Monday August 15th – Room 10209:00 – 10:00 Breakfast: Simons Center Café, Second Floor 10:00 Vivek Shende: “D2-D0 branes wrapping singular curves, and knot homology” 12:00 – 2:00 Lunch: Simons Center Café, Second Floor 02:00 Informal Discussions 03:30 Tea: Simons Center Common Room 515 Wednesday August 17th Smith Point Beach Trip09:00 – 10:00 Breakfast: Simons Center Café, Second Floor 10:00 Meet for Beach Departure and Carpool 11:00 Igor Klebanov: Measuring the Number of Degrees of Freedom in CFT 12:30 Lunch at Smith Point Beach
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Tuesday August 16th – Room 10209:00 – 10:00 Breakfast: Simons Center Café, Second Floor 10:00 Mike Douglas: “Does string theory predict low energy supersymmetry?” 12:00 – 2:00 Lunch: Simons Center Café, Second Floor 02:00 Daniel Robbins: “Higher Derivative Corrections to D-brane Actions from T-duality and Disc Amplitudes” 03:30 Tea: Simons Center Common Room 515 5:00 Wine and Cheese Reception 6:00 Piano Concert by Daniel Ragone and Leslie Valentine
Thursday August 18th – Room 10209:00 – 10:00 Breakfast: Simons Center Café, Second Floor 10:00 Berkovits, Nathan: “Geometric Origin of Pure Spinors.” 12:00 – 2:00 Lunch: Simons Center Café, Second Floor 02:00 Nick Halmagyi: “Supersymmetry breaking in conifold backgrounds”. 03:30 Tea: Simons Center Common Room 515 7:00 Party at John Morgan’s
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