Theory Group Seminars - Spring 2008


Tuesday Seminars:
All talks are on Tuesdays, at 2 PM, in RLM 7.104, unless otherwise noted.
Date:Speaker and Title:
1/15 (No Seminar)
1/17 Tomislav Prokopec, Utrecht University
"Stochastic inflation and gravitational backreaction"
1/22 Radu Roiban, Penn State,
"Integrability in N=4 SYM and the strong coupling expansion of anomalous dimensions"
1/29 Igor Klebanov, Princeton,
"Warped Conifolds and Their Applications to Cosmology"
1/31 Irina Mocioiu, Penn State,
"Particle physics and astrophysics lessons from neutrino telescopes"
2/5 Akin Wingerter, Ohio State,
"MSSM-like Models from Strings"
Abstract
2/12 Oleg Lunin, University of Chicago,
"Intersecting branes from supergravity"
Abstract
2/19 TBD
2/26 Carola F. Berger, CTP/MIT,
"Twistor-Inspired Methods for Collider Physics"
Abstract
3/4 Jesse Thaler, University of California, Berkeley,
"GenEvA -- A new framework for event generation"
Abstract
3/11 Spring Break 3/10-3/15
3/18 Sebastian Franco, Princeton
"D-brane model building and N-ification of the forces"
Abstract
3/25 Daniel Baumann, Princeton
"Microscopic Aspects of Inflation in String Theory"
4/1 Joseph Conlon, Trinity College Cambridge
"Hierarchy Problems in String Theory: An Overview of the Large Volume Scenario"
Abstract
4/8 Pearl Sandick, University of Minnesota
"Cosmology and Collider Searches in GUT-less SUSY Scenarios"
Abstract
4/10 Navin Sivanandam. Stanford
"Volume Weighted Measures of Eternal Inflation in the Bousso-Polchinski Landscape"
Abstract
4/15 Patrick Meade, IAS-Princeton
"Generalized Gauge Mediation"
4/22 Norihiro Iizuka, KITP-UCSB
"A matrix model for black hole thermalization"
Abstract
4/23 Christopher Beasley, Harvard
"GUTs and Exceptional Branes in F-Theory"
4/29 Sergei Dubovsky, Harvard
"Superluminal travel in two dimensions"

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:
4/2 Oleg Lunin, University of Chicago
"String theory and black hole information paradox"
Abstract
4/23 THEORY GROUP FINAL DEFENSE: Mr. Marcus Torres, UT-Austin, "Metastable Supersymmetry Breaking," Wednesday, 4:00 PM, ACE 3.408.
5/7 THEORY GROUP FINAL DEFENSE: Mr. Timm Wrase, UT-Austin, "Type II Flux Compactifications," Wednesday, 1:00 PM, RLM 7.112.
5/9 THEORY GROUP FINAL DEFENSE: Mr. Matthias Ihl, UT-Austin, "Topics in Type IIA Flux Compactifications," Friday, 1:00 PM, ACE 3.408.



Brown Bag Meetings
All meetings are on Thursdays, from 12:30 to 1:30, 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:
1/17 No Brown Bag today (see today's Seminar)
1/24 Organizational Meeting
1/31 No Brown Bag Today (see today's Seminar)
2/7 Prof. Steven Weinberg on Inflation
2/14 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
2/21 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
2/28 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
3/6 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
3/13 Spring Break 3/10-3/15
3/20 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
3/27 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
4/3 Special time: 2:00 PM. Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
4/10 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
4/17 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
4/24 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work
5/1 Members of the Theory Group discuss their work

Geometry and String Theory Seminars

All talks are on Wednesdays, at Noon, in RLM 9.166, unless otherwise noted. Click on the link above for the latest schedule.

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