string gravity
Wednesday at 2:00pm
Center for Theoretical Physics, NE25
4th floor seminar room, 5 Cambridge Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Organizers
Dan Freedman, Brian Wecht
Spring 2006 schedule of talks
Monday, January 30, 2:00PM ( note day)
Gauge theory, mirror symmetry and geometric Langlands duality
Anton Kapustin
Cal Tech
February 1,
Pure Spinor formalism as an N=2 Topological String
Nathan Berkovits
IFT, Sao Paulo
February 8, no seminar due to Joint Theory seminar
February 16, Thursday (note day)
D-branes in non-critical superstrings
Jan Troost
LPT-ENS
February 22 no seminar Holiday
March 1 no seminar due to Joint Theory seminar
March 8
From AdS3/CFT2 to Black Hole/Topological String
Xi Yin
Harvard
March 15
Pure Spinor Type Covariant Quantization of Superbranes
Yoichi Kazama
U Tokyo
March 22 no seminar due to Joint Theory seminar
March 29 no seminar Spring break
April 5
Dynamical SUSY Breaking in Meta-Stable Vacua
Ken Intriligator
UC, San Diego/IAS
April 12 no seminar due to Joint Theory seminar
April 14, Friday (note day and time) 3:00PM
Gauge Theories, Strings and Cosmology
Igor Klebanov
Princeton
April 19
D terms from D-branes, Gauge Invariance and Moduli Stabilization in flux
Compactifications
Giovanni Villadoro
Harvard
April 26
Black Rings, Geometric Transitions and Black Hole Microstates
Iosif Bena
IAS
May 3 note special time 4:30PM
Ghost D-branes
Takuya Okuda
UCSB
May 10
On the origin of gravatational thermodynamics
Joan Simon
U Pennsylvania
May 17
Conformal frames and algebraic structures in string field theory
Leonardo Rastelli
YITP, StonyBrook
End of semester.