String Theory Group Meetings: Spring 2005
The most significant changes compared to Fall 2004 are the new time and
location:
The group meetings will start at 1:45 p.m. (still on Wednesdays),
and the new location is LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377.
click here for the Fall 2005 schedule
(and here for the Fall 2004 schedule)
 January 12
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Dan Pirjol (MIT), Factorization in B-Decays from Soft-Collinear
Effective Theory
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
January 19
Radu Tatar (UCB/LBNL), Non-Kahler Manifolds and Effective
Field Theories
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
January 24
Antal Jevicki (Brown), D-Instantons in Closed String Field
Theory
4 p.m., campus (Oppenheimer room?)
NOTE THE NON-STANDARD DAY, TIME AND PLACE
January 26
no group meeting (due to many other talks this week)
February 2
Peter Shepard (UCB/LBNL), Topology Change in Bubbling
Geometries
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
February 9
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Korkut Bardakci (UCB/LBNL), Strings from Field Theory
12:30 p.m., INPA Conference Room, 50-5026 LBNL
February 16
Ori Ganor and Indrajit Mitra (UCB/LBNL), Adding Masses to Twistor
Strings
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
February 23
Michael Dine (SCIPP Santa Cruz), Branches of the Landscape
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
March 2
Tom Banks (SCIPP Santa Cruz), Some Thoughts on the Quantum
Mechanics of de Sitter Space
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
March 9
Matthew Schwartz (UCB/LBNL), Lightning Faster than Light:
Consistent Lorentz Violation in Electromagnetism
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
March 16
no group meeting -
DOE review at LBNL
March 23
no group meeting, Spring break
March 30
Group meeting with visiting prospective graduate students
2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Oppenheimer room, campus (NOTE THE UNUSUAL TIME AND
LOCATION)
April 6
Takuya Okuda (Caltech), Derivation of Calabi-Yau Crystals from
Chern-Simons Gauge Theory
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
April 13
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Yasunori Nomura (UCB/LBNL), AdS/CFT and TeV Physics
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
April 20
Mukund Rangamani (UCB/LBNL), Causal Structures and
Holography
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
April 27
Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC Vancouver), Thermodynamics of Large N
Yang-Mills on Compact Spaces
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
May 4
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Aleksey Mints (UCB/LBNL), Violation of Bekenstein Bound in
M(atrix)-theory
12:30 p.m., LBNL, INPA Conference Room, 50-5026 LBNL
May 11
no group meeting -
Math/Physics
Workshop on Matrix Models, May 9-13, on campus (375 LeConte Hall).
May 18
Indrajit Mitra (UCB/LBNL), Soap Bubbles and Black Branes
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
May 25
Eric Gimon (UCB/LBNL), Supergravity Microstates for BPS Black Holes
and Black Rings
1:45 p.m., LBNL, Bldg. 70A-3377
String group meetings will continue in the fall semester
of 2005. In the meantime, have a great summer!
horava@berkeley.edu
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