| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8/10, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Wati Taylor IV
MIT & KITP |
String Vacua and the Quest for Predictions[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/15, 10:00 a.m. |
Mr. Piyush Kumar
University of Michigan |
New Physics and the LHC for beginners[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Haack
Ludwig Maximilians University & KITP |
Quantum Corrections in String Model Building[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/17, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Henry Tye
Cornell & KITP |
Brane Inflation, An Update[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/21, 12:15 p.m. |
Prof. Gordy Kane
University of Michigan |
String Phenomenology -- What Could That Be?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
| 8/22, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Graham Ross
University of Oxford & KITP |
A Review of Fermion Masses[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/27-9/01 |
Conference: |
String Phenomenology |
| 9/05, 2:00 p.m. |
String Phenomenology |
Organizational Meeting |
| 9/07, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. David Berenstein
UCSB |
Weakly Coupled D-brane Phenomenology[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Scott Thomas
Rutgers & KITP |
Dark Matter: Possibilities and and Prospects for Detection[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/13, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Gordy Kane
Discussion Leader |
LHC and String Theory: What will we Learn[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/14, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Fernando Quevedo
Cambridge, DAMTP & KITP |
Large Volume Moduli Stabilisation: Soft SUSY Breaking and Inflation[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Shamit Kachru
Stanford University |
String Theory and r[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/20, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Mirjam Cvetic
Leader |
Discussion on open problems in string model building
[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/21, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Giovanni Villadoro
Harvard University |
N=1 Effective SUGRAs from D-brane Flux Compactifications[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Keith Dienes
University of Arizona & KITP |
A Statistical Study of the Heterotic Landscape[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/20, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Mirjam Cvetic
Leader |
Discussion on open problems in string model building, contd
[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Steve Shenker
Stanford & KITP |
Measures in Old Eternal Inflation[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/05, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Emilian Dudas
Ecole Polytechnique & KITP |
Stringy U(1)'s, Supersymmetry Breaking and Flavor Effects[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Steve Shenker
Stanford & KITP |
Eternal Talk on Eternal Inflation[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/11, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Herman Verlinde
Princeton & KITP |
D-branes at Singularities, Compactification, and Hypercharge[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/12, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Natalia Saulina
Caltech |
Stringy Instantons and Quiver Gauge Theories |
| 10/16, 12:15 p.m. |
Prof. Joe Polchinski
KITP, UCSB |
Cosmic Strings and Superstrings[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
| 10/18, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Raman Sundrum
Johns Hopkins University |
Discussion[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/23, 12:15 p.m. |
Prof. Michael Dine
University of Michigan |
Prospects for a String Phenomenology[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
| 10/24, 10:00 a.m. |
Dr. Johannes Walcher
IAS & KITP |
Some Complicated Way to Count Holomorphic Discs on the Quintic[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Mr. Keith Copsey
UCSB |
Bubbles Unbound: Bubbles of Nothing without Kaluza-Klein[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/25, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Joe Polchinski
UCSB, KITP |
Discussion on Cosmology with a Focus on 'Eternal Inflation'[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/26, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Eva Silverstein
SLAC & KITP |
The Growth of Negativity: Geometry, Topology, and Dimensionality in String Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/31, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Stuart Raby
Ohio State University & KITP |
Constructing 3 Family Models from the E(8)xE(8) Heterotic String[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/01, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Michael Douglas
Rutgers University & KITP |
Computing the Kahler Potential in N=1 String Compactification[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/02, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Liam McAllister
Princeton & KITP |
Compactification Effects in D-brane Inflation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Per Berglund
University of New Hampshire & KITP |
Topology from Cosmology[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/08, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Michael Douglas
Rutgers University & KITP |
String Vacuum Project[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Didina Serban
CE-Saclay |
Integrable Super-spin Chains and the AdS/CFT Correspondence[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/09, 12:30 p.m. |
Mr. Daniel Green
Stanford & KITP |
Nothing for Branes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Xingang Chen
Cornell & KITP |
Multi-throat Brane Inflation and Heating[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/15, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Allan Adams
MIT |
Linear Models for Flux Vacua[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/16, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Sergei Gukov
Caltech & KITP |
G2 Holonomy and Model Building[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Mr. Anshuman Maharana
UCSB |
EFTs and SUSY Breaking in IIB Warped Compactifications[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/29, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Michael Dine
UCSC |
Flavor and Taste |
| 11/30, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. David Mateos
UCSB |
String Theory and RHIC Physics: The Fundamental Story[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Albion Lawrence
Brandeis University & KITP |
Torsion and Soft SUSY Breaking[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/05, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jonathan Feng
UC Irvine |
The Complete Phase Diagram of Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/06, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Gordy Kane
University of Michigan & KITP |
Emergence of the Weak Scale from M Theory with Stabilized Moduli and Unification[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/07, 12:30 p.m. |
Prof. Melanie Becker
Texas A&M |
Heterotic Compactifications with Torsion[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/08, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Chris Herzog
University of Washington & KITP |
Quark Energy Loss from AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Jim Liu
University of Michigan & KITP |
Chain Inflation[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/14, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Scott Watson
University of Toronto & KITP |
Cosmological Aspects of the Landscape[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
