Winter School on Attractor Mechanism

SAM2006, 20 - 24 March 2006- Aula Seminari

INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E. Fermi 40, Frascati, Italy

http://www.lnf.infn.it/~bellucci/SAM2006.html

http://www.lnf.infn.it/conference/2006/sam2006

Director: Stefano Bellucci (INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

Lecturers:

Iosif Bena (IAS, Princeton): Supertubes, black rings, and 4D black holes

Sergio Ferrara (CERN): Topics on  Special Geometry

Renata Kallosh (Stanford Univ.): 1) BPS and non-BPS Black Hole Attractors; 2) Flux Vacua Attractors; 3) Extremal Black Holes and Quantum Information Theory (QIT)

Per Kraus (UCLA): Black hole entropy and the AdS/CFT correspondence

Finn Larsen (Michigan Univ.): Introduction to Attractors with applications to Black Rings

Boris Pioline (LPTHE, Paris): The quantum attractor flow

All lectures are for beginners. Part of the afternoon sessions will be dedicated to training, solving of problems proposed in the lectures and collaboration. On Wed. 22nd afternoon, short presentations (25’) of recent original results will be given by attendees. Attendees wishing to present their results can send an abstract to: bellucci@lnf.infn.it

	9.30-10.30 hr	10.30-11 hr	11-12 hr	12-13 hr	15-16 hr	16-17 hr	17-18 hr
20 Mar, Mon	Registration	Coffee Break	Kraus	Kraus	Larsen	Working groups	Working groups
21 Mar, Tue	Kraus	Coffee Break	Larsen	Larsen	Working groups	Working groups	Working groups
22 Mar, Wed	Kallosh	Coffee Break	Kallosh	Bena	Bena	Short (25’) talks	Short (25’) talks
23 Mar, Thu	Bena	Coffee Break	Kallosh	Pioline	Pioline	Working groups	Working groups
24 Mar, Fri	Pioline	Coffee Break	Ferrara	Ferrara	Free	Free	Free

Table: schedule of the lectures

 
Short presentations (as of 14 March 2006): H. Ebrahimi, V. S. Rychkov