string lunch club
Monday 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 Matt Headrick
Spring 2006 schedule of talks
Tuesday, Janaury 31 (note day)
Standard Model Statistics of a Type II Orientifold
Florian Gmeiner
Max Planck, U Munich
Monday, February 6
Boundary states in open string channel and CFT near corners (hep-th/0512098)
Yosoke Imamura
Tokyo University
Monday, February 13
Black Hole Singularities in Yang-Mills Theories
Guido Festuccia
February 20 holiday no talk
February 27 Note earlier time 12noon starting this week
Dimers Deconstructed
Chris Herzog
March 6
Tilings, Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories part I
Ami Hanany
March 13
D-branes in Nongeometric Backgrounds Part I
Brian Wecht
March 20
GR beyond 4d
Henriette Elvang
March 27 no talk semester break
April 3, 12:30 note time
Tilings, Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories part II
Ami Hanany
April 10 cancelled
D-branes in Nongeometric Backgrounds Part II
Brian Wecht
April 17 no talk holiday
April 18 (very special)
SIM(2), CP, SUSY, and Gravity
Dan Freedman
April 24
Checks of the AdS/CFT Correspondence for quiver gauge theories
Agostino Butti
U di Milano-Bicocca
May 1
Phases of q-deformed Yang-Mills, Chern-Simons, and topological strings
Nicola Caporaso
U Florence
May 8
D-branes in Nongeometric Backgrounds Part II
Brian Wecht
May 15
An introduction to string theory surface states
Barton Zwiebach