Continuous Advances in Qcd 2008: Proceedings of the Conference Book

1 High-Order Calculations in QCD and in General Gauge Theories 1

NLO Evolution of Color Dipoles I. Balitsky 3

Recent Perturbative Results on Heavy Quark Decays J.H. Piclum M. Dowling A. Pak 15

Leading and Non-Leading Singularities in Gauge Theory Hard Scattering G. Sterman 27

The Space-Cone Gauge, Lorentz Invariance and On-Shell Recursion for One-Loop Yang-Mills Amplitudes D. Vaman Y.-P. Yao 41

2 Heavy Flavor Physics 57

Exotic cc Mesons E. Braaten 59

Search for New Physics in Bs-Mixing A.J. Lenz 70

Implications of D0 - D0 Mixing for New Physics A.A. Petrov 79

Precise Determinations of the Charm Quark Mass M. Steinhauser 90

3 Quark-Gluon Dynamics at High Density and/or High Temperature 99

Crystalline Condensate in the Chiral Gross-Neveu Model G. V. Dunne G. Basar 101

The Strong Coupling Constant at Low and High Energies J.H. Kuhn 114

Quarkyonic Matter and the Phase Diagram of QCD L. McLerran 125

Statistical QCD with Non-Positive Measure J.C. Osborn K. Splittorff J.J.M. Verbaarschot 135

From Equilibrium to Transport Properties of Strongly Correlated Fermi Liquids T. Schafer 148

Lessons from Random Matrix Theory for QCD at Finite Density K. Splittorff J.J.M. Verbaarschot 160

4 Methods and Models of Holographic Correspondence 175

Soft-Wall Dynamics in AdS/QCD B. Batell 177

Holographic QCD N. Evans E. Threlfall 184

QCD Glueball Sum Rules and Vacuum Topology H. Forkel 196

The Pion Form Factor in AdS/QCD H.J. Kwee R.F. Lebed 203

The Fast Life of Holographic Mesons R.C. Myers A. Sinha 215

Properties of Baryons from D-branes and Instantons S. Sugimoto 227

The Master Space of N = 1 Quiver Gauge Theories: Counting BPS Operators A. Zaffaroni 240

5Topological Field Congurations 253

Skyrmions in Theories with Massless Adjoint Quarks R. Auzzi 255

Domain Walls, Localization and Confinement: What Binds Strings Inside Walls S. Bolognesi 267

Static Interactions of non-Abelian Vortices M. Eto 279

Vortices which do not Abelianize Dynamically: Semi-Classical Origin of Non-Abelian Monopoles K. Konishi 291

A Generalized Construction for Lumps and Non-Abelian Vortices W. Vinci 303

6 Dynamics in Supersymmetric Theories 315

Cusp Anomalous Dimension in Planar Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory B. Basso 317

SO(2M) and U Sp(2M) (Hyper)Kahler Quotients and Lumps S.B. Gudnason 329

7 Other Developments 341

Gluinos Condensing at the CCNI: 4096 CPUs Weigh In J. Giedt R. Brower S. Catterall G.T. Fleming P. Vranas 343

Baryon Regge Trajectories and the 1/Nc Expansion J.L. Goity N. Matagne 351

Infrared Behavior of the Fermion Propagator in Unquenched QED3 with Finite Threshold Effects Y. Hoshino 361

Gauge Fields in Accelerated Frames F. Lenz 373

QCD at Complex Coupling, Large Order in Perturbation Theory and the Gluon Condensate Y. Meurice 386

511 KeV Line and Other Diffuse Emissions as a Trace of the Dark Matter A.R. Zhitnitsky 398

8 Glimpses of the Conference 411

Pictures 413

List of Participants 433