STRING THEORY SEMINAR

Fall 2005 Schedule

This semester the seminar will mostly meet on Tuesdays at 4:30 PM in 5280 Chamberlin 
If hyperlinked, click on the title to download the slides from the seminar

Date
Speaker
Title
Sep 13 Minxin Huang
UW-Madison
Testing Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture at higher genus
Sep 20 Thomas Grimm
UW-Madison
The generalized geometry of Calabi-Yau orientifolds
Sep 27 Washington Taylor IV
MIT
Exploring type II string vacua: supersymmetric, non-supersymmetric, and non-geometric
Oct 4 Mohammad Edalati
Cincinnatti
On singular effective superpotentials in supersymmetric gauge theories
Oct 11 Richard Corrado
UIUC
IIA model building and moduli stabilization
Oct 18 Xi Yin
Harvard
Exact counting of BPS black holes
Oct 25 Joan Simon
U Penn
Coarse-graining gravity: black holes and singularities
Nov 1 Xin-gang Chen
Florida/Columbia
Probing string theory in multi-throat DBI inflation
Nov 8 Sumit Das
University of Kentucky
Cosmological Singularities from Matrices
Nov 15 Ralph Blumenhagen
Munich
Non-abelian Brane Worlds: The Heterotic Story
Nov 22 Thanksgiving Week
No Seminar
Nov 29 Chien-Hao Liu
Harvard
Phase structures in superstring theory and transitions of Gromov-Witten invariants
Dec 6 Emanuel Scheidegger
University of Alessandria, Italy
Topological Strings on K3 Fibrations
Dec 13 Johannes Walcher
IAS Princeton
Dark Matter and the Anthropic Principle
Dec 13 Brian Greene
Columbia
DLS Pre-program
Location: 2241 Chamberlin Hall Time: 4:15pm-5:15pm
Dec 13 Brian Greene
Columbia
Distinguished Lecture Series [Poster]
Location: Wisconsin Union Theater. Time: 7:30pm
* To be confirmed

Schedule of seminars from spring 2005
Schedule of seminars from fall 2004
Schedule of seminars from spring 2004
Schedule of seminars from fall 2003
Schedule of seminars from spring 2002