MONDAY, January 9 9:30 coffee, sweets 10:00-10:45 Conde CANCELLED 11:00-11:30 Ishiki "Transverse M5-branes in the plane wave matrix model" 11:45-12:30 Hirano "Giant graviton interactions in the pp-wave limit" 14:00-14:45 Cederwall "Affine extended geometry" 15:00-15:45 Furey "Generations: three prints, in color" 16:00-16:45 Benvenuti "3d dualities, pq-webs and monopole potentials" TUESDAY, January 10 9:00 coffee, sweets 9:30-10:30 Klebanov "Random tensors and melonic large N limits" 10:45-11:30 Craps "Echoes of chaos from string theory black holes" 11:45-12:30 Guica "Exploring black hole spacetimes with boundary conformal blocks" 14:00-15:00 Heller "Entanglement, holography and causal diamonds" 15:15-16:00 Mkrtchyan "Mixed-symmetry fields in flat and (A)dS backgrounds" 16:15-17:00 Wen "Noncommutative charged BTZ and holography with torsion" WEDNESDAY, January 11 9:00 coffee, sweets 9:30-10:00 Hamanaka "Noncommutative instantons" 10:15-10:45 Lal "Higher spins at one loop I" 11:00-11:30 Joung "Higher spins at one loop II" afternoon excursion THURSDAY, January 12 9:00 coffee, sweets 9:30-10:30 Gonzalez-Arroyo "Large N QCD and QCD-like theories from a matrix model" 10:45-11:30 Shafi "Quest for unification" 11:45-12:30 Bergshoeff "Applied Newton-Cartan geometry" 14:00-15:00 Boyle "Reinterpreting the structure of the Standard Model" 15:15-16:00 Wu "Global aspects of quantum gauge theories" 16:30-17:30 public lecture (G.'t Hooft) 18:15 dinner party FRIDAY, January 13 9:00 coffee, sweets 9:30-10:30 Iso "Baryogenesis from primordial black holes" 10:45-11:30 Antoniadis "Inflation and supersymmetry breaking" 11:45-12:15 Ovalle "Searching for modified gravity: a conformal sector?" 14:00-14:45 Baulieu "Transplanckian universe with a discrete effective time" 15:00-15:30 Dariescu (*2) "Quantum cosmology on spatially open FRW universe" 15:45-16:45 Pedram "Minimal length uncertainty relations"