MONDAY, 18.01 10:00-10:45 general orientation, Thai desserts served 10:45-11:45 Gomis "Canonical realization of BMS symmetry" 13:30-14:30 Cederwall "Double and exceptional geometry" 14:45-15:30 Evslin "Geometric observables in cosmology" TUESDAY, 19.01 10:00-11:00 Russo "D-branes in magnetic fields" 11:15-12:00 Yang "High energy string scattering amplitudes and symmetries of string theory" 13:30-14:15 Rahman "Comments on higher-spin fields in curved backgrounds" 14:30-15:00 Joung "Rainbow valley of colored gravity" 15:15-16:00 Mkrtchyan "Colored (higher spin) gravity" WEDNESDAY, 20.01 10:00-11:00 Armoni "Large-N QCD and the Veneziano amplitude" 11:10-11:40 Hajian "Symplectic structure and symmetries of extremal black holes" 11:45-12:15 Basu "Instability of holographic spaces" informal afternoon excursion THURSDAY, 21.01 10:00-11:00 Hanany "Nilpotent orbits and their role as Higgs/Coulomb branches" 11:15-11:45 Chattopadhyay "Holographic reconstruction of modified gravity theories" 13:30-14:15 Sato "Membrane interactions and a three-dimensional analog of Riemann surfaces" 14:30-15:15 Isono "Thermodynamics of QCD from Sakai-Sugimoto model" 15:30-16:15 Lake "Classical minimum mass bounds and their implications for fundamental particles" 17:00 public lecture (Gomis) 19:00 dinner party FRIDAY, 22.01 10:00-11:00 Bergshoeff "Supergravity and the cosmological constant" 11:15-12:00 Israel "Heterotic flux compactifications" 13:30-14:15 Schupp "Non-associative geometry in non-geometric string theory"