| Date | Speaker | Institution |
Title |
Reference |
| January
16 |
Alan
Guth |
MIT |
Eternal
inflation, bubble collisions, and the persistence of memory |
|
| January
23 |
Matthew
Headrick |
Stanford |
The
uses of Ricci flow |
|
| January
30 |
Eliezer
Rabinovici |
Hebrew
University |
Spontaneous
breaking of space time symmetries and some implications |
|
| February
6 |
David
Morrison |
UCSB |
Ricci
flow and membrane theory |
|
| February
16 (Note special day and time 3:00 pm) |
Nima
Arkani-Hamed |
Harvard |
Quantum
horizons of the Standard Model Landscape |
|
| February
20 |
Ofer
Aharony |
Weizmann
Institute |
On
the CFT/AdS correspondence and massive gravitons |
|
| February
27 |
Samuel
Vazquez |
UCSB |
Probing
1/2 BPS geometries with N=4 SYM theory |
|
| March
6 |
Shamit
Kachru |
Stanford |
Metastable
vacua and D-branes at the conifold |
|
| March
13 (cancelled because of Oppenheimer's lecture) |
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| March
20 |
Ben
Freivogel |
Berkeley |
Colliding
with a crunching bubble |
|
| March
27 (spring break) |
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| April
3 |
Vijay
Balasubramanian |
Pennsylvania |
A
thermodynamic interpretation of time for rolling tachyons ? |
|
| April
10 |
Andrew
Neitzke |
IAS |
Quaternionic
geometry, BPS attractor flows and the topological string |
|
| April
17 (CANCELLED) |
Aristomenis
Donos |
Brown |
Lifting
the LLM droplets to higher dimensions |
|
| April
24 |
Matt
Kleban |
NYU |
Thermal
Transitions in the Landscape |
|
| May
1 |
Ian
Swanson |
IAS |
New
transitions and dualities from supercritical string theory |
|
| May
8 |
Vitaly
Vanchurin |
ASC
Munich |
Random observers in the landscape | |
| May
15 |
Mark
Van Raamsdonk |
British
Columbia |
Aspects
of quantum mechanics / gravity duality |
|
| May
22 |
Aristomenis
Donos |
Brown |
Lifting
the LLM droplets to higher dimensions |
|
| May
29 |