Calendar
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Fall 2009 |
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Theory Group Final Defense Constraining Fundamental Physics with the Cosmic Microwave Background - A Case Study Raphael Flauger, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Final Defense Exact Solutions of Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions Mohamed Chakhad, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Seminar No Seminar |
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Classes Begin |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar Organizational Meeting |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting Organizational Meeting |
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Theory Group Seminar No Seminar |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar K Theory and Orientifolds I Dan Freed, UT Mathematics |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting Problems with Holographic Nuclear Physics Vadim Kaplunovsky, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Seminar No Seminar Today |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar K Theory and Orientifolds II Dan Freed, UT Mathematics |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting Yangian Symmetry of N=4 SYM Scattering Amplitudes Oscar Chacaltana, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Seminar No Seminar Today |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar Hyperbolic Monopoles and AdS/CFT Aswin Balasubramanian, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting A Higgs Phase for Gravity via Ghost Condensation Sohaib Alam, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Seminar A Framework for Baryon Asymmetry, Moduli Problem and Dark Matter within String Theory Piyush Kumar, UC Berkeley |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar The S-Matrix for N=4SYM and Twistor Space Jacques Distler, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting Dirac Quantization on the Boundary Dan Carney, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Seminar Probing Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories with AdS/CFT: The Violation of the Shear Viscosity to Entropy Bound Sera Cremonini, Cambridge University & Texas A&M |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar The S-Matrix for SYM and Twistor Space (continued) Jacques Distler, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting Entropy Function Formalism and the AdS_2/CFT_1 Anindya Dey, UT Theory Group [abstract] |
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Theory Group Seminar Landscapes, eternal inflation, and extra dimensions Matthew Johnson, Caltech [abstract] |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar A Dual Theory for the N = 4 SYM S-Matrix, Twistors and Grassmannians Oscar Chacaltana, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting S-matrix elements from limits of AdS/CFT Aswin Balasubramanian, UT Theory Group [abstract] |
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Theory Group Seminar Inverted Sparticle Hierarchies from Natural Particle Hierarchies Micha Berkooz, Weizmann Institute |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar A Dual Theory for the N = 4 SYM S-Matrix, Twistors and Grassmannians (Continued) Oscar Chacaltana, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting
Fermi Surface Operators in N = 4 SYM Micha Berkooz, Weizmann Institute |
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Theory Group Seminar The measure of a trans-dimensional landscape Delia Schwarz-Perlov, Tufts University [abstract] |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar N = 4 SYM S-Matrix, Twistors and Grassmannians (Part III) Oscar Chacaltana, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Seminar A Bound on the Superpotential Zohar Komargodski, Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton [abstract] |
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Theory Group Seminar Floating black holes in warped higher-dimensional bulk Takahiro Tanaka, Kyoto University [abstract] |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar Cancelled |
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TCC Texas Cosmology Network Meeting AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 105 |
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TCC Texas Cosmology Network Meeting AT&T Conference Center, Amphitheatre 204 |
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Theory Group Seminar A GeV dark sector and its experimental signals Liantao Wang, Princeton University |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar Cancelled |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting TBA Jacques Distler, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Seminar Quantum oscillations and black hole ringing Sean Hartnoll, Harvard |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar K-theory and topological insulators Jacques Distler, UT Theory Group |
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Physics Colloquium Black holes for condensed matter physics Sean Hartnoll, Harvard [abstract] |
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Theory Group Seminar A Domino Theory of Flavor Peter Graham, Stanford University |
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Theory Group Qualifier Instantons in AdS/CFT Aswin Balasubramanian, UT Theory Group |
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Theory Group Seminar D-brane inflation from AdS/CFT Anatoly Dymarsky, Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar Topics of interest to Physicists and Mathematicians |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting Cosmological Perturbations in an Anisotropic Inflationary Scenario Anindya Dey, UT Theory Group [abstract] |
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Theory Group Qualifier Anisotropic Inflationary Phase for the Universe Muhammad Sohaib Alam, UT Theory Group |
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Thanksgiving Week (no seminar, no brown bag, no GST) |
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Theory Group Seminar Warped Compactifications and Holographic Gauge Mediation Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin |
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Geometry and String Theory Seminar Topics of interest to Physicists and Mathematicians |
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Theory Group Brown Bag Meeting Adiabaticity Bounds on Non-Gaussianities in Multiple Field Inflation Joel Meyers, UT Theory Group |
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Last Class Day |
Seminars
Theory Group Seminar
All talks are Tuesday at 2 PM, in RLM 7.104, unless otherwise noted
Physics Colloquium
All talks are Wednesday at
Brown Bag Meetings
All meetings are Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 PM, in RLM 9.202, unless otherwise noted
These meetings will consist, typically, of a short talk on current research or other matters of interest to the group, followed by an open discussion. The emphasis is on the open discussion, so meeting agendas might not be regularly announced.
Geometry and String Theory Seminars
All meetings are Wednesdays, at noon, in RLM 9.166, unless otherwise noted
Texas Cosmology Center Seminars
Meeting times as announced