| September 18 |
Perturbative String Field Theory and
its applications |
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Washington Taylor |
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MIT |
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| Septemer 25 |
A string Theory of Hadrons via a Penrose
Limit |
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Eric Gimon |
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IAS |
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| October 2 |
String interactions in the BMN correspondence
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Matthew Headrick |
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Harvard |
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| October 9 |
A Perturbative Window into Non-perturbative
Physics |
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Cumrun Vafa |
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Harvard |
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| October 16 |
Intersecting branes, holograpy and (de)construction
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Zachary Guralnik |
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Humboldt University |
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| October 23 |
D-branes, Boundary Lineaar Sigma Models
and the Derived Category |
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Jacques Distler |
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University of Texas-Austin |
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| October 30 |
Superstring Interactions in a pp-wave
Background |
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Marcus Spradlin |
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Princeton |
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| November 6 |
Inflationary Cosmology in M-theory Moduli
Space |
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Eric Novak |
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Ben-Gurion University |
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| November 13 |
Ground state degeneracies of many-body
systems and the geometry of quiver varieties |
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F. Denef |
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Rutgers |
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| November 20 |
D-branes in a pp-wave background |
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Matthias Gaberdiel |
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IAS |
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| November 27 |
Strings and branes in large N gauge theories |
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Asad Naqvi |
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University of Pennsylvania |
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| December 4 |
Holography Stabilizes the Cosmological
Constant |
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Scott Thomas |
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IAS |
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| December 11 |
The Tachyon Matters - an Update on S-branes |
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Amanda Peet |
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University of Toronto |
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