SITP Seminar Schedule
The seminars are held every Monday at 1:30 p.m. in Physics Varian, Room 355 - except where noted
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Date
|
Seminar Speaker
|
Title
|
Special Note
|
| 09/24/07 | Alexander Dolgov |
"Charge asymmetries of the universe: baryonic, leptonic, and electric"
|
None
|
| 10/01/07 | Tomas Ortin |
"Supersymmetric cosmic strings in N=2,d=4 supergravities" |
None |
| 10/08/07 | Marcus Spradlin | "Multiloop Gluon Amplitudes and AdS/CFT" |
None |
| 10/11/08 | Steve Giddings | "High-energy scattering and locality:
gravity and strings" |
Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 10/15/07 | Zvi Bern | "Is N=8 Supergravity Ultraviolet Finite?" | None |
| 10/18/07 | Timo Weigand | "Stringy Instanton effects in Type II orientifolds" | Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 10/22/07 | Tony Gherghetta |
"A Gravity Dual of Single-Sector Supersymmetry Breaking" | None |
| 10/29/07 | Sergio Ferrara | "BPS and non-BPS black hole attractors in N=8, N=2 Supergravity" | None |
| 11/05/07 | Neal Weiner |
"What Supersymmetric Flavor Problem?" |
None |
| 11/06/07 | Juan Maldacena | "Yang Mills amplitudes in N=4 super Yang
Mills from strings in Anti de Sitter space" |
Tuesday, 12:30pm |
| 11/12/07 | Dam Thanh Son | "Graphene as a laboratory for quantum
field theory" |
None |
| 11/15/07 | Matthew Schwartz | "Jets" | Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 11/19/07 | Francesco Benini | "Backreacting Flavors in the KS Background: a New Cascade" | None |
| 11/26/07 | Lawrence Hall | "The LHC: more symmetries or more universes?" |
None |
| 11/29/07 | David Shih | "(Extra) Ordinary Gauge Mediation" |
Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 12/03/07 | Michael Dine | "Symmetries in String Theory" | None |
| 12/06/07 | Eduardo Fradkin |
"Entanglement Entropy at two dimensional quantum critical points and 2D topological fluids: can you hear the shape of Schrödinger's cat?" | Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 12/10/07 | Petr Horava | "Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point" |
None |
| 12/13/07 | Stuart Raby | "The Heterotic Road to the MSSM" |
Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 12/17/07 | Amihay Hanany | "Baryonic moduli spaces and Counting
Chiral Operators" |
None |
| 01/03/08 | Paul Aspinwall | "Five and a Half Pictures of D-Branes" | Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 01/10/08 | Yun S. Song | "Remembrance of things past:
Applying ideas from physics to biological problems" |
Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 01/14/08 | David Mateos | "RHIC physics and string theory: The fundamental story" | None |
| 01/17/08 | Carola Berger | "Twistor-Inspired Methods for Collider Physics" |
Thursday, 12:15pm |
| 01/24/08 | Matt Schwartz | "Effective Field Theory and Collider Physics" | Thursday, 12:15pm |
| 01/28/08 | Ravi Vakil | "Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli
spaces" |
None |
| 01/31/08 | Roni Harnik | "Hierarchy without Color and the LHC" | Thursday, 12:15pm |
| 02/11/08 | Peter Graham | "Searching for
Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry" |
None |
| 02/12/08 | Patrick Hayden | "Black holes as mirrors" | Tuesday, 12:15pm |
| 02/14/08 | Ami Katz | "Composite gluinos at the LHC" | Thursday, 12:15pm |
| 02/19/08 | Leonardo Senatore | "Acceleration in
our past, present and future" |
Tuesday, 12:15pm |
| 02/21/08 | Albion Lawrence | "Fluxes, torsion, and supersymmetry breaking" | Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 02/25/08 | Mark Wise | "An unusual Higgs
Boson" |
None |
| 03/03/08 | Eric Sharpe | "Heterotic swamplands?'' |
None |
| 03/10/08 | Ben Freivogel | "Lifetimes of string theory vacua and the Boltzmann Brain problem" | None |
| 03/17/08 | Hans Jockers | "D-branes, matrix factorizations and monodromies | None |
| 03/24/08 | Chris Herzog | "Impure AdS/CFT" | None |
| 04/14/08 | Joseph Marsano | "M5
branes and SUSY-breaking in gauge theories and string theory" |
None |
| 04/17/08 | Ben Craps | "Quantum resolution of cosmological singularities using AdS/CFT" | Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 04/24/08 | Nathan Seiberg | "General Gauge
Mediation" |
Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 04/28/08 | Gonzalo Torroba | "Dynamics of warped
compactifications" |
None |
| 05/01/08 | Anatoly Dymarsky | "D3-D7 on conic geometry and stringy inflation" | Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 05/05/08 | Masahide Yamaguchi | "D-term chaotic
inflation in supergravity and leptogenesis" |
None |
| 05/08/08 | Gary Horowitz | "Building a Holographic Superconductor" | Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 05/12/08 | Geoffrey Compere | "Setting the boundary
free in AdS/CFT" |
None |
| 05/19/08 | TBA | TBA | None |
| 05/22/08 | Glenn Starkman | "Modifying Gravity" | Thursday, 12:30pm |
| 06/02/08 | Shamit Kachru | TBA | None |
| 06/09/08 | Andy Neitzke | TBA | None |