String Theory Seminar, Spring 2001

Thursday, January 25, 2001, 4:30 pm, String Theory Seminar at UNC
Per Jonathan Kraus (EFI Chicago),
String Field Theory of the D-Dbar System
[video] [transparencies]

Thursday, February 1, 2001, 4:30 pm, String Theory Seminar at UNC
Ori Ganor (Princeton University),
String Theory and Non-Local Field Theories
[video] [transparencies]

Thursday, February 15, 2001, 4:00 pm, String Theory Seminar at UNC
Frederik Denef (Columbia University),
Split Attractor Flows and D-Brane Stability
[abstract] [video] [transparencies]

Thursday, March 1, 2001, 4:00 pm, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Albion Lawrence (Stanford University),
Low-Energy Physics of Warped Compactifications
[abstract] [video] [transparencies]

Thursday, March 8, 2001, 4:00 pm, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Anton Kapustin (IAS Princeton),
Mirror Symmetry and Noncommutative Geometry
[abstract] [video] [transparencies]

Thursday, March 22, 2001, 4:00 pm, String Theory Seminar at UNC
Andrew Chamblin (MIT),
Is Inflation Realized in M-Theory?
[video (no sound: SORRY!)] [transparencies]

Thursday, April 5, 2001, 4:00 pm, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Bobby Acharya (Rutgers University)
M Theory, G₂  Holonomy spaces and N=1 Theories in Four Dimensions
[abstract] [transparencies]

Thursday, April 26, 2001, 4:00 pm, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania),
Gerbes, genus-1 fibrations, and the SYZ conjecture
[abstract]

Thursday, May 3, 2001, 4:00 pm, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Institute),
The ADHM Moduli Space and Light Cone Description of Open Membrane Theory
[abstract] [video] [transparencies]

Thursday, May 10, 2001, 4:00 pm, String Theory Seminar at UNC (hosted at Duke)
Mina Aganagic (Harvard University),
D-branes, Mirror Symmetry and Counting Holomorphic Discs
[abstract] [video]