ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - Universiteit Utrecht

ANNUAL REPORT 20053 PhD programme– Thematic school ‘Algebraic Geometry and Topological Strings’, IST, Lisbon, Portugal,15-22 October 2005 and 6-12 November 2005 (attended)Benedetti, D. (UU)– DRSTP postgraduate course ‘Theoretical High Energy Physics’, Nijmegen, theNetherlands, 24 January-4 February 2005 (attended)– 3D quantum gravity, heaps of dimers and products of random matrices, DRSTPsymposium ‘Trends in Theory’, Dalfsen, the Netherlands, 19-20 May 2005 (poster)– Conference ‘Loops ‘05’, Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam, Germany, 10-14 October2005 (attended)– ENRAGE workshop ‘Quantum Gravity’, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1-2 December2005 (attended)Boels, R.H. (UvA)– Amsterdam workshop ‘String Theory 2005’, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 15-22June 2005 (attended)Bomhof, C. (VUA)– DRSTP postgraduate course ‘Theoretical High Energy Physics’, Nijmegen, theNetherlands, 24 January-4 February 2005 (attended)– T-odd effects in hadronic scattering processes, ‘Single Spin Asymmetries Workshop’,Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA, 1-3 June 2005(talk)– T-odd effects in hadronic scattering processes, NNV meeting, Lunteren, the Netherlands,28 October 2005 (talk).Chemissany, W. (RUG)– Non-abelian Born-Infeld theory, DRSTP postgraduate course ‘Theoretical HighEnergy Physics’, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 24 January-4 February 2005 (talk)– Born-Infeld theory, DRSTP symposium ‘Trends in Theory’, Dalfsen, the Netherlands,19-20 May 2005 (poster)– Conference ‘From Strings to Cosmic Web’, Groningen, the Netherlands, 30 November-2 December 2005 (attended)– Born-Infeld theory and derivative corrections, 23 December 2005 (talk)Cheng, M.C.-N. (UvA)– AdS/CFT and Witten’s proof of the positive energy theorem, DRSTP postgraduatecourse ‘Theoretical High Energy Physics’, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 24 January-4February 2005 (talk)– Spring school ‘Superstring Theory and Related Topics’, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 14-22March 2005 (attended)– International spring school ‘String Theory’, Hangzhou, China, 21 April-20 May2005 (attended)– Thematic school ‘Algebraic Geometry and Topological Strings’, IST, Lisbon, Portugal,15-22 October 2005 and 6-12 November 2005 (attended)Collinucci, G.A. (RUG)– Instantons and cosmologies in string theory, Groningen, the Netherlands, 3 October2005 (talk)Davidse, M. (UU)– RTN Winter School ‘Strings, Supergravity and Gauge Theories’, SISSA/ISAS,Trieste, Italy, 31 January-4 February 2005 (attended)