string lunch club
Tuesdays at 12:30pm
Center for Theoretical Physics, building 6
3rd floor seminar room
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served
Organizers
Barton Zwiebach and Matt Headrick
Fall 2004 schedule of talks
September 14
Tachyonic quivers and stringy geometry
Amihay Hanany
MIT
September 21
Some comments on 3d and 2d gravity
Carlos Nunez
MIT
September 28
Fine structure of Hagedorn transitions
Hong Liu
MIT
October 5
Counting flux vacua
Washington Taylor
MIT
October12
Marginal directions and level expansion in Closed String Field Theory
Haitang Yang
MIT
October 19
Nongeometric Vacua In String Theory
Brian Wecht
MIT
October 26
Nongeometric Vacua In String Theory II: The Gathering Storm
Brian Wecht
MIT
November 2
Algebraic framework and computations in closed string field theory
Barton Zwiebach
MIT
November 9
Constructing Heterotic String Field Theory
Barton Zwiebach
MIT
November 16
c=1 Matrix Model for a two dimensional Big Bang/Big Crunch Üniverse
Umut Gursoy
MIT
November 23
Counting flux vacua II: the torus
Washington Taylor
MIT
November 30
QCD String Regge Scattering & Flux Tubes in AdS
Rich Brower
BU/MIT
December 7
TBA
Sergio Benvenuti
SNS, Pisa