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.
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


Archived High Energy Theory Seminar Schedules:
Fall 2012Spring 2012Winter 2012Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Winter 2011Fall 2010Spring 2010Winter 2010Fall 2009Spring 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

Other Caltech seminars: Other local seminars of interest: Recent hep-th papers from nearby institutes

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