WORKSHOP ON PURE SPINORS IN SUPERSTRING THEORY
July 31 to August 4, 2006 - IFT-UNESP, São Paulo, SP - Brazil

PROGRAM

Monday July 31

TOPIC: Origin of pure spinor formalism

14:30 Yuri Aisaka, 15:00 Nathan Berkovits, 15:30 Discussion

Tuesday August 1

TOPIC: M-theory with pure spinors

10:00 Yuri Aisaka, 10:30 Pietro Antonio Grassi, 11:00 Michael Chesterman, 11:30 Discussion

TOPIC: BV, Chern-Simons, and twistors

14:30 Andrei Losev, 15:00 Dmitry Krotov, 15:30 Chris Hull, 16:00 Discussion

Wednesday August 2

TOPIC: D-branes and partition function

10:00 Niclas Wyllard, 10:30 Pietro Antonio Grassi, 11:00 Chris Hull, 11:30 Discussion

TOPIC: Scattering amplitudes

14:30 Nathan Berkovits, 15:00 Carlos Mafra, 15:30 Dmitrios Tsimpis, 16:00 Discussion

17:00 Giuseppe Policastro, 17:30 Pierre Vanhove, 18:00 Discussion

19:00 Dinner at fish restaurant

Thursday August 3

TOPIC: Non-critical pure spinor formalism

10:00 Niclas Wyllard, 10:30 Luca Mazzucato, 11:00 Ido Adam, 11:30 Discussion

TOPIC: Beta-functions and effective actions

14:30 Osvaldo Chandia, 15:00 Oscar Bedoya Delgado, 15:30 Pierre Vanhove, 16:00 Discussion

Friday August 4

TOPIC: AdS background

10:00 Josef Kluson, 10:30 Andrei Mikhailov, 11:00 Luca Mazzucato, 11:30 Discussion