High Energy Theory Seminars: Spring 2002
All seminars to be held in Lauritsen room 469 (unless otherwise
noted).
The organizers for this seminar are
Iouri Chepelev
(chepelev@theory.caltech.edu)
and Edna Cheung
(cheung@theory.caltech.edu)
The seminars in Jan.07 - Feb.28 are part of the workshop on
"Geometric Transitions--G(2) Holonomy, Geometric Transitions & D-branes."
Workshop Program
FRIDAY, January 11, 11AM
Kenneth Intriligator, UCSD
Introduction to Geometric Transition Dualities
FRIDAY, January 18, 11AM
Michael Douglas, Rutgers
D-branes in Calabi-Yau, Continued
FRIDAY, January 18, 1:30PM
Eva Silverstein, SLAC
Non-Perturbative Nonrenormalization in a Nonsupersymmetric Nonlocal
String Theory
FRIDAY, January 25, 11AM
Edward Witten, IAS/Caltech
Multi-Trace Operators, Boundary Conditions, And AdS/CFT Correspondence
FRIDAY, February 1, 11AM
Bobby Acharya, Rutgers
Superpotentials, G2 manifolds and exceptional mirror symmetries
FRIDAY, February 1, 1:30PM
Christopher Herzog, Princeton
The Conifold and Beyond
FRIDAY, February 8, 11AM
Albion Lawrence, SLAC
Signature of M-theory in Cosmic Microwave Background
FRIDAY, February 15, 11AM
Calin Lazaroiu, Stony Brook
Graded Chern-Simons theories, extended moduli spaces and topological
D-branes
FRIDAY, February 22, 11AM
Konstantin Savvidy, Perimeter Inst.
On D0-brane Bound State Spectrum
FRIDAY, February 22, 1:30PM
Shamit Kachru, Stanford
String Compactifications with Flux
FRIDAY, March 1, 11AM
Kazumi Okuyama, U. of Chicago
Comments on Vacuum String Field Theory
FRIDAY, March 8, 11AM
Shou-Cheng Zhang, Stanford
A 4 dimensional generalization of the quantum
Hall effect
FRIDAY, March 15, 11AM
Ivo Sachs, Trinity College Dublin
Horizon Holography
FRIDAY, March 22, 11AM
David Kutasov, U. of Chicago
Localized Instabilities in String Theory
FRIDAY, March 22, 1PM
Curtis Callan, Princeton
Biology by and for Particle Physicists: Pedagogical Lecture 1
FRIDAY, March 29, 11AM
Hubert Saleur, USC
Sigma models on superprojective spaces
FRIDAY, March 29, 1PM
Jae-Suk Park, Stony Brook
Covariant Quantum Supermembrane
FRIDAY, April 5, 11AM
Joerg Teschner, Freie Universitat Berlin
Branes on the Euclidean AdS_3
FRIDAY, April 5, 1PM
Atish Dabholkar, Tata Institute
Tachyon Condensation and Black Hole Entropy
FRIDAY, April 12, 11:15 AM in Lauritsen room 269
Stephen Hawking, Cambridge
Why does inflation start at the top of the hill?
FRIDAY, April 12, 1PM
Andrei Mikhailov, Santa Barbara
Notes on Higher Spin Symmetries
FRIDAY, April 19, 11AM
Curtis Callan, Princeton
Biology by and for Particle Physicists: Pedagogical Lecture 2
FRIDAY, April 19, 1PM
Gordon Chalmers, UCLA
TBA
FRIDAY, April 26, 11AM
Nathan Seiberg, IAS
Strings in a Time Dependent Orbifold
The following seminars are part of the workshop on "String Field Theory."
Workshop Program
FRIDAY, May 3, 11AM
George Papadopoulos, King's College London
Penrose limits, pp-waves and string dynamics
FRIDAY, May 10, 11AM
Ricardo Schiappa, Harvard
Towards Vacuum Superstring Field Theory: The Supersliver
FRIDAY, May 17, 11AM
Leonardo Rastelli, Princeton
TBA
FRIDAY, May 24, 11AM
Barton Zwiebach, MIT
TBA
FRIDAY, May 31, 11AM
NO SEMINAR
FRIDAY, Jun 7, 11AM
Hiroshi Ooguri, Caltech
Worldsheet Derivation of a large N Duality
FRIDAY, Jun 14, 11AM
NO SEMINAR
FRIDAY, Jun 21, 11AM
Daniel Freedman, MIT
Perturbative Gauge Theory and String Interactions
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