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 ().
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
pdf  
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
pdf  
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



Sneak peak at next semester's schedule: Winter 2008

Archived High Energy Theory Seminar Schedules:
Winter 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001

Slides of past seminars are available here (access restricted).

Other Caltech seminars: Other local seminars of interest: Recent hep-th papers from nearby institutes

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