Invited Speakers


Introduction : J. Schwarz (Caltech)


Overview Talks:

  • N. Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton)
    S. Hartnoll (Stanford University)
    S. Minwalla (Tata Institute, Mumbai)
    R. Myers (Perimeter, Waterloo)
    P. Yi (KIAS, Seoul)


Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

  • D. Berman (Queen Mary University of London)
    G. Moore (Rutgers University)
    M. Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)
    D. Morrison (UC, Santa-­Barbara)
    M. Douglas (SCGP, Stony Brook)
    H. Ooguri (Caltech/KIPMU, Tokyo)
    M. Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich)
    S. Pasquetti (University of Surrey)
    S. Gukov (Caltech)

    G. Patanchon(University Paris 7)

    D. Harlow (Princeton University)
    J. Polchinski (KITP, Santa Barbara)
    G. Horowitz (UC Santa Barbara)
    S. Rychkov (CERN/University of PMC)

    D. Jafferis (Harvard University)

    N. Seiberg (IAS, Princeton)
    R. Janik (Jagiellonian University)
    A. Sen (Harish-Chandra R. Institute)
    S. Kachru (Stanford University)
    E. Silverstein (Stanford University)
    S. Kim (Seoul N. University)
    D. Skinner (Cambridge University/IAS)
    I. Klebanov (Princeton University)
    A. Strominger (Harvard University)
    Z. Komargodski (Weizmann Institute)
    T. Takayanagi (YITP/KIPMU, Japan)
    G. Landsberg (Brown University)
    C. Vafa (Harvard University)
    S. Lee (University of Chicago/Cambridge)
    P. Vieira (Perimeter,Waterloo)
    A. Linde (Stanford University)
    E. Witten (IAS, Princeton)
    J. Maldacena (IAS, Princeton)
    X. Yin (Harvard University)
    J. Manschot (Bonn University/MPI)

Conference Summary: J. Harvey (Chicago University)


Outlook/Vision: D. Gross (KITP, Santa Barbara)