String Theory Seminars, Spring 2002

Thursday, January 24, 2002, String Theory Seminar at UNC
Katrin Wendland (UNC at Chapel Hill)
Aspects of Mirror Symmetry for Orbifold CFTs on K3
[abstract] [video] [transparencies]

Thursday, February 7, 2002, String Theory Seminar at UNC
Anastasia Volovich (Harvard University)
Vacuum states and S-matrix in dS/CFT
[video]

Thursday, February 14, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Columbia
Koenraad Schalm (Columbia University),
Non-abelian D0-branes in Curved Space

Thursday, February 21, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Duke
K. Narayan (Cornell University)
Marginal stability, string webs and bound states in SYM theories
[abstract]

Thursday, February 28, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Columbia
Frederik Denef (Columbia University),
Quantum Quivers and Hole Halos

Thursday, March 7, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Duke, hosted by UNC
Calin-Iuliu Lazaroiu (Stony Brook),
M-theory compactification on G₂ cones over twistor spaces
[abstract]

Thursday, March 28, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Duke, hosted by UNC
Jarah Evslin (LBNL),
K-theory vs S-duality in IIB
[abstract]

Thursday, April 4, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Columbia
Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam),
Towards a holographic description of de Sitter Space

Tuesday, April 16, 2002, joint TNT/CGTP colloquium at Duke
Lisa Randall (Harvard University),
New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity

Thursday, April 18, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Duke, hosted by UNC
Bianca Letizia Cerchiai (LBNL),
Cohomology of the non-Abelian Seiberg-Witten map
[abstract] [transparencies]

Thursday, April 25, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Duke, hosted by UNC
Emanuel Scheidegger (TU Vienna),
D-branes on toric Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces
[abstract]

Tuesday, April 30, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Institute),
Non-local string theory

Thursday, May 16, 2002, String Theory Seminar at Columbia
Sergei Gukov (Harvard University),
Irrational World