STRING THEORY SEMINAR

Fall 2003 Schedule

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
Speaker
Title
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

Schedule of seminars from 2002