High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2008
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 2008All 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 |
| *Jan 9* *2pm* |
Oren Bergman
(IAS)
|
The
phase diagram of holographic QCD |
|
| Jan 11 |
Masashi
Hamanaka (Nagoya U) |
Noncommutative
Solitons and Integrable Systems |
ppt |
| Jan 18 |
Magdalena
Larfors (Uppsala) |
New
Paths in the String Theory Landscape |
pdf |
| Jan 25 |
Laurence Yaffe (Washington) |
Heavy
quarks in strongly coupled plasma |
|
| Feb 1 |
Jason Kumar (Irvine) |
Dynamical
Supersymmetry Breaking in String Models |
pdf,ppt |
| Feb 8 |
Yuji Tachikawa (IAS) |
New
N=2 S-Duality and AdS/CFT |
pdf |
| Feb 15 |
Alex Buchel (Western Ontario) |
Boost-invariant
plasma in AdS/CFT |
pdf |
| Feb 15 *1pm* |
Soo-Jong
Rey (Seoul) |
Vortex-Quark
Interaction in N=4 SYM from AdS/CFT Correspondence |
|
| Feb 20 *2pm* |
Ryuichiro
Kitano (Los Alamos) |
Sweet
Spot Supersymmetry |
pdf |
| Feb 22 |
NO TALK |
NO TALK |
|
| Feb 29 |
David Berenstein (UCSB) |
A
strong coupling expansion for N=4 SYM and other superconformal field
theories |
pdf |
| Feb 29 *2-4pm* |
Dima Orlov (Steklov Institute) |
Physics and
Geometry Seminar Series Title: D-branes in Landau-Ginzburg models and Mirror Symmetry |
|
| Mar 5 *2pm* |
Katrin
Becker (Texas A&M) |
Fluxes,
torsion, and heterotic strings |
|
| Mar 7 |
Romuald
Janik (Jagellonian) |
Luscher
formulas and fluctuations around the giant magnon |
|
| Mar 14 |
Albert Schwarz (Davis) |
Arithmetic
geometry and topological string theory |
|
| Mar 21 |
Dam Son (Washington) |
Axial
anomaly and magnetic properties of finite-density QCD |
pdf |
| Mar 28 |
No Talk |
Spring
Recess |
|