MONDAY, January 28 (STRINGS, ADS, INTEGRABILITY) 9:00-10:00 registration, orientation, chit-chat, hand-shaking 10:00-11:00 Ahn "Integrability in AdS/CFT and its deformations" 11:30-12:15 Wen "Spin chain from rotating/Rindler AdS" 14:00-14:45 Kawamoto "Massless emission from a heavy superstring" 15:00-15:45 Verschelde TBA TUESDAY, January 29 (GAUGE THEORY) 9:00-10:00 Okuda "Localization methods in supersymmetric gauge theories" 10:30-11:15 Irges "Gauge-gravity duality from the lattice" 11:30-12:15 Van den Bleeken "Semiclassical framed BPS states" 14:00-15:00 Lee "Holographic QCD" 15:15-16:00 Okuda "Vortex loop operators in 3d supersymmetric theories" 16:15-17:00 Takeuchi "New states of gauge theories on a circle" WEDNESDAY, January 30 (GRAVITY, BRANES) 9:00-10:00 Bergshoeff "A short review of New Massive Gravity" 10:30-11:15 Riccioni "Branes and group theory" 11:30-12:15 Nilsson "Topologically gauged M2-branes" afternoon excursion THURSDAY, January 31 (MATRICES) 9:00-10:00 Gopakumar "The simplest gauge-string duality I" 10:30-11:15 Tada "Matrix model criticality and resonant tunneling" 11:30-12:15 Kuroki "Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in noncritical covariant superstring theory" 14:00-14:45 Gopakumar "The simplest gauge-string duality II" 15:00-15:45 Tomino "Renormalization group approach to matrix models via noncommutative space" 16:30-17:30 public lecture "How does gravity work?" (Bergshoeff) 18:30 workshop dinner FRIDAY, February 1 (BITS AND PIECES) 9:00-10:00 Hellerman TBA 10:30-11:15 Bergshoeff "Massive gravity: a progress report" 11:30-12:15 Taronna "Higher-spin interactions in constant curvature backgrounds" 14:00-15:00 Antoniadis "Mass hierarchies in string theory and experimental signatures" 15:15-16:00 Atmaja "Holographic Brownian motion in two dimensional rotating fluid"