High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2007
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted.
The organizer for this seminar is Joseph Marsano (
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2007All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted. The organizer for this seminar is Joseph Marsano ( ). |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Slides |
| *Sep 12* *1pm* |
Sergey
Cherkis (Trinity College, Dublin) |
Bows
and Quivers: Instantons on ALF Spaces |
pdf |
| Sep 14 |
Lara Anderson
(Oxford)
|
M-theory
on Singular G_2 Spaces |
pdf |
| Sep 21 |
Amos
Yarom (Munich) |
Heavy
Ion
Collisions and
AdS/CFT |
ppt |
| Sep
28 *1pm* |
Per Kraus (UCLA) |
AdS/CFT
for Fundamental Strings |
|
| Oct 5 |
Shamit Kachru (Stanford) |
Stringy
instantons, geometric transitions, and dynamical SUSY breaking |
pdf |
| Oct 12 |
David Shih (IAS) |
The
Phenomenology of (Extra)Ordinary Gauge Mediation |
|
| Oct 12 1pm |
Luca
Mazzucato (Tel-Aviv) |
Supersymmetry
breaking vacua from M-theory fivebranes |
|
| Oct 19 |
Sergio Ferrara (CERN and UCLA) |
Properties
of BPS and non-BPS Attractors in Diverse Dimensions |
|
| Oct 26 |
Jon Heckman (Harvard) |
A
Cascading Quiver and the MSSM |
ppt |
| *Oct 31* *1pm* |
Marlene Weiss (CERN & Zurich) |
Nonperturbative
effects in matrix models and topological strings |
pdf |
| Nov 2 |
Luca Grisa (NYU) |
Tales
from a Braneworld |
|
| *Nov 7* *2pm* |
Volker Braun (Penn) |
Calabi-Yau
Metrics and the Solutions of the Laplacian |
|
| Nov 9 |
Umut Gursoy (Ecole Polytechnique) |
Exploring
holographic approaches to QCD |
pdf |
| Nov 16 |
Niklas Beisert (Potsdam) |
Spectral
Curve
for the
Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT |
pdf |
| Nov 16 *1pm* |
Oscar
Varela (Imperial) |
AdS
spacetimes and Kaluza-Klein consistency |
pdf |
| *Nov 21* *2pm* |
Akin
Wingerter (OSU) |
MSSM-like
Models from Strings |
pdf |
| Nov 23 |
No Talk |
Thanksgiving |
|
| Nov 30 |
Julian Sonner (DAMTP) |
Geometric
Phases in String Theory |
|
| Nov 30 *1pm* |
Ari Pakman (Stony Brook) |
Progress
in AdS_3/CFT_2 |
|
| Dec 7 |
Michael Dine (Santa Cruz) |
Symmetries
in String Theory |
ppt |
| Dec 14 |
Andy Neitzke (IAS) |
Comments
on the holomorphic anomaly for closed and open topological strings |
|
| Dec 21 |
No Talk |
Happy
Holidays |
|