This semester the seminar will mostly meet on Tuesdays
at 4:00 PM in 5280 Chamberlin
If hyperlinked, click on the title to download the slides from the seminar
| Date | ||
| Sept 16 | Akikazu Hashimoto University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"Black Holes in Godel Universes and pp-waves" |
| Sept 23 | Fernando Marchesano University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"Yukawa Couplings in Intersecting D-brane Models" |
| Sept 30 | Albrecht Klemm University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"The Topological Vertex - a New Approach to Topological
String Theory I" |
| Oct 7 | Albrecht Klemm University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"The Topological Vertex - a New Approach to Topological
String Theory II" |
| Oct 14 | Albrecht Klemm University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"The Topological Vertex - a New Approach to Topological
String Theory III" |
| Oct 20 | Albrecht Klemm
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"The Topological Vertex - a New Approach to Topological String Theory IV" Monday 4:00pm. Note Special Time |
| Oct 21 | Leopoldo Pando-Zayas
University of Michigan |
"Aspects of Hadronic Physics in the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence" |
| Oct 28 | Nissan Itzhaki Princeton University |
"Closed Strings, Imaginary D-branes, and Holes" |
| Nov 3 | David Kutasov University of Chicago |
"Recent Progress in Two Dimensional String Theory and Matrix Models" Monday 4:00pm at Chamberlin 4274: Note Special Room and Time |
| Nov 4 | Jan Pieter van der Schaar CERN |
"Deformed CFT and the Spectrum of Inflationary
Perturbations" |
| Nov 11 | Sergey Cherkis IAS, Princeton |
"Gravitational Instantons of Type Dk from String Theory" |
| Nov 17 | Emil Martinec University of Chicago |
"A Matrix Model Make-Over" Monday 4:00pm: Note Special Time |
| Nov 18 | Hael Collins Carnegie Mellon |
"The Fate of the Alpha-Vacuum" |
| Nov 24 | Calin Lazaroiu University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"String Field Theory, Homotopy Categories and Topological D-branes" Monday 4:00pm: Note Special Time |
| Dec 1 | Calin Lazaroiu University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"String Field Theory, Homotopy Categories and Topological D-branes II" Monday 4:00pm: Note Special Time |
| Dec 2 | Finn Larsen University of Michigan |
"De Sitter Holography and the CMB" |
| Dec 5 | Shamit Kachru Stanford University |
"Cosmology on the String Theory Landscape" Friday 4:00pm: Physics Colloquium |
| Dec 9 | Dan Freed University of Texas, Austin |
"Cubic Forms, Differential Cohomology, and M-theory" |
| Dec 10 | Dan Freed University of Texas, Austin |
"Dirac Operators and representation theory" Wednesday 4:00pm: Mathematics Colloquium |