Fifteenth Irish Quantum Field Theory Meeting 2008

The 15^th IQFT Meeting will take place on 16-17^th May, 2008 in the
Science Lecture Theatre,
Callan Building, North Campus,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Provisional programme

Friday 16 May

Time	Speaker	Title
09:30-10:00	Registration
10:00-11:00	Hubert Saleur	Aspects of 2d sigma models on supergroups and some of their applications. I
11:00-11:30	Tea/Coffee
11:30-12:15	Ryo Suzuki	Finite-size effects in AdS/CFT correspondence
12:15-12:45	Dmitri Bykov	Giant magnons in TsT-transformed AdS₅xS⁵
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Joe Conlon	String Phenomenology and Moduli Stabilisation
15:00-15:45	Babar Qureshi	Twisted Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory
15:45-16:15	Tea/Coffee
16:15-17:15	Michael Müller-Preussker	Topology at nonzero temperature: calorons with non-trivial holonomy
17:15-18:00	Björn Leder	Non-perturbative renormalisation and lattice fermions with improved chiral properties
19:00-	Conference dinner

Saturday 17 May

Time	Speaker	Title
09:30-10:30	Nick Dorey	A spin chain from string theory
10:30-11:15	Chris Ford	Nonabelian fluxes
11:15-11:45	Tea/Coffee
11:45-12:45	Hubert Saleur	Aspects of 2d sigma models on supergroups and some of their applications, II
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Michael Müller-Preussker	Gluon and ghost propagators from lattice QCD
15:00-16:00	Joe Conlon	Phenomenological Aspects of Large Volume Models
16:00-16:30	Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:15	Kumar Gupta	Black Holes in Noncommutative Gravity
17:15-18:00	Donal O'Connell	Lee-Wick Field Theory

Speakers:

Joe Conlon, DAMTP, Cambridge
Nick Dorey, DAMTP, Cambridge
Chris Ford, University College, Dublin
Kumar Gupta, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta
Björn Leder, Trinity College, Dublin
Michael Müller-Preussker, Humboldt-University, Berlin
Donal O'Connell, Institute for Avanced Studies, Princeton
Babar Qureshi, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Hubert Saleur, University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Saclay
Ryo Suzuki, Trinity College, Dublin