Tuesday, January 30
12:30 pm |
Organizational Meeting |
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Thursday, February 1
2:00 pm |
Anton Kapustin
IAS |
Ruminations on Open String Field Theory[Aud] |
Tuesday, February 6
12:30 pm |
Raphael Bousso
ITP |
de Sitter space and the Lambda - N conjecture[Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, February 8
2:00 pm |
Tom Banks
Rutgers & UC Santa Cruz |
TBA (more on de Sitter)[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, February 13
12:30 pm |
Mina Aganagic
Harvard |
Mirror Symmetry, D-branes and Counting Holomorphic Discs[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Wednesday, February 14
10:00 am |
Jerome Gauntlett
Queen Mary |
Wrapping M-Branes on Supersymmetric Cycles[Slides] |
Thursday, February 15
2:00 pm |
Igor Klebanov
Princeton |
Supergravity Description of a Cascading Confining Gauge Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, February 20
12:30 pm |
Igor Klebanov
Princeton |
Gravity Duals of Fractional Branes and Other Backgrounds with Varying Flux[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, February 22
2:00 pm |
Sergei Gukov
Caltech |
Applications of Superpotentials Induced by Ramond-Ramond Fluxes[Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, February 27
12:30 pm |
Nikita Nekrassov
IHES |
Noncommutative Diffeomorphisms[Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, March 1
1:30 pm |
Savdeep Sethi
Chicago |
Triples, Fluxes and Strings[Aud] |
Tuesday, March 6
12:30 pm |
Stephen Hawking
Cambridge |
Living With Ghosts[Slides][Aud] |
| Main Seminar Room |
Thursday, March 8
1:30 pm |
Vladimir Kazakov
Ecole Normale Superieure |
A Matrix Model for the 2D Black Hole[Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, March 13
12:30 pm |
Spenta Wadia
Tata Institute |
Matrix Model, Non-Commutative Gauge Theory and Tachyon Potential[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, March 15
1:30 pm |
Chris Hull
Queen Mary |
Strongly Coupled Gravity and Duality[Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, March 20
12:30 pm |
Nissan Itzhaki
UC Santa Barbara |
Traveling Faster than the Speed of Light in Non-Commutative Geometry[Aud] |
Thursday, March 22
1:30 pm |
Jacques Distler
Texas |
Torsion D-branes in Non-Geometric Phases[Aud] |
Tuesday, March 27
12:30 pm |
Washington Taylor
MIT & Steve Giddings, UCSB |
An Introduction to String Field Theory[Aud] |
Thursday, March 29
1:30 pm |
Tamiaki Yoneya
Tokyo |
Space-time Uncertainties and Noncommutativity in String Theory[Aud] |
Tuesday, April 3
12:30 pm |
Eva Silverstein
SLAC |
Closed String Tachyons, AdS/CFT, and Large N QCD[Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, April 5
1:30 pm |
Clifford Johnson
Durham |
Further Aspects of the Enhancon[Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, April 10
12:30 pm |
Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech |
Strings in AdS3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, April 12
1:30 pm |
Michael Peskin
SLAC |
What String Theorists Need to Know about e+e- Linear Colliders[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, April 17
12:30 pm |
Sunil Mukhi
Tata Institute |
Gauge-Invariant Couplings of Noncommutative Branes to Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, April 19
1:30 pm |
Ashoke Sen
Harish-Chandra Institute |
Tachyons and Open Strings I[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, April 24
12:30 pm |
Ashoke Sen
Harish-Chandra Institute |
Tachyons and Open Strings II[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, April 26
1:30 pm |
Oleg Andreev
HU Berlin |
Variations on a Theme by Boundary String Field Theory[Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, May 1
12:30 pm |
Nemanja Kaloper
Stanford |
Small Numbers from Tunneling Between Brane Throats[Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, May 3
1:30 pm |
Andreas Karch
MIT |
Localized Gravity in String Theory[Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, May 8
12:30pm |
Erik Verlinde
Princeton |
CFT & FRW[Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, May 10
1:30 pm |
Constantin Bachas
LPTENS |
Curved Space D-branes[Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, May 15
12:30pm |
Jeff Harvey
Chicago |
Noncommutative Field Theory and Lorentz Violation[Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, May 17
12:00 pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
Steve Giddings
UCSB |
Hierarchies from Warped String Compactifications[Slides][Aud] |
Tuesday, May 22
12:30 pm |
Oliver DeWolfe
ITP |
Stability of AdS_p x M_q Compactifications without Supersymmetry[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, May 24
1:30 pm |
Mirjam Cvetic
U. Penn |
Compactifications of M-Theory on Special Holonomy Spaces[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Tuesday, May 29
12:30 pm |
Itzhak Bars
USC |
2T-Physics 2001[Slides][Aud][Cam] |
Thursday, May 31
4:00 pm |
Michael Graesser
UC Santa Cruz |
Brane World Susy Breaking[Slides][Aud] |
| Main Seminar Room |
Tuesday, June 12
12:30 pm |
Herman Verlinde
Princeton |
SL(2,Z) Duality and Fractal Phase Diagram in SYM/NCOS Theory[Aud] |
Thursday, June 14
1:30pm |
Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech |
Seiberg-Witten Transforms of Noncommutative Solitons[Aud] |