Joint Theory Seminar
Fall 2006
Wednesday 4:30 pm, refreshments served at 4:00 pm
The Joint Theory Seminar is run in cooperation with Harvard and Boston University.
The location is rotated among these three schools and thus is held every third
week at MIT:
Center for Theoretical Physics, NE25, Fourth Floor Seminar Room, 5 Cambridge
Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Organizer: Professor Robert Jaffe and Barton Zwiebach
September 13, 2006
``Closed string tachyons and dimensional reduction "
Oren Bergman
Technion University
October 4, 2006
``Landscape Predictions for Higgs Boson and Top Quark Masses"
Lawrence Hall
University of California, Berkeley, LBNL
October 25, 2006
``Geometrically Induced Metastable Vacua"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard
November 15, 2006
"Improving Event Generators with Effective Theories"
Christian Bauer
LBL
December 13, 2006
``Predictions in the landscape"
Raphael Bousso
UC, Berkeley