High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2000

All seminars to be held in Lauritsen room 469 (unless otherwise noted).

The organizers for this seminar are Jaume Gomis (gomis@theory.caltech.edu) and Katrin Becker (beckerk@theory.caltech.edu)

FRIDAY, September 15, 11AM

Sung-Kil Yang , University of Tsukuba, Duality between string junctions and D-branes on del Pezzo surfaces.

FRIDAY, September 22, (NO SEMINAR TODAY)

FRIDAY, September 29, 11AM

Joachim Rahmfeld , Caltech , Superspace: Bulk vs. Boundary. .

FRIDAY, October 6, 11AM

Washington Taylor , MIT , Getting to the bottom of the open string tachyon.

FRIDAY, October 13, 11AM

Soo-Jong Rey, Seoul National University, Open Wilson Lines and S-Duality in Noncommutative Gauge Theory.

FRIDAY, October 20, 11AM

Oliver DeWolfe, ITP, Santa Barbara, Anatomy of Two Holographic Renormalization Group Flows .

FRIDAY, October 27, 11AM

Mark B. Wise, Caltech, Violations of the Equivalence Principle from a Light Dilaton.

FRIDAY, November 3, 11AM

Koji Hashimoto, ITP, Santa Barbara, Non-Commutative/Non-Linear Monopoles.

FRIDAY, November 10, 11AM

Hermann Nicolai, Max Planck Institute, Maximal gauged supergravity in three dimensions.

FRIDAY, November 17, 11AM

Bartomeu Fiol, Rutgers University, D-branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds.

Special Seminar

FRIDAY, November 17, 1PM

Jaydeep Majumder, Mehta Institute, Marginal Deformation and Creation of Codimension >=2 Solitons on Brane-Antibrane Pair.

MONDAY, November 20, 11AM (Special Seminar)

Shyamoli Chaudhuri, Penn State U. , The Deconfinement Phase Transition and Thermal String Theory

FRIDAY, November 24, (THANKSGIVING, NO SEMINAR TODAY)

FRIDAY, December 1 , 11AM

Veronika Hubeny, UCSB Santa Barbara, CFT Description of Small Objects in AdS.

FRIDAY, December 8 , 11AM

Ori Ganor, Princeton University, Dipoles, twists, and noncommutative geometry.

FRIDAY, December 15 , 11AM

Tristan Hubsch , Howard University, Singular, Eclectic and Uncharted Stringy Spacetimes.

End of Seminars for the Semester

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