STRING THEORY SEMINAR

Spring 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
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

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