String/Gravity Theory Seminar

Wednesdays, 2pm

MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6C-442

Organizers: Hong Liu and Henriette Elvang

Schedule (Spring 2008)

• February 6th
  ``Global aspects of T-duality"
  Ruben Minasian, CEA, France
  
  
• February 13th (no String/Gravity seminar)
  
• February 20th
  ``Causal hydrodynamics of gauge theory plasmas from AdS/CFT "
  Makoto Natsuume, KEK Lab-Japan
• February 27
  "Infinite-Dimensional Symmetries of Two-Dimensional Coset Models Coupled
  to Gravity"
  Christopher Pope, Texas A&M
  
• March 5th
  ``Universality without symmetry "
  Pavel Kovtun, University of Victoria/MIT
  
• March 12th
  ``Scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills at weak and strong coupling"
  Radu Roiban, Pennsylvania State University
  
  
• March 19th
  ``Progress in AdS(3)/CFT(2) "
  Ari Pakman, Stony Brook
  
• March 26th no seminar Spring Break
  
• April 2nd
  ``N-ifiction of Forces: a Holographic Perspective on Model Building "
  Herman Verlinde, Princeton
• April 8th String seminar/Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar
  Joseph Polchincki, KITP
  ``A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization"
  Pappalardo room 4-439 this week only
  
• April 9th
  ``On the Quantum Geometry of the Heterotic String "
  Allan Adams, MIT-CTP
  
• April 16h
  ``Building an AdS/CFT Superconductor "
  Gary Horowitz, UCSB
  
• April 23rd
  "Hydrodynamics at the Horizon"
  Erik Verlinde, Harvard/ U. Amsterdam
• April 30th
  "Fusion of conformal interfaces"
  Ilka Brunner, ETH, Zurich
  
• May 7th
  "Holographic spectral functions and transport in strongly coupled plasmas"
  Andrei Starinets, IAS and U Southampton, UK
  
• May 14th
  ``A bound on lifetimes of string theory vacua "
  Ben Freivogel, UC Berkeley
  
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