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Second MC meeting hosted by
"THE STRING THEORY UNIVERSE” 20TH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON STRING THEORY AND 2ND COST MP1210 WORKSHOP
September 22-26, 2014
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3. Update
! News from COST and H2020
! Status of the Action, including participating and new COST and non-COST countries
! Report on Grant Period 1 (2013/14)
! Budget plan Grant Period 2 (2014/15)
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Change of COST officer Former COST Officer and MPNS DC: Caroline Whelan
New COST Officer of our Action:
Fatima Bouchama
New MPNS DC responsible:
Maria Moragues Canovas
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COST under H2020
! By September, 30 the old COST rules end and every scientific duty cancelled (no more rapporteurs, DC members, etc..). Middle of October the CSO will start discussing the new rules.
! The budget has been increased to 300 millions in 7y
! New key word: Inclusiveness Countries
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Status of the Action
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21 COST Countries
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
+ CERN
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MC members
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Cape Town
Johannesburg
Non-COST Countries
Cape Town: Jeff Murugan, Amanda Weltman Johannesburg: Roberto De Mello Koch, Kevin Goldstein, Vishnu Jejalla, Joao Rodrigues
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Stanford Stanford: Renata Kallosh and her group
Santiago: Max Banados, Gonzalo Palma CECS: Jorge Zanelli Buenos Aires: Gaston Giribet, Matias Leoni
Buenos Aires Santiago
CECS
Under SO validation: University of Antofagasta (A. Restuccia, M. Pilar Garcia del Moral , A. Sotomayor)
528 members, 14% women, 47% ESR
Under finalization: University of Seul and Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe (Soo-Jong Rey and his group)
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Other COST Countries in the process of joining Romania: Elena-Mirela Babalic, Dumitru Gilencea
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Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WGs reports Annual Report Gender activities Outreach activities Job Opp. activities Scient. publications Website operational Workshop1
WGs reports Annual Report Gender activities Outreach activities Job Opp. activities Scient. publications Training School 1 Workshop 2
WGs reports Annual Report Gender activities Outreach activities Job Opp. activities Scient. publications
Scientific Strategic
Meeting Workshop 3
WGs reports Annual Report Gender activities Outreach activities Job Opp. activities Scient. publications Training School 2 Final Conference
Deliverables
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Report on Grant Period 1 (March 4, 2013 - June 1, 2014)
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Financial & Scientific Administration and Coordination 16,000 euro used to hire
Federica Crespi
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Budget Plan Grant Period 2 (June 2, 2014 - June 1, 2015)
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Proposed Revision
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4. Progress report of WGs
WG1/WG3: “BLACK HOLES AND QUANTUM INFORMATION” Weitzman Institute, Rehovot, 12-17 January, 2014
WG2: “SUPERSYMMETRY BREAKING IN STRING THEORY” Cambridge (UK), 10-14 March, 2014
Grant Period 1
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Grant Period 2
WG1 activity/First Training School “String Theory and Holography”, Lisbon, July 14-18, 2014. “Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics: Selected Topics in Holography”, Porto, July 21-26, 2014. Organizers: Gabriel Lopez Cardoso, Miguel Costa. Budget: 32 KE WG1/ WG3 (partially) activity/Conference "Holographic Methods for Strongly Coupled Systems”, GGI, 13-17 April 2015. Organizers: F. Bigazzi, A. Cotrone, N. Evans, E. Kiritsis, H. Liu, C. Nunez, K. Skenderis. Budget: 2 KE
WG1/WG3 activity: “Holographic Renormalization Group and Entanglement”, Paris 7, January 28-30, 2015. Organizers: N. Halmagyi, F. Nitti, G. Policastro. Budget: 7 KE
WG2 activity: “Physics and Geometry of F-theory”, Max Planck, Munich, February 23-26, 2015. Organizers: T. Grimm, I. Garcıa Etxebarria, T. Pugh. Budget: 4.5 KE
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Composition of WG core groups
WG1: Ofer Aharony, Charlotte Kristjansen, Jerome Gauntlett WG2: Matteo Bertolini, Marcus Berg, Gabriele Honecker, Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Riccardo Argurio WG3: Gianguido Dall'Agata, Gabriel Lopes Cardoso, Iosif Bena, Veronika Hubeny WG4: Ruth Gregory, Dieter Luest WG5: Anna Ceresole, Yolanda Lozano, Carlos Nunez, Silvia Penati
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5. STSM
Report by Anna Ceresole (WG4 leader and STSM responsible)
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6. Gender Activities
Report by Marian Lledo’ (WG5 leader)
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7. Activities for ESR and surveys
Report by Gabriele Honecker (ESR responsible)
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8. Joint postdoc selection procedure
Report by Antoine Van Proeyen (BE MC member and meeting organizer)
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9. Future activities
"THE STRING THEORY UNIVERSE” 21TH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON STRING THEORY AND 3ST COST MP1210 MEETING LEUVEN, 7-11 SEPTEMBER 2015
MC approved on 4/9/2013
NEXT…
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WGs activities for Grant Period 3 (June 2, 2015 – June1, 2016)
1) WG1: "Challenges for AdS/CFT in higher dimensions: a workshop", at the Technion in Haifa, proposed by Oren Bergman and Amos Yarom. 2) WG2: "School and a Workshop: Bringing together String Theory, Particle Physics and Cosmology", at GGI-Florence, proposed by Riccardo Argurio, Marcus Berg, Matteo Bertolini, Gabriele Honecker, Enrico Pajer, Diederik Roest, Sakura Schafer-Nameki. 3) WG5: "First Workshop on string theory and gender", Valencia, proposed by WG5. WG5 event: 5 KE WG1 event: 1/3 of remaining budget (roughly 12KE, based on this year's budget) WG2 event: 2/3 of remaining budget (roughly 25KE)
MC approved on 8/9/2014
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NEXT TO NEXT…
- Scientific Strategic Meeting (year 2015/2016) à Discussion and CALL - Second Training School (year 2016/2017) à CALL - Final Conference (year 2016/2017) à CALL
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(WIS, Micha Berkooz)
http://wws.weizmann.ac.il/stringuniverse/
10. Website
- PhD advertisement page - Creation of a scientific forum for ESR and students
- General improvements
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Date and location of 1) the next MC meeting (Leuven 2015 ?) 2) the next CG meeting (GGI, April 2015 ?)
Comments, suggestions, criticisms ??