THEORY GROUP SEMINARS
FALL '04



Wednesday 1:30 pm, RI 180




Organizer: Jongwon Park

jongwon@theory.uchicago.edu


Winter 2005 Seminars


September 29
Marcus Spradlin, KITP
"A Pendant for Polya: The One-Loop Partition Function of N=4 SYM"


October 4 Monday 2:00 pm,  LASR 152 (special date, time, and place!)
Atish Dabholkar, Tata
"Exact Counting of Black Hole Microstates"


October 6 
Christopher Herzog, KITP
"D-strings and the Warped Deformed Conifold"


October 12 Tuesday 4:00 pm, RI 272 (special date, time, and place!)
Ilarion Melnikov, Duke
"The Coulomb Branch in the Gauged Linear Sigma Model"


October 13
Tadashi Takayanagi, Harvard
"Flux Backgrounds in 2D Type 0 and Type II Strings"


October 20
David Mateos, Perimeter
"Supersymmetric Black Rings and Supertubes"


October 27
Anastasia Volovich, KITP
"Yang-Mills Amplitudes from Twistor String Theory"


November 2 Tuesday 3:00 pm, RI 180 (special date and late change in time!)
Shyamoli Chaudhuri
"A Fundamental Theory of Emergent Spacetime?"


November 3
Amit Sever, Hebrew and EFI
"On the 2-d Charged Black Hole"


November 10
Chris Beasley, Princeton
"New Instanton Effects in Supersymmetric QCD"
 

November 11 Thursday 3:00 pm, RI 180 (special date and time!)
Vijay Balasubramanian,  UPenn
"D-branes in Yang-Mills Theory and Emergent Gauge Symmetry"


November 17
David Berman, Queen Mary
TBA


November 18 Thursday 3:00 pm, RI 272 (special date, time, and place!)
Annamaria Sinkovics, Amsterdam
"Universal Correlators and Calabi-Yau Crystals"


November 24
Vadim Yasnov, USC
"Chern-Simons Matrix Models and Large N Transitions"


December 1
Michael Schulz, Caltech
"Calabi-Yau Duals of Torus Orientifolds"


December 2 Thursday 3:00 pm, RI 180 (special date and time!)
Theodore Erler, UCSB
"Causality and Time in String Theory and String Field Theory"


December 6 Monday 1:30 pm, RI 180  (special date and time!)
Peter Svrcek, Princeton
"MHV Vertices and Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theory"