string lunch club
Tuesdays at 12:30pm
Center for Theoretical Physics, building 6
3rd floor seminar room
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
Barton Zwiebach and Matt Headrick
Spring 2005 schedule of talks
February 1
How to make an ether -- a bosonnic medium whose collective modes are
light-like and electron-like excitations
Xiao-Gang Wen
MIT
February 8
Integrability in Yang-Mills and String Theory
Joe Minahan
Uppsala University/MIT
February 15
Beyond U-dualities
Bernard Julia
Ecole Normale, France
February 22 no seminar
March 1
Integrability in Yang-Mills and String Theory(part 2)
Joe Minahan
Uppsala University/MIT
March 8
Black hole geometries from Yang-Mills theories
Guido Festuccia
MIT
March 15
Taming the Tachyon in Cubic String Field Theory
Ilia Sigalov
MIT
March 22 no talk, spring break
March 29
Rolling the Tachyon in Cubic and Boundary String Field Theory
Valentina Forini
Perugia U/INFN
April 5 TALK CANCELLED, THERE WILL BE NO TALK THIS WEEK.
Hawking Radiation and General Covariance in an Effective Field Theory
Sean Robinson
MIT
April 12
Chern-Simons Supergravity
Jorge Zanelli
CECS, Chile
April 19
Student holiday no seminar
April 26
Cascading RG flows from New Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds
Qudsia Jabeen Ejaz
MIT
May 3
Volume Stabilization and Brane Inflation at one Loop
Boris Kors
MIT
May 10
BPS microstates and the open topological string
Andy Neitzke
Harvard
May 31 and June 7th
Black holes and elementary string states
Ashoke Sen
Harish-Chandra Res. Inst.