Strings 2010: Schedule of Talks

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The Strings 2010 conference features a lineup of prominent speakers, including Nima Arkani-Hamed, John Ellis, and Edward Witten, with many talk titles still marked as "TBA." The conference schedule, which lacks detailed titles for most presentations, has raised concerns about the relevance of the talks to core topics such as extra dimensions and quantum gravity. As of now, only 16 out of 40 titles have been confirmed, with a significant focus on topics like holographic superconductors and new physics at the LHC. The conference is set to begin in three weeks, creating urgency for attendees to understand the scope of discussions.

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  • Familiarity with string theory concepts
  • Understanding of quantum gravity principles
  • Knowledge of holographic duality and AdS/CFT correspondence
  • Awareness of recent developments in particle physics, particularly related to the LHC
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  • Research the implications of "TBA" titles in academic conferences
  • Explore recent papers on holographic superconductors and their applications
  • Study the latest findings from the LHC and their relevance to string theory
  • Investigate the role of prominent physicists like Edward Witten in current theoretical discussions
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Physicists, researchers in theoretical physics, and students interested in string theory and its applications in modern physics will benefit from this discussion.

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I guess Marcus will really enjoy this talk:

http://mitchell.physics.tamu.edu/Conference/string2010/documents/slides/Dixon.LDNeq8Strings2010.ppt

Dixon says that N=8 SUGRA in 4 dimensions might be in the swampland after all, that is, it is no kind of low energy limit of any type of compactification of any string theory. During the talk you can see that at low loops this theory coincides in many terms but at highest orders, it seems that there is a disagreement between what is obtained from string theory aproximations and direct computations using maximum cut diagrams.

Dixon talks about the possibility that the UV completion might be a punctual theory, not string theory.
 
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