Theory Group Seminar
Fall 2008

Fall 2008 Schedule

All talks are on Tuesdays, at 2 PM, in RLM 7.104, unless otherwise noted.

DateSpeakerTopic
9/9Sergei Dubovsky, StanfordHiggs phases of gravity: the status report
9/16Eugene Lim, ColumbiaBeyond f NL: Non-trivial non-Gaussianities from primordial inflation
9/23Steven Weinberg, UT AustinOn the Calculation of non-Gaussian cosmological correlations
9/25*Joseph Marsano, CaltechSUSY breaking and gauge mediation in F-theory GUTs
10/7Andrew Neitzke, HarvardBPS Wall-Crossing Via Dimensional Reduction
10/14Sarah Shandera, ColumbiaFundamental Interactions and Inflation
10/21Lev Kofman, University of Toronto,Gravity waves from before and after Inflation
10/28Christopher Herzog, PrincetonHolographic Superfluidity and Superconductivity
11/4Louis Leblond, Texas A&MCosmological Signatures from the End of Brane Inflation
11/11Ben Freivogel, UC-BerkeleyAnthropic Explanation of the Dark Matter Abundance
11/20Jonathan Rocher, University Libre de BruxellesDynamics and Initial Conditions for Hybrid Inflation. Note: Thursday seminar
11/25ThanksgivingNo Seminar
12/02Daniel Jafferis, RutgersM2 branes and Chern-Simons-matter theories