High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2009
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted.
The organizer for this seminar is Kirill Saraikin.
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2009All 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 |
| Jan 9 |
Jaemo Park
(POSTECH & Stanford) |
Chern-Simons gauge theories and M2 brane CFTs |
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| Jan 16 |
Nathan Berkovits (San Paulo, IFT) |
Simplifying and Extending the AdS_5xS^5 Pure
Spinor Formalism |
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| Jan 23 |
Timo Weigand (Stanford) |
SU(5) GUTs from compact Type IIB orientifolds
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| Jan 30 |
Nikita Nekrasov (IHES) |
Supersymmetric gauge theory and quantum integrability |
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| Feb 6 |
Volker Schomerus (DESY) |
Target space duality in curved backgrounds |
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| Feb 13 |
Piyush Kumar (Berkeley) |
A Framework for the Baryon Asymmetry, Moduli Problem and Dark Matter
within String Theory |
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| Feb 20 |
Yuri Aisaka (San Paulo, IFT) |
Operator space of pure spinors and some applications |
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| Feb 20 1pm |
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis) |
Gravity duals of
gauge theory on compact hyperbolic spaces |
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| Feb 27 |
Andrew Strominger (Harvard) |
The Kerr/CFT Correspondence |
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| Mar 6 |
Andy Neitzke (Harvard) |
BPS wall-crossing in Seiberg-Witten theory via dimensional reduction |
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| Mar 13 |
Daniel Jafferis (Rutgers) |
Quantum corrections
to Chern-Simons-matter moduli spaces | |
| Mar 20 |
No Talk |
Spring Recess |
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