Programme
The conference will focus on recent research in String theory, M-theory, Branes and Supersymmetry. It is being held to celebrate the career of Professor Michael Duff, who holds the Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College. The conference will be held on 1st-2nd April 2008 in the Huxley Building of Imperial College. A conference banquet will be held on April 1st.
Timetable
Where the talk has been recorded, the audio may be accessed by clicking the "mp3" link; if the speaker has provided their slides then these can be accessed by clicking the "notes" link.
| April 1 | April 2 | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30 - 10:10 | Brief introduction [mp3],
then: Deser Topologically massive gravity has positive energy [mp3, notes] |
Minasian Fluxes, Generalized complex geometry and dualities [notes] |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Kallosh N=8 Supergravity on the Light Cone [mp3, notes] | Cvetic Charged black holes in gauged supergravities: old and new [notes] |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Tea/Coffee | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Townsend Massive 3D Gravity: Topological, New and General [mp3, notes] | Liu Higher derivative corrections in five-dimensional supergravity [notes] |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Nilsson Some properties of superconformal M2-branes [mp3, notes] |
Dolan Conformal Supergravity Tree Amplitudes from Open Twistor String Theory [notes] |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Rocek New gauge multiplets in D=2 [mp3, notes] |
Sezgin Witten-Nester Energy in Topologically Massive Gravity [notes] |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Tea/Coffee | |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Pope Squashed Einstein metrics and supergravity [mp3, notes] |
Lu On the interaction between two non-threshold bound states [notes] |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | West E11, locality and space-time [mp3, notes] |
Gibbons The Bernstein conjecture, its failure and the 8-brane [notes] |
Lectures will be held in Clore Lecture Theatre on level 2 of the Huxley Building (building 13 on this map). Participants are asked to register during the morning of April 1st at the desk outside the lecture theatre. The registration desk will be open from 9am. For those attending the dinner a payment of £30 in cash for themselves and each guest will be required at the same time, on the morning of April 1st.