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Durham Cathedral

London Mathematical Society Durham Symposium
Twistors, Strings and Scattering Amplitudes
Sunday 19th August - Saturday 25th August 2007

Programme
All lectures take place in room CG93 (the Scarborough lecture theatre) in the Department of Mathematical Sciences on the Science Site. Coffee and Tea are served in CM105. Meals are taken at Van Mildert College.

Monday 20th August
09:30-10:30M.B. GreenProperties of four-graviton scattering in string theory and supergravity
10:30Coffee/Tea and laptop support
11:00-12:00R. PenroseCosmological Twistors
13:00Lunch
13:30Conference Photograph after lunch
14:00Informal session
14:00-14:45S. StiebergerSupersymmetry Relations and MHV Amplitudes in Superstring Theory
14:45-15:35T.R. TaylorNoncommutative Fields in Twistor-like spaces
15:30Coffee/Tea and laptop support
16:15-17:15A. Hodges Twistor diagrams and Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes
17:15-18:15R. RoibanIntegrability in N=4 SYM: an overview
18:30Wine Reception in the Junior Common Room in Van Mildert
Tuesday 21st August
09:30-10:30L. AldayGluon Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling
10:30Coffee/Tea and laptop support
11:00-12:00A. VolovichMultiloop Gluon Amplitudes and AdS/CFT
13:00Lunch
14:00Informal session
14:00-14:45J. LukierskiComposite Twistor Structures in Standard Superstring Theory
14:45-15:30G. SparlingThe Xi Transform
15:30Coffee/Tea
16:15-17:15G. TravagliniScattering amplitudes, MHV diagrams, and Wilson loops
17:15-18:15M. WolfN=8 Self-Dual Supergravity
19:30Poster session with cheese and wine (after dinner) in the Dining Hall
Wednesday 22nd August
09:30-10:30T.R. MorrisCompleting MHV rules via Equivalence Theorem evasion
11:00Coffee/Tea
11:00-12:00R. BoelsTwistors in action
13:00Lunch
14:00Afternoon excursion to Hadrian's Wall & Housesteads Fort - confirm at registration
Thursday 23rd August
09:30-10:30C. HullTwistor Strings and Gravity
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:00-12:00V.P. NairComments on Yang-Mills theory with Twistorial Overtones
13:00Lunch
14:00Informal session
14:00-14:45C. SaemannMatrix Models in twistor String Theory
15:30Coffee/Tea
16:15-17:15J. DistlerOrientifolds and Twisted KR Theory
17:15-18:15B. de WitMaximal supergravities and M-theory degrees of freedom
19:00Drinks in the Junior Common Room followed by Conference Dinner
Friday 24th August
09:30-10:30L. DolanTree and Loop Amplitudes in Open Twistor String Theory
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:00-12:00D. SkinnerHeterotic twistor-string theory
13:00Lunch
14:30-15:30N. BerkovitsMultiloop superstring amplitudes using the pure spinor formalism
15:30Coffee/Tea
16:00-17:00Z. BernMulti-loop scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric gauge and gravity theories.
Saturday 25th August
Departure after breakfast