High Energy Theory Informal Meeting Winter/Spring 2009

This meeting is for relatively informal discussions of topics that happen to be interesting us - occasionally we also have a formal seminar.
If you have ideas or suggestions, please let Sakura Schafer-Nameki know.
The location of this meeting is 469 Lauritsen.

Wednesdays, 2.45pm

14. January
Matt Johnson
Extremal limits and black hole entropy

21. January
Sergei Gukov
Introduction into BPS invariants and their wall crossing I

28. January
Sergei Gukov
Introduction into BPS invariants and their wall crossing II

4. February
Joe Marsano
Dark Matter: Recent Experiments and some Potential Implications
Ref: 0810.0713, 0812.2075

11. February
Chang-Soon Park
String theory realizations of non-relativistic conformal field theories
Ref: 0807.1111, 0807.1100, 0807.1099

18. February
Arthur Lipstein
Landscape of superconducting membranes
Ref: 0901.1160

25. February
Masahito Yamazaki
Melting Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Ref: 0811.2801

4. March
Kirill Saraikin
On two-parametric topological string

11. March
Ricardo Monteiro
(DAMTP)
Thermodynamic instability of rotating black holes

18. March
Lisa Randall
Flavour Physics from F-theory

25. March
Lisa Randall
Searching for Unconventional Dark Matter

31. March
Special Date! Cosmas Zachos (ANL)
Basics of ternary algebras and their underlying Nambu brackets

8. April
2.45pm!!
John Schwarz
Overview of recent work in AdS/CFT I

15. April
2.45pm!!
John Schwarz
Overview of recent work in AdS/CFT II

22. April
2.45pm!!
No Seminar
No Seminar

29. April
2.45pm!!
Andrei Mikhailov
Pure Spinors in AdS

6. May
2.45pm!!
Tudor Dimofte
The Volume Conjecture and Topological Strings
Ref: 0903.2084

13. May
2.45pm!!
Matt Johnson
Dynamical compactification from de Sitter space

20. May
2.45pm!!
Sergei Gukov
Surface Operators in N=2 Gauge Theories and Instanton Counting

27. May
2.45pm!!
Chang-Soon Park
Supersymmetric non-relativistic geometries in M-theory

3. June
2.45pm!!
Nikolay Bobev (USC)
Supersymmetric IIB Solutions with Schrodinger Symmetry

14. January	Matt Johnson	Extremal limits and black hole entropy
21. January	Sergei Gukov	Introduction into BPS invariants and their wall crossing I
28. January	Sergei Gukov	Introduction into BPS invariants and their wall crossing II
4. February	Joe Marsano	Dark Matter: Recent Experiments and some Potential Implications Ref: 0810.0713, 0812.2075
11. February	Chang-Soon Park	String theory realizations of non-relativistic conformal field theories Ref: 0807.1111, 0807.1100, 0807.1099
18. February	Arthur Lipstein	Landscape of superconducting membranes Ref: 0901.1160
25. February	Masahito Yamazaki	Melting Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds Ref: 0811.2801
4. March	Kirill Saraikin	On two-parametric topological string
11. March	Ricardo Monteiro (DAMTP)	Thermodynamic instability of rotating black holes
18. March	Lisa Randall	Flavour Physics from F-theory
25. March	Lisa Randall	Searching for Unconventional Dark Matter
31. March Special Date!	Cosmas Zachos (ANL)	Basics of ternary algebras and their underlying Nambu brackets
8. April 2.45pm!!	John Schwarz	Overview of recent work in AdS/CFT I
15. April 2.45pm!!	John Schwarz	Overview of recent work in AdS/CFT II
22. April 2.45pm!!	No Seminar	No Seminar
29. April 2.45pm!!	Andrei Mikhailov	Pure Spinors in AdS
6. May 2.45pm!!	Tudor Dimofte	The Volume Conjecture and Topological Strings Ref: 0903.2084
13. May 2.45pm!!	Matt Johnson	Dynamical compactification from de Sitter space
20. May 2.45pm!!	Sergei Gukov	Surface Operators in N=2 Gauge Theories and Instanton Counting
27. May 2.45pm!!	Chang-Soon Park	Supersymmetric non-relativistic geometries in M-theory
3. June 2.45pm!!	Nikolay Bobev (USC)	Supersymmetric IIB Solutions with Schrodinger Symmetry