| February 13 |
TBA |
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Kentaro Hori |
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Harvard |
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| February 20 |
On Condensation of Localized Tachyons
in Closed String Theories |
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Soon Keon Nam |
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Kyung Hee University, Korea |
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| February 27 |
Towards vacuum superstring field theory |
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Marcos Marino |
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Harvard University |
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| March 6 |
Nonperturbative Nonrenormalization in
a Nonsupersymmetric Nonlocal String Theory |
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Eva Silverstein |
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SLAC |
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| March 13 |
On the Power of Supersymmetry in Matrix
Theory |
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Yoichi Kazama |
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University of Tokyo |
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| March 20 |
Black Hole Entrophy and Spacetime from
Quantum Mechanics |
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David Lowe |
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Brown University |
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| March 27 |
Spring Break no seminar
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| April 3 |
NS5-Branes, T-Duality and Worldsheet
Instantons |
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David Tong |
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MIT |
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| April 10 |
The spectrum of the black hole conformal
field theory |
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Jan Troost |
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MIT |
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| April 17 |
*-Wars |
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Jason Kumar |
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UC, San Diego |
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| April 24 |
Mirror Symmetry, Superpotentials and
Large N Dualities |
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Mina Aganagic |
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Harvard |
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| May 1 |
Open Dielectric Branes |
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Mark van Raamsdonk |
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Stanford |
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| May 8 |
Open string states and D-brane tension
from vacuum string field theory |
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Yuji Okawa |
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Cal Tech |
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| May 15 |
Tachyon dynamics in string theory |
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Ashoke Sen |
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MRI, India/MIT |
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