Supergravity, Strings and Dualities:
A Meeting in Celebration of Chris Hull's 60th Birthday

Imperial College London, April 28-29th 2017

Programme

Each session will begin with 5 minutes of remarks about Chris Hull by the session Chairs.

Lectures will be held in Lecture Theatre 311 on level 3 of the Huxley building (building 13 on this campus map).

For a map and information on how to reach the lecture the venue click here.

Friday April 28
from 9:00 Registration
09:30-09:35Welcome: Dan Waldram
09:35-10:10 Gary Gibbons

Carroll Symmetry, Gravitational Memory and Soft Gravitons
10:10-10:45 Jerome Gauntlett

Boomerang RG flows with intermediate scaling
Tea/Coffee
11:15 Chair: Ulf Lindstrom
11:20-11:55 Atish Dabholkar

Weyl Anomalies and Cosmology
Lunch
14:00 Chair: Yolanda Lozano
14:05-14:40 Michael Douglas

Computational Complexity of Cosmology in String Theory
14:40-15:15 Nick Warner

Microstate Geometries Deep Inside the Black-Hole Regime
15:15-15:50 Bobby Acharya

M theory, G2 and Properties of Dark Matter
Tea/Coffee
16:20 Chair: Kelly Stelle
16:25-17:00 Martin Roček

WZW-models in (2,2) superspace
17:00-17:35 Michael Green

Supergravity Amplitudes in a Horava-Witten Background
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19:00 Dinner
at Rembrandt Hotel
Saturday April 29
10:15 Chair: Ron Reid-Edwards
10:20-10:55 Nathan Berkovits

Relating the RNS and Pure Spinor Formalisms of the Superstring
Tea/Coffee
11:20 Chair: Bill Spence
11:25-12:00 Costas Bachas

Weyl Anomalies and D-brane Charges
Lunch
14:00 Chair: George Papadopoulos
14:05-14:40 Eric Bergshoeff

Newton-Cartan Geometry and Torsion
14:40-15:15 Barton Zwiebach

L algebras and Double Field Theory
Tea/Coffee
15:45 Chair: Malcolm Perry
15:50-16:25 Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill

Supersymmetric supergravity backgrounds via Lie superalgebras
16:25-17:00 Paul Townsend

Susy and RCHO Redux
Stephen Hawking unfortunately cannot attend but has recorded an audio message.

The conference dinner will be on Friday evening at 7pm at the Rembrandt Hotel, located at 11 Thurloe Pl, Kensington, London SW7 2RS.

For a map showing the location click here.

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