High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 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: Winter 2007All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted. The organizer for this seminar is Joseph Marsano ( ). |
| Date and time | Speaker (Affiliation) |
Title | Slides etc. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5 | |||
| Jan 12 | Ivo Sachs (LMU München) | Open-closed string correspondence in background independent string field theory | |
| Jan 19 | Veronika Hubeny (Durham) |
Decoding bulk geometry from gauge theory correlators | |
| Jan 26 | Eva Silverstein (Stanford) |
New Dimensions for Wound Strings and D-duality | |
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Jan 29 11am |
Chris Hull (Imperial) | Nongeometric String Backgrounds | |
| Feb 2 | Hermann Nicolai (AEI) | Infinite dimensional R symmetries in M-theory | |
| Feb 9 | Ashoke Sen (HRI) | Extremal Black Hole Entropy I | pdf1 pdf2 |
| Feb 16 | Ofer Aharony (Weizmann, Stanford) |
On the CFT/AdS correspondence and massive gravitons | |
| Feb 16 1:00 pm |
Tohru Eguchi (Tokyo) |
Liouville Field, Modular Forms, and Elliptic Genera | |
| Feb 23 | Katrin Becker (Texas A&M) |
Moduli Stabilization in Non-Geometric Backgrounds |
ppt pdf ps |
| March 2 | Pavel Kovtun (KITP) |
Quantum critical transport, duality, and M-theory |
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| March 9 | Samuel Vazquez (UCSB) | Reconstructing BPS Geometries from N=4 SYM | ppt pdf |
| March 9 1:00 pm |
Kirill Krasnov (Perimeter) |
Renormalizable Non-metric Gravity? | |
| March 16 | Kirill Saraikin (Harvard) | Extremal Black Hole Entropy and Topological Strings | |
| March 23 | Andrew Waldron (Davis) | Higher Spins, Lichnerowicz Algebras, and Superparticles | |
| March 30 | Hubert Saleur (USC) | Logarithmic conformal field theories and supergroup sigma models | |
| April 6 | Zvi Bern (UCLA) | Three Loop Superfiniteness of N=8 Supergravity | |
| April 13 | Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC) | Aspects of Quantum Mechanics / Gravity Duality | |
| April 13 1:00 pm |
Emeri Sokatchev (LPTHE) |
N=4 SYM theory in twistor harmonic superspace | |
| April 20 | Bogdan Florea (SLAC) |
Metastable quivers in string compactifications |
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| April 27 | Ian Swanson (IAS) | TBA | |
| May 4 | Joshua Davis (UCLA) |
5D Black Holes and Strings with Higher Derivatives | |
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May 9 1:00 pm |
Lilia Anguelova
(QMUL) |
Metastable SUSY Breaking and Supergravity at Finite Temperature | |
| May 11 | Sumit Das (Kentucky) | Null Singularities and their Gauge Theory Duals | |
| May 18 | No Speaker | No Seminar | |
| May 25 | L Fernando Alday (Utrecht) |
Gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling | |
| May 25 1:00 pm |
Xi Yin (Harvard) |
Superconformal Chern-Simons-Matter Theories | |
| June 1 | Norihiro Iizuka (KITP) |
Attractors and Spinning Strings | |
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June 1 1:00 pm |
Sean Hartnoll (KITP) |
Topology change and new phases of N=4 SYM theory | |
| June 8 | (no seminar) | commencement |