solution.

12 Apr 05 Carlos Herdeiro (Univ. Porto) Chronology Protection Conjecture in String Theory.

5 Apr 05 Ángel Paredes (École Polytechnique) AdS/CFT stories in noncritical dimensions.

30 Mar 05 Jan de Boer (Univ. Amsterdam) The topological G2 string.

29 Mar 05 Jan de Boer (Univ. Amsterdam) String Theory: an update.

18 Mar 05 Magno V.T. Machado (Univ. Estadual do Río Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre) Ultra-High energy neutrinos and nonlinear perturbative QCD.

17 Mar 05 Magno V.T. Machado (Univ. Estadual do Río Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre) Heavy quarks and vector mesons photoproduction in ultra peripheral heavy ions collisions/energetic protons.

16 Mar 05 Alfonso V. Ramallo (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) Adding open string modes to the gauge/gravity correspondence.

7 Mar 05 Christoph Adam (Univ. Santiago de Compostela) Knot soliton models, submodels, and their symmetries.

18 Feb 05 Juan L. Mañes (Univ. País Vasco) Portrait of the string as a random walk.

18 Feb 05 Kostas Skenderis (Univ. Amsterdam) Holographic Renormalization III.

17 Feb 05 Kostas Skenderis (Univ. Amsterdam) Holographic Renormalization II.

16 Feb 05 Kostas Skenderis (Univ. Amsterdam) Holographic Renormalization I.

15 Feb 05 Javier López Albacete (Univ. Córdoba) Saturation in high-energy QCD: The BK equation.

1 Feb 05 Carlos Salgado (CERN) QCD at the LHC: new tools and new hopes.

26 Jan 05 Nick Evans (Univ. Southampton) A gravity dual description of chiral symmetry breaking.

 2004

23 Nov 04 Mariana Graña (Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris) Supersymmetric Backgrounds from Generalized Calabi-Yau Manifolds.

18 Nov 04 G. H. Arakelyan (Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia) Inclusive hadroproduction of Ds-mesons.

12 Nov 04 Larry McLerran (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York) Color Glass Condensate and Evolution at Small x.

11 Nov 04 David d'Enterria (Nevis Labs, Columbia Univ., New York) Status of Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC.

27 Oct 04 Konstandinos Sfetsos (Univ. Patras) On branes, gauge/gravity correspondence and time dependence.

14 Oct 04 Daniele Amati (SISSA, Trieste) La emergencia del ser humano.

15 Sept 04 Justo López-Sarrión (Univ. Zaragoza) Adiabatic approximation in quantum field theory.

8 Sept 04 Sean Hartnoll (DAMPT, Univ. Cambridge, UK) The chiral anomaly, dualities and M theory.

1 Jul 04 Sergey Baranov (P.N. Lebedev Inst. of Physics-Russian Acad. Sci., Moscow) Quarkonium production at modern colliders in view of the kT-factorization approach.

30 Jun 04 Antonio Dobado (Univ. Complutense, Madrid) Branons in Particle Physics and Cosmology.

31 May 04 A. K. Chaudhuri (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata) High pT supression at RHIC and jet quenching.

12 May 04 Marcos Pérez (La Casa de las Ciencias, La Coruña) Donde hay vacas, hay hierba. La búsqueda de vida extraterrestre.

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