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SPRING 2003 Schedule of Talks
| January 29, 2003 |
The Roll of the Noncommutative Tachyon |
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Johannes Walcher |
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KITP, UCSB |
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| February 5, 2003 |
Gauge Theory Description of String Interactions
in a PP-Wave |
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Jaume Gomis |
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California Institute of Technology |
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| February 12, 2003 |
The Challenging Cosmic Singularity |
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Hong Liu |
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Rutgers University |
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| February 19, 2003 |
Solving matrix models using holomorphy |
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David Berenstein |
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Institute for Advanced Studies |
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| February 26, 2003 |
A Moduli Fixing Mechanism in M theory |
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Bobby Acharya |
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Rutgers University |
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| March 5, 2003 |
A new topology changing transition in
M-Theory |
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David Tong |
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MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics |
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| March 12, 2003 |
no seminar to be held |
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| March 19, 2003 |
Chronology Protection in String Theory |
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Lisa Dyson |
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MIT |
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| March 26, 2003 |
Spring Break no seminar |
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| April 2, 2003 |
Holography with flavor: conformal and
non-conformal examples |
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Johanna Erdmenger |
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Humboldt University, Berlin |
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| April 9, 2003 |
A quasinormal test of quantum gravity |
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Lubos Motl |
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Harvard |
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| April 16, 2003 |
The Therodynamics of Spacelike Branes |
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Alex Maloney |
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Harvard |
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| April 23, 2003 |
Massive IIA string theory and Matrix
theory Compactification |
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Horatiu Nastase |
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Brown University |
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| April 30, 2003 |
Tachyon condensation and non-trivial
NS B-background |
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Debashis Ghoshal |
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Harish-Chandra Research Institute |
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| May 7, 2003 |
Variations on a theme by Dijkgraaf-Vafa |
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Yang-Hui He |
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U Pennsylvania |
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| May 14, 2003 |
An Orientifold with Fluxes and Branes
via T-duality |
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Boris Kors |
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MIT |
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| May 21, 2003 |
Recombination of Intersecting Branes
by Local Tachyon Condensation |
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Koji Hashimoto |
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U of Tokyo |
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| June 2, 2003 |
Unstable D-branes and Fundamental Strings |
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Ashoke Sen |
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Chandra Institute, India |
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| June 4, 2003 |
From Unstable p-brane to (p-1)-branes
through Tachyon Condensation |
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Yoonbai Kim |
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Sungkyunkwan University, Korea |
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