Asian Winter School at OIST

Lecturers

Lecturer	Title	Reading list	Lecture Notes and Slides
Miranda Cheng University of Amsterdam	(Mock) Modular Forms in String Theory and Moonshine	http://www.cft2011.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/content/lecture_notes.pdf http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4140 The book "Moonshine beyond the Monster" by Terry Gannon	Lecture Note
Ron Donagi University of Pennsylvania	Super Riemann Surfaces and Supermoduli Spaces	arXiv:1304.7798, arXiv:1404.6257, http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/10356
Rajesh Gopakumar ICTS	Higher Spins and Strings	1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07236 2. http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07237 3. http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6103 4. http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6697 (as background review material)
Daniel Harlow Harvard University	The Emergence of Bulk Physics in AdS/CFT	Section six of 1409.1231. 1201.3664, 1411.7041, 1304.4926
Seok Kim Seoul National University	5d and 6d SCFTs	http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603150 http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05405 http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2324 http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3152	Lecture Note 1 Lecture Note 2 Lecture Note 3 Lecture Note 4
Slava Rychkov CERN and Univ Paris VI	Conformal Bootstrap	EPFL lectures on CFT in d>=3, Lectures on CFT by Joshua Qualls	Lecture Note
Gary Shiu University of Wisconsin and HKUST	Inflation in String Theory	The book "Inflation and String Theory" by Daniel Baumann and Liam McAllister, Cambridge University Press	Lecture Note 1 Lecture Note 2-1, 2-2 Lecture Note 3-1, 3-2, 3-3 Lecture Note 4-1, 4-2
Jaroslav Trnka Caltech	Scattering Amplitudes	http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1697 http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605 http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2007	Lecture Note 1 Lecture Note 2 Lecture Note 3 Lecture Note 4
Angel Uranga Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC	String Phenomenology	- http://cds.cern.ch/record/933469/files/cer-002601054.pdf - Chapters 10 and 11 of "String theory and Particle Physics: an Introduction to String Phenomenology", Ibáñez, Uranga, Cambridge Univ. Press 2012	Lecture Note 1 Lecture Note 2 Lecture Note 3 Lecture Note 4