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INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Program on
Dualities in String Theory
January - June, 1998
Coordinators: M. Douglas, W. Lerche, and H. Ooguri
Speakers: Please give your transparencies to the ITP staff members in the front office (Rm 1102) for scanning. They will be returned promptly to your mailbox.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 1/26 2:00 | Dr. Savdeep Sethi ITP & IAS |
D-brane Bound State Redux |
| 1/27 12:30 | Dr. Nikita Nekrassov ITP & Harvard |
Testing Seiberg-Witten Solution |
| 1/28 10:00 | Dr. Tom Banks Rutgers |
The State of Matrix Theory[Audio] |
| 2/3 1:00 | Dr. Juan Maldacena ITP & Harvard |
The Large N Limit of Field Theories and Gravity |
| 2/5 12:30 | Dr. Kentaro Hori ITP & LBL |
Branes and Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking |
| 2/5 2:00 | Dr. Sandip Trivedi ITP & Fermilab |
Chiral Gauge Theories from D-branes |
| 2/10 1:30 | Dr. Eva Silverstein ITP & SLAC |
The Incredible Shrinking Calabi-Yau Manifold |
| 2/12 12:30 | Dr. Micha Berkooz ITP & Rutgers Univ. |
DLCQ Description of the (2,0) Field Theory |
| 2/12 2:00 | Dr. Senarath de Alwis ITP & Univ. of Colorado |
Radiation of RR States from NS Fivebranes |
| 2/17 1:30 | Dr. Gary McCartor Southern Methodist Univ. |
Zero Modes in the Light-Cone Representation |
| 2/18 10:30 | Dr. Amit Giveon ITP & Hebrew U-Racah Inst. |
Branes, Orientifolds, and Chiral Gauge Theories |
| 2/19 12:30 | Dr. Vadim Kaplunovsky ITP & Univ. of Texas |
Phenomenological Aspects of F Theory |
| 2/24 1:30 | Dr. Renata Kallosh Stanford |
Conformal Theory on Branes |
| 2/25 10:30 | Dr. Jeffrey Harvey ITP & Fermi Institute |
Anomaly Cancellation of M5-Brane |
| 2/26 12:30 | Dr. Igor Klebanov ITP & Princeton |
Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory |
| 3/2 12:15 | Dr. Hirosi Ooguri ITP & LBL |
Supersymmetry and Duality, Before 1995 |
| 3/3 1:30 | Dr. Gary Horowitz ITP & UCSB |
Spectrum of Large N Gauge Theory and Supergravity |
| 3/4 10:30 | Dr. Paul Townsend ITP & DAMTP, Cambridge |
AdS, Branes, Singletons, and All That |
| 3/5 12:30 | Dr. Chris Hull ITP & Queen Mary College |
Scaling Limits of M-Theory |
| 3/9 12:15 | Dr. Tom Banks ITP & Rutgers Univ. |
String Duality and M Theory[Audio] |
| 3/10 1:30 | Dr. Vijay Balasubramanian ITP & Harvard Dr. Finn Larsen ITP & Univ of Pennsylvania |
Near Horizon Geometry and Four-Dimensional Black Holes |
| 3/10 4:00 | Dr. Stephen Shenker ITP & Rutgers |
M Theory and Matrix Mechanics |
| 3/11 12:30 | Dr. Joseph Minahan ITP & USC |
E-Strings and Topological Yang-Mills |
| 3/12 12:30 | Dr. Martin Halpern ITP & UC Berkeley |
Asymptotic Search for Ground States of SU(2) Matrix Theory |
| 3/17 1:30 | Dr. Tohru Eguchi ITP & Univ of Tokyo |
World-sheet Instanton and Virasoro Algebra |
| 3/18 10:30 | Dr. Juan Maldacena ITP & Harvard |
Wilson Loops in Large N Field Theories |
| 3/19 12:30 | Dr. Bernard De Wit ITP & ITP-Netherlands |
Supermembranes and Matrix Models in Nontrivial Backgrounds |
| 3/24 1:30 | Dr. Michael Douglas ITP & Rutgers Univ. |
Noncommutative Tori from D-branes Backgrounds |
| 3/24 2:00 | Dr. Marc Rieffel ITP & UC Berkeley |
Noncommutative Tori and Deformation Quantization |
| 3/25 10:30 | Dr. Barak Kol ITP & Standford |
1/4 BPS Monopoles and (p.q) Webs |
| 3/25 1:30 | Dr. Michael Bershadsky ITP & Harvard |
String Expansion as Large N Expansion of Gauge Theories |
| 3/26 12:30 | Dr. Andrew Strominger ITP & Harvard |
Black Hole Entropy from Near-horizon Microstates |
| 3/30 1:30 | Dr. Andrew Strominger ITP & Harvard |
Anti-de-Sitter Black Holes |
| 3/31 2:00 | Dr. Sanjaye Ramgoolam ITP & Princeton |
Particles and Instanton Moduli Spaces |
| 4/1 1:30 | Dr. Andrew Strominger ITP & Harvard |
Six-Dimensional String Theories |
| 4/2 1:00 | Dr. Stefan Theisen ITP & Munich Univ |
Wilson Loops in Large N at Finite T |
| 4/7 1:30 | Dr. Shamit Kachru ITP & UC Berkeley |
4d Conformal Theories and Strings on Orbifolds |
| 4/8 10:30 | Dr. Zvi Bern ITP & UCLA |
The Relationship Between Yang-Mills Theory and Gravity, and its Implications for UV Divergences |
| 4/9 12:30 | Dr. Rajesh Gopakumar ITP & Princeton Univ |
String Theory as Large N Gauge Theory -- Some Toy Models |
| 4/14 1:30 | Dr. Arkady Tseytlin ITP & Imperial College |
Green-Schwarz Superstring Actions in Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds |
| 4/15 10:30 | Dr. Akikazu Hashimoto ITP, UCSB |
Brane Absorptions and Conformal Field Theory |
| 4/16 12:30 | Dr. Michael Green ITP & Cambridge Univ |
Connections Between Quantum Supergravity, D-instantons and Witten Index for D-particles |
| 4/20 10:30 | Dr. Stephen Hawking ITP & Cambridge Univ |
Boundary Conditions in Anti-de-Sitter Space[Audio] |
| 4/21 1:30 | Dr. Daniel Freedman MIT |
The CFT_d/AdS_{d+1} Correspondence - A Non-Stringy Perspective |
| 4/22 10:30 | Dr. Jerome Gauntlett ITP & Queen Mary College |
Branes and Calibrated Geometries |
| 4/23 12:30 | Dr. Petr Horava ITP & Caltech |
M Theory as a Holographic Field Theory |
| 4/27 12:30 | Dr. Ofer Aharony ITP & Rutgers Univ. |
Chiral Operators and Deformations of Theories with 16 Supercharges as Tests of Maldacena's Duality |
| 4/28 1:30 | Dr. Laurent Baulieu LPTHE, Paris |
Is Topological Symmetry More Fundamental Than Supersymmetry? |
| 4/29 10:30 | Dr. Itzhak Bars USC |
Duality and a Spacetime with Two Times |
| 4/30 12:30 | Dr. Hubert Saleur USC |
Perturbation of IR Fixed Points and Duality in Quantum Impurity Problems |
| 5/5 1:30 | Dr. Miao Li ITP & Fermi Institute |
't Hooft vortices and phases of large N gauge theory |
| 5/6 10:30 | Dr. Steve Giddings UC Santa Barbara |
High energy scattering and D-charge creation in M theory |
| 5/7 12:30 | Dr. Jan De Boer ITP & LBL |
6d Supergravity on S^3 \times AdS^3 and 2d CFT |
| 5/12 1:30 | Dr. Clifford Johnson ITP & Univ of Kentucky |
Superstrings from supergravity |
| 5/13 10:30 | Dr. Thomas Banks ITP & Rutgers Univ |
Non-perturbative effects in AdS_5 \times S^5 string theory and d=4 SUSY Yang-Mills |
| 5/14 12:30 | Dr. Emil Martinec ITP & Univ of Chicago |
Mapping conformal field theory to geometry |
| 5/19 1:30 | Dr. Sunil Mukhi ITP & Tata Inst, Bombay |
String Junctions and Networks |
| 5/20 10:30 | Dr. Vipul Periwal ITP & IAS, Princeton |
Soliton Dynamics in String Theory |
| 5/21 12:30 | Dr. Stephen Shenker ITP & Rutgers Univ. |
Informal Discussion on Matrix Theory and Large N Gauge Theories |
| 5/26 1:30 | Dr. Wolfgang Lerche ITP & CERN |
Mirror Symmetry and F Theory-heterotic String Duality |
| 5/27 10:30 | Dr. Atish Dabholkar ITP & Tata Inst, Bombay |
String Islands |
| 5/28 12:30 | Dr. Sergio Ferrara ITP & CERN |
Structure of Supergravity on AdS(d+1) and SCFT's of Singletons |
| 6/2 1:30 | Dr. Savas Dimopoulos Stanford Univ |
The Hierarchy Problem and New Dimensions at a Millimeter to a Fermi |
| 6/3 10:30 | Informal Discussion |
What Can We Learn About Gauge Theories From Maldacena's Duality? |
| 6/4 12:30 | Dr. Michael Duff ITP & Texas A & M |
Supersymmetry Without Supersymmetry in Anti-de Sitter Space |
| 6/9 1:30 | Dr. Spenta Wadia ITP &Tata Inst, Bombay |
Moduli of the {D_1}-{D_5} Brane |
| 6/10 10:30 | Dr. David Lowe ITP & Brown Univ |
Statistical Origin of Black Hole Entropy in Matrix Theory |
| 6/11 12:30 | Dr. Washington Taylor IV ITP & Princeton |
Supergravity Interactions from Perturbative Yang-Mills Theory |
| 6/16 1:30 | Dr. Nathan Berkovits ITP & Univ Sao Paulo |
A New Approach to Superstring Field Theory |
| 6/17 10:30 | Dr. Eric D'Hoker ITP & UCLA |
Calogero-Moser Systems and Seiberg-Witten Theory |
| 6/18 12:30 | Dr. Paul Townsend ITP & DAMTP, Cambridge |
A Survey of Supergravities |