High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2013
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red.
The organizer for this seminar is Abhijit Gadde.
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2013All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red. The organizer for this seminar is Abhijit Gadde.
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Jan 11 |
Dan Xie (IAS) |
BPS spectrum, wall crossing and quantum dilogarithm identity |
| Jan 18 |
Guido Festuccia (IAS) |
Exploring curved Superspace |
| Jan 25 |
Shamik Banerjee (Stanford University) |
Light states in Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter |
| Feb 1 |
Donald Marolf (UC Santa Barbara) |
Complementarity vs Firewalls: Are there surprising quantum gravity effects near black hole horizons? |
| Feb 8 |
Stephane Detournay (Harvard University) |
Warped Conformal Field Theory |
| Feb 15 |
Jaewon Song (UC San Diego) |
2d TQFT structure of the superconformal indices with outer-automorphism twists |
| Feb 22 |
Sean Hartnoll (Stanford University) |
Metal-insulator transition in holography |
| Mar 1 |
David Skinner (IAS & Cambridge) |
Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity |
| Mar 1 1 pm |
Peng Gao (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) |
Winding strings on Calabi Yau manifolds and closed geodesics |