String Theory Seminars - Spring 2005


Listed below are the String Theory seminars held at UNC-CH and related talks held at the String Theory seminar at Duke in Spring 2005.



Thursday, January 13, 2005, 2:45PM, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Washington Taylor (MIT), Counting flux vacua with special properties
[abstract]

Thursday, January 20, 2005, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Niklas Beisert (Princeton University), Strings on AdS5 x S5, N=4 Super Yang-Mills and Algebraic Curves
[video] [transparencies]

Thursday, February 3, 2005, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Sudarshan Ananth (University of Florida, Gainesville), Maximally Supersymmetric theories, Dynkin Indices and UV Divergences.
[video] [transparencies]

Thursday, February 10, 2005, 2:45PM, 258 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Johannes Walcher (IAS Princeton), Stability of Landau-Ginzburg branes.
[video] [transparencies]

Thursday, February 17, 2005, 2:45PM, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Paul Frampton (UNC-Chapel Hill), Conformality and String Phenomenology.
[abstract]

Thursday, February 24, 2005, 2:45PM, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis University), Worldsheet RG and target space time evolution.
[abstract]

Thursday, March 3, 2005, 2:45PM, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Sven Rinke (CGTP, Duke University), Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions for the N = 2 Sigma Model with Non-Abelian Gauge Fields
[abstract]

Thursday, March 17, 2005, 2:45PM, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Daniel Robbins (University of Chicago), Flux compactifications and the hybrid formalism

Thursday, March 24, 2005, 2:45PM, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Andrew Neitzke (Harvard University), Elements of Topological M-Theory

Thursday, March 31, 2005, 2:45PM, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Ken Intriligator (UC San Diego), Exploring RG flows with a-maximisation

Thursday, April 7, 2005, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Toby Wiseman (Harvard University), Numerical Ricci flat metrics on K3
[video] [transparencies]

Thursday, April 14, 2005, 2:45PM, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
David Page (University of Toronto), Geometric transitions with branes and flux

Friday, April 15, 2005, 11:45PM, 218 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke (partially hosted by UNC)
Martin Wolf (University of Hannover), Supertwistors, Super Yang-Mills Theory and Integrability
[abstract] [transparencies]

Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
James Sparks (Harvard University), An Infinite Family of Superconformal Quiver Gauge Theories with Sasaki-Einstein Duals
[video] [transparencies]

Thursday, April 28, 2005, 2:45PM, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Marco Gualtieri (Fields Institute), Generalized Kahler geometry and T-duality
[abstract]

Thursday, May 26, 2005, 2:45pm, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Duiliu Emanuel Diaconescu (Rutgers University), A Vertex Formalism for Local Ruled Surfaces


Seminars and Video Archives from

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