Old Theory Group Seminars 2004
DATE: Monday, September
20th, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford)
TITLE: "Split Supersymmetry"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 50A-5132, Directors
Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, September
21st, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Atish Dabholkar
(Stanford)
TITLE: "Exact Counting
of Black
Hole Microstates"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer
Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday,
September 22nd,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Gilad Perez (LBNL)
TITLE: "Flavor
Physics in
Randall-Sundrum I"
TIME: 12:30 PM -
1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026,
INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Friday,
September 24th, 2004
(Math-Physics Joint Seminar)
SPEAKER: Ori
Ganor(UCB/LBNL)
TITLE: "Introduction
to Witten's
Program: Yang-Mills and Twistor String Theory"
TIME: 3:10
PM
PLACE: 430
Birge hall
DATE:
Monday, September 27th, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Patrick
Fox (UC Santa Cruz)
TITLE: "Probing
a QCD String
axion with precision cosmological measurements"
TIME:
2:30 PM
PLACE:
Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE:
Tuesday, September 28th, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER:
Jan Bernard Gutowski (Oxford)
TITLE: "Supersymmetric
Black Rings"
TIME:
2:10 PM
PLACE:
Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE:
Wednesday, September 29th,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER:
Roni Harnik (LBNL)
TITLE:
"Twisted Fermions,
Flavor, and the Strong CP Problem"
TIME:
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE:
50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE:
Monday, October 4th, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER:
Kieth Dienes (University of Arizona)
TITLE: "Are there
string-theoretic corrections to the laws of thermodynamics?"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: Director's conference
50A-5132, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Shamit Kachru (Stanford)
TITLE: "Learning to count"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, October 6th, 2004
(4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Kai Wang (Oklahoma, State Uni.)
TITLE: "Hidden Symmetries and
Their Implications"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference
Room, LBNL
DATE: Monday, October 11th, 2004
(290p Seminar)
SPEAKER: Patrick Fox (UC Irvine)
TITLE: "SuperWIMP dark matter"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Tuesday, October 12th, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Jan de Boer (Amsterdam)
TITLE: "The Topological G_2 String"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday, October 18th, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Thomas Gregoire (CERN)
TITLE: "TBA"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: Director's conference
50A-5132, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Henriette Elvang (UCSB)
TITLE: "Black rings and supertubes"
TIME: 2:20 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday, November 22nd, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Motohiko Yoshimura (ICRR, Tokyo)
TITLE: "Towards resolution of
outstanding hierarchy problems"
TIME: 2:20 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
**** Past Seminars, 2004 ****
DATE: Wednesday, September 15th,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Michele Papucci (LBNL)
TITLE: "Neutrino mass bounds in
thermal leptogenesis models"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Wednesday, September 15th,
2004 (String Theory Group Meeting)
SPEAKER: Indrajit Mitra (UCB/LBNL)
TITLE: "A Strong Quantum Effect
on the Dynamics of Moduli"
TIME: 3:10 PM
PLACE: Director's Conference 50A-5132, LBNL
DATE: Monday, September 13th, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Stephen Hsu (University of Oregon)
TITLE: "Composite Higgs from
Higher Representations: new models of dynamical electroweak symmetry
breaking"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Center, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, September 8th,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Hitoshi Murayama
TITLE: "Gravitational Baryogenesis"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Wednesday, September 1st,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Tomer Volansky
TITLE: "Baryogenesis from the
Kobayashi-Maskawa Phase"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Wednesday, August 25th,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Yasaman Farzan (SLAC)
TITLE: "Effects of Right-handed
Neutrino Supermultiplets on Electric Dipole Moments"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, June 1, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Allan Adams (Harvard)
TITLE: "LISA in the Sky with
Dark matter (and other fun with mirrors)"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Thursday May 27, 2004
(Special 290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Cliff Burgess (McGill)
TITLE: "Supersymmetric Large
Extra Dimensions and the Cosmological Constant"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 430 Birge Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, May 26,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Hitoshi Murayama (UCB)
TITLE: "The New Minimal
Standard Model"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, May 25, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Atish Dabholkar (Stanford)
TITLE: "Duality Twitsts,
Orbifolds, and Gauged Supergravity"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Thursday, May 20,
2004 (Special 4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Andreas Birkedal (Univ. Florida)
TITLE: "Cosmology at Colliders"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, May 18, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Nemanja Kaloper (UCD)
TITLE: "Original World"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday May 17, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Adam Lewandowski (SLAC)
TITLE: "Running with the Radius
in RS"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 50A-5132, Directors
Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Monday May 10, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Graham Kribs (IAS)
TITLE: "Electroweak symmetry
breaking in UV insesitive anomaly mediation"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 430 Birge Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Tuesday, May 4, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Joan Simon (UPenn)
TITLE: "DLCQ Holography and two
boundary AdS quotients"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday May 3, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Kaustubh Agashe (JHU)
TITLE: "B-factory signals for a
warped extra dimension"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 50A-5132 Director's
Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Wednesday, April 28,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Brent Nelson (Penn)
TITLE: "Towards an Effective
Lagrangian Description of Type IIA String Models"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Monday April 26, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Clifford Johnson (USC)
TITLE: "A model of closed
time-like curves and cosmological singularitites in string theory"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 430 Birge Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Tuesday, April 21, 2004
(Special String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Jan de Boer (Amsterdam Univ.)
TITLE: ""Wrapped branes and
nonperturbative gauge theories"
TIME: 3:00 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, April 21,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Radu Tatar (LBNL)
TITLE: "Non-Kahler String
Compactifications and Geometric Transitions"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, April 20, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Harvey Reall (KITP)
TITLE: "Anti-de Sitter black holes"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday April 19, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Don Marolf (UCSB)
TITLE: "A world without entropy
bounds"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 50A-5132, Directors
Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Wednesday, April 14,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Taizan Watari (LBNL)
TITLE: "Hybrid Inflation of
D3-D7 System"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Monday April 12, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Eric Poppitz (Toronto Univ.)
TITLE: "Supersymmetry on a real
lattice"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 430 Birge Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, April 7,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Mary K Gaillard (LBNL)
TITLE: "Quadratically divergent
folklore"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: David Olive (Swansea)
TITLE: "Charges and Fluxes for Branes"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday April 5, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Christian Bauer (Caltech)
TITLE: "Non-leptonic, exclusive
B decays"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 50A-5132, Directors
Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Friday, April 2, 2004
(Speical String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Andy Strominger (Harvard Univ.)
TITLE: "Balck Holes and the
Topological Strings"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, March 31,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Kai Diener (PSI in Zurich)
TITLE: "The NuTeV Result for
sin2(theta_w) - a Reanalysis of the Electroweak Radiative corrections"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Monday March 29, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Christoph Grojean (Saclay)
TITLE: "How to do electroweak
physics without a Higgs boson"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 430 Birge Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, March 24,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Lawrence Hall (LBNL)
TITLE: "Late Time Neutrino
Masses, CMB Signals, and the LSND Experiment"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, March 23, 2004
(Joint Cosmology & String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Martin Schnabl (MIT)
TITLE: "Fake supergravity,
domain wall stability and defect CFT"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday March 22, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Sergei Cherkis (IAS)
TITLE: "Integrable Spin Chains
and Deformations of Super Yang-Mills"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 430 Birge Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, March 17,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Aleksey Mints (UCB)
TITLE: "Resolving entropy for
the Covariant Entropy Bound"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, March 16, 2004
(Joint Cosmology & String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Dan Chung (Wisconsin Univ.)
TITLE: "Hawking Radiation in Odd
Spacetime Dimensions"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: 544 Campell Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday March 15, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Hidenori Sonada (Kobe Univ.)
TITLE: "Non-linear sigma models
as a limit of the llinear sigma models"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 430 Birge Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, March 10,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Michael Chanowitz (LBNL)
TITLE: "Precision Electroweak
Data and the Higgs Boson Mass"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, March 9, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Johannes Walcher (UCSB)
TITLE: "Orientifolds of Gepner models"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday March 8, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Bernd Kniehl (Univ. of Hamburg)
TITLE: "Heavy open-flavor and
quarkonium production at colliders"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 50A-5132, Directors
Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, March 2, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Shiraz Minwalla (Harvard Univ.)
TITLE: "The
Hagedorn/Deconfinement Transition in Weakly Coupled Yang Mills"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, March 3,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Stefan Bosch (Cornell Univ.)
TITLE: "A new Precision
Measurement of |V_ub|"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Monday March 1, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Paolo Creminelli (Harvard Univ.)
TITLE: "Ghost Inflation"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 50A-5132, Directors
Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Wednesday, February 25,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Leszek Roszkowski (Lancaster Univ.)
TITLE: "Supersymmetric Dark
Matter and Prospects for Its Detection"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Stephon Alexander (Stanford Univ.)
TITLE: "The Matter-Anti Matter
Asymmetry from Inflationary Gravity Waves"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday February 23, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Djorde Minic (Virginia Tech)
TITLE: "Time and M-theory"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 430 Birge Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Thursday, February 19, 2004
(Special String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Mina Aganagic (Univ. of Washington)
TITLE: "Geometry, duality, and
topological strings"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Tuesday, February 17, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute)
TITLE: "Cosmic Superstrings"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, February 11,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Walter Goldberger (LBNL)
TITLE: "Effective Field Theory
for Radiation Gravitons"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Wednesday, February 11, 2004
(Special String Seminar)
SPEAKER: V P Nair (City College of New York)
TITLE: "About 2+1 dimensional
Yang-Mills, conformal field theory and confinement"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew Univ.)
TITLE: "Preliminary Results on
Thermodynamical Properties of Some Co-Set Models"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday February 9, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Yuri Shirman (LANL)
TITLE: "Fermions on an interval"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 50A-5132, Directors
Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Wednesday, February 4,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Daniel Larson (LBNL)
TITLE: "Introducing the Fat Higgs"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, INPA Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Ori Ganor (UCB/LBNL)
TITLE: "M-theory and E10"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday February 2, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Geraldine Servant (Univ. of Chicago)
TITLE: "Dark matter and baryon
number in warped space"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 430 Birge Hall, CAMPUS
DATE: Wednesday, January 28,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Jeff Greensite (LBNL)
TITLE: "Coulomb Energy, Remnant
Symmetry, and the Phases of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, January 27, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Bogdan Morariu (Rockefeller Univ.)
TITLE: "Quantum mechanics on
noncommutative Riemann surfaces"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Monday January 26, 2004
(290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Shinji Mukohyama (Harvard Univ.)
TITLE: "Ghost Condensation"
TIME: 2:30 PM
PLACE: 50A-5132, Directors
Conference Room, LBNL
DATE: Wednesday, January 21,
2004 (4D Seminar)
SPEAKER: Indrajit Mitra (LBNL)
TITLE: "String production in
cosmological settings"
TIME: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
PLACE: 50-5026, LBNL
DATE: Tuesday, January 20, 2004
(String Seminar)
SPEAKER: Bogdan Morariu (Rockefeller Univ.)
TITLE: "TBA"
TIME: 2:10 PM
PLACE: Oppenheimer Room, CAMPUS
DATE: Tuesday January 6, 2004
(Special 290P Seminar)
SPEAKER: Raman Sundrum (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
TITLE: "Fat Gravitons, the
Cosmological Constant, and Sub-millimeter Tests"
TIME: 11:00 AM
PLACE: 50A-5132, Directors
Conference Room, LBNL