High Energy Theory Seminar Schedule

Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania

Time: Mondays at 2:00 pm (unless noted otherwise)

Place: 2N36, David Rittenhouse Laboratories


Date
Speaker  
September 2007
9/6/07
Special Seminar
2pm
Room:2N3
Nikolas Akerblom, Max-Planck-Institut, Munich

Aspects of D-instantons in Intersecting D-brane Models

9/10/07
Alon Faraggi, University of Liverpool

Novel symmetries in heterotic string vacua

9/17/07
Stephon Alexander, Penn State

Towards testing String Theory from Baryogenesis and Inflation

9/28/07
Special Seminar
3pm
Room:3N6
Oriol Pujolas, NYU

Footprints of infrared modifications of gravity at short distances

October 2007
10/1/07
Timm Wrase, University of Texas, Austin

Type IIA Flux Compactifications

10/8/07
Chris Pope, Texas A & M

Lorentz Violation and Metrics of Special Holonomy

10/12/07
Special seminar
1pm
Room: 2N3
Ben Freivogel, Berkeley

Colliding with a Crunching Bubble

10/22/07
Klaus Larjo, University of Pennsylvania

Quantum geometry and gravitational entropy

10/29/07
Sebastian Franco, Princeton

Dimer Models and Orientifolds

November 2007
11/5/07
Bill Marciano, Brookhaven National Laboratory

The Muon Magnetic Moment - Theory vs Experiment

11/7/07
Special seminar
2pm
Room: 2N3
Henriette Elvang, MIT

Graviton amplitudes from gluons

11/12/07
Oscar Varela, Imperial College, London

AdS spacetimes and Kaluza-Klein consistency

11/19/07
Ari Pakman, Stony Brook University

Progress in AdS3/CFT2

11/26/07
Frederik Denef, Harvard

D-brane deconstructions in type IIB orientifolds

December 2007
12/3/07
Mark Goodsell, Jussieu, Paris

The Search for Hidden U(1)s in String Theory

12/10/07
Dieter Van den Bleeken, KU Leuven

Black hole bound states in AdS3 x S2

12/13/07
Special Seminar
1pm
Room 2N3
Dmitry Malyshev, Princeton University

On the geometry of metastable SUSY breaking

January 2008
1/9/08
Special Seminar
2pm
Room: 2N3
Jihn Kim, University of Seoul

String compactification and unification of forces

1/14/08
Amit Sever, Brandeis University

Parton scattering amplitudes at strong coupling

1/24/08
Special Seminar
3:30 pm
Faculty Lounge
Sergei Dubovsky, Harvard

The Accelerating Universe: Landscape or Modified Gravity

1/28/08
2pm
Room: Faculty Lounge
Justin Khoury, Perimeter Institute

Gravity on the Largest Scales and Cosmic Acceleration

March 2008
3/3/08
2pm
Faculty Lounge
TBA 

TBA

3/10/08
Borun Chowdhury, Ohio State University

Radiation from a non-extremal fuzzball

3/17/08
Joan Simon, University of Edinburgh

R-charged AdS_5 black holes and N=4 SYM decoupling limits

3/24/08
Mans Henningson, Chalmers

Vacuum states of N = 4 SYM on T^3 and S-duality

April 2008
4/7/08
Jogesh Pati, SLAC

Proton Decay: The Missing Link. Some New Results in SO(10)

4/9/08
Math Colloquium: 4:30pm
Room: DRL A6
Dieter Luest, MPI and University of Munich

Viewing through the string landscape: Some aspects of its mathematical and physical properties

4/14/08
Minxin Huang, CERN

Topological string amplitudes from matrix models

4/28/08
Tamaz Brelidze, University of Pennsylvania

Calabi-Yau metrics on quotients and complete intersections


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