High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2008


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
Oct 3
Jared Kaplan
(Harvard and IAS)
What is the Simplest Quantum Field Theory?

Oct 10
Gary Horowitz
(UCSB)
Holographic Superconductors

Oct 17
Konstantin Bobkov
(SLAC)
TeV scale physics from G2 compactifications of M-theory

Oct 17
1pm
Don Marolf
(UCSB)
Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics
 
Oct 24
Eva Silverstein
(Stanford)
Gravity Waves and Linear Inflation from Axion Monodromy

Oct 24
1pm
Arnab Kundu
(USC)
External Fields and the Dynamics of Flavours in Holographic Duals of Large N Gauge Theories

Oct 31
Yu Nakayama
(Berkeley)
Index for non-relativistic superconformal field theory -- from LLM to ABJM and BL

Oct 31
1pm
Diego Hofman
(Princeton)
Conformal Collider Physics

Nov 7
Michael Kiermaier
(MIT)
The BCFT Boundary State from Open String Fields

Nov 7
1pm
Matthias Wapler
(Perimeter)
Applied String Theory: Transport Properties of Holographic Defects

Nov 13
2pm
Sheer El-Showk
(Amsterdam)
Quantizing N=2 Multicenter Solutions

Nov 14
Diego Rodriguez-Gomez
(Princeton)
Towards M2 branes probing generic toric singularities

Nov 18
2pm
Loc: Lauritsen 248
Hans Jockers
(Stanford)
Effective superpotentials and open-/closed-string mirror symmetry

Nov 18
4pm
Loc: Downs 103
Lance Dixon
(Stanford)
Gluon Scattering in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory from weak to strong coupling

Nov 21
Gonzalo Torroba
(Rutgers)
Four dimensional structure of string compactifications

Nov 28
No Talk
Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec 5
Emery Sokatchev
(LAPTH)
Dual superconformal symmetry of scattering amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills

Dec 5
1pm
David Vegh
(MIT)
Semi-Flatland
 
Dec 10
2pm
Michael Mulligan
(Stanford)
Holography and Dynamical Critical Phenomena

Dec 12
Andrew Waldron
(Davis)
Weyl Invariance and the Origins of Mass

Dec 19
No Talk
Happy Holidays



Archived High Energy Theory Seminar Schedules:
Spring 2008Winter 2008 Fall 2007, 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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