Theory Group Seminars - Spring 2006


Tuesday Seminars:
All talks are on Tuesdays, at 2 PM, in RLM 7.104, unless otherwise noted.
Date:Speaker and Title:
1/17 No Seminar due to MLK Monday Holiday
1/24 Jonathan Rocher, UT-San Antonio,
"Constraining SUSY GUTs and Hybrid Inflation with Cosmology"
1/31 Hong Liu, MIT,
"Black Hole Singularities in Yang-Mills Theories"
2/07 Bogdan Florea, SLAC-Stanford,
"Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking in String Compactifications"
2/14 Michael Dine, SCIPP/UCSC,
"Naturalness confronts the Landscape"
2/21 Volker Braun, University of Pennsylvania,
"A Heterotic Standard Model"
2/28 Benjamin Grinstein, UCSD,
"Minimal Lepton Flavor Violation"
3/7 Jason Kumar, Texas A&M,
"The Phenomenology of Pi-Stability and an Infinite Number of Vacua"
3/14 No Seminar due to Spring Break: 03/13 - 03/18
3/21 Jaume Gomis, Perimeter Institute
"Nonrelativistic Superstrings"
3/28 Michael Graesser, Caltech,
"Towards a High Energy Theory for the Ghost Condensate"
3/30 Special Seminar: Prof. Eiichiro Komatsu, UT-Austin Astronomy Dept., "Results from Three Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations," 2:15 PM, RLM 7.104.
4/11 Patrick Fox, Lawrence Berkeley Lab,
"Naturalness and Higgs Decays in the MSSM with a Singlet"
4/18 Jaume Garriga, University of Barcelona,
"Bubble Universes and Signals from Before"
4/27 Jay Wacker, Stanford
"Discovering a Solution to the Mu Problem at the LHC," Note: This is a special Thursday seminar in lieu of the Brown Bag.

Physics Colloquium and Other Talks of Interest
All talks are on Wednesdays, at 4:15 PM, in 4.102, unless otherwise noted.
Date:Speaker and Title:
3/1 PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: Distinguished Women Lecture Series Speaker, Prof. Karin Rabe, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, "Designer Oxides that Work," RLM 4.102 (The John A. Wheeler Lecture Hall).
4/5 PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: Distinguished Women Lecture Series Speaker, Prof. Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology, "The Physics of Semiconductor Nanowires: Theoretical Studies of their Electronic, Vibrational, and Optical Properties"
5/3 PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: Distinguished Women Lecture Series Speaker, Prof. Janet Conrad, Columbia University, "Seeking the small, silent type: The MiniBooNE Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab"
8/3 THEORY GROUP FINAL DEFENSE: Mr. Chethan Krishnan, UT-Austin, "Aspects of Cosmology and Quantum Gravity in an Accelerating Universe," RLM 5.114

Brown Bag Meetings
All meetings are on Thursdays, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM, in RLM 9.202, unless otherwise noted.
Note: 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.
Date:Speaker and Title:
1/19 Organizational Meeting
1/26 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
2/2 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
2/9 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
2/16 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
2/23 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
3/2 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
3/9 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
3/16 No Brown Bag - Spring Break
3/23 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
3/30 Seminar instead of Brown Bag: Prof. Eiichiro Komatsu, UT-Austin Astronomy Dept., "Results from Three Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations," 2:15 PM, RLM 7.104.
4/6 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
4/13 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
4/20 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work.
4/27 No Brown Bag - Thursday Seminar instead.
5/4 "A Matrix Model for the Null-Brane," by Daniel Robbins, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago. Daniel will be a postdoc here starting in the Fall.

Geometry and String Theory Seminars
All talks are on Wednesdays, at 1:00 P.M., in RLM 9.166, unless otherwise noted.
Note:These talks are also often scheduled on a short notice, so these listings may not be up to date. See the Math Department Calendar
Date:Speaker and Title:
1/18 Organizational Meeting
1/25 Topics of interest to Physicists and Mathematicians
2/1 An introduction to A-infinity algebras, by Aaron Bergman (UT Austin, Physics Dept.)
2/8 Topics of interest to Physicists and Mathematicians
2/15 An introduction to operads, by Carl Mautner (UT Austin)
2/22 BV structure of closed field theory, by Jacques Distler (UT Austin, Phys. Dept.)
3/1 BV Structures in String Field Theory, Episode I (the Prequel), by Jacques Distler (UT Austin, Phys. Dept.)
3/8 No Seminar today.
3/22 The what and why of BV algebras, by David Ben-Zvi (UT Austin)
3/29 The what and why of BV algebras (con't) by David Ben-Zvi (UT Austin)
4/12 No Seminar this week
4/19 Open-closed 2d TQFT (after Moore-Segal) by Dan Freed (UT Austin)
4/26 No Seminar today
5/3 Topics of interest to Physicists and Mathematicians
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