60th birthday Gerard 't Hooft
 
Program
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Please note that the time allotted to speakers includes question time.

Friday, July 14
14:30-15:30Check in at hotel and pick up conference info at registration desk
15:00-15:30Coffee and tea in meeting area
15:30-19:00Session I: chair Bernard de Wit
15:30-15:35Renate Loll: Welcome
15:35-16:15Cecilia Jarlskog: Looking back and to the future
16:15-16:55Kenneth Lane: Naturalness without naturalness
16:55-17:15Coffee break
17:15-17:55Roman Jackiw: Topological mass generation in four dimensions
17:55-18:40Frank Wilczek: Three candidates for dark matter
from 19:30Barbecue on terrace or in indoors dining area, depending on weather; bring your consumption coins for drinks.
 
Saturday, July 15
8:00-9:15Breakfast
9:00-9:15Coffee and tea in meeting area
9:15-12:30Session II: chair Anthony Zee
9:15-9:55Lee Smolin: Emergence of chiral matter from quantum gravity
9:55-10:35Carlo Rovelli: Loop gravity - defining and computing n-point functions
10.35-10:55Coffee break
10:55-11:35Jogesh Pati: Under the spell of unification
11:35-12:15Alexander Polyakov: Helpful gravity
from 12:15Lunch in the restaurant
14:00-18:00Session III: chair Julius Wess
14.00-14:40Mikhail Shifman: Large-N, now and then
14:40-15:10Luis Alvarez-Gaume: Large-N, holography, thirty years later
15:10-15:25Coffee break
15:25-16:05John Schwarz: Large-N, AdS/CFT, and giant gravitons
16:05-16:35Peter van Nieuwenhuizen: New quantum aspects of susy monopoles
16:35-16:50Coffee break
16:50-17:30Erik Verlinde: The holographic principle in string theory
17:30-18:00Jean Iliopoulos: Gauge theories and non-commutative geometry - a personal overview
19.00-lateConference dinner; master of ceremonies: Chris Korthals Altes
 
Sunday, July 16
8:00-9:30Breakfast
Conference participants please vacate rooms before start of conference; everyone else before 10:30.
9:15-9:30Coffee and tea in meeting area
9:30-12:30Session IV: chair Howard Georgi
9:30-10:10Hagen Kleinert: Mapping flat-space into curved-space physics
10:10-10:50Nathan Seiberg: Dynamical susy breaking in metastable vacua
10:50-11:10Coffee break
11:10-11:50Andrei Linde: A monopole as big as the universe and a universe inside a bubble
11:50-12:30Lawrence Krauss: Gerard and the future of life
12:30-14:30Individually packed lunches; possibility for having a picknick near the light house or elsewhere
14:30-16:15Session V: chair Sander Bais
14.30-15:10Leonard Susskind: Questions
15:10-15:40David Gross: Gerard and I
15:40-16:10Gerard 't Hooft: Last Word(s)
16:10:16:15Robbert Dijkgraaf: Good-bye
16:45Departure from hotel by bicycle and bus to catch ferry boat at 17:30
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