Spring, 2008

See also: Geometry/String Theory Seminar Series

Jan.  1 - Jan.  6 Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory (math/phys colloquium) (Abstract)
Chris Beasley (Harvard)
Friday, January 4, 2008, 4:00pm, Milner 317
Jan. 21 - Jan. 27 Inflation and Non-Gaussianities from String Theory (Abstract)
Jason Kumar (UC, Irvine)
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 11:00am in ENPH 501
Jan. 28 - Feb.  3 TBA

TBA
D. Morrison (Duke University)
Friday, February 1, 2008, 4:00pm in Milner 216
Feb.  4 - Feb. 10 TBA

Feb. 11 - Feb. 17 N=8 Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories
John Schwarz (Caltech)
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 4:00pm in ENPH 501
Connecting String Theory to the Real World (Colloquium) (Abstract)
John Schwarz (Caltech)
Thursday, February 14, 2008, 4:00pm in ENPH 202
Feb. 18 - Feb. 24 TBA
Alessandro Tomasiello (Harvard)
Monday, February 18, 2008, 3:00pm in ENPH 501
Intersecting Non-Susy p-brane with Chargeless 0-brane as Black p-brane
Jian-Xin Lu (USTC, China)
Friday, February 22, 2008, 12:30pm in ENPH 501
Feb. 25 - Mar.  2 Gravitino Dark Matter with Various NLSP (Abstract)
Yudi Santoso (Durham, UK)
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 4:00pm in ENPH 501
Mar.  3 - Mar.  9 The Phenomenology of Extra Ordinary Gauge Mediation
Liam Fitzpatrick (Harvard)
Monday, March 3, 2008, 3:00pm in ENPH 501
(Colloquium)
Andrew Strominger (Harvard)
Thursday, March 6, 2008, 4:00pm in ENPH 202
(Geometry/String Joint)
Tony Pantev (UPenn)
Friday, March 7, 2008, 4:00pm in Milner 216
Mar. 10 - Mar. 16 Spring Break (Mitchell Institute Worshop)

Mar. 17 - Mar. 23 Fluxes, Torsion and Heterotic Strings
Katrin Becker (TAMU)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 4:00pm in ENPH 501
Mar. 24 - Mar. 30 D-brane Model Building and N-ification of the Forces (Abstract)
Sebastian Franco (Princeton)
Monday, March 24, 2008, 3:00pm in ENPH 501
Mar. 31 - Apr.  6 Closed String Tachyon Condensation in the E_8 Heterotic System
Cynthia Keeler (UC, Berkeley)
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 4:00pm in ENPH 501
Quantum Gravity Partition Functions in Three Dimensions
Alex Maloney (McGill, Canada)
Friday, April 4, 2008, 12:30pm in ENPH 501
Half-Twisted Sigma Models and Generalized Gromov-Witten Invariants
Ilarion Melnikov (U. Chicago)
Friday, April 4, 2008, 4:00pm in ENPH 501
Apr.  7 - Apr. 13 Hierarchy Problems in String Theory - an Overview of the Large Volume Models
Joseph Conlon (Cambridge, UK)
Monday, April 7, 2008, 3:00pm in ENPH 501
Apr. 14 - Apr. 20 TBA
Keshav Dasgupta(McGill University)
A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization (Abstract)
Norihiro Iizuka (KITP)
Friday, April 18, 2008; 12:30pm in ENPH 501
Apr. 21 - Apr. 27 Quark Energy Loss from AdS/CFT (Abstract)
Justin Vazquez-Poritz (Baruch College, CUNY)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 4:00pm in ENPH 501
Apr. 28 - May   4 Can Initial Inhomogeneities and Anisotropies Affect the Onset of Inflation?
Sonia Paban
Monday, April 28, 2008, 3:00pm in ENPH 501
May. 5 - May   11 Meta-stable Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking Near Points of Enhanced Symmetry (Abstract)
Kuver Sinha (Rutgers)
Monday, May 5, 2008, 3:00pm in ENPH 501

 

 

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