string gravity
Wednesday at 2:00pm
Center for Theoretical Physics, NE25
4th floor seminar room, 5 Cambridge Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Seminars will beheld on Wednesday when there is no Joint Theory Seminar scheduled in the CTP)
Organizers
Hong Liu , Brian Wecht
Fall 2006 schedule of talks
September 20
Dressing the Giant Magnon
Marcus Spradlin
Brown University
September 27
Split Polar Attractors
Gregory Moore
Rutgers University
October 4- no seminar due to JT seminar
October 11
Partition functions and elliptic genera from supergravity
Finn Larsen
University of Michigan
October 18,
Quantum mechanics and classical spacetimes
Vijay Balasubramanian
University of Pennsylvania
October 19, String/Gravity Seminar(extra)
D-branes down the throat and duality in N=a gauge theories with flavor
Sameer Murthy
ICTP
October 25-no seminar due to JT seminar
November 1
Liouville theory, modular forms and elliptic genera
Tohru Eguchi
U Toyko/Princeton
November 8
Non-perturbative Couplings of String Vacua--Intersecting D-brane Story
Mirjam Cvetic
University of Pennsylvania
November 15 - no seminar due to JT seminar
November 22 no seminar due to Thanskgiving Holiday
November 29
Holographic Description of NOnlocal Operators in Gauge Theory
Jaume Gomis
Perimeter Institute
December 6
Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory
Chris Beasley
Harvard
December 13 -no seminar due to JT seminar