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KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Joint Tuesday/Thursday Theory Seminars

Speakers: Please give your transparencies to the KITP staff members in the front office (Rm 1102) for scanning. They will be returned promptly to your mailbox.

September 2009 - June 2010

11/19, 2:00 p.m. Kristan Jensen
University of Washington		 Mirror Symmetry and M2 branes[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/12, 2:00 p.m. Christoph Sieg
Niels Bohr Institute		 Perturbative Spectra in Gauge Theories with Gravity Duals at Four Loops and Beyond[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/29, 2:00 p.m. Murad Alim
Bonn University		 Hints for Off-Shell Mirror Symmetry[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/28, 10:30 a.m. Nati Seiberg
IAS		 Goldstinos[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/23, 2:00 p.m. Raman Sundrum
JHU		 SUSY Splits and Then Returns[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/22, 2:00 p.m. Hai-Bo Yu
UC Irvine		 WIMPless Miracle and Hidden Charged Dark Matter[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/15, 2:00 p.m. Anton Kapustin
Caltech		 Exact Results for Wilson Loops in Supersymmetric Chern-Simons-Matter Theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/08, 2:00 p.m. Matthew Roberts
UCSB		 Zero Temperature Limit of Holographic Superconductors[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/24, 2:00 p.m. Kai Wang
Univ. of Tokyo, IPMU		 Probing B/L Violations in the Extended Scalar Models at the LHC[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/02, 2:00 p.m. Dan Israel
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris		 Heterotic Torsional Backgrounds, from Supergravity to CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

September 2008 - June 2009

4/28, 12:30 p.m. David Andriot
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies		 Twist Duality for Flux Backgrounds of Type II and Heterotic String Theory from Generalized Complex Geometry[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/31, 12:30 p.m. Peter Graham
Stanford		 A Domino Theory of Flavor[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/10, 12:30 p.m. Lian-Tao Wang
Princeton University		 Top Quarks and New Physics Signals at the LHC[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/03, 12:30 p.m. Graciela Gelmini
UCLA		 In Search of Dark Matter Particles: Have We Found Them?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/24, 12:30 p.m. David Garfinkle
Oakland Univ.		 Possible Outcomes for Classical Gravitational Singularities[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
2/17, 12:30 p.m. Don Page
Univ of Alberta		 Cosmological Measures without Volume Weighting[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/03, 12:30 p.m. Jaemo Park
POSTECH & Stanford		 Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2-brane CFTs[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12/11, 2:00 p.m. Joe Polchinski, KITP
UCSB		 Landscape/CFT Duality?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12/04, 2:00 p.m. Sandip Trivedi
TIFR & Stanford		 Time Dependent Cosmologies and Their CFT Duals[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/20, 2:00 p.m. Gonzalo Torroba
Rutgers		 Four-dimensional Dynamics of String Compactifications[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/13, 2:00 p.m. Thomas Hertog
APC Paris & Solvay Inst.		 The No-boundary Measure of Eternal Inflation[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/06, 2:00 p.m. Stanley Deser
Brandeis Univ.		 Cosmological Topologically Massive Theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/30, 2:00 p.m. Sakura Schafer-Nameki
Caltech		 SUSY Breaking in F-Theory GUTs[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/23, 2:00 p.m. John Schwarz
Caltech		 Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/16, 2:00 p.m. Yu Nakayama
UC Berkeley		 Index for Non-Relativistic Superconformal Field Theories -- From LLM to ABJM and BL[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/09, 2:00pm Per Kraus
UCLA		 Gravity Duals of the Quantum Hall Effect[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/02, 2:00 p.m. Jock McOrist
Univ. of Chicago		 Summing the Instantons in the Heterotic String[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/25, 2:00 p.m. Bartek Czech
UPenn		 Black Holes from Statistics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

September 2007 - June 2008

Schedule of Future Talks
6/17, 12:30 p.m. David Mateos
UCSB		 A Universal String Prediction for Heavy Ion Collisions[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/12, 2:00 p.m. Diana Vaman
UCSB		 The Space-Cone Gauge and Yang-Mills Tree and Loop-Level Recursion Relations[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/05, 2:00 p.m. Geoffrey Compare
UCSB		 Setting the Boundary Free in AdS/CFT : a Gravity / CFT+Gravity Correspondence[Podcast]
5/29, 2:00 p.m. Mark Jackson
Fermilab		 Detecting Cosmic Superstrings[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/22, 2:00 p.m. Borun Chowdhury
OSU		 Radiation from the Non-extremal Fuzzball[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/15, 2:00 p.m. Susan Gardner
Univ. of Kentucky & KITP		 Shedding Light on Dark Matter: How Faraday Rotation Can Limit a 'Dark' Magnetic Moment[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/08, 2:00 p.m. Sean Carroll
Caltech		 The Universe Is Not Ergodic[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/01, 2:00 p.m. Gouranga Nayak
LANL, Theory Division		 Shift Theorem and Schwinger Mechanism in the Presence of Arbitrary Time Dependent Electric Field[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/24, 2:00 p.m. Brandon Carter
Observatoire de Meudon		 Progress in the Mechanics of (Superconducting) Cosmic Strings and Their (Vorton) Equilibrium States[Aud][Cam]
4/17, 2:00 p.m. Jorge Casalderrey-Solana
UCB		 Probing Strongly Coupled Plasmas with Heavy Quarks[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/10, 2:00 p.m. Pedro Vieira
4 Square Port Royal		 Quantum Wrapped Giant Magnon[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/20, 2:00 p.m. Joao Penedones
UCSB		 High Energy Scattering in AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/13, 2:00 p.m. Kostas Skenderis
UvA		 The Fuzzball Proposal for Black Holes[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/06, 2:00 p.m. Anatoly Dymarsky
Stanford		 D-brane Inflation in String Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/21, 2:00 p.m. Peter Graham
Stanford		 Searching for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/07, 2:00 p.m. Matthew Schwartz
JHU		 Effective Field Theory and Collider Physics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/31, 2:00 p.m. Don Page
Univ of Alberta		 Boundary Conditions for the Universe[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/24, 2:00 p.m. Graham Kribs
Univ. Oregon		 The Supersymmetric Flavor Problem, R-symmetry, and the LHC[Podcast]
1/10, 2:00 p.m. Mark Srednicki
UCSB		 High-Energy Gravitational Scattering and Black Hole Resonances[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12/13, 1:30 p.m. Gabriele Veneziano
CERN		 Towards an S-matrix Description of Gravitational Collapse[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12/06, 2:00 p.m. Diego Trancanelli
UCSB		 On Supersymmetric Wilson Loops[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/29, 2:00 p.m. Roni Harnik
SLAC		 Hierarchy without Color and the LHC[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/14, 2:00 p.m. Niklas Beisert
Princeton		 Spectral Curve for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/15, 2:00 p.m. Petr Horava
UCB		 Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/08, 2:00 p.m. Cindy Keeler
UCB		 Closed String Tachyon Condensation in the E_8 Heterotic System[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/01, 2:00 p.m. Andy O'Bannon
UW		 Metallic AdS/CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/25, 2:00 p.m. Eric D'Hoker
UCLA		 Exact Half-BPS Solutions to Type IIB Supergravity[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/18, 2:00 p.m. Steve Giddings
UCSB		 High-energy Scattering and Locality: Gravity and Strings[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/11, 2:00 p.m. Itzhak Bars
USC		 Two-Time Physics, The Unified View from Higher Dimensional Space and Time[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/04, 2:00 p.m. Clifford Johnson
USC		 External Fields and the Dynamics of Flavour in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/27, 2:00 p.m. John Preskill
Caltech		 Black Holes as Mirrors[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/25, 2:00 p.m. Ali Nayeri
Harvard		 Generating Inflation-Free Scale-Invariant Power Spectrum in String Gas Cosmology[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/13, 2:00 p.m. Lara Anderson
Univ. of Oxford		 M Theory on Singular G2 Spaces[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

September 2006 - June 2007

6/14, 2:00 p.m. Theodore Erler
Harish Chandra Research Institute		 Analytic Progress in Open String Field Theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/07, 2:00 p.m. Mark Scheel
Caltech		 Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Inspirals[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/31, 2:00 p.m. Luis Fernando Alday
Utrecht U. & IAS		 Gluon Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/17, 2:00 p.m. Masaki Shigemori
Caltech		 Non-supersymmetric Brane/anti-brane Configurations in Type IIA and M-theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/10, 2:00 p.m. Sumit Das
University of Kentucky		 Null Singularities and their Gauge Theory Duals[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/03, 2:00 p.m. Gary Horowitz
UCSB		 Toward Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/26, 2:00 p.m. Lance Dixon
SLAC		 Is N=8 Supergravity Finite?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/12, 2:00 p.m. David Kutasov
University of Chicago		 Symmetry Breaking from Intersecting Branes[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/05, 2:00 p.m. Aaron Amsel
UCSB		 Stability and Instability in Designer Gravity
3/15, 2:00 p.m. Joe Marsano
Caltech		 'Metastable' brane-antibrane configurations in type IIA and M-theory and the large-N duality conjecture in IIB[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/14, 12:30 p.m. Jose Edelstein
USC & CECS		 A string dual perspective on quark-gluon plasmas of QCD-like theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/02, 12:15 p.m. Zackaria Chacko
University of Arizona		 Twin Higgs Theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/01, 4:00 p.m. Zackaria Chacko
University of Arizona		 Symmetry as a Guide to New Physics at the Weak Scale[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/15, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Yutaka Ookouchi
Caltech		 Meta-stable SUSY Breaking Vacua in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/08, 2:00 p.m. Lee Lindblom
Caltech		 Generalised Harmonic Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

September 2005 - June 2006

2/16, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Natalia Saulina
Harvard		 Bound States of BPS D-Banes and Topological Strings[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/15, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Yoshifume Hyakutake
KITP		 Higher Derivative Corrections in M-Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/13, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Pavel Kovtun
KITP		 How Can AdS/CFT Be Useful for Heavy Ion Physics?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/27, 1:00 p.m. Dr. Jack Gunion
UC Davis		 Why We Should Believe in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/04, 1:00 p.m. Dr. Taizan Watari
LBL		 Dimension-4 Proton Decay and Underlying Gauge Symmetry[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/18, 1:00 p.m. Dr. Peter Svrček
Stanford		 Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Campactifications[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/25, 1:00 p.m. Dr. Fabio Scardigli
CENTRA		 A Quantum-like Description of the Planetary Systems[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/01, 1:00 p.m. Dr. David Mateos
UCSB		 The Flavorful Gauge/Gravity Correspondence[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/08, 1:00 p.m. Mr. Anshuman Maharana
UCSB, Physics		 Dilaton Dynamics in Type IIB Flux Vacua[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

September 2005 - June 2006

9/29, 12:00 p.m. Dr. Oliver Rosten
School of Physics & Astronomy
Univ Southampton, UK		 A Generalised, Manifestly Gauge Invariant ERG for SU(N) Yang-Mills[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

September 2004 - June 2005

9/15, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Ari Pakman
Hebrew University
Racah Institute of Physics		 D-Branes in N=2 Liouville and Its Mirror[Aud][Cam]
11/03, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Sebastian Franco
MIT		 Holographic Cascades for D-Branes on Singularities[Aud][Cam]
12/08, 12:30 p.m. Dr. C. Schmid
ETH, Zurich		 Cosmological Gravitomagnetism and Mach's Principle[Aud][Cam]
1/13, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Peter Ouyang
UCSB		 The Mysterious Pentaquark[Aud][Cam]
1/20, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Andrei Mikhailov
Caltech		 Geometry of Fast Moving Strings[Slides]
1/27, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Shamit Kachru
Stanford		 Predictive Landscapes?[Aud][Cam]
2/03, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Per Kraus
UCLA		 Supertubes and the 4D Black Hole[Slides][Aud]
2/04, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Stephen Hawking
University of Cambridge		 Black Holes and the Information Paradox[Aud][Cam]
2/10, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Nathan Seiberg
IAS, Princeton		 Minimal Flux Vacua[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2/10, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Eva Silverstein
Stanford		 A New Handle on dS and on Topology Change in String Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2/17, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Alexander Maloney
SLAC		 A Stringy Cloak for a Classical Singularity[Aud][Cam]
2/18, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Roger Penrose
Oxford		 On Twistor-String Theory[Aud][Cam]
2/25, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Horatiu Nastase
Brown		 Black Hole Production, the Froissart Bound, the Soft Pomeron and the RHIC Fireball from AdS-CFT[Aud][Cam]
3/10, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Wati Taylor
MIT		 Counting Flux Vacua with Special Properties[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/17, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Thomas Hertog
UCSB		 Holographic Cosmology[Aud][Cam]
3/31, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Amir Kashani-Poor
SLAC		 IIA Compactifications with FLUX[Aud][Cam]
4/04, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech		 Topological Strings and Black Holes[Slides][Aud][Cam]
4/14, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Larus Thorlacius
University of Iceland & Stanford		 Quantum Aspects of Charged Black Holes[Aud][Cam]
4/21, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Henriette Elvang
UCSB		 Black Rings in String Theory[Aud][Cam]
4/28, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Paul Aspinwall
Duke University		 M-Theory of K3 x K3[Slides][Aud][Cam]
5/05, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Ralf Hofmann
University of Heidelberg		 SU(2)/SU(3) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics and Some Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology[Aud][Cam]
5/12, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Juerg Kaeppeli
Max Planck Institut		 Black Hole Entropy and Asymptotic Degeneracy of Dyonic N=4 String States[Aud][Cam]
5/19, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Henry Tye
Cornell		 Wavefunction of the Universe[Aud][Cam]
5/26, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Michael Douglas
Rutgers		 Recent Results in Statistics of Vacua[Aud]
5/27, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed
Harvard		 Black Holes and Plasma Balls in Large N Gauge Theories[Aud][Cam]
6/02, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Andreas Karch
University of Washington		 Superjanus[Aud][Cam]
6/03, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Frans Pretorius
Caltech		 On the Simulation of Binary Black Holes in General Relativity[Aud][Cam]
6/09, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Raphael Bousso
Berkeley		 Cosmology, Event Horizons and the S-Matrix[Aud][Cam]

September 2003 - June 2004

11/12, 10:00 a.m. Dr. James Sparks
Imperial College		 G-Structures, Fluxes and Calibrations in M-Theory[Aud][Cam]
11/25, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Yang Hui He
University Pennsylvania		 Modular Matrix Models[Aud][Cam]
12/05, 10:30 a.m. Dr. Stefan Hollands
University of Chicago		 PCT and Renormalization Group in Curved Spacetime[Aud][Cam]
12/11, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Peter Bouwknegt
University of Adelaide		 T-Duality and Topology Change[Aud][Cam]
12/11, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Sean Carroll
University of Chicago		 How Eternal Inflation Explains the Second Law of Thermodynamics[Aud][Cam]
12/16, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Nicolai Reshetikhin
Berkeley		 Dimers: Recent Developments[Aud][Cam]
12/18, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Johannes Walcher
KITP		 Non-Perturbative RR Potentials in the C-1 Matrix Model[Aud][Cam]
1/15, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Amer Iqbal
Harvard		 Geometric Engineering and Elliptic Genera[Aud]
1/21, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Michael Haack
KITP		 Some Comments on KKLT[Aud][Cam]
1/22, 2:00 p.m. Dr. David Kosower
SPT CEA-Saclay		 Peeking at all Orders in N=4 SUSY[Slides][Aud][Cam]
1/29, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Leonardo Rastelli
Princeton		 Open/Closed Duality in Topological Matrix Models[Aud][Cam]
2/05, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nathan Seiberg
IAS		 Minimal String Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2/13, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nick Warner
USC		 SUSY Breaking by Fluxes and Dielectric Brane Distributions[Aud][Cam]
2/19, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Simon Ross
Durham		 Quotients of AdS_{p+1} x S^q[Aud][Cam]
2/26, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Samir Mathur
Ohio State		 Where are the States of a Black Hole?[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/03, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Sergei Gukov
Harvard		 Modern Superstring Phenomenology: Flux Compactifications and the Moduli Problem[Aud][Cam]
3/11, 2:00 p.m. Dr. John McGreevy
Princeton		 Supercritical Duals for Unstable Branes[Aud][Cam]
4/01, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Mohammad Sheikh-Jabbari
Stanford		 Giant Hedge-Hogs and Spikes on Giant Gravitons[Aud][Cam]
4/08, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Brook Williams
UCSB		 Nongeometric Heterotic String Theories[Aud][Cam]
4/15, 12:00 p.m. Dr. Katrin Becker
Utah		 Fluxes Torsion and the Ground State of String Theory[Aud][Cam]
4/22, 3:30 p.m. Dr. Arkady Tseytlin
Ohio & Imperial		 Spinning Strings, Spin Chains and AdS/CFT[Aud][Cam]
4/29, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Chris Herzog
KITP		 Chaos and KS[Aud][Cam]
5/06, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Stephen Hsu
University Oregon		 Holography, Entropy and Extra Dimensions[Aud][Cam]
5/13, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Christos Kokorelis
INP, NCSR		 The Standard Model from Intersecting D-Brane Models[Aud]
5/20, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Simeon Hellerman
IAS		 An S-Duality Between Critical and Non-Critical String Theories[Aud][Cam]
5/27, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Mike Douglas
Rutgers		 Constructing and Counting IIb String Vacua[Slides][Aud][Cam]
6/03, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Iosif Bena
UCLA		 Three Charge Supertubes and Black Hole Hair[Aud][Cam]

September 2002 - June 2003

9/24, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Anastasia Volovich
KITP		 Superstring Interactions in a Plane Wave Background[Aud][Cam]
10/01, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Joe Polchinski
KITP		 Quantum Hall Effect on R4
10/03, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Eliezer Rabinovici
Jerusalem		 Big Bang, Big Crunch, and Beyond[Aud][Cam]
10/08, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Allan Adams
Stanford		 Decapitating Tadpoles with a Non-Local String
10/10, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Andrew Frey
UCSB		 BPS Strings in 3-Forms[Aud][Cam]
10/15, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Joan Simon
Weizmann Institute		 Null-Branes and Time Dependence in String Theory
10/17, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Kengo Maeda
UCSB		 Colliding Kaluza-Klein Bubbles[Aud][Cam]
10/22, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Andreas Karch
Washington		 TBA
10/24, 2:00 p.m. Dr. David Garfinkle
Oakland		 Numerical Simulations of Singularities[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10/29, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Christopher Herzog
KITP		 The Hydrodynamics of M-Theory
10/30, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Oliver DeWolfe
KITP		 Matrix Models, Topological Strings, and Supersymmetric Gauge Theory: An Introduction to the work of Dijkgraaf and Vafa
10/31, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Jorge Pullin
Louisiana State		 Consistent Discrete Quantum Gravity on the Lattice[Aud][Cam]
11/05, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Thomas Hertog
UCSB		 The Origin of Inflation
11/07, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Michael Schulz
Caltech		 New SUSY String Compactifications from Twisted Tori[Slides][Aud][Cam]
11/12, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Eanna Flanagan
Cornell		 Quantum Inequalities in Curved Spacetime
11/14, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Sanjaye Ramgoolam
Brown		 Higher Dimensional Fuzzy Spheres and Hidden Geometries in Matrix Theories[Aud][Cam]
12/03, 12:30 p.m. Dr. David Berenstein
IAS		 Quantum Moduli Spaces from Matrix Models
12/05, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Brook Williams
UCSB		 Geometric Constructions of Nongeometric String Theories[Aud][Cam]
1/09, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Harvey Reall
Queen Mary College, London		 Black Holes, Time Machines and Supersymmetry[Aud][Cam]
1/14, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Michael Gutperle
UCLA & Stanford		 TBA
1/21, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Radu Roiban
UCSB		 Matrix Models with Flavor
1/23, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Christian Romelsberger
USC		 Unoriented Strings, Loop Equations, and N=1 Superpotentials from Matrix Models[Aud][Cam]
2/06, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nadav Drukker
Weizmann		 Different Actions for the Vacuum of String Field Theory[Aud][Cam]
2/11, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
KITP & IHES		 Small Instantons, Little Strings, and 1/N
2/13, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Jaume Gomis
Caltech		 Gauge Theory Description of String Interactions in a PP-Wave[Aud][Cam]
2/18, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Hong Liu
Rutgers		 Closed String Creation from Rolling Tachyon
2/20, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Tohru Eguchi
Tokyo		 Supercoset CFT's for String Theories on Non-Compact Special Holonomy Manifolds[Aud][Cam]
2/21, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Kristin Schleich
(UBC)
Dr. Don Witt
(UBC)		 Topological Censorship[Aud][Cam]
2/27, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Edna Cheung
Caltech		 Strings in Gravimagnetic Fields
3/04, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Gary Horowitz
UCSB		 Supersymmetric Compactifications Can be Unstable
3/06, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Anton Kapustin
Caltech		 D-Branes in Landau-Ginzburg Models[Aud]
3/11, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech		 The C-Deformation and Non-Planar Diagrams in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
3/13, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Mina Aganagic
Harvard		 Matrix Models, Mirror Symmetry, and Chern-Simons Theory[Aud][Cam]
4/17, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Andreas Brandhuber
Caltech		 Chiral Rings and Superpotentials[Aud][Cam]
5/01, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Eric Braaten
Ohio		 An Infrared Renormalization Group Limit Cycle in QCD[Aud][Cam]
5/08, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Mark van Raamsdonk
UBC & Stanford		 Stringy Thermodynamics in Weakly Coupled Yang-Mills Theory[Aud][Cam]
5/15, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Gautam Mandal
Tata Institute		 String Theory on AdS 5xS5 at Small Radius[Aud][Cam]
5/22, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Andrei Starinets
Washington		 Finite-Temperature AdS/CFT[Aud][Cam]
5/29, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Brian Wecht
UCSD		 The Exact Superconformal R-symmetry Maximizes a[Aud][Cam]
6/12, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Cumrun Vafa
Harvard and Caltech		 TBA[Aud][Cam]

September 2001 - June 2002

9/25, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Alex Buchel
ITP		 Singularities and Thermal Phase Transitions in Gauge/Gravity Duals--I[Slides][Aud][Cam]
9/27, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Alex Buchel
ITP		 Singularities and Thermal Phase Transitions in Gauge/Gravity Duals--II[Slides]
10/02, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Joe Polchinski
ITP		 Hard Scattering in Gauge/Gravity Duality[Aud][Cam]
10/04, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Richard Corrado
CIT-USC		 An N=2 Supersymmetric Membrane Flow
10/09, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Iosif Bena
UC Santa Barbara		 The Polarization of F1 Strings into D2 Branes: Aut Caesar aut Nihil[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10/11, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Yutaka Matsuo
Tokyo		 Noncommutative Soliton in Open String Field Theory
10/16, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Radu Roiban
UC Santa Barbara		 Graded Topological D-Branes and Graded Chern-Simons Theories[Aud][Cam]
10/18, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Mukund Rangamani
Princeton		 Hot Little Strings: A Supergravity Perspective
10/23, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Johannes Walcher
ITP		 CFT and G2 Holonomy[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10/25, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Christian Roemelsberger
CIT-USC		 Intersection Numbers, Tadpoles and Anomalies
10/30, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Justin David
UC Santa Barbara		 Fermions in Bosonic String Theories[Aud][Cam]
11/01, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Jaume Gomis
Caltech		 String Duals for Wrapped Branes
11/06, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Neil Turok
Cambridge		 From Big Crunch to Big Bang[Aud][Cam]
11/08, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Michael Gutperle
Harvard		 Fluxbranes in String Theory
11/13, 12:30 p.m. Bo Feng
MIT		 Toric Duality and Seiberg Duality[Slides][Aud][Cam]
11/15, 2:00 p.m. Anastasia Volovich
Harvard		 Noncommutative Solitons on Kahler Manifolds
11/20, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Oliver DeWolfe
ITP		 Holography and Defect Conformal Field Theories[Slides][Aud][Cam]
11/27, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Ajit Srivastava
Institute for Physics, Bhubaneswar and UCSB		 Measuring Cosmic Defect Correlations in Liquid Crystals[Slides][Aud][Cam]
11/29, 2:00 p.m. Dr. John McGreevy
Stanford		 Linear Sigma Models for Open Strings
12/04, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Justin Khoury
Princeton		 The Ekpyrotic Universe[Slides][Aud]
12/06, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Kirill Krasnov
UCSB		 Lambda < 0 Quantum Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions (as a string theory)
12/11, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Raphael Bousso
ITP		 Conformal Vacua and Entropy of de Sitter Space[Aud][Cam]
12/13, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Frederik Denef
Columbia		 Quantum Quivers and Hole Halos
2/04, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Christopher Herzog
Princeton		 The Conifold and Beyond[Aud]
2/07, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Kengo Maeda
UC Santa Barbara		 Inhomogeneous Near-extremal Black Branes
2/12, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Roberto Emparan
CERN		 The End of Black Hole Uniqueness[Aud][Cam]
2/14, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Albion Lawrence
SLAC		 Signatures of Short Distance Physics in the Cosmic Microwave Background[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2/19, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Andrew Frey
UC Santa Barbara, Physics		 Physics of N=3 Warped Compactifications[Aud][Cam]
2/21, 2:00 p.m. Dr. David Lowe
Brown University		 Black Hole Entropy and Spacetime from Matrix Quantum Mechanics[Aud][Cam]
3/05, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Horatiu Nastase
IAS		 Strings and Matrices in Flat Space and pp Waves from Supersymmetric Gauge Theories[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/07, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Eliezer Rabinovici
Jerusalem		 TBA[Aud][Cam]
3/12, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Mark van Raamsdonk
Stanford		 Open Dielectric Branes[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/14, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Lenny Susskind
Stanford		 TBA[Aud][Cam]
3/19, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Andrei Mikhailov
ITP		 Notes on Higher Spin Symmetries[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/21, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Simeon Hellerman
Stanford		 The Undiscover'd Country: String Theories without Geometry[Aud][Cam]
4/02, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Barak Kol
IAS		 On Exactly Marginal Deformations of 4d N=4 and AdS5 * S5[Aud][Cam]
4/04, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Alex Maloney
Harvard		 Aspects of Quantum Gravity in de Sitter Space[Aud][Cam]
4/09, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Joerg Teschner
Freie Universitat Berlin		 Branes in the Euclidean AdS_3[Slides][Aud]
4/11, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Petr Horava
Berkeley		 Ekpyrosis by Remote Control in Heterotic M-Theory
4/16, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Gary Horowitz
UC Santa Barbara		 Time Dependent Backgrounds for String Theory[Aud][Cam]
4/18, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Per Berglund
CIT-USC		 Matter from G2 Manifolds[Aud][Cam]
4/23, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Mariana Grana
UC Santa Barbara		 D3-Action in a Supergravity Background: The Fermionic Story[Aud][Cam]
4/25, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Raphael Bousso
ITP		 Holographic Domains of Anti-de Sitter Space[Aud][Cam]
4/30, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Misha Vasiliev
Lebedev Physical Institute		 Higher Spin Gauge Theories and Symplectic Symmetries[Aud][Cam]
5/01, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nathan Seiberg
IAS		 Strings in a Time Dependent Orbifold[Aud][Cam]
5/07, 12:30 p.m. Dr. George Savvidy
National Research Center Demokritos, Athens		 Conformal Invariant Strings with Extrinsic Curvature Action[Aud]
5/09, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Emil Mottola
ITP & Los Alamos		 Gravitational Condensate Stars: An Alternative to Black Holes[Slides][Aud][Cam]
5/14, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Mark Srednicki
UCSB		 On the Observability of Information Radiated from a Black Hole[Aud][Cam]
5/16, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Leonardo Rastelli
Princeton University		 The Projector Equation in Open String Field Theory[Aud][Cam]
5/21, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Joe Polchinski
UC Santa Barbara		 Deep Inelastic Scattering and the Growth of Strings[Aud][Cam]
5/23, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Dam Son
ITP & Washington		 From AdS/CFT Correspondence to Hydrodynamics[Aud][Cam]
6/26, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Dan Freedman
MIT		 PP-String Interactions from Perturbative Gauge Theory[Aud][Cam]
6/27, 2:00 p.m. Dr. James Liu
Michigan		 Massive gravity and the AdS/AdS Braneworld[Aud][Cam]

August 2000 - June 2001

8/31, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Eduardo Fradkin
ITP & University Illinois		 Urbana Quantum Hall Physics for String Theorists[Slides][Aud]
9/12, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Joe Polchinski
ITP		 Supergravity Duals for N=1 Gauge Theories[Aud]
9/19, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Justin David
UCSB		 Tachyon Condensation in the DO/D4-System[Aud]
9/21, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Neil Turok
Cambridge University		 Cosmological Instantons[Aud]
9/21, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Shinji Hirano
ITP		 Giant Gravitons in AdS and their Field Theory Dual
9/26, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Veronika Hubeny
UCSB		 CFT Description of Small Objects in AdS[Aud]
9/28, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
Princeton		 Stable and Unstable Solitons of Noncommutative Yang-Mills Theory
10/3, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Kirill Krasnov
University California, Santa Barbara		 3D AdS Gravity and Liouville Theory
10/5, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Hiroshi Ooguri
Caltech		 Non-Relativistic Closed String Theory
10/10, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Soo-Jong Rey
SNU		 Open Wilson Line, S-Duality and UV-IR Holography in Noncommutative Gauge Theory
10/12, 2:00 p.m. Dr. John Baez
University of California, Riverside		 n-Categorical Physics
10/17, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Sebastian de Haro
Utrecht		 Reconstructing the Bulk in AdS/CFT Correspondence and High-Energy Scattering[Aud]
10/19, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Per Kraus
University Chicago		 Tachyon Condensation in Noncommutative Gauge Theory
10/24, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Raphael Bousso
ITP		 Positive Vacuum Energy and the N-bound[Slides][Aud]
10/26, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Ann Nelson
University of Washington		 The 28 Parameters of the Standard Model and the 152 Parameters of the MSSM:Windows to the Planck Scale?
10/31, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Koji Hashimoto
ITP & Kyoto University		 Nonlinear Monopoles[Aud]
11/07, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Steve Giddings
UCSB		 Effective Theories and Black Hole Production in Warped Compactifications[Slides][Aud][Cam]
11/14, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Oliver DeWolfe
ITP		 Anatomy of Two Holographic Renormalization Group Flows[Slides][Aud][Cam]
11/16, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Steven Carlip
University of California, San Diego		 Boundary Conditions and Black Hole Entropy in Two Dimensions
11/20, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Sergey Gukov
Caltech & Princeton		 Warped Compactifications on Calabi-Yau Four-Folds[Aud]
11/22, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Jaydeep Majumder
Mehta Research Institute		 Marginal Deformation and Creation of Codimension >2 Solitons on Brane-Antibrane Pair[Aud]
11/28, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Andrei Mikhailov
ITP		 Giant Gravitons from Holomorphic Surfaces[Aud]
11/30, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Sergey Cherkis
University of California, Los Angeles		 Periodic Monopoles in String Theory
12/5, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Nadav Drukker
USC		 Conformal Anomaly of Wilson Loops, or What is the Difference between a Circle and a Line?[Slides][Aud][Cam]
12/7, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Alex Buchel
ITP		 Finite Temperature Resolution of the Klebanov-Tseytlin Singularity
12/12, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Andreas Brandhuber
CERN		 Correlators in the Coulomb Branch of N=4 SYM[Aud][Cam]
12/14, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Emanuel Diaconescu
IAS, Princeton		 Topological Aspects of M Theory

August 1999 - June 2000

9/30, 10:30 a.m. Dr. Malcom Perry
Cambridge University		 The M-theory 9-brane
1/18, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Herman Verlinde
Princeton		 Holography, RG, and Gravity
1/20, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Ashok Sen
Tata Institute		 World Volume Action for Non-BPS branes
1/28, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Michael Douglas
Rutgers		 D-branes on a Noncompact Calabi-Yau[Aud]
2/15, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Nadav Drukker
ITP		 Green-Schwarz String in AdS5 x S5: Semiclassical Partition Function[Slides]
2/24, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Petr Horava
Caltech		 End-of-the-World Annihilation in M-Theory and String Theory
2/29, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Jan de Boer
University of Utrecht		 TBA
3/2, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Steve Gubser
Princeton		 Curvature Singularities: The Good, the Bad, and the Naked
3/7, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Veronika Hubeny
UCSB		 Quasinormal Modes of AdS Black Holes and the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium
3/9, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Eva Silverstein
Stanford		 TBA
3/14, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Daniel Holz
ITP		 Probing Dark Matter from Lensing of High-Redshift Supernovae[Slides]
4/4, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Yuri Shirman
Princeton		 Localizing Gravity on Smooth Branes[Aud]
4/6, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Shiraz Minwalla
Harvard		 TBA
4/11, 12:45 p.m. Dr. Aki Hashimoto
ITP		 The Really Interesting Aspects of Non-Commutative Geometry[Slides]
4/13, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Willy Fischler
University Texas, Austin		 The Interplay of Theta and T
4/20, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Rajesh Gopakumar
Harvard		 Non-Commutative Solitons
4/27, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Vipul Periwal
Princeton Univ		 Schwinger-Dyson, Wheeler-DeWitt, Yang-Baxter, et al.[Slides]
5/16, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Gary Horowitz
UCSB		 Self Tuning in an Outgoing Brane Wave Model[Slides][Aud]
5/18, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Washington Taylor
MIT		 Getting to the Bottom of the Open Bosonic String Tachyon
5/23, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Nissan Itzhaki
UCSB		 Sphalerons, Merons and Unstable Branes in AdS[Aud]
5/25, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Igor Klebanov
Princeton		 TBA
6/8, 2:00 p.m. Dr. David Gross
ITP		 TBA

August 1998 - June 1999

9/24 2:00 p.m. Dr. Andrew Chamblin
Cambridge University		 The NUTs and Bolts of AdS Holography
9/29 12:15 p.m. Dr. Amanda Peet
ITP		 IR/UV in AdS/CFT
10/1 2:00 p.m. Dr. Gary Horowitz
UCSB		 Using Gauge Theories to Describe Black Holes
10/6 12:30 p.m. Dr. Patrick Brady
ITP, UCSB		 Ripples in Spacetime: Gravitational Wave Astronomy and What It Might Tell Us
10/13 12:30 p.m. Dr. Veronika Hubeny
UCSB		 Overcharging a Black Hole and Cosmic Censorship
10/15 2:00 p.m. Dr. Jan De Boer
LBL		 Supergravity and Strings on AdS_3
10/20 2:00 p.m. Dr. Joe Polchinski
ITP, UCSB		 Matrix Theory and Maldacena Conjecture
10/22 2:00 p.m. Dr. Oren Bergman
Harvard		 String Junctions: Review and Applications
10/27 12:30 p.m. Dr. Per Berglund
ITP, UCSB		 Heterotic/F-Theory Duality
10/29 2:00 p.m. Dr. Raphael Bousso
Stanford		 The Proliferation of de Sitter Space
11/3 12:30 p.m. Dr. Vipul Periwal
Princeton		 Collective Coordinates from a First-Quantized Perspective
11/5 2:00 p.m. Dr. Tony Gherghetta
Univ of Michigan		 Lowering the GUT Scale with Extra Dimensions
11/10 12:30 p.m. Dr. Albion Lawrence
Harvard
Lyman Lab		 Holography and Local Probes
11/12 2:00 p.m. Dr. Gary Shiu
Cornell		 Low Scale Superstrings
11/17 12:30 p.m. Dr. Tristan Hubsch
ITP & Howard U		 Warning: a (2,2)-Supersymmetric Epidemic![Slides]
11/19 2:00 p.m. Dr. Ram Brustein
CERN		 Models of String Cosmology
11/24 12:30 p.m. Dr. Nissan Itzhaki
UCSB		 Dilatonic D-branes and Field Theory
12/1 12:30 p.m. Dr. Simon Ross
UCSB		 AdS/CFT: Phase Transitions in the Microcanonical Ensemble
12/3 2:00 p.m. Dr. Eric D'Hoker
UCLA		 Correlation Functions in the AdS/CFT Correspondence
2/16 12:00 Noon Dr. Matthew Strassler
Inst for Advanced Study		 Reflections on Mirror Symmetry: New Results in Super QED-3
2/18 2:00 p.m. Dr. Lisa Randall
MIT & Princeton		 Supersymmetry Breaking and Extra Dimensions
2/22 2:00 p.m. Dr. Washington Taylor IV
MIT		 Interactions, Supercurrents and Backgrounds in Matrix Theory
3/10 3:30 p.m. Dr. Andrew Strominger
Harvard		 Holography and Coset Spaces
3/11 2:00 p.m. Dr. Alexander Kusenko
UCLA		 SUSY, Q-balls: Theory and Cosmology
3/15 2:00 p.m. Dr. Clifford Johnson
University of Kentucky		 Catastrophic Holography[Aud]
3/18 2:00 p.m. Dr. Steven Gubser
ITP & Harvard		 Renormalization group flows in AdS/CFT
3/22 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nikita Nekrassov
ITP & Harvard		 A Few Problems in Gauge Theory/Gravity Correspondence
3/25 2:00 p.m. Dr. Steve Giddings
UCSB		 The Boundary S-matrix and the AdS/CFT Dictionary
4/1 2:00 p.m. Dr. Finn Larsen
ITP & Fermi Institute		 The Spacetime Conformal Field Theory of Black Holes
4/8 2:00 p.m. Dr. Joseph Minahan
IAS		 Asymptotic Freedom and Confinement from Type O String Theory[Slides]
4/12 2:00 p.m. Dr. Oliver deWolfe
& MIT		 Symmetries of (p,q) 7-branes and Field Theories in Four and Five Dimensions
4/15 2:00 p.m. Dr. Shinji Hirano
ITP, UCSB		 Tachyon Condensation and Graviton Production in Matrix Theory[Slides]
4/22 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nadav Drukker
ITP, UCSB		 Wilson Loops and Minimal Surfaces[Slides][Aud]
4/29 2:00 p.m. Dr. Amanda Peet
ITP, UCSB		 When Can Brane Intersectins be Localized? Some Supergravity No-hair Results and Their Field Theory Duals
5/6 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nikita Nekrassov
ITP & Harvard		 Singularities, RG Flows and Mirror Symmetry[Slides]
5/10 2:00 p.m. Dr. Peter Mayr
CERN		 Nonperturbative N=1 Strings from Geometric Singularities[Slides]
5/13 2:00 p.m. Dr. Bernard De Wit
ITP & ITP
Univ. of Utrecht		 Deviations from the Area Law and N=2 Supersymmetric Black Holes[Slides]
5/24 2:00 p.m. Dr. Andrew Chamblin
Cambridge Univ		 Search for a Realistic M-theory Cosmology[Slides][Aud]
6/3 2:00 p.m. Dr. Per Berglund
UCSB, ITP		 The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Spectrum Generating Algebras
6/10 2:00 p.m. Dr. Arkady Tseytlin
Imperial College		 Supersymmetric F^4 Operator and AdS/CFT Correspondence[Slides]
6/28 2:00 p.m. Dr. Raphael Bousso
Stanford		 The Holographic Principle for General Space-times[Slides][Aud]

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