High Energy Theory Seminars: Spring 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: Spring 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. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 6 | Peter Ouyang (UCSB) | Supersymmetry breaking from a Calabi-Yau singularity | |
| Jan. 13 | Tom Graber (Caltech) | Gromov-Witten theory of orbifolds and their crepant resolutions | |
| Jan. 20 | Robert Myers (Perimeter & Waterloo) | Inflation in the AdS/CFT | pdf ppt |
| Jan. 27 | Nathan Berkovits (Sao Paulo, IFT) | Pure spinor formalism as an N=2 topological string | |
| Feb. 3 | Akihiro Ishibashi (Chicago) | On the stability of higher dimensional black holes | |
| Fri, Feb. 3, 1PM | Yuji Sugawara (Tokyo) | Aspects of infalling D-brane in 2d black-hole | |
| Feb. 10 | Simon Ross (Durham) | Tachyons and smooth solutions in the D1-D5 string | |
| Feb. 17 | Iosif Bena (IAS) | Geometric Transitions, Black Rings and Black Hole Physics | |
| Feb. 24 | Katsushi Ito (Tokyo Inst. Tech.) | Non(anti)commutative superspace and N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory | |
| Mar. 3 | Andrew Neitzke (IAS) | Automorphic forms, topological strings and perhaps black holes | |
| Mar. 10 | Peter Svrcek (Stanford) | Mediation of supersymmetry breaking in string compactifications | |
| Fri, Mar. 10, 1PM | Tadashi Takayanagi (KITP) | Entanglement entropy from AdS/CFT correspondence | |
| Tue, Mar. 14, 2PM | Yosuke Imamura (Tokyo U) | Boundary states in the open string sector | |
| Mar. 17 | Ira Rothstein (Carnegie Mellon) | Effective field theories of black holes | |
| Tue, Mar. 21, 2PM | Teruhiko Kawano (Tokyo U) | Pouliot type duality via a-maximization | |
| Mar. 24 | No Seminar | (Spring Break) | |
| Mon, Mar. 27, 2PM | Lee Smolin (Perimeter) | Emergence of the standard model fermions from a background independent quantum theory of gravity | |
| Fri, Mar. 31, 1PM | Steve Giddings (UCSB) | Observables in effective gravity | |
| Apr. 7 | Alexei Borodin (Caltech) | Periodic Schur process and cylindric partitions | |
| Mon, Apr. 10, 2:30PM, rm. 269 Lauritsen | Stephen Hawking | No-boundary amplitudes for the landscape | ppt |
| Apr. 14 | Albrecht Klemm (UW-Madison) | ||
| Apr. 21 | Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham) |
Quantum gravity from Feynman diagramms | |
| Apr. 28 | John Estes (UCLA) | JANUS and Susy Interface CFT | |
| May 5 | Zhiqin Lu (UCI) | Geometry of the moduli space of the Calabi-Yau manifolds | |
| May 12 | Marcos Mariño (CERN) | Phase transitions in topological string theory | |
| May 19 | Don Marolf (UCSB) | Holographic renormalization of asymptotically flat spacetimes | |
| May 26 | no seminar | ||
| Jun. 2 | Simeon Hellerman (IAS) | ||
| Jun. 9 | No Seminar | (Commencement) |