High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2006
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted.
The organizer for this seminar is Andrei Mikhailov (
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2006All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted. The organizer for this seminar is Andrei Mikhailov ( ). |
| Date and time | Speaker (Affiliation) |
Title | Slides etc. |
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| Sep 22 | Alessandro Tomasiello (Stanford) | Scanning for new classes of string theory vacua | |
| Wed, Sep 27, 2:30PM | Elias Kiritsis (Crete U. and Ecole Polytechnique) | Supersymmetric Standard Model embeddings in Orientifold string vacua | |
| Thu, Sep 28, 11:00AM | Aninda Sinha (Cambridge) | Small black holes in string theory | pdf |
| Oct 6 | Herman Verlinde (Princeton) | Open Strings and Particle Physics | |
| Wed, Oct 18, 1:00PM | Johannes Walcher (Princeton) | Opening Mirror Symmetry on the Quintic | |
| Oct 20 | Dmitriy Belov (Imperial) | Type II Actions from an 11-Dimensional Chern-Simons Theory | ppt |
| Wed, Nov 1, 1:00PM | Laurent Baulieu (LPTHE) | Supersymmetric renormalization prescription and finitness in N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory | |
| Nov 3 | Kristian Kennaway (Toronto) | ||
| Nov 10 11:00AM | Joerg Teschner | Sinh-Gordon as a warmup for non-compact sigma-models |
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| Nov 10 1:00PM | Frederik Denef (Leuven) | Halos and attractors |
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| Nov 17 | Albion Lawrence (Brandeis) | Holographic RG in Lorentzian signature |
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| Nov 17, 1:00PM | Paul Wiegmann (Chicago) | SLE for string theorists | |
| Nov 23 | Turkey | TBE | |
| Wed, Nov 29, 1:00pm | Minxin Huang (Wisconsin) | Topological Strings on compact Calabi-Yau spaces: modularity and boundary conditions |
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| Fri, Dec 1, UCLA |
Southern California String Seminar |
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| Sat, Dec 2, UCLA |
Southern California String Seminar | ||
| Thu, Dec 7, 2:00pm |
Didina Serban (SPT Saclay) | TBA |
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| Thu, Dec 7, 3:20pm |
Ilya Gruzberg (Chicago) |
SLE | |
| Dec 8 | Elie Gorbatov (San Diego) | TBA | |
| Dec 8, 1:00pm | Takuya Okuda (KITP) | Chern-Simons Wilson Loops and Bubbling Calabi-Yaus | |
| Dec 11, 12, UCLA |
ultraviolet properties of N=8 SUGRA |