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Thursday, April 30, 2015

62do encuentro de la Red Strings@ar

Tenemos el agrado de anunciar el 62do encuentro de la Red Strings@ar, que se realizará el miércoles 6 de mayo de 2015 en la Sala B del CCT La Plata, sito en Calle 8 Nro 1467 entre 62 y 63 de La Plata, 

El programa de este nuevo Encuentro será el siguiente: 

10:00 - 10:30  Welcome coffee 

10:30 - 11:30  Jeremías Aguilera-Damia 
Strings in AdS4 x CP3, Wilson loops in N=6 super Chern-Simons-matter and Bremsstrahlung functions 

We find 1/6 BPS string configurations in AdS4 x CP3, which we identify as the duals ofcertain 1/6 BPS circular  Wilson loops in N=6 superChern-Simons-matter gauge theory. We use our results to verify -in the strong coupling limit- a proposal made in arXiv:1402.4128 for a relation  between the expectation value of these  Wilson loops and the Bremsstrahlung function from deforming 1/2 BPS Wilson lines with a cusp. We  also derive an analogous relation  between theexpectation value of some particular 1/12 BPS Wilson loops and the Bremsstrahlung function from deforming 1/6 BPS Wilson lines with an internal space cusp.

11:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 14:30 Nicolas Grandi
Holographic Thermalization of Charged operators  

We study a light-like charged collapsing shell in AdS-Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime, investigating whether the corresponding Vaidya metric is supported by matter that satisfies the null energy condition. We find that, if the absolute value of the charge decreases during the collapse, energy conditions are fulfilled everywhere in spacetime. On the other hand, if the absolute value of the charge increases, the metric does not satisfy energy conditions in the IR region. Therefore, from the gauge/gravity perspective, this last case is only useful to study the thermalization of the UV degrees of freedom. For all these geometries, we probe the thermalization process with two point correlators of charged operators, finding that the thermalization time grows with the charge of the operator, as well as with the dimension of space.

14:30 - 15:30 Alan Garbarz
TBA

15:30 - 16:00  Coffee break


16:00 - 17:00 Julio Oliva
Black Strings in Gauss-Bonnet are Unstable


We report the existence of unstable, s-wave modes, for black strings in Gauss-Bonnet theory (which is quadratic in the curvature) in seven dimensions. This theory admits analytic uniform black strings that in the transverse section are black holes of the same Gauss-Bonnet theory in six dimensions. All the components of the perturbation can be written in terms of a single one and its derivatives. For this latter component we find a master equation which admits bounded solutions provided the characteristic time of the exponential growth of the perturbation is related with the wave number along the extra direction, as it occurs in General-Relativity. It is known that these configurations suffer from a thermal instability, and therefore the results presented here provide evidence for the Gubser-Mitra conjecture in the context of Gauss-Bonnet theory. Due to the non-triviality of the curvature of the background, all the components of the metric perturbation appear in the linearized equations. As it occurs for spherical black holes, these black strings should be obtained as the short distance r<<\alpha^{1/2} limit of the black string solution of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory, which is not know analytically, where \alpha is the Gauss-Bonnet coupling.


Esperamos verlos en el encuentro de Strings@ar el miércoles 6 de mayo

Cordiales saludos,

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Lectures on Advanced Topics of High Energy Physics, 3rd Edition

Estimados colegas y amigos,

Tenemos el agrado de anunciar la tercera edición de las Strings@ar Lectures on Advanced Topics of High Energy Physics. Al igual que en las ocasiones anteriores, las Lectures están dirigidas a estudiantes de doctorado, posdocs, e investigadores interesados.  

La primera edición tuvo lugar en 2011 en el CCT La Plata, y versó sobre "Aplicaciones de la Holografia". La segunda edicion se realizó en el IAFE de Buenos Aires en 2012, y se centró en "Geometría generalizada, integrabilidad, y métodos on-shell".

La presente edición tendrá lugar en la Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, coincidiendo con el año del cuatricentenario de dicha universidad, los días los días 27, 28 y 29  de noviembre de 2013, y cubrirá los siguientes temas

 - Introducción a AdS/CFT,
   Guillermo Silva, Instituto de Física de La Plata

 - Espaciotiempo emergente y gravedad cuántica en el contexto holografico,
   Marcelo Botta Cantcheff, Instituto de Física de La Plata

- Holografía en teorías de campos fuertemente acopladas,
   Nicolas Grandi, Instituto de Física de La Plata

El programa y la información actualizada se puede encontrar en la página web del evento.

Esperamos verlos el miércoles 27 de noviembre próximo.

Cordialmente,

Friday, July 12, 2013

Ten Years of the Strings@ar Network Workshop

Estimados Colegas y Amigos,

Tenemos el agrado de anunciar la realización del evento de conmemoración de los 10 años de la Red de Física Teórica Strings@ar:

Ten Years of the Strings@ar Network Workshop


Se realizará durante dos días, incluyendo seminarios de 30 minutos y 5 minutos de preguntas. El primer día será el martes 16 de julio en la CCT-La Plata, en calle 8 entre 62 y 63, La Plata. El segundo día será el miércoles 17 de julio, en el IAFE, Ciudad Universitaria de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. La pagina web del evento se puede encontrar aquí


Esperamos verlos en el workshop. Un cordial saludo,

Jose Edelstein
Nicolas Grandi
Carmen Nuñez
Martin Schvellinger




Ten Years of the Strings@ar Network Workshop

This workshop is organized to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Argentinean Network for String Theory and Theoretical Physics, Strings@ar.

Since its beginning in June 2003, the Strings@ar network hosted more than fifty one-day meetings, including more than two hundred seminars delivered by specialists. There are more than fifty senior and junior Argentinean researchers, post-docs and research students, working in the country and abroad, who are associated with this network. During the last ten years the Strings@ar network has served as a natural framework to develop joint seminars between the string theory groups at the Universities of La Plata
and Buenos Aires. The Strings@ar network organized several national and international conferences: the Ten Years of AdS/CFT conference (Buenos Aires, Dec 2007), the International School in Quantum Gravity (La Plata, July 2010), the Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone V conference (Buenos Aires, July 2010), the Workshop on Applications of Holography (La Plata, Nov 2011) and the Advanced Topics on String Theory Workshop (Buenos Aires, Nov 2012).

This workshop will bring together theoretical physicists, post-docs and advanced research students working on different areas of theoretical physics, including string theory, gravity, cosmology, quantum field theory, theoretical particle physics and phenomenology. It will be held at the Science and Technology Centre at the city of La Plata (Centro Científico Tecnológico-CCT La Plata), which belongs to the National Scientific Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina, on July 16th; and at the Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE-CONICET) at the University of Buenos Aires campus, on July 17th.

The program is as follows.

Ten Years of the Strings@Ar Network Workshop
Program:

Day 1, July 16th, CCT-La Plata

10:00–10:15 hs: José Edelstein (U. Santiago de Compostela)
 Opening

10:15–10:50 hs: Héctor Vucetich (UNLP)
Ondas o particulas

10:50–11:20 hs: Coffee

11:20–11:55 hs: Martin Schvellinger (IFLP)
SYM plasmas and AdS/CFT

11:55–12:30 hs: Walter Baron (IFLP)
Holographic thermalization

12:30–14:30 hs: Lunch

14:30–15:05 hs: Carmen Núñez (IAFE)
What is double field theory?

15:05–15:40 hs: Daniel López Fogliani (DF-UBA)
Superymmetry: Model variants, LHC phenomenology, neutrino physics and dark matter

15:40–16:15 hs: Nicolás Grandi (IFLP)
Invariant tensors as a macroscopic memory of microscopic structure


16:15–16:45 hs: Coffee

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Day 2, July 17th, IAFE-UBA

10:00–10:35 hs: Oscar Bedoya (IAFE)
Sigma Model in the pure spinor formalism

10:35–11:10 hs: Guillermo Silva (IFLP)
Wilson loops in ABJM

11:10–11:40 hs: Coffee

11:40–12:15 hs: Osvaldo Santillán (DM-UBA)
Cancellation mechanisms and the vacuum energy problem


12:15–12:50 hs: Alan Garbarz (DF-UBA)
AdS3 gravity and its space of solutions

12:50–14:50 hs: Lunch

14:50–15:25 hs: Ezequiel Alvarez (DF-UBA)
Looking at the LHC for a warped/composite model that addresses LEP & Tevatron 3rd generation anomalies

15:25–16:00 hs: Norberto Scoccola (TANDAR)
Phase diagram of strongly interacting matter under intense magnetic fields

16:00–16:15 hs: Nicolás Grandi (IFLP)
Closing remarks on the Strings@ar Network

16:15–16:45 hs: Coffee

Jose Edelstein
Nicolas Grandi
Carmen Nuñez
Martin Schvellinger