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 | ||
| 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 |