Scientific Organisers:

• Bernard de Wit, Utrecht University

• José Figueroa-O'Farrill, University of Edinburgh

• Joan Simón, University of Edinburgh

Speakers:

• Justin David, Indian Institute of Science - On the Partition Function of Dyons in N=2 String Theories

• Vishnu Jejjala, IHES - Entropy of Near-Extremal Black Holes in AdS_5

• Roberto Emparan, ICREA & Universitat de Barcelona - New Phases of Black Holes in Higher Dimensions

• Jan de Boer, Institute for Theoretical Physics - Quantization of Gravitational Solutions

• Per Kraus, UCLA - Stringy Black Holes in 5D

• Marcos Mariño, University of Geneva - Topological Strings, Black Holes and Emergent Spacetime

• Boris Pioline, LPTHE & LPTENS - Instanton Corrections and Black Hole Partition Functions 

• Chong-Sun Chu, Durham University - Time-Dependent AdS/CFT Duality and Null Singularity

• Ben Craps, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Quantum Propagation Across Cosmological Singularities

• Sumit Das, University of Kentucky - Gauge Gravity Duality and Cosmological Singularities 

• Gabriel Cardoso, University of Munich - On Non-Holomorphic Corrections to Black Hole Partition Functions

• Finn Larsen, University of Michigan and CERN - Black Holes in Four Dimensions: the Non-BPS Branch

• Mukund Rangamani, Durham University - Non-Linear Hydrodynamics from Gravity

• Asad Naqvi, Swansea University - Random Field Theory

• Henriette Elvang, MIT - Generating Functions for Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 SYM and N=8 Supergravity

• Horatiu Nastase, Global Edge Institute - A Black Hole Solution of Scalar Field Theory and the RHIC Fireball 

• Djordje Minic, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - On the Origin of the Universe and the Dark Energy

• Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College London - AdS Solutions and Transgression

• Thomas Levi, New York University - When Worlds Collide

• Harvey Reall, University of Cambridge - Extremal Bl

• Samir Mathur, Ohio State University - How Information Comes out of a Black Hole

• Donald Marolf, University of California - Gauss' Law, Observables, and Black Hole Information

• Marika Taylor, Institute for Theoretical Physics - Precision Holography 

• Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland - Thermodynamics of Spacetime

• Kostas Skenderis, Institute for Theoretical Physics - Real-Time Gauge/Gravity Duality

• Veronika Hubeny, Durham University - Universality for Merging Ergosurfaces

Supporting Institutions EPSRC, LMS, Edinburgh Mathematical Society and IOP