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Tuesday May 31, 2005

8.30 - 9am Breakfast

9 - 9.45am Introductory notions, Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University

9.45 - 10.45am Supergravity theories and their symmetries on dimension reduction, Peter West, King's College

10.45 - 11.15am Coffee

11.15 - 1pm Lie algebras, BPS states and string duality, Greg Moore, Rutgers University

1 - 2.15pm Lunch

2.15 - 3.15pm  Overview of string theory, M-theory and dualities, Hisham Sati, University of Adelaide

3.30 - 4.30pm Affine algebras, loop groups, conformal field theory and the Freed-Hopkins-Teleman theorem, Peter Woit, Columbia University

4.45 - 5.45pm A fundamental theory of emergent local geometry: The string/M duality web and matrix theory, Shyamoli Chaudhuri, Kavli Inst of Theoretical Physics, UCSB


Tea will be served all afternoon

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Wednesday June 1, 2005

8.30 - 9am Breakfast

9 - 10am Lorentzian Kac-Moody theory over finite fields, actions on locally compact spaces, Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University

10 - 11am Very extended algebras and properties of E_11, Peter West, King's College

11 - 11.30am Coffee

11.30 - 12.30pm General comments on algebras in string theory, Jim Lepowsky, Rutgers University

12.30 - 2pm Lunch

2 - 3pm Generalized Kac-Moody Lie algebras, Elizabeth Jurisich, College of Charleston

3.15 - 4.15pm A review of vertex operator algebras I, Misha Roitman, University of Illinois

4.30 - 5.10pm Principal subspaces of affine Lie algebras and vertex operator algebras, Corina Calinescu, Rutgers University

Tea will be served all afternoon

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Thursday June 2, 2005

8.30 - 9am Breakfast

9 - 10am Maximal supergravity theories as non-linear realizations, Peter West, King's College

10 - 11am Kaluza-Klein theory, topological E8 and LE8 bundles in M-theory, Hisham Sati, University of Adelaide

11 - 11.30am Coffee

11.30 - 12.30pm Quantum field theory, curved space time and dimension reduction, Gordon Ritter, Harvard University

12.30 - 2pm Lunch

2 - 3pm Construction of genus-zero full conformal field theories, Yi-Zhi Huang, Rutgers University

3.20 - 4pm Open-closed conformal field algebras, Liang Kong, Rutgers University

4 -  4.30pm Break

4.30 - 5.30pm Discussion topic: Beyond the standard model, led by Peter Woit, Columbia University

Tea will be served all afternoon

6.30pm Dinner: Makeda Ethiopian Restaurant

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Friday June 3, 2005

8.30 - 9am Breakfast

9 - 10am Evidence for Kac-Moody symmetries in M-theory, Peter West, King's College

10 - 11am Equivariant K-theory and Quantization, Peter Woit, Columbia University

11 - 11.30am Coffee

11.30 - 12.30pm Representation theory and quantum information theory, Gordon Ritter, Harvard University

12.30 - 2pm Lunch

2 - 3pm Construction of the monster and fake monster Lie algebras using vertex operator algebras, Elizabeth Jurisich, College of Charleston

3.15 - 4.15pm A review of vertex operator algebras II, Misha Roitman, University of Illinois

4.30 - 5.10pm  Aspects of the worldsheet supergeometry of superconformal field 
theory and vertex operator superalgebras, Katrina Barron, University of Notre Dame 

Tea will be served all afternoon

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Saturday June 4, 2006

8.30 - 9am Breakfast

9 - 9.50am The M-theory/Type II partition functions and elliptic
cohomology, Hisham Sati, University of Adelaide

10 - 10.50am E_11 Weyl transformations and U-dualities, Peter West, King's College

11 - 11.50pm Twisted sectors and modular forms, Gordon Ritter, Harvard University

12 - 12.50pm Hidden symmetry unmasked:  electric-magnetic duality, D-branes and E_11, Shyamoli Chaudhuri, Kavli Inst of Theoretical Physics, UCSB

1pm Closing remarks