High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2009


All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted.
The organizer for this seminar is Kirill Saraikin.
Date
Speaker
Title
Slides
Oct 2
No Talk


Oct 9
Jonathan Heckman
(IAS)
Aspects of F-theory GUTs
pdf

Oct 16
Eva Silverstein
(KITP)
AdS/CFT with small extra dimensions
pdf

Oct 16
1pm
Linus Wulff
(INFN)

The superstring in AdS4xCP3
pdf

Oct 23
Anatoly Dymarsky
(IAS)
Supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 SYM and pure spinors
pdf

Oct 30
Schlomo Razamat
(Stony Brook)
Aspects of Symmetric Product Orbifolds
pdf

Oct 30
1pm
Alexander Westphal
(Stanford)

Gravity Waves & Chaotic Inflation in String Theory
pdf

Nov 6
Christoph Sieg
(Niels Bohr Inst.)
Perturbative spectra in gauge theories with gravity duals at four loops and beyond
pdf

Nov 13
Roman Jackiw
(MIT)
Fractional charge in time-inversion invariant systems

Nov 20
Shamit Kachru
(KITP)
Holography of charged dilaton black holes
pdf

Nov 27
No Talk
Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec 4
Ayan Mukhopadhyay
(HRI)
Universal Phenomena in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories and Gravity

Dec 11
Clifford Cheung
(Berkeley)
Twistor Space and the S-Matrix

Dec 18
No Talk
Happy Holidays!


Sneak peek at the schedule for Winter 2010.

Archived High Energy Theory Seminar Schedules:
Spring 2009Winter 2009Fall 2008Spring 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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