|
Date
|
Title
and Speaker
|
| September 11 |
TBA |
|
Massimo
Bianchi |
|
University
of Rome |
|
|
| September 18 |
Supergravity
duals of gauge theories from gauges supergravity in six dimensions |
|
Martin Schvellinger
|
|
MIT |
|
|
| September 25 |
Quiver Theories,
del Pezzo Surfaces and Mirror Symmetry |
|
Amer Iqbal |
|
University
of Texas |
|
|
| October 2 |
Strings
as flux tubes and deconfinement on branes in gauge theories |
|
Motoi Tachibana
|
|
MIT |
|
|
| October 9 |
No class No
Seminar |
|
|
|
|
| October 16 |
Searching
for the fate of the 0B tachyon |
|
Matthew
Headrick |
|
Harvard University |
|
|
| October 23 |
Gravity
duals of gauge theories at finite temperature based on hep-th0103022,
hep-th0107102 and hep-th0108295 |
|
Carlos Nunez |
|
MIT |
|
|
| October 30 |
M-Theory
Dynamics on Manifolds of G_2-Holonomy based on Atiyah and Witten
Hep-th/0107177 |
|
David Tong |
|
MIT |
|
|
| November 6 |
From big Crunch to Big Bang reference:hep-th/0108187
by Khoury, Ovrut, Seiberg, Steinhardt and Turok |
|
Mario Caicedo |
|
MIT |
|
|
| November 13 |
K-theory,
Brane Charges, Instantons, etc. based on papers Maldacena, Moore
and Seiberg: hep-th0108152 and hep-th0108100 |
|
Neil Constable |
|
MIT |
|
|
| November 20 |
Mysteries
from Mr. del Pazzo ``A Mysterous Duality" based on paper by Iqbal,
Neitzke, Vafa hep/th-0111068 |
|
Yang-Hui
He |
|
MIT |
|
|
| November 27 |
``The Geometric Point of View of Dualities"
based on paper hep-th/0110028 |
| |
Bo Feng |
| |
MIT |
| |
|
| December 4 |
``Localized closed string tachyon condensation and
RG flows" |
| |
Nicolas Moeller |
| |
MIT |
| |
|
| December 11 |
``Closed String Tachyons in ALE Spacetimes"
based on paper by Adams, Polchinksi, Silverstein, hep-th 010875 |
|
Martin Schnabl |
|
MIT |