VASILIS NIARCHOS, University of Crete. I will describe recent work on the physics of the fully localized orthogonal M2-M5 intersection in eleven-dimensional supergravity. Special emphasis will be given on a computation based on blackfold theory which provides new intriguing information about the near-extremal entropy of the two-dimensional self-dual string soliton CFT that resides on the M2-M5 intersection.

DATA: 05-12-2013