Graduate Lunch Club
When
Fridays, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location
Center for Theoretical Physics, building 6
3rd floor seminar room
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Organizers
Antonello Scardicchio and David Guarrera
The CTP Lunch Club meets at 12 noon in the CTP seminar room every Friday (provided that there are sufficient speakers). A light lunch will be provided (usually pizza, however some other options may be explored this term).
The seminars are designed for graduate students and should be accessible to all students. First year students are particularly encouraged to attend so that they may learn about research being performed in the CTP.
Workshops are aimed at teaching students about particular areas of research rather than presenting cutting edge research. The goal is learning, and to encourage participation, faculty are asked not to attend the workshop portion of these seminars (which will start at about 12:15pm, after people have eaten some lunch).
Email notification of the club will be sent to the ctp-all, ctp-postdocs and ctp-students email lists as appropriate.
If you wish to speak, or have suggestions about speakers and/or possible workshop topics, please contact the organizer listed above.
Spring 2005 schedule of talks
February 11
B-decays, Factorization and Power Corrections
Keith Lee
MIT
February 18
Casimir buoyancy
Antonello Scardicchio
MIT
February 25
One-loop graviton corrections to QCD Beta Functions
Sean Robinson
MIT
March 4
Recent advances towards Inflation in String Theory
Boris Kors
MIT
March 11
Automating the search for new quantum algorithms
Andrew Landahl
MIT
March 18
Fermionic Superfluidity: from Cold Atoms to Neutron Stars
Michael Forbes
MIT
April 1
Excited baryons and pentaquarks in large Nc QCD
Dan Pirjol
MIT
April 8
Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories
Brian Wecht
MIT
April 15
Hadrons in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Massimo Mannarelli
MIT
April 22
SUGRA solution of Yp,q Manifolds
Qudsia Ejaz
MIT
April 29
Spin-1 color superconductors and pulsar kicks
Andreas Schmitt
MIT
May 6
Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories II
David Vegh
MIT
May 13
An introduction to Flux Compactification in Type II String Theory
Jessie Shelton
MIT