STRING THEORY SEMINAR

Fall 2004 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
Aug 31-
Sep 10
Ingo Runkel
Humboldt, Berlin
String Theory Special Lecture Series: Introduction to CFT I-VI
Lecutres on Aug 31, Sep 2, Sep 3, Sep 7, Sep 9, Sep 10.
Sep 14 Ian Ellwood
UW Madison
Fuzzy branes and their constituent D0-branes
Sep 21 Minxin Huang
UW Madison
Giant Graviton and Open Strings from N=4 Super Yang-Mills
Sep 28 Fernando Marchesano
UW Madison
Building MSSM Flux Vacua
Oct 5 David Shih
Princeton University
Target Space in Minimal String Theory
Oct 26 Angel Uranga
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Flux compactifications, supersymmetry breaking and soft terms
Nov 2 Keshav Dasgupta
University of Illinois
Geometric transitions and non-Kahler manifolds
Nov 8 Nissan Itzhaki
Princeton University
The large N harmonic oscillator as a string theory
Monday 4pm: Note Special Date
Nov 10 Rob Leigh
University of Illinois
Towards a Solution of 3d QCD at Large N
Wednesday 4pm: Note Special Date
Nov 16 Axel Krause
University of Maryland
The Heterotic M-Theory Landscape, Fluxes and Inflation
Cancelled
Nov 23 Thanksgiving No Seminar Scheduled
Nov 30 Michael Schulz
Caltech
Calabi-Yau Duals of Torus Orientifolds
Dec 6 Hong Liu
MIT
Fine structure of Hagedorn transitions
Monday 4:00 PM. Note Special Date
Dec 7 David Berenstein
UCSB
The Dual Life of a Giant Graviton
Dec 13 Stanislav Kuperstein
Tel Aviv
Non-critical supergravity and holography
Dec 14 Josh Friess
Princeton
Hawking Effect in 2-D String Theory

Schedule of seminars from Spring 2004
Schedule of seminars from fall 2003
Schedule of seminars from spring 2002