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 ().
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
pdf  
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


Sneak peek at the schedule for Spring 2008.

Archived High Energy Theory Seminar Schedules:
 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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