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PLENARY SESSION Chairperson: V.Ritus |
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9.00 | W.Evans | (Univ. of Oxford) | Supernovae and microlensing; applications of the GAIA satellite |
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9.40 | E.Feinberg | (Lebedev Inst., Moscow) | Constituent quarks in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions |
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10.20 | A.Andreev | (Kapitza Inst., Moscow) | Quantum coherence between even- and odd- numbers of electrons and reality of additional spinor coordinates |
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11.00-11.30 Coffee-Break |
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Session ASTROPHYSICS: Compact Objects Chairperson: D.Varshalovich |
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11.30 | H.Sol,
O.Lai, G.Perrin, J.Woillez | (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon) | Active galactic nuclei at very high angular resolution |
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12.10 | V.Chechetkin | (Keldysh Inst. of Applied Math., Moscow) | Mechanism of supernova explosion |
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12.50 | D.Yakovlev,
K.Levenfish | (Ioffe Inst., St.Petersburg) | Pycnonuclear burning and accreting neutron stars |
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13.30-15.00 Lunch |
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Session Astrophysics: Compact Objects Chairperson: Ya.Istomin |
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15.00 | Yu.Gnedin | (Pulkovo Observatory, St.Petersburg) | Polarimetric observations of quasars and active galaxy nuclei: the interaction between observations and theory |
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15.30 | S.Popov,
M.Prokhorov, M.Colpi, R.Turolla, A.Treves | (Sternberg Astronomical Inst., Moscow) | Close young isolated compact objects |
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16.00 | S.Blinnikov,
E.Sorokina | (ITEP, Moscow) | Lightcurves of thermonuclear supernovae as a probe of the explosion mechanism and their use in cosmology |
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16.30-17.00 Coffee-Break |
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Session Astrophysics: Compact Objects Chairperson: Yu.Gnedin |
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17.00 | V.Zhmaylo,
E.Gubkov, Yu.Yanilkin | (VNIIEF, Sarov) | The development of instabilities on the plasma surface expanding in a magnetic field |
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17.30 | S.Kholin,
S.Smirnov | (VNIIEF, Sarov) | High-temperature Thomas-Fermi equation with a magnetic field |
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18.00 | V.Pavlov | (Steklov Inst., Moscow) | Influence of the astronomical factors on stress state of the Earth |
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Session SUPERSTRINGS AND DUALITIES Chairperson: T.Yoneya |
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11.30 | P.van Nieuwenhuizen | (State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook) | Covariant quantization of the superstring |
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12.10 | I.Bars | (Univ. of Southern California) | Moyal star formulation of string field theory and status of nonpertubative computations |
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12.50 | I.Aref'eva | (Steklov Inst., Moscow) | Recent progress in string field theories |
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13.30 - 15.00 Lunch |
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Session Superstrings and Dualities Chairperson: B.Ovrut |
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15.00 | E.Ivanov | (JINR, Dubna) | AdS/CFT as an equivalence transformation: (super)conformal mechanics revisited |
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15.40 | R.Schiappa | (Harvard Univ.) | Open strings and Ramond-Ramond backgrounds |
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16.10 | D.Polyakov | (Helsinki Univ. & Helsinki Inst. of Physics) | Brane-like states in superstring theory |
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16.30 - 17.00 Coffee-Break |
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Session Superstrings and Dualities Chairperson: E.Silverstein |
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17.00 | B.Ovrut | (Univ. of Pennsylvania) | The superpotential of instanton moduli |
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17.40 | D.Minic | (Virginia Polytech.Inst. & State Univ.) | De Sitter space and string theory |
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18.10-18.40 | A.Rosly,
K.Selivanov | (ITEP, Moscow) | Helicity conservation in Born-Infeld theory |
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Session BRANE WORLD AND QUANTUM GRAVITY Chairperson: A.Linde |
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11.30 | W.Unruh | (Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver) | Black holes in a bathtub |
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12.00 | A.Filippov | (JINR, Dubna) | Integrable models of black holes, branes, and cosmologies |
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12.30 | V.Frolov,
D.Fursaev, D.Page | (Univ. of Alberta) | Stringy black holes and Thorny spheres |
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13.00 | M.Iofa | (Skobeltsyn Inst. of Nuclear Phys., Moscow Univ.) | String-loop corrected dyonic black holes |
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13.30-15.00 Lunch |
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Session Brane World and Quantum Gravity Chairperson: A.Ashtekar |
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15.00 | M.Weinstein | (SLAC) | A canonical hamiltonian treatment of black holes, Hawking radiation and the information paradox |
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15.30 | I.Khriplovich | (Inst.Nucl.Phys., Novosibirsk) | Entropy and area of quantized black holes |
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16.00 | K.Milton | (Univ. of Oklakhoma) | Entropy bounds in R x S3 geometries |
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16.30-17.00 Coffee-Break |
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Session Brane World and Quantum Gravity Chairperson: D.Fursaev |
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17.00 | O.Zaslavskii | (Kharkov Univ.) | Regular horizons with infinite backreaction and black holes without thermodynamics |
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17.30 | D.Nesterov
A.Barvinsky | (Lebedev Inst., Moscow) | Duality of boundary value problems in braneworld physics |
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17.50 | B.Altshuler | (Lebedev Inst., Moscow) | Calculation of the observationally small cosmological constant in the model of six-dimensional warped brane-bolt world |
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18.10-18.30 | M.Gorbatenko | (VNIIEF, Sarov) | Fermions which can and must be present in a conformally invariant geometrodynamics (in case of lambda=0) |
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Session EXTERNAL FIELDS IN QUANTUM THEORY Chairperson: M.Mensky |
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11.30 | G.Esposito | (INFN, Naples) | New photon propagators in quantum electrodynamics |
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12.00 | C.Schubert,
G.Dunne | (Univ. of Michoacan) | Two-loop self-dual QED |
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12.30-13.00 | A.Nikishov | ((Lebedev Inst., Moscow) | Vacuum-vacuum amplitude and the Bogoliubov coefficients |
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13.30 - 15.00 Lunch |
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Session HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Chairperson: L.Tikhonova |
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15.00 | M.Greco | (Univ. of Rome III) | Forward-backward charge asymmetry in e+e- annihilation at very high energies |
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15.30 | J.W.Gary | (Univ. of California, Riverside) | Gluon jets at accelerators: recent progress |
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16.00 | Y.Eisenberg | (Weizmann Inst., Rehovot) | Charm and beauty production cross-sections compared with pQCD predictions |
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16.30 - 17.00 Coffee-Break |
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Session High Energy Physics Chairperson: S.Panitkin |
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17.00-18.30 | M.Krivoruchenko | (Univ. Tuebingen) | Transition form factors and dilepton decay rates of nucleon resonances |
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17.30 | B.Kosyakov | (VNIIEF, Sarov) | Holography and two phases of the QCD vacuum |
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18.00 | I.Lakhtin | (Moscow Univ.) | Jet quenching studies with CMS detector at LHC |
