High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2005
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted.
The organizer for this seminar is Masaki Shigemori (
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2005All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted. The organizer for this seminar is Masaki Shigemori ( ).
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| Date and time | Speaker (Affiliation) | Title | Slides |
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| Sep. 30 | Andrew Frey (Caltech) | AdS Strings with Torsion | |
| Oct. 7 | David Berenstein (UCSB) | Emergent quantum gravity from strongly coupled quantum systems | |
| Fri, Oct. 7, 1PM | Yuji Tachikawa (Tokyo) | Five-dimensional supergravity dual of a-maximization | |
| Oct. 14 | Amihay Hanany (MIT) | Tilings, dimers, and quiver gauge theories | |
| Fri, Oct. 14, 1PM | Thomas Levi (U Penn) | Microstates for BPS black holes and black rings | |
| Oct. 21 | Washington Taylor (MIT) | Exploring type II flux vacua: SUSY, non-SUSY, and non-geometric | |
| Fri, Oct. 21, 1PM | Yuji Okawa (MIT) | Heterotic string field theory | |
| Oct. 28 | Steve Giddings (UCSB) | Warped landscape topography | |
| Nov. 4 | Tadashi Takayanagi (KITP) | Modern updates on non-critical N=2 string | |
| Nov. 11 | Andrew Strominger (Harvard) | Quiver quantum mechanics for the quintic | |
| Fri, Nov. 11, 1PM | Boris Pioline (LPTHE) | The quantum attractor mechanism | |
| Nov. 18 | Paul de Medeiros (Michigan) | Topological membranes | |
| Fri, Nov. 18, 1PM | Xi Yin (Harvard) | Exact counting of 4D BPS black holes | |
| Tue, Nov. 22, 4PM | John McGreevy (Stanford) | A talk about Nothing | |
| Nov. 25 | No Seminar | (Thanksgiving Holiday) | |
| Dec. 2 | Joan Simon (U Penn) | Coarse-graining gravity: black holes and singularities | |
| Fri, Dec. 2, 1PM | N.E.J. Bjerrum-Bohr (Swansea) | Twistor space, amplitudes and unitarity methods | pdf ppt |
| Dec. 9 | Nelia Mann (Santa Barbara) | A Bethe ansatz for a quantum, conformal supercoset model | |
| Fri, Dec. 9, 1PM | Anke Knauf (Maryland) | Geometric transitions on non-Kähler manifolds | abs pdf |