Seminar Schedule

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First week (April 8 - 12)

 

Monday, April 8 - 335 West Hall

11:00 am             Malcolm Perry (Cambridge)

"Discussion on deSitter Entropy"

 

Tuesday, April 9 - 231 West Hall

11:00 am            Jim Liu (U of M)

                        "Massive gravity and the Ads/Ads braneworld"

 

Wednesday, April 10

11:00 am          335 West Hall

                         Henry Tye (Cornell)

                        "Brane Inflation: from Superstring to Cosmic strings"

4:00 pm            3088 East Hall

          Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Mathematics Department)
                         Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)

                         "Duality and the Open String"

 

Thursday, April 11 - 231 West Hall

11:00 am            Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh)

                        "K-Theory Lectures for Physicists 1" 

 

Friday, April 12 

                        340 West Hall

9:30 am            Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh)

                        "Singularities of Manifold with G(2) Holonomy"

                        335 West Hall

11:00 am            Chris Pope (Texas A&M)

                        "A G_2 Unification of M-theory Conifolds"

 

 

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                                              Second week (April 15 - 19)

 

Monday, April 15 - 335 West Hall

11:00 am             Katie Freese (U of M)

                        "Cardassian Expansion: a model in which the Universe is Flat, Matter Dominated, and Accelerating"

 

Tuesday, April 16 - 231 West Hall

11:00 am            Klaus Behrndt (Caltech)

                        "Brane World Scenarios and Supersymmetry"

 

 

Wednesday, April 17 - 335 West Hall

11:00 am         Herman Nicolai (Albert Einstein Institute)

                        "Gauged Maximal (N=16) Supergravities in Three Dimensions" Abstract  

 

Thursday, April 18 - 231 West Hall

11:00 am            Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh)

                        "K-Theory Lectures for Physicists 2"

 

Friday, April 19 - 335 West Hall

11:00 am            Daniel Chung (CERN)

                        "Towards an alternative to inflation in braneworlds"

 

 

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                                    Third week (April 22 - 26)

 

 

Monday, April 22 - 231 West Hall

11:00 am            Pierre Binetruy (University of Paris)

                        "Discussion on Status of Brane World Cosmology"

 

Tuesday, April 23 - 231 West Hall

10:00 am            Jacob Sonnenschein (Institute for Advanced Study)
                        "RG flows and strings on ppw background"

                        340 West Hall

12:00 noon         Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh)

                        "Polyhedra in Geometry, Physics and Chemistry"
                         Please note that this talk is a MCTP Colloquium at 12:00 Noon

Wednesday, April 24 - 231 West Hall

9:30 am            Tony Pantev

                        "T-duality and spectral gerbes"

11:00 am            Burt Ovrut (Univerity of Pennsylvania)

                        "Superpotential for Vector Bundle Moduli"

 

Thursday, April 25 - 231 West Hall

11:00 am            Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh)

                        "K-theory lectures for Physicists 3"

 

Friday, April 26 - 231 West Hall

9:30 am            Gary Shiu (Univerity of Pennsylvania)

                        "Standard Model from Orientifolds and G2 manifolds "

11:00 am            Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois)

                        "D-branes and duality"

 

 

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                                    Fourth Week (April 29 - May 3)

 

 

Monday, April 29 - 335 West Hall

9:30 am             Ramzi Khuri (CUNY)

                        "Strings, Branes and an Accelerating Universe"

11:00 am            Chris Hull (Queen Mary)

                        "Discussion of pp-Waves in String and M-theory"

 

Tuesday, April 30 - 335 West Hall

9:30 am            Hong Lu (U of M)

                        "Supernumerary Supersymmetry of pp-Waves"

11:00 am            Arkady Tseytlin (Ohio State)

                        "Aspects of Superstrings in Plane Wave Backgrounds"

 

Wednesday, May 1 - 340 West Hall

9:30 am            Asad Naqvi (Univerity of Pennsylvania)

                        "Open strings on giant gravitons from N=4 SYM"

11:00 am            Renata Kallosh (Stanford)

                        "String theory and Hybrid Inflation"

 

Thursday, May 2 - 340 West Hall

9:30 am            Leo Pando Zayas (University of Michigan)

                        "Penrose Limits and AdS/CFT"

11:00 am            Igor Klebanov (Princeton)

                        "A Semiclassical Limit of Gauge/String Correspondence"

 

Friday, May 3 - 340 West Hall

9:30 am            Amanda Peet (Toronto University)

                        "Supergravity S-Branes"

11:00 am            Erik Verlinde (Princeton)

                        "Strings from Quivers"