String Theory Seminar


Welcome! You have reached the webpage for the UNC / Duke joint String seminar. Talks alternate between UNC Chapel Hill and Duke.

When at UNC Chapel Hill: Phillips 277, Thursdays 4-5 PM

When at Duke: Physics 119, Thursdays 3-4 PM

The seminars can be viewed subsequently on our video archives available through the links below.

NOTE: You will need to have RealPlayer to watch the broadcast or the video archives. You can download RealPlayer from Real's website. The preferred browser for Macs is Safari.


Seminars - Fall 2013

Friday, October 11, 2013, 10:15 AM, Regional String Meeting at Duke University, Gross Hall 330
Sergei Gukov (Caltech), Fivebranes and Four-Manifolds

Friday, October 11, 1:00PM, Regional String Meeting at Duke University, Gross Hall 330
Eirik Svanes (Oxford University) Heterotic Supergravity, SU(3)-Structures, and the alpha'-Expansion

Friday, October 11, 2:15PM, Regional String Meeting at Duke University, Gross Hall 330
Emanuel Scheidegger (Freiburg) Topological Strings and Quasimodular Forms

Friday, October 11, 3:30PM, Regional String Meeting at Duke University, Gross Hall 330
Mauricio Romo (IPMU) Exact Results in Two-Dimensional (2,2) Supersymmetric Gauge Theories with Boundary


Seminars and Video Archives from

Spring 2013
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
Summer 2001
Spring 2001

This page is maintained by Jonathan Heckman.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 4:00 PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-Chapel Hill
Marcus Berg (Karlstad University), Quantum String Effective Actions
[transparencies] [video]


Seminars - Spring 2013

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 4:30 PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-Chapel Hill
Maria Rodriguez (Harvard University), Black Hole Scattering
[transparencies]

Saturday, April 6, 10:00-11:00 AM, Regional String Meeting at Duke University, Math-Physics building room 119
Daniel Park (SUNY Stony Brook), The Seiberg-Witten Kahler Potential as a Two-Sphere Partition Function

Saturday, April 6, 11:05-11:30PM, Regional String Meeting at Duke University, Math-Physics building room 119
Bei Jia (Duke University), N=(2,2) Sigma Models on Curved Spacetime

Saturday, April 6, 1:00-2:00 PM, Regional String Meeting at Duke University, Math-Physics building room 119
Paul Aspinwall (Duke University), Massless D-Branes on del Pezzo Surfaces

Saturday, April 6, 2:15-3:15 PM, Regional String Meeting at Duke University, Math-Physics building room 119
Nils Carqueville (SUNY Stony Brook), Defect Computations in Landau-Ginzburg Models

Saturday, April 6, 2013, 3:30PM, Regional String Meeting at Duke University, Math-Physics building room 119
Katrin Wendland (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg), A Twist in the M24 Moonshine Story

Seminars and Video Archives from

Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
Summer 2001
Spring 2001

This page is maintained by Jonathan Heckman.