High Energy Theory Informal Meeting 2007/2008

Wednesdays, 2pm

12. September	Sergey Cherkis (Trinity College, Dublin)	Bows and Quivers: Instantons on ALF Spaces
3. October	Matt Johnson	Landscape Cosmology: possible observational signatures of eternal inflation
10. October	Kirill Saraikin	Normal functions and Calabi-Yau geometry Refs: 0709.4028
17. October	Sakura Schafer-Nameki	TBA for AdS/CFT Refs: 0710.1568, 0708.2208
24. October	Tudor Dimofte	A state sum model for SL(2,C) Chern-Simons theory
31. October	Marlene Weiss (CERN and Zürich)	Non-perturbative effects in matrix models and topological strings Slides
7. November	Volker Braun (UPenn)	Calabi-Yau Metrics and the Solutions of the Laplacian Slides
14. November	John Schwarz	A new kind of algebra
21. November	Akin Wingerter (Ohio State)	MSSM-like Models from Strings
28. November	Joe Marsano	M-theory realization of Seiberg-Witten potentials and metastable vacua
5. December	Jie Yang	Open topological string holomorphic anomaly equation
12. December	Southern California String Seminar	Schedule
19. December	HEP Christmas Party	No seminar
26. December	Joyeux Noël!	Boxing Day
9. January	Oren Bergman (IAS)	The Phase Diagram of Holographic QCD
23. January	Hirosi Ooguri	On Tree Amplitudes in Gauge Theory and Gravity Ref: 0801.2385
30. January	Andrei Mikhailov	Towards a Worldsheet Derivation of the Maldacena Conjecture Ref: 0711.1799
6. February	Natalia Saulina	2 dim Kodaira-Spencer Theory and 3 dim CS Gravity Ref: 0711.1932

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