| 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" |
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| Peter Svrcek, Princeton |
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| "MHV Vertices and Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theory" |