Theory Group - Seminars & Special Talks

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Spring 2010

Tue 01/19
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Holography from Conformal Field Theory

Joao Penedones, UCSB-KITP

Tue 01/26
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Probing GeV-scale Dark Forces with New Particle Experiments and Astrophysics

Rouven Essig, SLAC (Abstract)

Tue 02/02
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Orbifold Singularities, Lie Algebras of the Third Kind (LATKes), and Pure Yang-Mills with Matter

Tamar Friedmann, MIT (Abstract)

Tue 02/16
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

(Generalized) Flux Attractors: Applying Black Hole Techniques to Moduli Stabilization

Daniel Robbins, Texas A&M (Abstract)

Tue 02/23
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Lumps and bumps in the early universe

Mustafa Amin, MIT (Abstract)

Tue 03/02
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Recursion Relations in String Theory

Brian Wecht, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Tue 03/09
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

BPS Wall Crossing and Crystal Melting

Masahito Yamazaki, CalTech and University of Tokyo

Tue 03/16
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Spring Break

There is no seminar during Spring Break.

Tue 03/23
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Y-system for scattering amplitudes

Fernando Alday, IAS Princeton (Abstract)

Tue 03/30
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

The Hunt For Dark Matter Continues

Dan Hooper, Fermilab (Abstract)

Thu 04/01
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Inflation, bubble collisions and extra dimensions

Adam Brown, Princeton
Note: This is a Thursday seminar in lieu of the Brown Bag this week.

Tue 04/06
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

The Principle of Plenitude

Asimina Arvanitaki, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Abstract)

Thu 04/15
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Gravity waves and the LHC: Towards high-scale inflation with low-energy SUSY

Alexander Westphal, Stanford SIPT
Note: This is a Thursday seminar in lieu of the Brown Bag this week. (Abstract)

Tue 04/20
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Goldstini

Clifford Cheung, UC Berkeley (Abstract)

Tue 05/04
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Gravity Solutions Duals to Non-relativistic Field Theories

Arnab Kundu, University of Southern California (Abstract)

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Theory Group Seminars and Special Talks All talks are Tuesdays at 2:00 PM in RLM 9.222 unless otherwise noted.

Relativity Seminars All talks are Thursdays at 3:30 PM in RLM 9.222 unless otherwise noted.

Geometry and String Theory Seminars All meetings are Wednesdays at 12:00 PM in RLM 8.136 unless otherwise noted.

Physics Colloquia All talks are Wednesdays at 4:00 PM in RLM 4.102 unless otherwise noted.

Brown Bag Meetings All meetings are Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:30 PM in RLM 9.222 unless otherwise noted. These meetings will typically consist 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.

Texas Cosmology Center Seminars All meetings will be announced