High Energy Theory Seminars: Spring 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: Spring 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 |
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| Jan. 7 | Yoshifumi Hyakutake (UCSB) | Entropy Counting of Supertubes |
| Jan. 14 | Shamit Kachru (Stanford) | Predictive Landscapes? |
| Jan. 21 | Iosif Bena (UCLA) | Supertubes, black rings, and black hole entropy |
| Thu, Jan. 27, 2:30PM | Stephen Hawking (Cambridge) | The information paradox for black holes |
| Jan. 28 | Vatche Sahakian (Harvey Mudd College) | Polarization of closed strings by Ramond-Ramond fluxes |
| Thu, Feb. 3, 2PM | Gautam Mandal (Tata Institute) | Matrices from supergravity |
| Feb. 4 | Soo-Jong Rey (Seoul National U) | Emergent 5d black holes from weakly interacting hot 4d Yang-Mills gas |
| Feb. 11 | Marcus Spradlin (UCSB) | Yang-Mills amplitudes from twistor string theory |
| Fri, Feb. 11, 1PM | Joerg Teschner (Freie University) | Infrared issues in 2d string theory |
| Thu, Feb. 17, 2:30PM | Mina Aganagic (Berkeley) | Black holes, topological strings, and quantum 2d Yang-Mills theory |
| Feb. 18 | Raphael Bousso (Berkeley & LBNL) | Cosmology and the S-matrix |
| Feb. 25 | Eva Silverstein (SLAC & Stanford) | Things fall apart: topology change from winding tachyons |
| Mar. 4 | Martijn Wijnholt (Princeton) | Topological string theory on H3 × S3 |
| Mar. 11 | James T. Liu (Michigan) | Bubbling supergravity solutions and reductions on Sn × Sn |
| Mar. 18 | No Seminar | (Spring Break) |
| Mar. 25 | Partha Mukhopadhyay (Kentucky) | Non-BPS D-branes in Green-Schwarz formalism |
| Apr. 1 | Michael Gutperle (UCLA) | 2-loop superstrings and S-duality |
| Apr. 8 | Amir Kashani-Poor (Stanford) | IIA compactifications with flux |
| Apr. 15 | Alessandro Tomasiello (Stanford) | Towards generalized complex mirror symmetry |
| Apr. 22 | Sergio Ferrara (CERN & INFN) | Gauged supergravity algebras from twisted tori compactifications with fluxes |
| Apr. 29 | Koji Hashimoto (Univ of Tokyo) | Reconnection of colliding cosmic (D-)strings |
| May 6 | James Sparks (Harvard) | Recent developments in AdS/CFT and Sasaki-Einstein geometry |
| Mon, May. 16, 2:30PM | Laurent Baulieu (LPTHE) | Reconstruction of all Yang-Mills supersymmetric theories from topological symmetry |
| May 20 | Eric Sharpe (Utah) | Gauging noneffective group actions and mirror symmetry |
| May 27 | Hisham Sati (Univ of Adelaide) | The M-theory/Type II partition functions and generalized cohomology |
| Jun. 3 | Tapobrata Sarkar (Indian Inst. Tech., Kanpur) | Closed string tachyons on orbifolds of C2 and C3 |
| Jun. 10 | No Seminar | (Commencement) |