string gravity
Wednesday at 2:00pm
Center for Theoretical Physics, NE25
4th floor seminar room, 5 Cambridge Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Seminars will beheld on Wednesday when there is no Joint Theory Seminar scheduled in the CTP)
Organizers
Hong Liu , Brian Wecht
Spring 2007 schedule of talks
February 7 no String seminar due to Joint Theory seminar
February 14
Steven Gubser, Princeton
``String theory and quark-gluon plasmas"
February 21
Michael Duff, Imperial College
``Black holes, qubits and the Fano Plane"
February 28 no String seminar due to Joint Theory seminar
March 7
Jeremy Michelson, Ohio State
``Cosmologies with Null Singularities and their Gauge Theory Duals "
March 14
Michael Dine, UC Santa Cruz
``Metastability"
March 21 no String seminar due to Joint Theory seminar
March 28 no seminar Spring Break
April 4
Ori Ganor, UC Berkeley
Branes In Strong RR Fluxes, Superluminal Velocities and Puff Field Theory
April 11
no String seminar due to Joint Theory seminar
April 18
Ian Swanson, IAS
New Transitions and Dualities in Supercritical String Theory
April 25
Joe Conlon, Cambridge-UK
Hierarchy Problems in String Theory-the Power of Large Volume
May 2
no String seminar due to Joint Theory seminar
May 9
Sergei Dubovsky, Harvard
Quantum Horizons of the Standard Model Landscape
May 16
Rene Reinbacher, Rutgers
Towards a complete 4d effective action from heterotic string theory