High Energy Theory Informal Meeting Spring 2008

This journal club 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, 2pm

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
Time: 1.15pm!
Natalia Saulina
2 dim Kodaira-Spencer Theory and 3 dim CS Gravity
Ref: 0711.1932

13. February
Tudor Dimofte
Engineering meta-stable IIB flux vacua

20. February
Ryuichiro Kitano
(Los Alamos)
Sweet Spot Supersymmetry

27. February
Joe Marsano
GUTs and Exceptional Branes in F-theory
Ref: 0802.3391

5. March
Katrin Becker
(Texas A&M)
Fluxes, torsion and heterotic strings

12. March
Matt Johnson
String Inflation I

17. March
10.30am Matt Johnson
String Inflation II

26. March
Nikolay Bobev
(USC)
Bubbles and Black Hole Microstates
Ref: 0803.1203

2. April
Ruth Williams
(DAMTP)
Wilson loops in discrete quantum gravity

9. April
Kirill Saraikin
Topological strings and attractive manifolds
Ref: 0804.0750

16. April
Lisa Randall
(Harvard/Caltech)
Unmediated supersymmetry breaking

23. April
Andy Strominger
(Harvard)
Chiral Gravity in Three Dimensions

30. April
Lisa Randall
(Harvard/Caltech)
TBA

7. May
Yutaka Ookouchi
Extended Supersymmetric Moduli Space and a SUSY/Non-SUSY Duality
Ref: 0804.2489

14. May
TBA
TBA

21. May
Time: 2.30pm!
Arthur Lipstein
N = 8 Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories

28. May
TBA
TBA

4. June
TBA
TBA

11. June
Pierre Ramond
TBA

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 Time: 1.15pm!	Natalia Saulina	2 dim Kodaira-Spencer Theory and 3 dim CS Gravity Ref: 0711.1932
13. February	Tudor Dimofte	Engineering meta-stable IIB flux vacua
20. February	Ryuichiro Kitano (Los Alamos)	Sweet Spot Supersymmetry
27. February	Joe Marsano	GUTs and Exceptional Branes in F-theory Ref: 0802.3391
5. March	Katrin Becker (Texas A&M)	Fluxes, torsion and heterotic strings
12. March	Matt Johnson	String Inflation I
17. March 10.30am	Matt Johnson	String Inflation II
26. March	Nikolay Bobev (USC)	Bubbles and Black Hole Microstates Ref: 0803.1203
2. April	Ruth Williams (DAMTP)	Wilson loops in discrete quantum gravity
9. April	Kirill Saraikin	Topological strings and attractive manifolds Ref: 0804.0750
16. April	Lisa Randall (Harvard/Caltech)	Unmediated supersymmetry breaking
23. April	Andy Strominger (Harvard)	Chiral Gravity in Three Dimensions
30. April	Lisa Randall (Harvard/Caltech)	TBA
7. May	Yutaka Ookouchi	Extended Supersymmetric Moduli Space and a SUSY/Non-SUSY Duality Ref: 0804.2489
14. May	TBA	TBA
21. May Time: 2.30pm!	Arthur Lipstein	N = 8 Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories
28. May	TBA	TBA
4. June	TBA	TBA
11. June	Pierre Ramond	TBA