MCTP: Time-Dependent Backgrounds in String Theory, 2003

Talk Schedule

Monday 03/31:
No talks

Tuesday 04/01:
9:00 AM Djordje Minic, "Holography and de Sitter space"
10:30 AM John Brodie, "A break with your cosomological past"

Wednesday 04/02:
9:00 AM David Kutasov, "TBA"
10:30 AM Eliezer Rabinovici, "TBA"

Thursday 04/03:
9:00 AM Frederic LeBlond, "S-brane gravity fields and rolling tachyons"
10:30 AM Sav Sethi, "Time Dependent Warping"

Friday 04/04:
10:30 AM Martin Einhorn, "Vacua and Squeezed States in de Sitter Space"
2:30 PM Lev Kofman, "Topics of string theory in cosmology"

Saturday 04/05:
9:00 AM Nemanja Kaloper, "TBA"
10:30 AM David Lowe, "Alpha-vacua and Inflation"

Monday 04/07:
9:00 AM Thomas Hertog, "Vacuum Selection in String Theory"
10:30 AM S.P. de Alwis, "On compactification with Fluxes"

Tuesday 04/08:
9:00 AM Will Kinney, "The Flow Equation Approach to Inflationary Dynamics"

Wednesday 04/09:
9:00 AM Henry Tye, "Effective Actions from String Theory for Brane Inflation"

Thursday 04/10:
9:00 AM Alex Maloney, "S-Brane Thermodynamics"
10:30 AM Johannes Walcher, "The Roll of the Noncommutative Tachyon"

Friday 04/11:
2:30 PM Rich Holman, "Perspectives in Inflation, Alpha-Vacua and Decoupling"