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 - Spring 2014

Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Raphael Flauger (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton),
From Effective Strings to Critical Strings and Back
[transparencies] [video]

Thursday, January 23, 2014, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Brent Nelson (Northeastern University),
Algorithmic Methods for Identifying Calabi-Yau Threefolds with Large Volume Minima
[video]

Thursday, January 30, 2014, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Simone Giombi (Princeton University), One Loop Tests of Higher Spin AdS/CFT
[transparencies] [video]

Monday, February 10, 4:00PM, 265 Phillips Hall, Department Colloquium at UNC-CH
Alex Maloney (McGill University), Holography, Black Holes and Quantum Gravity

Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 12:45PM, 258 Phillips Hall, Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Alex Maloney (McGill University), Precision Computations in AdS/CFT

Monday, February 17, 4:00PM, 265 Phillips Hall, Department Colloquium at UNC-CH
Jonathan Heckman (Harvard University), String Theory and the Real World

Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 9:45AM, 258 Phillips Hall, Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Jonathan Heckman (Harvard University), Covariant Non-Commutative Spacetime

Monday, February 24, 4:00PM, 265 Phillips Hall, Department Colloquium at UNC-CH
John Joseph Carrasco (Stanford University), Decoding the S-matrix

Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 9:45AM, 258 Phillips Hall, Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
John Joseph Carrasco (Stanford University), Gluons for Nothing, and Gravitons for Free

Thursday, March 6, 2014, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Tatsuma Nishioka (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Entanglement Entropy and RG Flows
[transparencies] [video]

Friday, March 21, 2014, 2PM, 258 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Csaba Csaki (Cornell University), A Naturally Light Dilaton
[transparencies] [video]

Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, 2014, Regional Meeting at UNC-CH and Duke
Webpage

Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Liam McAllister (Cornell University),
Quantum Gravity in the Sky? Inflation and String Theory after BICEP2
[transparencies] [video]

Thursday, April 17, 2014, 2:00PM, 277 Phillips Hall, UNC Astrophysics Seminar
Marcus Berg (Karlstad University), Massive Gravity and Observations
[transparencies] [video]

Thursday, April 24, 2014, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Ben Heidenreich (Harvard University), Torsion, Duality, and the Wilderness of Orientifolds
[transparencies] [video]

Thursday, May 8, 2014, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
David Berenstein (UC Santa Barbara), Emergent Geometry: Seeing from the Shoulders of Giants
[transparencies] [video]

Thursday, June 5, 2014, 4:00PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich), AdS3/CFT2 and Higher Spins

Seminars and Video Archives from

Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Fall 2012
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Fall 2011
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Fall 2010
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Spring 2001

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