Strings & Strong Interactions Workshop

18 Sept 2008, 09:00 → 19 Sept 2008, 17:00 Europe/Rome

Auditorium B. Touschek (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN <!-- ID_UTENTE=506 -->)

An informal meeting devoted to discussions at the interface between String Theory and Strong Interactions. Topics: - Strongly Interactive Quark Gluon Plasma - Hadrons and AdS/QCD - Holography - Scattering Amplitudes Key Speakers and Discussion Leaders include: Johanna Erdmenger, Giuseppe Policastro, Umut Gursoy, Francesco Fucito, Sergio Ferrara Organisers: Stefano Bellucci (INFN-LNF), stefano.bellucci@lnf.infn.it Massimo Bianchi (Dip. Fisica & Sez. INFN, U. Roma "Tor Vergata"), massimo.bianchi@roma2.infn.it Maria Paola Lombardo (INFN-LNF), lombardo@lnf.infn.it Secretariat: Rita Bertelli (INFN-LNF)

Thursday 18 September

1 Registration

2 Flavour and Mesons in the AdS/CFT correspondence

Speaker: Johanna Erdmenger (Max Planck Institute)

Slides CFT_correspondence_.pdf

10:30 coffee break

3 AdS/CFT and high temperature gauge theory

Speaker: Giuseppe Policastro (LPT Ecole Normale Superieure)

4 Thermodynamics in improved holographic QCD

Speaker: Umut Gursoy (Ecole Polytechnique)

13:00 Lunch

5 The ALICE Physics Program

Speaker: Enrico Scomparin (INFN - Torino)

Slides The_ALICE_Physics_Program.ppt

6 Measurement of hard probes in heavy ion collisions at LHC with ALICE: jets and photons

Speaker: Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (INFN - LNF)

Slides Measurement_of_hard_probes_in_heavy_ion_collisions_at_LHC_with_ALICE:_jets_and_photons.ppt

16:30 coffee break

7 Observing the decay of unstable strings in SU(2) Yang Mills Theory

Speaker: Michele Pepe (INFN - Milano Bicocca)

Slides Observing_the_decay_of_unstable_strings_in_SU(2)_Yang_Mills_Theory.pdf

8 Magnetic monopoles in high temperature QCD

Speaker: Alessio D'Alessandro (U. Genova & INFN)

Slides Magnetic_monopoles_in_high_temperature_QCD.pdf

Friday 19 September

9 Novel structures in scattering amplitudes

Speaker: Gabriele Travaglini (Queen Mary - London)

Slides Novel_structures_in_scattering_amplitudes_.pdf

10 Saturation in deep inelastic scattering from AdS/CFT

Speaker: Lorenzo Cornalba (U. Milano Bicocca & Centro Fermi)

Slides CFT_.pdf

10:40 coffee break

11 Some applications of light-cone superspace

Speaker: Stefano Kovacs (Trinity College & Dublin Institute for Adv. Studies)

Slides Some_applications_of_light-cone_superspace.pdf

12 Localization by homology in the loop equation of large-N Yang Mills theory: a case of holography without supersymmetry

Speaker: Marco Bochicchio (INFN - Roma La Sapienza)

12:30 Lunch

13 Light mesons and glueballs in a bottom-up approach to holographic QCD

Speaker: Pietro Colangelo (INFN - Bari)

Slides Light_mesons_and_glueballs_in_a_bottom-up_approach_to_holographic_QCD.pdf

14 Hadronization of QCD

Speaker: Fabrizio Palumbo (INFN - LNF)

Slides Hadronization_of_QCD_.pdf

15 Final discussion

Speaker: Sergio Ferrara (CERN & INFN)