string lunch club
Tuesday at 12:30(note time change)
Center for Theoretical Physics,
NE25-4th floor
5 Cambridge Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The String Lunch Club is a forum for members of the string theory group (and long-term visitors) to discuss their current work with each other. Talks are informal and usually blackboard. All are welcome to attend.
Organizers
Henriette Elvang and Allan Adams
FAll 2006 schedule of talks
September 19
The tachyon vacuum in general gauges
Barton Zwiebach
September 26 Note now at 12:30PM
Holography of Wilson loops with local operator insertions
Tamiaki Yoneya
October 3
The landscape of intersecting brane models
Washington Taylor
October 10
The phases of the D1-D5 system---towards understanding
blackring microscopics
Masaki Shigemori
Cal Tech
October 17
Ricci flow and black holes
Matt Headrick
October 24
Holography and renormalization in Lorentzian signature
Amit Sever
October 31
The arrow of time, black holes, and quantum mixing of large N Yang-Mills theories.
Guido Festuccia
November 7
From Fake Supergravity to Superstars
Dan Freedman
November 14
Linear Models for Fu-Yau/Flux-Vacua
Joshua Lapan, Harvard
November 21 (Thanksgiving week)
no seminar
November 28
New dimensions for wound strings
John McGreevy
December 5
Kaluza-Klein reduction of conformally flat spaces
Daniel Grumiller
December 12
Hagedorn divergences and tachion potential
Mauro Brigante