Workshop on String and M-theory in Okinawa
March 6-9, 2017

Place

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)
  Address: 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami, Okinawa 904-0495 Japan
  Webpage

OIST R&D Cluster Hall (Building next to Auditorium)
  Campus map

Accommodation

Rizzan Sea-Park Hotel or Dormitory in OIST

Access from Naha airport

1. Limousine Bus (recommended, time table)
  Nearest stop: Rizzan Sea Park Hotel (to hotel), OIST Campus (to OIST)
 
2. Local Bus #120 (route finder)
  Nearest stop: Graduate Univ. (15 mins' walk to OIST), Tanchanoka (5 mins' walk to hotel)

Schedule

  3/6(Mon) 3/7(Tue) 3/8(Wed) 3/9(Thu)
9:00-9:45 Chu Tumanov Ananth Matsuo
10:15-11:00 Suyama,
Honma
Sato Brink Ishiki
11:30-11:50 Imamura Shimada Shimasaki
  Lunch
14:00-14:45 Kawai Discussion Sugawara Kuroki, Neiman
15:15-15:35 Yoshida Shiba Yoneya
(-16:00)
15:45-16:05 Okazaki

  Welcome party: 3/5(Sun) 19:00-21:00 at Rizzan Sea-Park Hotel
 
* The beginning time on 3/6(Mon) may be delayed about 30 mins...

Titles of Talks

Long talks (45 mins)

Chong-Sun Chu
   Holography for Boundary Conformal Field Theory
Hikaru Kawai
   Evaporating BH and 4D Weyl anomaly
Alexander G. Tumanov
   E11 invariant field theories
Yuki Sato
   Membrane interactions and giant-graviton interactions via Laplace's equation
Sudarshan Ananth
   Aspects of field theories in light-cone gauge
Lars Brink
   Exceptional vs superPoincaré algebra as the defining symmetry of maximal supergravity
Hirotaka Sugawara
   E(11) and Current Algebra
Yutaka Matsuo
   Toroidal symmetry and duality in string theory
Goro Ishiki
   Spherical transverse fivebranes from the plane wave matrix model
Tamiaki Yoneya
   Matrix-theory approach to M-theory

Short talks (20 mins)

Takao Suyama
   Strong coupling limit of a planar Chern-Simons-matter theory
Yoshinori Honma
   Open mirror symmetry and moduli stabilization
Kentaroh Yoshida
   Yang-Baxter deformations and generalized supergravity
Tadashi Okazaki
   Implications of Conformal Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics
Yosuke Imamura
   Supersymmetry Enhancement and Junctions in S-folds
Hidehiko Shimada
   String field theory for tensionless string and D=6 SCFT
Shotaro Shiba
   M-branes in E_11 current algebra
Shinji Shimasaki
   NS5-branes from the plane wave matrix model
Tsunehide Kuroki
   Correlation functions of non-SUSY operators at arbitrary genus in a matrix model for noncritical superstrings
Yasha Neiman
   The holographic dual of the Penrose transform

Participants

Sudarshan Ananth (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)
Toshihiro Aoki (Sokendai)
Lars Brink (Chalmers University of Technology)
Chong-Sun Chu (National Tsing-Hua University)
Yoshinori Honma (National Tsing-Hua University)
Yosuke Imamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Goro Ishiki (University of Tsukuba)
Satoshi Iso (KEK)
Hiroshi Isono (Chulalongkorn University)
Naoto Kan (Sokendai)
Yukio Kaneko (Tohoku University)
Hikaru Kawai (Kyoto University)
Yoshihisa Kitazawa (KEK)
Tsunehide Kuroki (Kagawa College)
Yutaka Matsuo (University of Tokyo)
Hironori Mori (Osaka University)
Hikaru Ohta (Sokendai)
Nobuyoshi Ohta (Kindai University)
Tadashi Okazaki (Taiwan National University)
Yuki Sato (Chulalongkorn University)
Shotaro Shiba(KEK)
Hidehiko Shimada (KEK)
Shinji Shimasaki (Keio University)
Hirotaka Sugawara (OIST)
Yuji Sugimoto (Osaka University)
Takao Suyama (KEK)
Seiji Terashima (YITP, Kyoto University)
Alexander G. Tumanov (King's College London)
Satoshi Watamura (Tohoku University)
Satoshi Yamaguchi (Osaka University)
Han Yan (OIST)
Sumito Yokoo (Sokendai)
Tamiaki Yoneya (University of Tokyo)
Kentaroh Yoshida (Kyoto University)

Other Information

Taxi

A few taxies are reserved. The departure time is as below.

DateHotel to OISTOIST to Hotel
3/6(Mon)9:0017:00
3/7(Tue)8:40-----
3/8(Wed)8:4017:00
3/9(Thu)8:4017:00

Rent-a-car

If you are interested in renting a car near OIST, please let the organizers know.
Some websites like this may be helpful.