STRING THEORY SEMINAR

Spring 2007 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
Feb 20 Bret Underwood
UW-Madison
Geometry in Brane Inflation
Feb 27 Aki Hashimoto
UW-Madison
Microscopic Description of Puff Field Theory
Mar 6 Thomas Grimm
UW-Madison
Direct integration and wavefunctions of the topological string
Mar 13 Min-xin Huang
UW-Madison
Topological strings on compact Calabi-Yau 3-folds and 5-dimensional black hole entropy
Mar 20 Ian Ellwood
UW-Madison
An overview of open string field theory
Mar 27 Piyush Kumar
University of Michigan
Title
April 3 Albrecht Klemm
UW-Madison
Black Holes and Large Order Quantum Geometry
April 17 Kathrin Bringmann
UW-Madison
Dyson's ranks, weak Maass forms, and applications
May 1 Cynthia Keeler
Berkeley
AdS Spacetime and the High-Energy Limit of Non-Critical M-Theory
May 17 Nick Halmagyi
Chicago
Instantons, Hypermultiplets and the Heterotic String
Thursday, 2:00pm. Note Special Date and Time

In April: Ghazal Geshnizjani, Lisa Everett, ...


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