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 | ||
| Jan 27 | Raul Rabadan IAS, Princeton |
AdS Tomography: Can One Tomograph the Shape of the Drum? |
| Feb 3 | Fredric Leblond University of Chicago |
Gravitational Throats |
| Feb 10 | Yang-Hui He University of Pennsylvania |
Modular Matrix Models and Monstours Moonshine |
| Feb 17 | Oleg Lunin IAS, Princeton |
Instantons in gauge theories with N=1/2 supersymmetry |
| Feb 24 | Horatiu Nastase Brown University |
Massive IIA string theory and Matrix theory compactification |
| Mar 2 | Jerome Gauntlett Imperial College, London |
AdS5 geometry in M-theory and string theory [Abstract] Tuesday 10:30am: Note Special Time |
| Mar 16 | Tadashi Takayanagi Harvard University |
Aspects of Two Dimensional Type 0 String Theory |
| Mar 23 | Savdeep Sethi University of Chicago |
Duality for the Heterotic String |
| Apr 8 | Leopoldo Pando Zayas University of Michigan |
On Two Dimensional Black Holes and Matrix Models Thursday 10:30am: Note Special Date and Time |
| Apr 13 | Joan Simon University of Pennsylvania |
Quotients of AdS: results and perspectives |
| Apr 20 | Kentaro Hori University of Toronto |
Orientifolds of Gepner Models |
| Apr 23 | Matt Strassler University of Washington |
TBA Friday 4:00pm: Physics Colloquium |
| Apr 27 | No Seminar |
Phenomenology Conference |
| May 3 | Rajesh Gopakumar HRI Allahabad |
String Theory Distinguished Visiting Lectureship Series Gauge Theory and Geometry: Lessons from Duality I 1:00pm, Chamberlin 5280 |
| May 4 | Melanie Becker University of Maryland |
Stabilization of Moduli Fields and de Sitter Vacua in Heterotic M-theory 2:30pm: Note Special Date and Time |
| May 5 | Rajesh Gopakumar HRI Allahabad |
String Theory Distinguished Visiting Lectureship Series Gauge Theory and Geometry: Lessons from Duality II 1:00pm, Chamberlin 4274 |
| May 7 | Rajesh Gopakumar HRI Allahabad |
String Theory Distinguished Visiting Lectureship Series Gauge Theory and Geometry: Lessons from Duality III 1:00pm, Chamberlin 5280 |