The purpose of the workshop is to raise awareness on the gender inequality in the field of high energy physics, and in physics in general. Two sessions will be devoted to gender issues, with talks by experts (scientists as well as representatives of research organisations). The other two sessions will comprise overview talks on recent interesting developments in String Theory.

The holographic duality has provided new insights into the physics of strongly-coupled systems by bridging together different subjects that before were thought to be completely unrelated, such as hydrodynamics and physics of black holes, string theory and strongly-coupled phenomena in condensed-matter physics, integrable systems and and non-perturbative behavior of gauge fields. Symmetries have played an important role in these developments and have led to development of new non-perturbative methods based for example on integrability, bootstrap and localization. The aim of the program is to discuss new developments in dualities and holography, with focus on - Gauge/string dualities - Integrability - Symmetries in string theory - Supersymmetric localization - Bootstrap methods - Applications of holography in QCD and condensed-matter systems

Week 1: 19-23 October 2015 - School Week 2: 26-30 October 2015 - Workshop. The theme of this two-fold activity is to bring together string theorists, particle physicists and cosmologists, and to foster a dialog between theory and data. Speakers include on the one hand expert phenomenologists familiar with current and near-future experiments (ranging from colliders to satellite experiments), and on the other hand theorists, both model builders and more formal string theorists.

The Leuven workshop on 'The String Theory Universe' will be the 21st European string workshop. It is organized in the context of the COST network with the same name. The conference is dedicated to all aspects of superstring, supergravity and supersymmetric theories. The themes will cover topics related to 1) Gauge/Gravity Duality 2) String Phenomenology 3) Cosmology and Quantum Gravity Furthermore, there will be time devoted to the issues of gender balance and outreach

Conformal field theories in 5 and 6 dimensions cannot be formulated directly in terms of a Lagrangian, and must be studied indirectly by other means. In both cases the theories are defined as UV limits of five- dimensional (non-conformal) gauge theories. Non-perturbative tools developed in recent years for supersymmetric gauge theories have been extremely useful in elucidating some of the properties of these CFT’s. In parallel, there have been several interesting developments on their supergravity description. The purpose of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers working on 5d and 6d quantum field theories and AdS/CFT, to share their ideas both on the study of the higher-dimensional conformal field theories, and on the search for the corresponding higher-dimensional AdS solutions in supergravity and to expose interested researchers to this rapidly developing subject.

2nd COST MP1210 Meeting and 20th European Workshop on String Theory and Conference of the MITP program String Theory and its Applications The conference is dedicated to all aspects of superstring, supergravity and supersymmetric theories.

held in Lisbon (1st week) and Porto (2nd week). This is a joint school of The String Theory Universe (COST), HoloGrav (ESF) and GATIS (ITN) networks. The School is divided in two weeks, starting in Lisbon in the week of 14-18 July with lectures on the subject of Gauge/Gravity Duality, and in the week of 21-26 July in Porto, where the Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics will take place under the theme of Selected Topics in Holography. For further details please see the website