STRING THEORY SEMINAR

Spring 2006 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
Jan 31 Ilarion Melnikov
Chicago
Topological Correlators from the Coulomb Branch
Feb 14 Masaki Shigemori
Cal Tech
How a black hole emerges from a pure state
Feb 28 Cemsinan Deliduman
Feza Gursey Institute
Noncommutative Gravity Effects from 6 Dimensions
Mar 7 Alessandro Tomasiello
Stanford
String Theory Dynamics for Generalized Structures
Time: 10:30 AM. Note Special Time
Mar 14 Spring Break
No Seminar
Mar 21 Sash Sarangi
Columbia
The wavefunction of the universe and a radiation filled de Sitter
Mar 28 Jessie Shelton
MIT
Nongeometric Flux Compactifications
Apr 4 Allan Adams
Harvard
Ineffective field theories (Abstract)
Time: 10:30 AM. Note Special Time
Apr 4 Per Berglund
U of New Hampshire
Topology from Cosmology
Apr 18 Daniel Robbins
Chicago
A Matrix Model for the Null Brane
May 5 Dan Freedman
MIT
SIM(2), CP, SUSY, and Gravity [Poster]
2:30pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall, Special Theory Seminar by Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient
May 15-17 Phenomenology Conference Memorial Union/Pyle Center
May 15 Joe Polchinski
Santa Barbara
Wormholes and AdS/CFT
Time: 3pm. Note Special Date and Time
Jun 28 Eric Gimon
Berkeley/LBL
Four Dimensional Black Hole Microstates: From D-branes to Spacetime Foam
Time: 11am Wednesday in 4274 Chamberlin. Note Special Date, Time, and Location
July 14 Sash Sarangi
Columbia
Stochastic Approach to DBI InflationTime: 2pm Friday in 4274 Chamberlin. Note Special Date, Time, and Location

Schedule of seminars from fall 2005
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