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 | ||
| Sep 13 | Minxin Huang UW-Madison |
Testing Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture at higher genus
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| 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
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| 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 |