Twistor Strings Workshop Programme and links to Slides


10^th January, 2005

9.30 am - 10.30 am Stephen Huggett
The Elements of Twistor Theory

10.30 am - 11.30 am Edward Witten
Introduction to Twistor String Theory, (second part.)

12.00 pm - 1.00 pm Nathan Berkovitz
Twistors in Superstring Theory, (second part)

2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Roger Penrose
Twistor Theory

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm Parameswaran Nair
About Graviton Amplitudes and Other Things


11^th January, 2005

9.00 am – 9.50 am Richard Ward
Twistors, Self-Dual Yang-Mills & Integrability

9.50 am – 10.40 am Louise Dolan
Integrability in Yang-Mills Theory

11.20 am – 12.10 pm Radu Roiban
The Twistor String & Integrability of N=4 SYM

12.10 pm – 1.00 pm Zvi Bern
Applications of Scattering Amplitudes to Particle Physics

2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Marcus Spradlin
Yang-Mills Amplitudes from Twistor String Theory, (missing transparencies)

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm Michael Atiyah
Mass and Curvature

12^th January, 2005

9.00 am – 9.50 am Claude LeBrun
The Nonlinear Graviton

9.50 am – 10.40 am Peter Svrcek
MHV Vertices & Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theory

11.20 am – 12.10 am Valentin Khoze
How MHV Rules Arise in Gauge Theories

12.10 pm – 1.00 pm Gabriele Travaglini
Loop Amplitudes in Yang-Mills from MHV Vertices


13^th January, 2005

9.00 am – 9.50 am Philip Candelas
Topological Field Theory

9.50 am – 10.40 am Ruth Britto
One-Loop Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory

11.20 am – 12.10 pm David Kosower
Unitarity and Twistors

12.10 pm – 1.00 pm Lance Dixon
Twistor Structure of Loops in N=4 SYM & Higgs + QCD

2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Andrew Hodges
Twistor Diagrams

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm Edward Witten
Open problems

14^th January, 2005

9.00 am – 9.50 am Claude Le Brun
Ambitwistors

9.50 am – 10.40 am Andrew Neitzke
Twistor String Theory & Dualities in Topological Strings

11.20 am – 12.10 pm Kellogg Stelle
Review of Conformal Supergravity

12.10 pm – 1.00 pm Itzhak Bars
Twistor String Theory and 2T-Physics in d=3, 4, 6, 10

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Sergei Gukov
Two Faces of String Theory in Twistor Space

3.00 pm Roger Penrose
Twistor-Strings and Quantum-Gravitational Physics?