String/Gravity Theory Seminar

Wednesdays, 2pm

MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6C-442

Organizers: Hong Liu and Henriette Elvang

Schedule (Fall 2007)

• Wednesday, 9/12, 2pm
  Simplifying DSB and dS
  Eva Silverstein (Stanford)
  
• Wednesday, 9/19, 2pm
  Black holes, modular forms and marginal stability
  Ashoke Sen (MRI)
  
• Wednesday, 9/26, 2pm
  Generalized (non)-geometric flux vacua
  Mariana Grana (CEA/Saclay)
  
• Wednesday, 10/3
  Stringy instanton effects in Type II orientifold
  Timo Weigand (University of Pennsylvania)
  
• Wednesday, 10/10, 2pm Held in 26-100
  More On Three-Dimensional Gravity
  Edward Witten (IAS)
  
• Wednesday, 10/17, 2pm
  Entanglement Entropy from AdS/CFT
  Tadashi Takayanagi (U Kyoto & Harvard)
  
• Wednesday, 10/24, 2pm
  Free Fermions, Topological Strings and 3d Gravity
  Cumrun Vafa, Harvard
  
• Wednesday, 10/31, 2pm
  D-brane deconstructions in 11B orientifolds
  Frederik Denef, Harvard
  
• Wednesday, 11/7, 2pm
  Warped String Compactifications: Signatures and Effective Theory
  Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin)
  
• Wednesday, 11/14, 2pm
  Pseudo-Chern-Simons terms in the Standard Model, with applications
  Jeff Harvey (University of Chicago)
  
• Wednesday, 11/21, 2pm
  no seminar
  
• Wednesday, 11/28, 2pm
  Scattering amplitudes via AdS/CFT
  Fernando Alday (University of Utrecht)
  
• Wednesday, 12/5, 2pm
  High-energy scattering and locality: gravity and strings
  Steven Giddings (UCSB)
  
• Thursday, 12/13, 2pm Reschedule note day and time
  TBA
  Oliver Dewolfe (University of Colorado)
  

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