Cosmology, Strings, and Black Holes
Copenhagen, April 18 - April 21, 2006
Registration deadline: March 11, 2006
To Nordic Students and Post-Docs
Limited funds are available for Nordic post-docs and students.
If you wish to be considered, apply to the workshop
secretary Anna Maria Rey (rey at nordita.dk) and Lone Holm Hansen (lhhansen at nbi.dk)
by March 1 with your
List of Publications.
Travel arrangements have to be made and paid from your home institution.
Shared accomodation in double rooms will be provided and covered by us.
Therefore Nordic students and postdocs DO NOT book your own accomodation.
Topics
- Time dependent solutions in string theory
- Resolution of singularities
- Flux compactifications, connection to moduli stabilization and string landscape
- de Sitter in string and supergravity theories
- Open and closed string tachyons and their cosmological consequences
- Black holes/Black strings
- Stringy inflation/density perturbations/reheating/cosmic strings
- Origin of three large dimensions
- Transplanckian physics
Organisers
- Anupam Mazumdar, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (anupamm at nordita.dk)
- Niels Obers, Niels Bohr Institute (obers at nbi.dk)
Workshop Secretary
- Anna Maria Rey, NORDITA (rey at nordita.dk)
- Lone Holm Hansen, Niels Bohr Institite (lhhansen at nbi.dk)
Funding Agencies
This workshop is funded by Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) and Niels Bohr Institute (NBI).