UW Madison String Theory Visitor Program

                                     


Visitors: 2002-2003

Some information for visitors is available here. You can also watch a streaming video of the city of Madison .

This is the list of what is currently planned:

Visitor Institution Dates Seminar
David Tong
 MIT
 Oct 7-8
 M Theory on G_2 and Spin(7) Manifolds
Alex Buchel
 Univ. of Michigan Oct 20-22, Dec16-18
 Cosmological Backgrounds in Supergravity/String Theory
Raul Rabadan
 CERN Oct 21-Nov 15
 Stability at disk level for non-supersymmetric string models
Asad Naqvi
 Univ. of Pennsylvania Oct 26-Nov 2
 Open Strings from Field Theories
Charles Doran
 Columbia University Oct 26-Oct. 29
 One Dimensional Families of Calabi-Yau 3-folds
Hong Liu
 Rutgers
 Nov 30-Dec 4
 Cosmic Singularities and String Theory
Jarah Elvsin
 Pisa U
 Dec 1-4
 What are the Conserved Charges in Type IIB String Theory?
Eric Gimon
 IAS
 Dec 8-11
 String Theory and Confinement in Field Theory
Aki Hashimoto
 IAS
 Jan 26-29
 The Nature of Non-locality in String Theory
Dan Kabat
 Columbia University
 Feb 2-4
 Branes, Cosmology and M-theory
Clifford Johnson
 Durham University
 Feb 8-14
 Black Holes, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics



The Enhancon Mechanism and the Thermodynamics of Black Holes
Kentaro Hori
 Univ. of Toronto
 Feb 12-15
 D-branes, Orientifolds and Mirror Symmetry
Albrecht Klemm
 Berlin
 Feb 15-19
 String Theory and Geometric Engineering of Quantum Field Theories
Maulik Parkikh
 Columbia University
 Mar 2-5
 A Time-Unoriented Space
Koenraad Schalm
 Columbia University
 Mar 9-13, May 11-16
 A Matrix-valued Generalization of Diffeomorphisms:
D0-branes in Curved Space
Jae-Suk Park
 Postech
 Mar 31
 Pursuing the Quantum World
Eric Zaslow
 Northwestern
 Apr 7
 Duality and Fibrations on G_2 Manifolds                                                                                                              


 Dates to be determined:


Visitor Institution
Keith Dienes
 Univ. of Arizona
David Berenstein
 IAS
Ben Craps
 Univ. of Chicago
Savdeep Sethi
 Univ. of Chicago
Horatiu Nastase
 Brown Univ.
K. Narayan
 Duke Univ.
 
 

Please address questions or comments to shiu@strings.physics.wisc.edu