High Energy Theory Seminars: Spring 2008


All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted.
The organizer for this seminar is Joseph Marsano.

Date
Speaker
Title
Slides
April 4
1pm
Daniel Robbins
(Texas)
T-Folds and Generalized NS-NS Fluxes

April 11-12
SCSS
Southern California Strings Seminar

April 18
11am-1pm
  469 Lauritsen
Alexander Givental
(Berkeley)
Physics and Geometry Seminar Series
 
*April 21*
11am-1pm
153 Sloan
Alexander Givental
(Berkeley)
Physics and Geometry Seminar Series
April 25
Kirill Krasnov
(Nottingham)
Self-Dual Gravity
N/A
(board talk)
May 2
Pedro Vieira
(LPTENS)
Integrability in AdS/CFT - Wrapping effects and small operators
N/A
(board talk)
May 9
Sav Sethi
(Chicago)
Non-Supersymmetric String Theory
N/A
(board talk)
May 16
John Mason
(Santa Cruz)
Breaking R-Symmetry for General Gauge Mediation

May 16
1pm
Gordon Kane
(Michigan)
The G2-MSSM, from moduli stabilization and a de Sitter minimum to LHC and dark matter phenomenology

May 23
Nori Iizuka
(KITP)
A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization

May 30
NO TALK
SEMINAR CANCELED

*June 4*
*2pm*
Esko Keski-Vakkuri
(Helsinki)
N-point functions in rolling tachyon background

June 6
*4pm*
Aalok Misra
(ICTP)
dS Minimum Without Anti-D3 Branes, Large Volume Axionic Inflation, (Non-)Supersymmetric Black Hole Attractors, and Swiss-Cheese Calabi Yau's
 
*June 10*
*4pm*
Pierre Ramond
(Florida)
N=8 Supergravity in Light-Cone Superspace

June 13
NO TALK
Commencement


Archived High Energy Theory Seminar Schedules:
Winter 2008, Fall 2007, Winter 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001

Slides of past seminars are available here (access restricted).

Other Caltech seminars: Other local seminars of interest: Recent hep-th papers from nearby institutes

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