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Schedule for: 17w5018 - String and M-theory geometries: Double Field Theory, Exceptional Field Theory and their Applications

Beginning on Sunday, January 22 and ending Friday January 27, 2017

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, January 22
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, January 23
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Olaf Hohm: Background Independence vs. Duality Invariance at Order alpha' (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Diego Marqués: The Odd story of alpha-prime corrections (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
14:30 - 15:30 Jeong-Hyuck Park: Green-Schwarz superstring and Stringy Gravity in doubled-yet-gauged spacetime (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:00 - 17:00 Igor Bandos: Underlying 11D EFT: A conjecture (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, January 24
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Jakob Palmkvist: Generalised Cartan superalgebras and exceptional geometry (TCPL 202)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Kanghoon Lee: Effective Action for Non-Geometric Fluxes from Duality Covariant Actions (TCPL 202)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Daniel Waldram: Generalised geometry and marginal deformations (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 15:00 Charles Strickland-Constable: Supersymmetric backgrounds and generalised special holonomy (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Marco Gualtieri: The mathematical meaning of the generalized Kahler potential (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, January 25
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Jose Alejandro Rosabal Rodriguez: Unusual vacuum choice and T duality in string theory. (TCPL 202)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Robert Brandenberger: Why Double Field Theory might be useful in Early Universe Cosmology (TCPL 202)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:00 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:00 - 20:00 Emanuel Malek: Half-maximal consistent truncations using EFT and the M-theory / heterotic duality (TCPL 201)
Thursday, January 26
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Chris Blair: Doubled and negative strings (TCPL 202)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Henning Samtleben: Applications of Exceptional Field Theory (TCPL 202)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 fee discussion time (TCPL 202)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
17:30 - 19:00 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:00 - 20:00 Felix Rudolph: A Connection for Born geometry and its application to DFT (TCPL 202)
20:00 - 21:00 David Berman: Open problems in DFT and EFT- a discussion (TCPL 201)
Friday, January 27
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Martin Cederwall: E_9 geometry (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Chris Hull: The geometry and non-geometry of double field theory (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)