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Joint Tuesday/Thursday Theory Seminars

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Spring 2023

6/08, 2:00pm	Sean McBride UCSB	TBA
6/01, 2:00pm	Kathryn Zurek Caltech	From Shockwaves to Gravitational Memory: New Approaches in Flat Space Holography[Video][CC]
5/30, 2:00pm	Leonard Susskind Stanford	Why I think DSSYK is a model for de Sitter space (and why you should think so too)[Video]
5/25, 2:00pm	Robert Wald U Chicago	Black Holes Decohere Quantum Superpositions[Video]
5/24, 2:00pm	Edward Witten IAS	Algebras of Observables in the Presence of Gravity[Video]
5/11, 2:00pm	Leonard Susskind Stanford	A Paradox and its Resolution Illustrate Principles of de sitter Holography[Video]
5/04, 2:00pm	Hong Liu MIT	Emergence of space and time in holography[Video]
4/27, 2:00pm	Gary Horowitz UCSB	Extremal Black Hole Surprises[Video]
4/20, 2:00pm	Elliot Gesteau Caltech	Large N von Neumann algebras and the renormalization of Newton's constant[Video][CC]
4/13, 2:00pm	Vijay Balasubramanian U Penn	Microscopic origin of the entropy of black holes in general relativity[Video]
4/06, 2:00pm	Juan Maldacena IAS	Scaling similarities and quasinormal modes of D0 black hole solutions[Video]
3/09, 2:00pm	Eanna Flanagan Cornell	An order-unity correction to Hawking radiation and soft hair[Video][CC]

Fall 2022

12/01, 2:00pm	Andreas Blommaert SISSA	Lorentzian wormholes (the powers of time)[Video]
11/17, 2:00pm	Henry Lin Stanford	The bulk Hilbert space of double scaled SYK[Video]
11/15, 12:30pm	Monica Kang Caltech	Counting States with Global Symmetry[Video]
11/10, 2:00pm	Wayne Weng UCSB	Deformations of JT gravity and matrix models[Video]
10/27, 2:00pm	Pau Figueras Queen Mary	The Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings revisited[Video]
10/20, 2:00pm	Giuseppe Di Giulio Universitat Wurzburg	Towards Explicit Discrete Holography: Aperiodic Spin Chains from Hyperbolic Tilings[Video][CC]
10/13, 2:00pm	Stefano Antonini Maryland	Cosmology from the vacuum[Video][CC]
10/06, 2:00pm	Jonathan Oppenheim UC London	Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity[Video][CC]
09/22, 2:00pm	Xiaoliang Qi Stanford	A general construction of bulk dynamics from boundary generalized free fields[Video]

Spring 2022

05/26, 2:00pm	Henry Maxfield Stanford	The Hilbert space of quantum gravity with replica wormholes[Video]
05/19, 10:00am	Jorge Santos Cambridge	A bumpy IR: novel fixed points for four-dimensional holographic theories[Video]
05/12, 2:00pm	Luca Iliesiu Stanford	Gravity factorized: α states, null states, and the quantum mechanics of a 2D black hole[Video]
05/03, 1:30pm	Aron Wall Cambridge	Holographic Cauchy Slices[Video]
04/28, 2:00pm	Scott Collier Princeton	Semiclassical 3D gravity as an average of large-c CFT[Video]
04/14, 2:00pm	Fedor Popov NYU	De Sitter and Eternity[Video]
04/07, 2:00pm	Julio Parra-Martinez Caltech	Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity[Video]

Winter 2022

03/17, 2:00pm	Alex Belin CERN	Bootstrapping Quantum Extremal Surface[Video]
03/10, 2:00pm	Sam Leutheusser MIT	Emergent Times in Holographic Duality[Video]
02/24, 2:00pm	Marija Tomasevic Ecole Polytechnique	Black tsunamis, naked singularities[Video]
02/10, 2:00pm	Finn Larsen Michigan	The Attractor Mechanism in Gauged Supergravity[Video]
02/01, 2:00pm	Anindya Banerjee Rutgers	Comments on summing over Bordisms in TQFT[Video]
02/01, 1:30pm	Maciej Kolanowski University of Warsaw	(Non-)uniqueness of extremal black holes[Video]
01/27, 2:00pm	Lampros Lamprou UBC	Falling inside holographic black holes[Video]
01/20, 2:00pm	Jerzy Lewandowski University of Warsaw	Horizon equations[Video]
01/06, 2:00pm	Edward Witten IAS	Gravity and the Crossed Product[Video]

Fall 2021

12/02, 2:00pm	Ven Chandrasekaran IAS	Gravitational phase space and black hole entropy[Video]
11/30, 1:30pm	Josephine Suh KITP	Quantum gravity from probability[Video]
11/23, 1:30pm	Sean McBride KITP	Replica Wormholes and Holographic Entanglement Negativity[Video]
11/18, 2:00pm	James Sully UBC	Looking for Bulk Branes[Video]
11/16, 2:00pm	Grant Remmen KITP	Causality, Unitarity, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture[Video]
11/09, 1:30pm	Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca UCSB	A No-Replica Trick for the Free Energy[Video]
11/04, 2:00pm	Nathan Benjamin Caltech	Harmonic analysis of 2d CFT partition functions[Video]
11/02, 1:30pm	Amirhossein Tajdini UCSB	Fluctuation entropy of Hawking radiation[Video]
10/28, 2:00pm	Mark Mezei Stony Brook	The volume of the black hole interior at late times[Video]
10/26, 1:30pm	Mykhaylo Usatyuk UC Berkeley	Microstructure in matrix elements[Video]
10/21, 2:00pm	Adam Levine IAS	Imaging the quantum extremal surface[Video]
10/19, 1:30pm	Yiming Chen Princeton	Aspects of the black hole/string transition[Video]
10/14, 2:00pm	Tom Rudelius UC Berkeley	Consequences of No Global Symmetries in Quantum Gravity[Video]
10/07, 1:30pm	Phil Saad IAS	Comments on wormholes and factorization[Video]
09/30, 2:00pm	Zhenbin Yang Stanford	Subleading Weingartens[Video]
09/28, 1:30pm	Ying Zhao KITP	Six-point functions and collisions in the black hole interior[Video]

Summer 2021

09/02, 2:00pm	Adel Rahman Stanford	Quantization of Gravity in a Schwarzschild Background[Video]
08/19, 2:00pm	Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam Stanford	Finding Pythons in Unexpected Places[Video]
08/05, 2:00pm	Simon Caron-Huot McGill	Gravity: the force from the ultraviolet[Video]
07/22, 2:00pm	Xiao-Liang Qi Stanford	Entanglement island, miracle operators and the firewall[Video]
07/08, 2:00pm	Onkar Parrikar Stanford	Quantum error correction in the black hole interior[Video]
06/17, 2:00pm	Joaquin Turiaci UCSB	The factorization puzzle in supergravity[Video]

Spring 2021

06/03, 2:00pm	Zvi Bern UCLA	Gravitation EFT Islands, Low-Spin Dominance, and the Four-Graviton Amplitude[Video]
05/27, 2:00pm	Netta Engelhardt MIT	Weak Cosmic Censorship in Holography[Video]
05/20, 2:00pm	Vladimir Rosenhaus CUNY	Chaotic scattering in quantum field theory and string theory[Video]
05/13, 2:00pm	Eduardo Teste Lino UCSB	Mutual information superadditivity and unitarity bounds[Video]
05/06, 2:00pm	Jordan Cotler Harvard	Black hole microstate statistics from Euclidean wormholes[Video]
04/29, 2:00pm	Mikahil Solon UCLA	Binary Black Holes and Scattering Amplitudes[Video]
04/22, 2:00pm	Simeon Hellerman Tokyo U., IPMU	Quantum Information Theory of The Gravitational Anomaly[Video]
04/15, 2:00pm	Douglas Stanford Stanford	Wormholes Without Averaging[Video]
04/08, 2:00pm	David Simmons-Duffin Caltech	Sharp Boundaries for the Swampland[Video]

Winter 2021

03/11, 2:00pm	Monica Kang Caltech	The infinite HaPPY code and the bulk reconstruction[Video]
03/04, 2:00pm	Wolfgang Wieland	Null infinity from quasi-local phase space[Video]
02/25, 2:00pm	Alejandro Cabo-Bizet King's College London	1/16 BPS black holes in 4d N=4 SYM[Video]
02/18, 2:00pm	Sabrina Pasterski Princeton	How Soft Hair Dissolves the Firewall[Video]
02/11, 2:00pm	Hong Liu MIT	Entanglement entropies of equilibrated pure states in quantum many-body systems and replica wormholes[Video]
01/28, 2:00pm	Juan Maldacena IAS	Proper time to the black hole singularity from thermal one point functions.[Video]
01/21, 2:00pm	Daniel Harlow Stanford	Global symmetry, Euclidean gravity, and the black hole information problem[Video]
01/14, 2:00pm	Jorrit Kruthoff Stanford	Classical aspects of black hole interiors[Video]
01/07, 2:00pm	Alexey Milekhin UCSB	Coupled SYK models without Schwartzian dominance[Video]

Fall 2020

12/10, 2:00 p.m.	Kartik Prabhu UCSB	Symmetries & charges at null boundaries[Video]
12/03, 2:00 p.m.	Brian Swingle Brandeis	Hydrodynamics and the Spectral Form Factor[Video]
12/01, 1:30 p.m.	Josephine Suh KITP	Deconstruction of a two-dimensional theory of gravity[Video]
11/19, 2:00 p.m.	Gautam Satishchandran UChicago	Infrared Divergences, Memory and Asymptotic States in Quantum Gravity[Video]
11/17, 1:30 p.m.	Grant Remmen KITP	Entanglement and Symmetry in the Double Copy[Video]
11/12, 2:00 p.m.	Raphael Bousso UC Berkeley	Island Finder[Video]
11/05, 2:00 p.m.	Craig Lawrie UPenn	Compactifications of 6D N=(1,0) SCFTs on T^2 and Class S[Video]
10/29, 2:00 p.m.	Horacio Casini Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atómico Bariloche	Entropic order parameters for symmetries in QFT[Video]
10/27, 1:30 p.m.	Pratik Rath UCSB	The Page curve for Reflected Entropy[Video]
10/22, 2:00 p.m.	Lorenz Eberhardt IAS	Partition functions of the tensionless string[Video]
10/15, 2:00 p.m.	Clifford Johnson USC	Non-perturbative studies of JT gravity and supergravity[Video]
10/8, 2:00pm	Sandipan Kundu Johns Hopkins	Closed strings and weak gravity condition from higher-spin causality [Video]
10/6, 1:30pm	Amirhossein Tajdini UCSB	Replica wormholes for an evaporating black hole [Video]
10/1, 2:00pm	Jie-qiang Wu UCSB	Peierls bracket and gravitational dressing in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity[Video]

July 2019 - September 2020

9/10, 2:00pm	Geoff Penington Berkeley	Leading order corrections to the quantum extremal surface prescription[Video]
9/3, 2:00pm	Mark Van Raamsdonk UBC	Towards microscopic models of big bang cosmology[Video]
8/13, 2:00pm	Sebastian Fischetti McGill	Free Energy from Replica Wormholes[Video]
8/6, 2:00pm	Monica Jinwoo Kang Caltech	Algebras of observables for holographic theories: a GNS story[Video]
7/30, 2:00pm	Zhenbin Yang Stanford	Effective Entropy of Quantum Fields Coupled With Gravity[Video]
7/23, 2:00pm	Andreas Blommaert Ghent University	Dissecting the ensemble in JT gravity [Video]
7/16, 2:00pm	Alexandre Belin CERN	Random Statistics of OPE coefficients and Euclidean Wormholes[Video]
7/09, 2:00pm	Thomas Faulkner Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	The holographic map as a conditional expectation[Video]
7/02, 2:00pm	Nima Afkhami-Jeddi Chicago	3d Gravity from averaging 2d CFTs[Video]
6/25, 2:00pm	Gaston Giribet UBA	The tensionless limit of string theory on AdS3 x S^3 x S^3 X S^1[Video]
6/18, 2:00pm	Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca UCSB	Bulk reconstruction of metrics with a compact space asymptotically[Video]
6/11, 2:00pm	Charles Marteau IP Paris	New boundary conditions in JT gravity[Video]
6/04, 2:00pm	James Hartle UCSB	The Impact of Cosmology on Quantum Mechanics[Video]
5/28, 2:00pm	Alexey Milekhin Princeton	Quantum error correction and large N[Video]
5/21, 2:00pm	Steve Giddings UCSB	Gravity, holography, and unitarity[Video]
2/04, 12:00pm	Gabor Sarosi CERN	Chaos in the butterfly cone[Podcast][Video]
12/12, 2:00pm	Onkar Parrikar U Penn	Soft modes from Black hole microstates[Podcast][Video]
11/21, 2:00pm	Hirosi Ooguri Caltech & Tokyo IPMU	The High Energy Behavior of Mellin Amplitudes[Podcast][Video]
11/14, 2:00pm	John Cardy Berkeley & Oxford	TTbar Deformed Correlation Functions[Podcast][Video]
11/07, 2:00pm	Mudassir Moosa Cornell	The holographic dual of Renyi relative entropy[Podcast][Video]
10/31, 2:00pm	Silviu Pufu Princeton	Holographic correlators from bootstrap and supersymmetric localization[Podcast][Video]
10/24, 2:00pm	Bogdan Ganchev Cambridge	Weak Cosmic Censorship in Einstein-Scalar theory in flat 4D[Podcast][Video]
10/17, 2:00pm	Javier Magan Balseiro	Entanglement Entropy and Superselection Sectors[Podcast][Video]
10/03, 2:00pm	Geoffrey Penington Stanford	Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox[Podcast][Video]

July 2018 - June 2019

6/06, 2:00pm	Murat Kologlu Caltech	Light-ray operators, a stringy equivalence principle, and collider physics[Podcast][Video]
5/30, 2:00pm	Mark Mezei SCGP	Hydrodynamics of Entanglement[Podcast][Video]
5/23, 2:00pm	Steven Gubser Princeton	Non-local non-linear sigma models[Podcast][Video]
5/09, 2:00pm	Eric Perlmutter Caltech	TBA[Podcast][Video]
5/02, 2:00pm	Raphael Bousso UCB	From Black Hole Coarse-Graining to Minimum Energy States in QFT[Podcast][Video]
4/25, 2:00pm	Matthew Headrick Brandeis	TBA[Podcast][Video]
4/18, 2:00pm	Eugenio Bianchi Penn State	Black hole entropy and gravitational wave observations[Podcast][Video]
3/21, 2:00pm	Alexandru Lupsasca Harvard	Polarization whorls from M87 at the Event Horizon Telescope[Podcast][Video]
3/14, 2:00pm	Ning Bao Berkeley	Distilling tensor networks for AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video]
2/28, 2:00pm	Thomas Hartman Cornell	Dynamical constraints on RG flows and cosmology[Podcast][Video]
1/31, 2:00pm	Eva Silverstein Stanford	dS/dS, EE and TTbar[Podcast][Video]
1/17, 2:00pm	Geoffrey Lovelace CSUF	Numerical relativity in the era of gravitational-wave observations[Podcast][Video]

11/15, 2:00pm	Chris Akers UC Berkeley	Holographic Renyi entropy in quantum error-correction[Podcast][Video]
10/30, 12:30pm	Gary Horowitz UCSB	Cosmic Censorship in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime[Podcast][Video]

July 2017 - June 2018

5/31, 2:00pm	Samuel Gralla Univ. of Arizona	Horizon Instability of Extremal Black Holes[Podcast][Video]
4/26, 2:00pm	Sung-Sik Lee Perimeter	TBD[Podcast][Video]
4/19, 2:00pm	Arvin Shahbazi Moghaddam UC Berkeley	Energy is Entanglement[Podcast][Video]
2/15, 2:00pm	Cumrun Vafa Harvard	6d Theories on Curves[Podcast][Video]
2/08, 2:00pm	Makoto Natsuume KEK	Holographic Lifshitz superconductors: analytic solution[Podcast][Video]
2/01, 2:00pm	Juan Maldacena IAS	Making a wormhole: Understanding Global AdS₂[Slides][Podcast][Video]
10/26, 2:00pm	Shira Chapman Perimeter Inst.	Complexity in holography and QFT[Podcast][Video]

July 2016 - June 2017

6/05, 11:00am	Xie Chen Caltech	Matrix Product Representation of Locality Preserving Unitaries[Podcast][Video]
5/30, 2:00pm	Douglas Stanford IAS	Diving into traversable wormholes.[Podcast][Video]
5/11, 2:00pm	Joan Camps University College London	Gravity duals of boundary cones[Podcast][Video]
3/16, 2:00pm	Clay Cordova IAS	Particle Spectra in Supersymmetric Field Theories[Podcast][Video]
3/09, 2:00pm	Nathan Haouzi UC Berkeley	Classification of surface defects from Little Strings[Podcast][Video]
2/23, 12:30pm	Thomas Dumitrescu Harvard	New Tools for Exploring Strongly Coupled Quantum Field Theories[Podcast][Video]
2/16, 2:00pm	Vladimir Rosenhaus KITP	The Bulk Dual of SYK: Cubic Couplings[Podcast][Video]
2/09, 2:00pm	Jason Koeller UC Berkeley	Geometric Constraints from Subregion Duality beyond the Classical Regime[Podcast][Video]
2/02, 2:00pm	Aitor Lewkowycz Stanford University	Bulk locality from modular flow[Podcast][Video]
1/26, 2:00pm	Eva Silverstein Stanford University	How your past catches up with you in string theory[Slides][Podcast][Video]
01/19, 2:00pm	Chiara Toldo Columbia	New goals for AdS black holes[Podcast][Video]
12/01, 2:00pm	Fernando Pastawski Free University of Berlin	Quantum code properties from holographic geometries[Slides][Podcast][Video]
11/17, 2:00pm	Kengo Maeda Shibaura Institute of Technology	Holographic superfluid flows with a localized repulsive potential[Podcast][Video]
11/10, 2:00pm	Philip Phillips UIUC	Anti-Local Boundary Actions and Anomalous Dimensions in the Gauge-Gravity Duality: Application to the Strange Metal[Podcast][Video]
11/03, 2:00pm	Saso Grozdanov Leiden University	Hydrodynamics and its destruction[Podcast][Video]
10/27, 2:00pm	Brandon Robinson University of Washington	Supersymmetric Probe Branes and Localization in AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video]
10/20, 2:00pm	Anson Hook Stanford	Relaxation from Particle Production[Podcast][Video]
10/13, 2:00pm	Daniel Jafferis Harvard	Traversable wormholes[Podcast][Video]
10/06, 2:00pm	Tom Rudelius Harvard University	Strong Forms of the Weak Gravity Conjecture[Podcast][Video]
9/29, 2:00pm	Raphael Bousso UC Berkeley	Asymptotic Entropy Bounds and the Information Content of Soft Gravitons[Video]

July 2015 - June 2016

6/02, 2:00pm	Donald Marolf UCSB	Horizon entropy and the coarse grained quantum null energy condition[Podcast][Video]
5/19, 2:00pm	Pankaj S. Joshi Tata Inst	Gravitational Collapse, Black Holes, and Naked Singularities: Life and Death of Massive Collapsing Stars[Podcast][Video]
5/05, 2:00pm	Leonard Susskind Stanford	Copenhagen vs Everett, and ER=EPR [part of SCSS][Podcast][Video]
4/28, 2:00pm	Maulik Parikh Arizona State University	The Dual Origins of the Null Energy Condition[Podcast][Video]
4/21, 2:00pm	Jonathan Maltz Univ. Tokyo	Chaos in matrix models and black hole evaporation[Podcast][Video]
4/14, 2:00pm	Thomas Faulkner UIUC	Shape dependence of modular energy and the averaged null energy condition[Podcast][Video]
3/10, 2:00pm	Ahmed Almheiri Stanford	Linearity of holographic entanglement entropy[Podcast][Video]
3/03, 2:00pm	Iosif Bena Saclay	Tachyonic Antibranes and the Landscape[Podcast][Video]
2/25, 2:00pm	Don Page U. Alberta	Naked Firewalls[Podcast][Video]
2/18, 2:00pm	Nima Lashkari UBC	Quantum relative entropy[Podcast][Video]
2/11, 2:00pm	Cumrun Vafa Harvard & KITP	Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-theory[Podcast][Video]
2/04, 2:00pm	Frans Pretorius Princeton	Ultra-relativistic Collisions and Black Hole Formation[Podcast][Video]
1/28, 2:00pm	Chi-Ming Chang UC Berkeley	Bootstrapping 2D CFTs in the semiclassical limit[Podcast][Video]
1/21, 2:00pm	Mukund Rangamani UC Davis	The Fluid Manifesto: Emergent topological symmetries and dissipative hydrodynamics[Podcast][Video]
1/14, 2:00pm	Michael Gutperle UCLA	Holographic entanglement entropy for surface operators and defects[Podcast][Video]
1/07, 2:00pm	Daniel Harlow Harvard	Wormholes, Emergent Gauge Fields, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture[Podcast][Video]
12/17, 2:00pm	Maximilian Attems Barcelona	Holographic collisions in non-conformal theories[Podcast][Video]
12/10, 2:00pm	Aron Wall IAS	Entropic focussing[Podcast][Video]
12/03, 2:00pm	Veronika Hubeny Durham University	Geometric constucts in AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video]
11/19, 2:00pm	Dan Roberts MIT	Chaos in quantum channels[Podcast][Video]
11/12, 2:00pm	Alexandre Belin Stanford	Permutation Orbifolds: exploring the landscape of theories of quantum gravity in AdS_3[Podcast][Video]
11/05, 2:00pm	Andrea Puhm UCSB	AdS_3: the NHEK generation[Podcast][Video]
10/29, 2:00pm	Glen Evenbly UC Irvine	Scale transformations on the lattice with tensor networks[Podcast][Video]
10/22, 2:00pm	Ning Bao Caltech	The Holographic Entropy Cone[Podcast][Video]
10/15, 2:00pm	David Simmons-Duffin IAS	Looking for a bulk point[Podcast][Video]
10/01, 2:00pm	Per Kraus UCLA	Conformal blocks and holography[Podcast][Video]

July 2014 - June 2015

4/30, 2:00pm	Nathan Seiberg Princeton, IAS	Generalized Global Symmetries[Slides][Podcast][Video]
3/19, 2:00pm	Yue Zhao Stanford	The Solution of (Little) Hierarchy Problem in AdS3/CFT2 Avatar[Podcast][Video]
3/12, 2:00pm	Anshuman Maharana HRI	Moduli, Inflation and the CMB[Podcast][Video]
3/05, 2:00pm	Michael Smolkin UC Berkeley	RG flow of entanglement entropy on a 3-sphere[Podcast][Video]
2/26, 2:00pm	Radu Roiban Penn State	On the eta-deformation of string theory in AdS_n x Sⁿ[Podcast][Video]
2/19, 2:00pm	Johanna Karouby MIT	Swinging fields producing particles: A general theory of self-resonance after inflation[Podcast][Video]
2/12, 2:00pm	Alexei Kitaev Caltech	Hidden correlations in the Hawking radiation and thermal noise[Podcast][Video]
2/05, 2:00pm	Natalia Toro Perimeter	Spin and Long-Range Forces: The Unfinished Tale of the Last Massless Particle[Podcast][Video]
1/29, 2:00pm	Nemanja Kaloper UC Davis	The End and Other Tall Tales[Podcast][Video]
1/15, 2:00pm	James Bardeen University of Washington	Black hole evaporation: implications of the Bousso covariant entropy bound[Podcast][Video]
1/08, 2:00pm	Don Marolf UCSB	A GSL for holographic field theories[Podcast][Video]
12/04, 2:00pm	Daniele Galloni Durham University	Anatomy of The Amplituhedron[Podcast][Video]
11/20, 2:00pm	Tarek Anous MIT	TBD[Podcast][Video]
11/13, 2:00pm	Vladimir Rosenhaus KITP	A perturbative calculation of entanglement entropy[Podcast][Video]
11/06, 2:00pm	Vyacheslav Lysov Caltech	From Soft Theorems to Asymptotic Symmetries[Podcast][Video]
10/30, 2:00pm	Anindya Dey UT, Austin	Mirror Symmetry, Partition Function and Gauged Linear Quivers[Podcast][Video]
10/23, 2:00pm	Lenny Susskind Stanford	Quantum Complexity Inside Black Holes[Podcast][Video]
10/16, 2:00pm	Eva Silverstein Stanford	Testing string spreading in scattering amplitudes and black hole physics[Podcast][Video]
10/09, 2:00pm	Tomonori Ugajin KITP	Quenches and holography[Podcast][Video]
10/02, 2:00pm	Edgar Shaghoulian Stanford	Recent advances in dS/CFT[Podcast][Video]

July 2013 - June 2014

6/12, 2:00pm	Cliff Cheung Caltech	Exploring the Weak Gravity Conjecture[Podcast][Video]
6/05, 2:00pm	Roji Pius Harish-Chandra Research Institute	Off-shell string theory[Video]
5/29, 2:00pm	John Preskill Caltech	Measurements inside black holes[Podcast][Video]
5/15, 2:00pm	Allan Adams MIT	Holography and Turbulence[Podcast][Video]
5/08, 2:00pm	Aitor Lewkowycz Princeton	Exact results for the entanglement entropy and the energy radiated by a quark[Podcast][Video]
4/03, 2:00pm	Aki Hashimoto UW-Madison	Boundaries and Defects of N=4 SYM with 4 supercharges[Podcast][Video]
2/25, 12:30pm	Ramy Brustein Ben-Gurion University	How black holes burn: firewalls, smoke and mirrors[Podcast][Video]
2/06, 2:00pm	Maria Rodriguez Harvard	TBA
1/16, 2:00pm	Thomas Hertog Leuven	Holographic Quantum Cosmology[Podcast][Video]
12/10, 12:30pm	Xiaoliang Qi Stanford	Exact holographic mapping and emergent space-time geometry[Podcast][Video]
12/06, 12:30pm	Guy Gur-Ari Weizmann	3D Bosonization and Chern-Simons Vector Models[Podcast][Video]
12/05, 2:00pm	Wilke van der Schee Utrecht Univ.	Collisions in AdS and the thermalisation of heavy-ion collisions[Podcast][Video]
12/03, 12:30pm	Jay Wacker SLAC	The SIMP Miracle[Podcast][Video]
11/26, 12:30pm	Xi Dong Stanford	Holographic Entanglement Entropy for General H igher Derivative Gravity[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/14, 2:00pm	Yutin Huang IAS	A tale of manifest locality and unitarity: from positive grassmannian to gauge anomalies[Podcast][Video]
11/12, 12:30pm	Denis Klevers UPenn	F-theory Compactifications with Multiple U(1) Factors[Podcast][Video]
11/08, 12:30pm	Federico Bonetti MPI Munich	F-theory on Spin(7) manifolds: realization via M-theory and weak-coupling limit[Podcast][Video]
11/05, 12:30pm	Nabil Iqbal KITP	Wilson Lines and Entanglement Entropy in Higher Spin Gravity[Podcast][Video]
10/31, 2:00pm	David Kubizňák Perimeter	Van der Waals fluid, reentrant phase transitions, and AdS black holes[Podcast][Video]
10/29, 12:30pm	Yinbo Shi UCSB	Nonviolent Nonlocality - Effective Field Theory Models[Podcast][Video]
10/24, 2:00pm	Wenbin Yan Caltech	BPS Spectrum of Argyres-Douglas Theory via Spectral Network[Podcast][Video]
10/22, 12:30pm	Andrea Puhm UCSB	Non-Extremality from Metastability?[Podcast][Video]
10/17, 2:00pm	William Donnelly U of Waterloo	Entanglement, edge states, and gauge symmetry[Podcast][Video]
10/15, 12:30pm	Takashi Okada KITP	Exact Results of BMN Matrix Model and Double Scaling Limits[Podcast][Video]
10/10, 2:00pm	Ehsan Hatefi ICTP	Stability, Tunneling and Flux Changing de Sitter Transitions in the Large Volume String Scenario[Podcast][Video]
10/08, 12:30pm	Hao Zhang UCSB	Top quark as a probe of new physics[Podcast][Video]
10/01, 12:30pm	Tom Hartman KITP	Entanglement and Geometry in 2D CFT[Podcast][Video]

July 2012 - June 2013

3/14, 2:00 p.m.	Steven Carlip UCD	Quantum fluctuations and the small scale structure of spacetime[Podcast][Video]
3/07, 2:00 p.m.	Sean Hartnoll Stanford	Metal-insulator Transition in Holography[Podcast][Video]
2/28, 2:00 p.m.	Bob Wald Univ. of Chicago	Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes[Podcast][Video]
2/21, 2:00 p.m.	Blaise Gouteraux Nordita	AdS/Ricci-flat Correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme Instability[Podcast][Video]
2/14, 2:00 p.m.	Joshua Cooperman UC Davis	Renormalization of Entanglement Entropy and the Gravitational Effective Action[Podcast][Video]
2/07, 2:00 p.m.	Stephane Detournay Harvard	Warped Conformal Field Theory[Podcast][Video]
1/31, 2:00 p.m.	Stefan Leichenauer Caltech	Null Geodesics, Local CFT Operators, and AdS/CFT for Subregions[Podcast][Video]
1/24, 2:00 p.m.	Sichun Sun Univ. of Washington	Holographic Duals of Non-Abelian Brane Embeddings and the Rise of Non-local Masses[Podcast][Video]
12/06, 2:00 p.m.	Kristan Jensen Univ. Victoria	Anomaly-Induced Transport and Thermodynamics[Embargoed]
11/15, 2:00 p.m.	Raphael Bousso UCB	Is There an Alternative to Firewalls?[Podcast][Video]
11/08, 2:00 p.m.	Simon Gentle Durham Univ.	Stars, Black Holes and Superconductors[Podcast][Video]
11/01, 2:00 p.m.	Zvi Bern UCLA	UV Properties of Gauge and Gravity Theories
10/25, 2:00 p.m.	Bartosz Fornal Caltech	Standard Model with Compactified Spatial Dimensions[Podcast][Video]
10/18, 2:00 p.m.	Larry Ford, Tufts	Probability Distributions for Quantum Stress Tensor Flucutations[Podcast][Video]
10/11, 2:00 p.m.	Martin Ammon UCLA	Properties of Cold Holographic Matter[Podcast][Video]
10/04, 2:00 p.m.	Andy Stergiou UCSD	RG Limit Cycles[Podcast][Video]
8/21, 12:30 p.m.	Simeon Hellerman KIPMU	Chern-Simons-Matter Theory and its Holographic Dual[Embargoed]

July 2011 - June 2012

6/07, 10:30 a.m.	Vijay Kumar KITP	Calabi-Yau Manifolds from 2D Gauge Theories[Podcast][Video]
5/31, 2:00 p.m.	K. Narayan CMI	Aspects of Lifshitz Scaling in String Theory[Slides][Podcast][Video]
3/01, 10:30 a.m.	Ibrahima Bah Univ. Michigan	4D N=1 SCFT's from M5 Branes[Podcast][Video]
1/26, 2:00 p.m.	Igor Klebanov Princeton	Testing the F-theorem[Slides][Podcast][Video]
12/08, 2:00 p.m.	Adam Brown Princeton	On "Nothing"[Podcast][Video]
10/27, 2:00 p.m.	Ilarion Melnikov Duke University	N=2 Heterotic Flux Vacua in the Context of Type II/Heterotic Duality[Podcast][Video]

July 2010 - June 2011

4/28, 2:00 p.m.	Mboyo Esole Harvard	The Binomial Geometry of SU(5) GUTs in F-theory[Podcast][Video]
4/22, 12:30 p.m.	Keith Olive University of Minnesota	A Frequentist Approach to Supersymmetric Models - post LHC2010[Podcast][Video]
4/21, 2:00 p.m.	Rajesh Gopakumar HCRI	A Large N Dual to 2d CFTs[Podcast][Video]
3/10, 2:00 p.m.	Ronen Plesser Duke Univ.	Recent Results on Perturbative Heterotic Vacua[Podcast][Video]
3/03, 2:00 p.m.	Michael Douglas SUNY	Holographic Duals From the Exact RG[Podcast][Video]
2/24, 2:00 p.m.	Jim Isenberg Univ of Oregon	Stability of a Class of Expanding Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Field Equations[Podcast][Video]
2/17, 2:00 p.m.	Hans Jockers KITP	N=1 Mirror Symmetry and the Web of N=1 Vacua[Podcast][Video]
2/10, 2:00 p.m.	Don Page Univ of Alberta	Agnesi Weighting for the Measure Problem of Cosmology[Podcast][Video]
2/03, 2:00 p.m.	Joseph Maciejko Stanford	Fractional Topological Insulators[Podcast][Video]
1/27, 2:00 p.m.	Yasunori Nomura UC Berkeley	More Supersymmetries or No Supersymmetry at the LHC[Podcast][Video]
1/21, 2:00 p.m.	Nati Seiberg Princeton, IAS	Symmetries and Strings in Field Theory and Gravity[Podcast][Video]
1/20, 2:00 p.m.	Richard Woodard Univ. Florida	A Quantum Gravitational Model of Inflation[Podcast][Video]
1/13, 2:00 p.m.	Per Kraus UCLA	RG Flow of Magnetic Brane Correlators[Podcast][Video]
12/10, 2:30 p.m.	Michael Forbes UW	Observable Dark AntiMatter: QCD Nuggets[Podcast][Video]
12/02, 2:00 p.m.	Ami Katz Boston	CFT/AdS[Podcast][Video]
11/18, 2:00 p.m.	Thomas Hertog CERN	Eternal Inflation without Metaphysics[Podcast][Video]
11/04, 2:00 p.m.	Tao Liu UCSB	Dark Light Higgs[Podcast][Video]
10/28, 2:00 p.m.	Abhijit Gadde Stony Brook	From N=4 SYM to N=2 Superconformal QCD: Spin Chains and Holography[Podcast][Video]
10/21, 2:00 p.m.	Thomas Levi British Columbia	When Worlds Collide[Podcast][Video]
10/07, 2:00 p.m.	Sunny Itzhaki Tel Aviv	Giant Rings in the CMB Sky[Podcast][Video]
9/30, 2:00 p.m.	Arthur Lipstein Caltech	Scattering Amplitudes in Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories[Podcast][Video]
9/22, 2:00 p.m.	William Rubens Imperial College	The Black Hole/Qubit Correspondence[Podcast][Video]
9/09, 2:00 p.m.	Andrew Frey McGill Univ.	Direct and Indirect Detection of Metastable Dark Matter[Podcast][Video]
8/04, 1:00 p.m.	Erik Verlinde UvA	The Emergence of Gravity[Podcast][Video]

September 2009 - June 2010

6/03, 2:00 p.m.	Matthew Strassler Rutgers	On Hidden Sectors and Other Exotica at Hadron Colliders[Podcast][Video]
5/28, 11:00 a.m.	Sasha Polyakov Princeton	The Decline and Fall of the de Sitter Space[Podcast][Video]
5/27, 2:00 p.m.	Devin Walker Harvard Univ.	Distinguishing Different Types of Dark Matter at the LHC[Podcast][Video]
5/20, 2:00 p.m.	Inyong Park Kyoto Univ.	Open String Engineering of D-brane Geometry -- Toward Three-Loop Check[Podcast][Video]
5/19, 2:00 p.m.	Tom Banks Rutgers/UCSC	Informal Discussion on Holographic Spacetime[Podcast][Video]
3/04, 2:00 p.m.	Gonzalo Torroba UCSB	Flavor, Supersymmetry and Higgs Physics[Podcast][Video]
2/25, 2:00 p.m.	Per Kraus UCLA	Metamagnetic Quantum Critical Point in AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video]
2/18, 2:00 p.m.	Nick Warner USC, Physics	Microstate Geometries and Non-BPS Black Holes[Podcast][Video]
2/11, 3:30 p.m.	David Poland Harvard University	Superconformal Flavor Simplified[Podcast][Video]
2/04, 2:00 p.m.	Mark Wise Caltech	Violations of Rotational and/or Translational Invariance during the Inflationary Era[Podcast][Video]
1/28, 2:00 p.m.	Mark Srednicki UCSB	Quantum Chaos and the Riemann Zeta Function[Podcast][Video]
1/21, 2:00 p.m.	Ben Freivogel UC Berkeley	Regulating Eternal Inflation With the UV/IR Connection[Podcast][Video]
1/14, 2:00 p.m.	Theo Nieuwenhuizen UvA	Do Non-relativistic Neutrinos Constitute the Dark Matter?[Podcast][Video]
12/15, 12:30 p.m.	Paul Aspinwall Duke University	Decompactifications vs Massless D-Branes in Moduli Space Limits[Podcast][Video]
12/11, 3:30 p.m.	Nima Arkani-Hamed IAS	Dualities for Local Spacetime Physics from the Grassmannian - Part II[Podcast][Video]
12/10, 2:00 p.m.	Nima Arkani-Hamed IAS	Dualities for Local Spacetime Physics from the Grassmannian[Podcast][Video]
12/03, 2:00 p.m.	Yasuhiro Sekino Stanford	FRW/CFT Duality: Holographic Formulation of Eternal Inflation, and its Applications[Podcast][Video]
11/19, 2:00 p.m.	Kristan Jensen University of Washington	Mirror Symmetry and M2 branes[Podcast][Video]
11/12, 2:00 p.m.	Christoph Sieg Niels Bohr Institute	Perturbative Spectra in Gauge Theories with Gravity Duals at Four Loops and Beyond[Podcast][Video]
10/29, 2:00 p.m.	Murad Alim Bonn University	Hints for Off-Shell Mirror Symmetry[Podcast][Video]
10/28, 10:30 a.m.	Nati Seiberg IAS	Goldstinos[Slides][Podcast][Video]
10/23, 2:00 p.m.	Raman Sundrum JHU	SUSY Splits and Then Returns[Podcast][Video]
10/22, 2:00 p.m.	Hai-Bo Yu UC Irvine	WIMPless Miracle and Hidden Charged Dark Matter[Podcast][Video]
10/15, 2:00 p.m.	Anton Kapustin Caltech	Exact Results for Wilson Loops in Supersymmetric Chern-Simons-Matter Theories[Podcast][Video]
10/08, 2:00 p.m.	Matthew Roberts UCSB	Zero Temperature Limit of Holographic Superconductors[Podcast][Video]
9/24, 2:00 p.m.	Kai Wang Univ. of Tokyo, IPMU	Probing B/L Violations in the Extended Scalar Models at the LHC[Podcast][Video]
9/02, 2:00 p.m.	Dan Israel Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris	Heterotic Torsional Backgrounds, from Supergravity to CFT[Podcast][Video]

September 2008 - June 2009

4/28, 12:30 p.m.	David Andriot Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies	Twist Duality for Flux Backgrounds of Type II and Heterotic String Theory from Generalized Complex Geometry[Podcast][Video]
3/31, 12:30 p.m.	Peter Graham Stanford	A Domino Theory of Flavor[Podcast][Video]
3/10, 12:30 p.m.	Lian-Tao Wang Princeton University	Top Quarks and New Physics Signals at the LHC[Podcast][Video]
3/03, 12:30 p.m.	Graciela Gelmini UCLA	In Search of Dark Matter Particles: Have We Found Them?[Podcast][Video]
2/24, 12:30 p.m.	David Garfinkle Oakland Univ.	Possible Outcomes for Classical Gravitational Singularities[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Video]
2/17, 12:30 p.m.	Don Page Univ of Alberta	Cosmological Measures without Volume Weighting[Podcast][Video]
2/03, 12:30 p.m.	Jaemo Park POSTECH & Stanford	Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2-brane CFTs[Podcast][Video]
12/11, 2:00 p.m.	Joe Polchinski, KITP UCSB	Landscape/CFT Duality?[Podcast][Video]
12/04, 2:00 p.m.	Sandip Trivedi TIFR & Stanford	Time Dependent Cosmologies and Their CFT Duals[Podcast][Video]
11/20, 2:00 p.m.	Gonzalo Torroba Rutgers	Four-dimensional Dynamics of String Compactifications[Podcast][Video]
11/13, 2:00 p.m.	Thomas Hertog APC Paris & Solvay Inst.	The No-boundary Measure of Eternal Inflation[Podcast][Video]
11/06, 2:00 p.m.	Stanley Deser Brandeis Univ.	Cosmological Topologically Massive Theories[Podcast][Video]
10/30, 2:00 p.m.	Sakura Schafer-Nameki Caltech	SUSY Breaking in F-Theory GUTs[Podcast][Video]
10/23, 2:00 p.m.	John Schwarz Caltech	Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories[Podcast][Video]
10/16, 2:00 p.m.	Yu Nakayama UC Berkeley	Index for Non-Relativistic Superconformal Field Theories -- From LLM to ABJM and BL[Podcast][Video]
10/09, 2:00pm	Per Kraus UCLA	Gravity Duals of the Quantum Hall Effect[Podcast][Video]
10/02, 2:00 p.m.	Jock McOrist Univ. of Chicago	Summing the Instantons in the Heterotic String[Podcast][Video]
9/25, 2:00 p.m.	Bartek Czech UPenn	Black Holes from Statistics[Podcast][Video]

September 2007 - June 2008

		Schedule of Future Talks
6/17, 12:30 p.m.	David Mateos UCSB	A Universal String Prediction for Heavy Ion Collisions[Podcast][Video]
6/12, 2:00 p.m.	Diana Vaman UCSB	The Space-Cone Gauge and Yang-Mills Tree and Loop-Level Recursion Relations[Podcast][Video]
6/05, 2:00 p.m.	Geoffrey Compare UCSB	Setting the Boundary Free in AdS/CFT : a Gravity / CFT+Gravity Correspondence[Podcast][Video]
5/29, 2:00 p.m.	Mark Jackson Fermilab	Detecting Cosmic Superstrings[Podcast][Video]
5/22, 2:00 p.m.	Borun Chowdhury OSU	Radiation from the Non-extremal Fuzzball[Podcast][Video]
5/15, 2:00 p.m.	Susan Gardner Univ. of Kentucky & KITP	Shedding Light on Dark Matter: How Faraday Rotation Can Limit a 'Dark' Magnetic Moment[Podcast][Video]
5/08, 2:00 p.m.	Sean Carroll Caltech	The Universe Is Not Ergodic[Podcast][Video]
5/01, 2:00 p.m.	Gouranga Nayak LANL, Theory Division	Shift Theorem and Schwinger Mechanism in the Presence of Arbitrary Time Dependent Electric Field[Podcast][Video]
4/24, 2:00 p.m.	Brandon Carter Observatoire de Meudon	Progress in the Mechanics of (Superconducting) Cosmic Strings and Their (Vorton) Equilibrium States[Video]
4/17, 2:00 p.m.	Jorge Casalderrey-Solana UCB	Probing Strongly Coupled Plasmas with Heavy Quarks[Podcast][Video]
4/10, 2:00 p.m.	Pedro Vieira 4 Square Port Royal	Quantum Wrapped Giant Magnon[Podcast][Video]
3/20, 2:00 p.m.	Joao Penedones UCSB	High Energy Scattering in AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Video]
3/13, 2:00 p.m.	Kostas Skenderis UvA	The Fuzzball Proposal for Black Holes[Podcast][Video]
3/06, 2:00 p.m.	Anatoly Dymarsky Stanford	D-brane Inflation in String Theory[Podcast][Video]
2/21, 2:00 p.m.	Peter Graham Stanford	Searching for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry[Podcast][Video]
2/07, 2:00 p.m.	Matthew Schwartz JHU	Effective Field Theory and Collider Physics[Podcast][Video]
1/31, 2:00 p.m.	Don Page Univ of Alberta	Boundary Conditions for the Universe[Podcast][Video]
1/24, 2:00 p.m.	Graham Kribs Univ. Oregon	The Supersymmetric Flavor Problem, R-symmetry, and the LHC[Podcast][Video]
1/10, 2:00 p.m.	Mark Srednicki UCSB	High-Energy Gravitational Scattering and Black Hole Resonances[Podcast][Video]
12/13, 1:30 p.m.	Gabriele Veneziano CERN	Towards an S-matrix Description of Gravitational Collapse[Podcast][Video]
12/06, 2:00 p.m.	Diego Trancanelli UCSB	On Supersymmetric Wilson Loops[Slides][Podcast][Video]
11/29, 2:00 p.m.	Roni Harnik SLAC	Hierarchy without Color and the LHC[Podcast][Video]
11/14, 2:00 p.m.	Niklas Beisert Princeton	Spectral Curve for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Video]
11/15, 2:00 p.m.	Petr Horava UCB	Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point[Podcast][Video]
11/08, 2:00 p.m.	Cindy Keeler UCB	Closed String Tachyon Condensation in the E_8 Heterotic System[Podcast][Video]
11/01, 2:00 p.m.	Andy O'Bannon UW	Metallic AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video]
10/25, 2:00 p.m.	Eric D'Hoker UCLA	Exact Half-BPS Solutions to Type IIB Supergravity[Podcast][Video]
10/18, 2:00 p.m.	Steve Giddings UCSB	High-energy Scattering and Locality: Gravity and Strings[Slides][Podcast][Video]
10/11, 2:00 p.m.	Itzhak Bars USC	Two-Time Physics, The Unified View from Higher Dimensional Space and Time[Slides][Podcast][Video]
10/04, 2:00 p.m.	Clifford Johnson USC	External Fields and the Dynamics of Flavour in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory[Slides][Podcast][Video]
9/27, 2:00 p.m.	John Preskill Caltech	Black Holes as Mirrors[Podcast][Video]
9/25, 2:00 p.m.	Ali Nayeri Harvard	Generating Inflation-Free Scale-Invariant Power Spectrum in String Gas Cosmology[Podcast][Video]
9/13, 2:00 p.m.	Lara Anderson Univ. of Oxford	M Theory on Singular G2 Spaces[Podcast][Video]

September 2006 - June 2007

6/14, 2:00 p.m.	Theodore Erler Harish Chandra Research Institute	Analytic Progress in Open String Field Theories[Podcast][Video]
6/07, 2:00 p.m.	Mark Scheel Caltech	Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Inspirals[Podcast][Video]
5/31, 2:00 p.m.	Luis Fernando Alday Utrecht U. & IAS	Gluon Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling[Podcast][Video]
5/17, 2:00 p.m.	Masaki Shigemori Caltech	Non-supersymmetric Brane/anti-brane Configurations in Type IIA and M-theory[Podcast][Video]
5/10, 2:00 p.m.	Sumit Das University of Kentucky	Null Singularities and their Gauge Theory Duals[Podcast][Video]
5/03, 2:00 p.m.	Gary Horowitz UCSB	Toward Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole[Podcast][Video]
4/26, 2:00 p.m.	Lance Dixon SLAC	Is N=8 Supergravity Finite?[Slides][Podcast][Video]
4/12, 2:00 p.m.	David Kutasov University of Chicago	Symmetry Breaking from Intersecting Branes[Podcast][Video]
4/05, 2:00 p.m.	Aaron Amsel UCSB	Stability and Instability in Designer Gravity
3/15, 2:00 p.m.	Joe Marsano Caltech	'Metastable' brane-antibrane configurations in type IIA and M-theory and the large-N duality conjecture in IIB[Podcast][Video]
3/14, 12:30 p.m.	Jose Edelstein USC & CECS	A string dual perspective on quark-gluon plasmas of QCD-like theories[Podcast][Video]
3/02, 12:15 p.m.	Zackaria Chacko University of Arizona	Twin Higgs Theories[Podcast][Video]
3/01, 4:00 p.m.	Zackaria Chacko University of Arizona	Symmetry as a Guide to New Physics at the Weak Scale[Podcast][Video]
2/15, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Yutaka Ookouchi Caltech	Meta-stable SUSY Breaking Vacua in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories[Slides][Podcast][Video]
2/08, 2:00 p.m.	Lee Lindblom Caltech	Generalised Harmonic Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes[Slides][Podcast][Video]

September 2005 - June 2006

2/16, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Natalia Saulina Harvard	Bound States of BPS D-Banes and Topological Strings[Podcast][Video]
3/15, 11:00 a.m.	Dr. Yoshifume Hyakutake KITP	Higher Derivative Corrections in M-Theory[Slides][Podcast][Video]
4/13, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Pavel Kovtun KITP	How Can AdS/CFT Be Useful for Heavy Ion Physics?[Slides][Podcast][Video]
4/27, 1:00 p.m.	Dr. Jack Gunion UC Davis	Why We Should Believe in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model[Podcast][Video]
5/04, 1:00 p.m.	Dr. Taizan Watari LBL	Dimension-4 Proton Decay and Underlying Gauge Symmetry[Slides][Podcast][Video]
5/18, 1:00 p.m.	Dr. Peter Svrček Stanford	Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Campactifications[Slides][Podcast][Video]
5/25, 1:00 p.m.	Dr. Fabio Scardigli CENTRA	A Quantum-like Description of the Planetary Systems[Podcast][Video]
6/01, 1:00 p.m.	Dr. David Mateos UCSB	The Flavorful Gauge/Gravity Correspondence[Podcast][Video]
6/08, 1:00 p.m.	Mr. Anshuman Maharana UCSB, Physics	Dilaton Dynamics in Type IIB Flux Vacua[Podcast][Video]

September 2005 - June 2006

9/29, 12:00 p.m.

Dr. Oliver Rosten
School of Physics & Astronomy
Univ Southampton, UK

A Generalised, Manifestly Gauge Invariant ERG for SU(N) Yang-Mills[Slides][Podcast][Video]

September 2004 - June 2005

9/15, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Ari Pakman Hebrew University Racah Institute of Physics	D-Branes in N=2 Liouville and Its Mirror[Video]
11/03, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Sebastian Franco MIT	Holographic Cascades for D-Branes on Singularities[Video]
12/08, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. C. Schmid ETH, Zurich	Cosmological Gravitomagnetism and Mach's Principle[Video]
1/13, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Peter Ouyang UCSB	The Mysterious Pentaquark[Video]
1/20, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andrei Mikhailov Caltech	Geometry of Fast Moving Strings[Slides]
1/27, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Shamit Kachru Stanford	Predictive Landscapes?[Video]
2/03, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Per Kraus UCLA	Supertubes and the 4D Black Hole[Slides][Aud]
2/04, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Stephen Hawking University of Cambridge	Black Holes and the Information Paradox[Podcast][Video]
2/10, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Nathan Seiberg IAS, Princeton	Minimal Flux Vacua[Slides][Video]
2/10, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Eva Silverstein Stanford	A New Handle on dS and on Topology Change in String Theory[Slides][Video]
2/17, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Alexander Maloney SLAC	A Stringy Cloak for a Classical Singularity[Video]
2/18, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Roger Penrose Oxford	On Twistor-String Theory[Video]
2/25, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Horatiu Nastase Brown	Black Hole Production, the Froissart Bound, the Soft Pomeron and the RHIC Fireball from AdS-CFT[Video]
3/10, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Wati Taylor MIT	Counting Flux Vacua with Special Properties[Slides][Video]
3/17, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Thomas Hertog UCSB	Holographic Cosmology[Video]
3/31, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Amir Kashani-Poor SLAC	IIA Compactifications with FLUX[Video]
4/04, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Hirosi Ooguri Caltech	Topological Strings and Black Holes[Slides][Video]
4/14, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Larus Thorlacius University of Iceland & Stanford	Quantum Aspects of Charged Black Holes[Video]
4/21, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Henriette Elvang UCSB	Black Rings in String Theory[Video]
4/28, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Paul Aspinwall Duke University	M-Theory of K3 x K3[Slides][Video]
5/05, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Ralf Hofmann University of Heidelberg	SU(2)/SU(3) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics and Some Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology[Video]
5/12, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Juerg Kaeppeli Max Planck Institut	Black Hole Entropy and Asymptotic Degeneracy of Dyonic N=4 String States[Video]
5/19, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Henry Tye Cornell	Wavefunction of the Universe[Video]
5/26, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Michael Douglas Rutgers	Recent Results in Statistics of Vacua[Aud]
5/27, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard	Black Holes and Plasma Balls in Large N Gauge Theories[Video]
6/02, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andreas Karch University of Washington	Superjanus[Video]
6/03, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Frans Pretorius Caltech	On the Simulation of Binary Black Holes in General Relativity[Video]
6/09, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Raphael Bousso Berkeley	Cosmology, Event Horizons and the S-Matrix[Video]

September 2003 - June 2004

11/12, 10:00 a.m.	Dr. James Sparks Imperial College	G-Structures, Fluxes and Calibrations in M-Theory[Video]
11/25, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Yang Hui He University Pennsylvania	Modular Matrix Models[Video]
12/05, 10:30 a.m.	Dr. Stefan Hollands University of Chicago	PCT and Renormalization Group in Curved Spacetime[Video]
12/11, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Peter Bouwknegt University of Adelaide	T-Duality and Topology Change[Video]
12/11, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Sean Carroll University of Chicago	How Eternal Inflation Explains the Second Law of Thermodynamics[Aud][Cam]
12/16, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Nicolai Reshetikhin Berkeley	Dimers: Recent Developments[Video]
12/18, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Johannes Walcher KITP	Non-Perturbative RR Potentials in the C-1 Matrix Model[Video]
1/15, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Amer Iqbal Harvard	Geometric Engineering and Elliptic Genera[Aud]
1/21, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Michael Haack KITP	Some Comments on KKLT[Video]
1/22, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. David Kosower SPT CEA-Saclay	Peeking at all Orders in N=4 SUSY[Slides][Video]
1/29, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Leonardo Rastelli Princeton	Open/Closed Duality in Topological Matrix Models[Video]
2/05, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Nathan Seiberg IAS	Minimal String Theory[Slides][Video]
2/13, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Nick Warner USC	SUSY Breaking by Fluxes and Dielectric Brane Distributions[Video]
2/19, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Simon Ross Durham	Quotients of AdS_{p+1} x S^q[Video]
2/26, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Samir Mathur Ohio State	Where are the States of a Black Hole?[Slides][Video]
3/03, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Sergei Gukov Harvard	Modern Superstring Phenomenology: Flux Compactifications and the Moduli Problem[Video]
3/11, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. John McGreevy Princeton	Supercritical Duals for Unstable Branes[Video]
4/01, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Mohammad Sheikh-Jabbari Stanford	Giant Hedge-Hogs and Spikes on Giant Gravitons[Video]
4/08, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Brook Williams UCSB	Nongeometric Heterotic String Theories[Video]
4/15, 12:00 p.m.	Dr. Katrin Becker Utah	Fluxes Torsion and the Ground State of String Theory[Video]
4/22, 3:30 p.m.	Dr. Arkady Tseytlin Ohio & Imperial	Spinning Strings, Spin Chains and AdS/CFT[Video]
4/29, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Chris Herzog KITP	Chaos and KS[Video]
5/06, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Stephen Hsu University Oregon	Holography, Entropy and Extra Dimensions[Video]
5/13, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Christos Kokorelis INP, NCSR	The Standard Model from Intersecting D-Brane Models[Aud]
5/20, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Simeon Hellerman IAS	An S-Duality Between Critical and Non-Critical String Theories[Video]
5/27, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Mike Douglas Rutgers	Constructing and Counting IIb String Vacua[Slides][Video]
6/03, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Iosif Bena UCLA	Three Charge Supertubes and Black Hole Hair[Video]

September 2002 - June 2003

9/24, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Anastasia Volovich KITP	Superstring Interactions in a Plane Wave Background[Video]
10/01, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Joe Polchinski KITP	Quantum Hall Effect on R4
10/03, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Eliezer Rabinovici Jerusalem	Big Bang, Big Crunch, and Beyond[Video]
10/08, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Allan Adams Stanford	Decapitating Tadpoles with a Non-Local String
10/10, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andrew Frey UCSB	BPS Strings in 3-Forms[Video]
10/15, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Joan Simon Weizmann Institute	Null-Branes and Time Dependence in String Theory
10/17, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Kengo Maeda UCSB	Colliding Kaluza-Klein Bubbles[Video]
10/22, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Andreas Karch Washington	TBA
10/24, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. David Garfinkle Oakland	Numerical Simulations of Singularities[Slides][Video]
10/29, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Christopher Herzog KITP	The Hydrodynamics of M-Theory
10/30, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Oliver DeWolfe KITP	Matrix Models, Topological Strings, and Supersymmetric Gauge Theory: An Introduction to the work of Dijkgraaf and Vafa
10/31, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Jorge Pullin Louisiana State	Consistent Discrete Quantum Gravity on the Lattice[Video]
11/05, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Thomas Hertog UCSB	The Origin of Inflation
11/07, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Michael Schulz Caltech	New SUSY String Compactifications from Twisted Tori[Slides][Video]
11/12, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Eanna Flanagan Cornell	Quantum Inequalities in Curved Spacetime
11/14, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Sanjaye Ramgoolam Brown	Higher Dimensional Fuzzy Spheres and Hidden Geometries in Matrix Theories[Video]
12/03, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. David Berenstein IAS	Quantum Moduli Spaces from Matrix Models
12/05, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Brook Williams UCSB	Geometric Constructions of Nongeometric String Theories[Video]
1/09, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Harvey Reall Queen Mary College, London	Black Holes, Time Machines and Supersymmetry[Video]
1/14, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Michael Gutperle UCLA & Stanford	TBA
1/21, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Radu Roiban UCSB	Matrix Models with Flavor
1/23, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Christian Romelsberger USC	Unoriented Strings, Loop Equations, and N=1 Superpotentials from Matrix Models[Video]
2/06, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Nadav Drukker Weizmann	Different Actions for the Vacuum of String Field Theory[Video]
2/11, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Nikita Nekrasov KITP & IHES	Small Instantons, Little Strings, and 1/N
2/13, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Jaume Gomis Caltech	Gauge Theory Description of String Interactions in a PP-Wave[Video]
2/18, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Hong Liu Rutgers	Closed String Creation from Rolling Tachyon
2/20, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Tohru Eguchi Tokyo	Supercoset CFT's for String Theories on Non-Compact Special Holonomy Manifolds[Video]
2/21, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Kristin Schleich (UBC) Dr. Don Witt (UBC)	Topological Censorship[Video]
2/27, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Edna Cheung Caltech	Strings in Gravimagnetic Fields
3/04, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Gary Horowitz UCSB	Supersymmetric Compactifications Can be Unstable
3/06, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Anton Kapustin Caltech	D-Branes in Landau-Ginzburg Models[Aud]
3/11, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Hirosi Ooguri Caltech	The C-Deformation and Non-Planar Diagrams in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
3/13, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Mina Aganagic Harvard	Matrix Models, Mirror Symmetry, and Chern-Simons Theory[Video]
4/17, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andreas Brandhuber Caltech	Chiral Rings and Superpotentials[Video]
5/01, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Eric Braaten Ohio	An Infrared Renormalization Group Limit Cycle in QCD[Video]
5/08, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Mark van Raamsdonk UBC & Stanford	Stringy Thermodynamics in Weakly Coupled Yang-Mills Theory[Video]
5/15, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Gautam Mandal Tata Institute	String Theory on AdS 5xS5 at Small Radius[Video]
5/22, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andrei Starinets Washington	Finite-Temperature AdS/CFT[Video]
5/29, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Brian Wecht UCSD	The Exact Superconformal R-symmetry Maximizes a[Video]
6/12, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Cumrun Vafa Harvard and Caltech	TBA[Video]

September 2001 - June 2002

9/25, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Alex Buchel ITP	Singularities and Thermal Phase Transitions in Gauge/Gravity Duals--I[Slides][Video]
9/27, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Alex Buchel ITP	Singularities and Thermal Phase Transitions in Gauge/Gravity Duals--II[Slides]
10/02, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Joe Polchinski ITP	Hard Scattering in Gauge/Gravity Duality[Video]
10/04, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Richard Corrado CIT-USC	An N=2 Supersymmetric Membrane Flow
10/09, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Iosif Bena UC Santa Barbara	The Polarization of F1 Strings into D2 Branes: Aut Caesar aut Nihil[Slides][Video]
10/11, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Yutaka Matsuo Tokyo	Noncommutative Soliton in Open String Field Theory
10/16, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Radu Roiban UC Santa Barbara	Graded Topological D-Branes and Graded Chern-Simons Theories[Video]
10/18, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Mukund Rangamani Princeton	Hot Little Strings: A Supergravity Perspective
10/23, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Johannes Walcher ITP	CFT and G2 Holonomy[Slides][Video]
10/25, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Christian Roemelsberger CIT-USC	Intersection Numbers, Tadpoles and Anomalies
10/30, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Justin David UC Santa Barbara	Fermions in Bosonic String Theories[Video]
11/01, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Jaume Gomis Caltech	String Duals for Wrapped Branes
11/06, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Neil Turok Cambridge	From Big Crunch to Big Bang[Video]
11/08, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Michael Gutperle Harvard	Fluxbranes in String Theory
11/13, 12:30 p.m.	Bo Feng MIT	Toric Duality and Seiberg Duality[Slides][Video]
11/15, 2:00 p.m.	Anastasia Volovich Harvard	Noncommutative Solitons on Kahler Manifolds
11/20, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Oliver DeWolfe ITP	Holography and Defect Conformal Field Theories[Slides][Video]
11/27, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Ajit Srivastava Institute for Physics, Bhubaneswar and UCSB	Measuring Cosmic Defect Correlations in Liquid Crystals[Slides][Video]
11/29, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. John McGreevy Stanford	Linear Sigma Models for Open Strings
12/04, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Justin Khoury Princeton	The Ekpyrotic Universe[Slides][Aud]
12/06, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Kirill Krasnov UCSB	Lambda < 0 Quantum Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions (as a string theory)
12/11, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Raphael Bousso ITP	Conformal Vacua and Entropy of de Sitter Space[Video]
12/13, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Frederik Denef Columbia	Quantum Quivers and Hole Halos
2/04, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Christopher Herzog Princeton	The Conifold and Beyond[Aud]
2/07, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Kengo Maeda UC Santa Barbara	Inhomogeneous Near-extremal Black Branes
2/12, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Roberto Emparan CERN	The End of Black Hole Uniqueness[Video]
2/14, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Albion Lawrence SLAC	Signatures of Short Distance Physics in the Cosmic Microwave Background[Slides][Video]
2/19, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Andrew Frey UC Santa Barbara, Physics	Physics of N=3 Warped Compactifications[Video]
2/21, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. David Lowe Brown University	Black Hole Entropy and Spacetime from Matrix Quantum Mechanics[Video]
3/05, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Horatiu Nastase IAS	Strings and Matrices in Flat Space and pp Waves from Supersymmetric Gauge Theories[Slides][Video]
3/07, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Eliezer Rabinovici Jerusalem	TBA[Video]
3/12, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Mark van Raamsdonk Stanford	Open Dielectric Branes[Slides][Video]
3/14, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Lenny Susskind Stanford	TBA[Video]
3/19, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Andrei Mikhailov ITP	Notes on Higher Spin Symmetries[Slides][Video]
3/21, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Simeon Hellerman Stanford	The Undiscover'd Country: String Theories without Geometry[Video]
4/02, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Barak Kol IAS	On Exactly Marginal Deformations of 4d N=4 and AdS5 * S5[Video]
4/04, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Alex Maloney Harvard	Aspects of Quantum Gravity in de Sitter Space[Video]
4/09, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Joerg Teschner Freie Universitat Berlin	Branes in the Euclidean AdS_3[Slides][Aud]
4/11, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Petr Horava Berkeley	Ekpyrosis by Remote Control in Heterotic M-Theory
4/16, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Gary Horowitz UC Santa Barbara	Time Dependent Backgrounds for String Theory[Video]
4/18, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Per Berglund CIT-USC	Matter from G2 Manifolds[Video]
4/23, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Mariana Grana UC Santa Barbara	D3-Action in a Supergravity Background: The Fermionic Story[Video]
4/25, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Raphael Bousso ITP	Holographic Domains of Anti-de Sitter Space[Video]
4/30, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Misha Vasiliev Lebedev Physical Institute	Higher Spin Gauge Theories and Symplectic Symmetries[Video]
5/01, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Nathan Seiberg IAS	Strings in a Time Dependent Orbifold[Video]
5/07, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. George Savvidy National Research Center Demokritos, Athens	Conformal Invariant Strings with Extrinsic Curvature Action[Aud]
5/09, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Emil Mottola ITP & Los Alamos	Gravitational Condensate Stars: An Alternative to Black Holes[Slides][Video]
5/14, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Mark Srednicki UCSB	On the Observability of Information Radiated from a Black Hole[Video]
5/16, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Leonardo Rastelli Princeton University	The Projector Equation in Open String Field Theory[Video]
5/21, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Joe Polchinski UC Santa Barbara	Deep Inelastic Scattering and the Growth of Strings[Video]
5/23, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Dam Son ITP & Washington	From AdS/CFT Correspondence to Hydrodynamics[Video]
6/26, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Dan Freedman MIT	PP-String Interactions from Perturbative Gauge Theory[Video]
6/27, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. James Liu Michigan	Massive gravity and the AdS/AdS Braneworld[Video]

August 2000 - June 2001

8/31, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Eduardo Fradkin ITP & University Illinois	Urbana Quantum Hall Physics for String Theorists[Slides][Aud]
9/12, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Joe Polchinski ITP	Supergravity Duals for N=1 Gauge Theories[Aud]
9/19, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Justin David UCSB	Tachyon Condensation in the DO/D4-System[Aud]
9/21, 11:00 a.m.	Dr. Neil Turok Cambridge University	Cosmological Instantons[Aud]
9/21, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Shinji Hirano ITP	Giant Gravitons in AdS and their Field Theory Dual
9/26, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Veronika Hubeny UCSB	CFT Description of Small Objects in AdS[Aud]
9/28, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Nikita Nekrasov Princeton	Stable and Unstable Solitons of Noncommutative Yang-Mills Theory
10/3, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Kirill Krasnov University California, Santa Barbara	3D AdS Gravity and Liouville Theory
10/5, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Hiroshi Ooguri Caltech	Non-Relativistic Closed String Theory
10/10, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Soo-Jong Rey SNU	Open Wilson Line, S-Duality and UV-IR Holography in Noncommutative Gauge Theory
10/12, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. John Baez University of California, Riverside	n-Categorical Physics
10/17, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Sebastian de Haro Utrecht	Reconstructing the Bulk in AdS/CFT Correspondence and High-Energy Scattering[Aud]
10/19, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Per Kraus University Chicago	Tachyon Condensation in Noncommutative Gauge Theory
10/24, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Raphael Bousso ITP	Positive Vacuum Energy and the N-bound[Slides][Aud]
10/26, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Ann Nelson University of Washington	The 28 Parameters of the Standard Model and the 152 Parameters of the MSSM:Windows to the Planck Scale?
10/31, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Koji Hashimoto ITP & Kyoto University	Nonlinear Monopoles[Aud]
11/07, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Steve Giddings UCSB	Effective Theories and Black Hole Production in Warped Compactifications[Slides][Video]
11/14, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Oliver DeWolfe ITP	Anatomy of Two Holographic Renormalization Group Flows[Slides][Video]
11/16, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Steven Carlip University of California, San Diego	Boundary Conditions and Black Hole Entropy in Two Dimensions
11/20, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Sergey Gukov Caltech & Princeton	Warped Compactifications on Calabi-Yau Four-Folds[Aud]
11/22, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Jaydeep Majumder Mehta Research Institute	Marginal Deformation and Creation of Codimension >2 Solitons on Brane-Antibrane Pair[Aud]
11/28, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andrei Mikhailov ITP	Giant Gravitons from Holomorphic Surfaces[Aud]
11/30, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Sergey Cherkis University of California, Los Angeles	Periodic Monopoles in String Theory
12/5, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Nadav Drukker USC	Conformal Anomaly of Wilson Loops, or What is the Difference between a Circle and a Line?[Slides][Video]
12/7, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Alex Buchel ITP	Finite Temperature Resolution of the Klebanov-Tseytlin Singularity
12/12, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Andreas Brandhuber CERN	Correlators in the Coulomb Branch of N=4 SYM[Video]
12/14, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Emanuel Diaconescu IAS, Princeton	Topological Aspects of M Theory

August 1999 - June 2000

9/30, 10:30 a.m.

Dr. Malcom Perry
Cambridge University

The M-theory 9-brane

1/18, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Herman Verlinde Princeton	Holography, RG, and Gravity
1/20, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Ashok Sen Tata Institute	World Volume Action for Non-BPS branes
1/28, 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Michael Douglas Rutgers	D-branes on a Noncompact Calabi-Yau[Aud]
2/15, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Nadav Drukker ITP	Green-Schwarz String in AdS₅ x S⁵: Semiclassical Partition Function[Slides]
2/24, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Petr Horava Caltech	End-of-the-World Annihilation in M-Theory and String Theory
2/29, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Jan de Boer University of Utrecht	TBA
3/2, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Steve Gubser Princeton	Curvature Singularities: The Good, the Bad, and the Naked
3/7, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Veronika Hubeny UCSB	Quasinormal Modes of AdS Black Holes and the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium
3/9, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Eva Silverstein Stanford	TBA
3/14, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Daniel Holz ITP	Probing Dark Matter from Lensing of High-Redshift Supernovae[Slides]
4/4, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Yuri Shirman Princeton	Localizing Gravity on Smooth Branes[Aud]
4/6, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Shiraz Minwalla Harvard	TBA
4/11, 12:45 p.m.	Dr. Aki Hashimoto ITP	The Really Interesting Aspects of Non-Commutative Geometry[Slides]
4/13, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Willy Fischler University Texas, Austin	The Interplay of Theta and T
4/20, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Rajesh Gopakumar Harvard	Non-Commutative Solitons
4/27, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Vipul Periwal Princeton Univ	Schwinger-Dyson, Wheeler-DeWitt, Yang-Baxter, et al.[Slides]
5/16, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Gary Horowitz UCSB	Self Tuning in an Outgoing Brane Wave Model[Slides][Aud]
5/18, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Washington Taylor MIT	Getting to the Bottom of the Open Bosonic String Tachyon
5/23, 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Nissan Itzhaki UCSB	Sphalerons, Merons and Unstable Branes in AdS[Aud]
5/25, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Igor Klebanov Princeton	TBA
6/8, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. David Gross ITP	TBA

August 1998 - June 1999

9/24 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andrew Chamblin Cambridge University	The NUTs and Bolts of AdS Holography
9/29 12:15 p.m.	Dr. Amanda Peet ITP	IR/UV in AdS/CFT
10/1 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Gary Horowitz UCSB	Using Gauge Theories to Describe Black Holes
10/6 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Patrick Brady ITP, UCSB	Ripples in Spacetime: Gravitational Wave Astronomy and What It Might Tell Us
10/13 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Veronika Hubeny UCSB	Overcharging a Black Hole and Cosmic Censorship
10/15 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Jan De Boer LBL	Supergravity and Strings on AdS_3
10/20 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Joe Polchinski ITP, UCSB	Matrix Theory and Maldacena Conjecture
10/22 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Oren Bergman Harvard	String Junctions: Review and Applications
10/27 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Per Berglund ITP, UCSB	Heterotic/F-Theory Duality
10/29 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Raphael Bousso Stanford	The Proliferation of de Sitter Space
11/3 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Vipul Periwal Princeton	Collective Coordinates from a First-Quantized Perspective
11/5 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Tony Gherghetta Univ of Michigan	Lowering the GUT Scale with Extra Dimensions
11/10 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Albion Lawrence Harvard Lyman Lab	Holography and Local Probes
11/12 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Gary Shiu Cornell	Low Scale Superstrings
11/17 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Tristan Hubsch ITP & Howard U	Warning: a (2,2)-Supersymmetric Epidemic![Slides]
11/19 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Ram Brustein CERN	Models of String Cosmology
11/24 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Nissan Itzhaki UCSB	Dilatonic D-branes and Field Theory
12/1 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Simon Ross UCSB	AdS/CFT: Phase Transitions in the Microcanonical Ensemble
12/3 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Eric D'Hoker UCLA	Correlation Functions in the AdS/CFT Correspondence

2/16 12:00 Noon	Dr. Matthew Strassler Inst for Advanced Study	Reflections on Mirror Symmetry: New Results in Super QED-3
2/18 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Lisa Randall MIT & Princeton	Supersymmetry Breaking and Extra Dimensions
2/22 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Washington Taylor IV MIT	Interactions, Supercurrents and Backgrounds in Matrix Theory
3/10 3:30 p.m.	Dr. Andrew Strominger Harvard	Holography and Coset Spaces
3/11 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Alexander Kusenko UCLA	SUSY, Q-balls: Theory and Cosmology
3/15 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Clifford Johnson University of Kentucky	Catastrophic Holography[Aud]
3/18 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Steven Gubser ITP & Harvard	Renormalization group flows in AdS/CFT
3/22 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Nikita Nekrassov ITP & Harvard	A Few Problems in Gauge Theory/Gravity Correspondence
3/25 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Steve Giddings UCSB	The Boundary S-matrix and the AdS/CFT Dictionary
4/1 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Finn Larsen ITP & Fermi Institute	The Spacetime Conformal Field Theory of Black Holes
4/8 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Joseph Minahan IAS	Asymptotic Freedom and Confinement from Type O String Theory[Slides]
4/12 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Oliver deWolfe KITP & MIT	Symmetries of (p,q) 7-branes and Field Theories in Four and Five Dimensions
4/15 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Shinji Hirano ITP, UCSB	Tachyon Condensation and Graviton Production in Matrix Theory[Slides]
4/22 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Nadav Drukker ITP, UCSB	Wilson Loops and Minimal Surfaces[Slides][Aud]
4/29 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Amanda Peet ITP, UCSB	When Can Brane Intersectins be Localized? Some Supergravity No-hair Results and Their Field Theory Duals
5/6 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Nikita Nekrassov ITP & Harvard	Singularities, RG Flows and Mirror Symmetry[Slides]
5/10 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Peter Mayr CERN	Nonperturbative N=1 Strings from Geometric Singularities[Slides]
5/13 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Bernard De Wit ITP & ITP Univ. of Utrecht	Deviations from the Area Law and N=2 Supersymmetric Black Holes[Slides]
5/24 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andrew Chamblin Cambridge Univ	Search for a Realistic M-theory Cosmology[Slides][Aud]
6/3 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Per Berglund UCSB, ITP	The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Spectrum Generating Algebras
6/10 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Arkady Tseytlin Imperial College	Supersymmetric F^4 Operator and AdS/CFT Correspondence[Slides]
6/28 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Raphael Bousso Stanford	The Holographic Principle for General Space-times[Slides][Aud]

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