High Energy Theory Seminar Schedule

Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania

Time: Mondays at 2:00 pm (unless noted otherwise)

Place: 2N36, David Rittenhouse Laboratories


Date
Speaker  
September 2008
9/5/08
Special Seminar
Time and Room: 2pm, 2N3
Rene Meyer, Max-Planck-Institut, Munich

Two Uses of Kalb-Ramond fields in AdS/CFT with Flavour

9/15/08
Yuji Tachikawa, IAS

Higgs branches of Argyres-Seiberg S-duality pairs

9/22/08
Tommy Levi, NYU

When Worlds Collide

9/29/08
Miranda Cheng, Harvard

Borcherds-Kac-Moody Symmetry of N=4 Dyons

October 2008
10/6/08
Diego Rodriguez-Gomez, Princeton

A massive study of M2-brane proposals

10/13/08
FALL BREAK -- NO SEMINAR 

10/27/08
H. Sugawara, Japan Society, Washington D.C.

Space-time duality and the vacuum energy

November 2008
11/3/08
Matthias Wapler, Perimeter Institute

Transport properties on holographic defects

11/10/08
Michael Gutperle, UCLA

Half BPS solutions in IIB string theory and M-theory

11/17/08
Peng Gao, University of Toronto

Flux-geometry duality and Abelian surfaces

11/18/08
Special Seminar
Time and Room: 2pm, 2N3
Sheer El-Showk, ITF - Amsterdam

Quantizing N=2 Multicenter Solutions

11/24/08
Chris Herzog, Princeton University

TBA

December 2008
12/1/08
Robert Richter, University of Pennsylvania

Instanton induced Yukawa couplings in MSSM-like orientifold models

12/15/08
Jan de Boer, Amsterdam

Brownian motion and AdS/CFT

January 2009
1/14/09
Special seminar
Time and Room: 2pm, 2N3
Don Marolf, UCSB

Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics

February 2009
2/5/09
Math/Physics seminar
3:00pm
Room: DRL 4C8
Dan Freed, University of Texas at Austin

TBA

2/6/09
Lunch discussion
Al Shapere, University of Kentucky

4D Superconformal Field Theories from a to c

2/9/09
Math/Physics seminar
2:00pm
Room: DRL 2N36
Melissa Liu, Columbia University

TBA

2/16/09
James Gray, Oxford

Stability Wall Crossing in Heterotic Effective Theories

March 2009
3/12/09
Special Seminar
Time and Room: 2pm, 2N3
Hong Lu, Texas A&M

GL(n,R) Wormholes and Waves in Diverse Dimensions

3/16/09
Chris Pope, Texas A&M

Black Hole Entropy in Higher Dimensions

3/23/09
Juan Maldacena, IAS

Wilson loops and minimal surfaces in AdS_3

3/25/09
Special Seminar
Time and Room: 11am, 2N3
Stuart Raby, Ohio State

A Fertile Patch in the Heterotic Landscape

April 2009
4/9/09
1pm
Room: 2N3
Daniel Wesley, DAMTP (Cambridge)

Probing extra dimensions with dark energy

4/15/09
Joint CM/HET seminar
4:00 pm
Room: DRL A8
Subir Sachdev, Harvard

Quantum criticality and black holes.

4/16/09
Special seminar
Time and Room: 2pm, 2N3
Washington Taylor, MIT

Features of the landscape of magnetized and intersecting brane models

4/20/09
Tomer Volansky, IAS

Dark Matter Sees the Light

4/23/09
2pm
2N3
Joan Simon, Edinburgh

Extremal Black Holes

4/27/09
Randall Kamien, UPenn

Smectic Topology, Topography, and Tomography

May 2009
5/1/09
Special Seminar
Time and Room: 2:15pm, 2N3
Minxin Huang, CERN

Detecting string resonance at LHC?

5/11/09
Special time: 11am
Room: 2N3
Mark Jackson, Leiden University

TBA


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