THEORY GROUP SEMINARS
WINTER '05



Wednesday 1:30 pm, RI 180




Organizer: Jongwon Park

jongwon@theory.uchicago.edu


Fall 2004 Seminars
Spring 2005 Seminars


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"