| January 5 |
| Oleg Lunin, IAS |
| "AdS/CFT Correspondence for 1/2 BPS States" |
| January 12 |
| Horatiu Nastase, Brown |
| "Black hole production, the Froissart
bound and the soft Pomeron from AdS/CFT" |
| January 19 |
| Alexander Maloney, SLAC and Stanford |
| "A Stringy Cloak for a Classical Singularity" |
| January 26 |
| Yang-Hui He, UPenn |
| "A Heterotic Standard Model" |
| February 1 Tuesday 3:00 PM
RI 272 (Special time and place!) |
| Nick Halmagyi, USC |
| "Duality and Holographic RG-flows" |
| February 2 |
| Keshav Dasgupta, UIUC |
| "Geometric Transitions, Cosmological Solutions and
non-Kahler Manifolds" |
| February 9 |
| Jeff Harvey, EFI & Chicago |
| "The M2-M5 Brane System and a Generalized Nahm's
Equation" |
| February 16 |
| Nissan Itzhaki, Princeton |
| "The Large N Harmonic Oscillators as a String Theory" |
| February 23 |
| Simeon Hellerman, IAS |
| "The Landscape of Superstring Theories in D > 10" |
| March 2 |
| Radu Roiban, Princeton |
| "News and Speculations from Twistor String Theory" |
| March 9 |
| Frederik Denef, Rutgers |
| "Results in Vacuum Statistics" |
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