High Energy Theory Seminars: Spring 2009
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted.
The organizer for this seminar is Kirill Saraikin.
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Spring 2009All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless otherwise noted. The organizer for this seminar is Kirill Saraikin. |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Slides |
| April 3 |
Rob Myers
(Perimeter) |
Beyond $\eta/s = 1/4\pi$ | |
| April 10 |
Radu Roiban (Penn State) |
On the UV properties of Pohlmeyer-reduced string theory
in AdS_5 x S^5 |
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| April 10 1pm |
Sebastian Franco (KITP) |
Holographic Gauge Mediation |
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| April 17 |
Yu Nakayama (Berkeley) |
Non-relativistic M2-brane gauge theory |
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| April 17 1pm |
Amihay Hanany (Imperial College) |
Brane Tilings, M2 Branes and Chern Simons theories |
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| April 24 |
Ben Freivogel (Berkeley) |
Observing eternal inflation through bubble collisions |
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| May 1 |
Nick Dorey (DAMTP) |
Spiky strings and spin chains |
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| May 8 |
Koji Hashimoto (RIKEN) |
Nuclear force from string theory |
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| May 15 |
Martin Schnabl (Institute of Physics AS CR) |
Analytic solutions in open string field theory |
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| May 22 |
Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Institute) |
Rapid scale dependent CFT thermalization from gravity |
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| May 29 |
Dusan Simic (Stanford) |
Stable non-supersymmetric throats in string theory |
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| June 5 |
No talk |
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| June 12 |
No Talk |
Commencement |
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