String Theory Group Meetings:
Fall 2009

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The group meetings are held on Wednesdays, 3:10 p.m., in 402 Old Le Conte Hall,
unless explicitly stated otherwise.

(click here for the Spring 2009 schedule)

September 9

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Jesse Thaler (UCB/LBNL), A Standard Model Background Estimation
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

September 16

Chris Beem (UCB/LBNL), D-Brane Superpotentials from Calabi-Yau Fourfolds
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

September 23

Yu Nakayama (UCB/LBNL), Gravitational Dual of Polchinski's Theorem: Forbidden Landscape
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

September 30

Ben Freivogel (UCB/LBNL), A Conformal Field Theory for Eternal Inflation?
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

October 7

Charles Melby-Thompson (UCB/LBNL), Anisotropic Conformal Infinity
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

October 14

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Petr Hořava (UCB/LBNL), Quantum Gravity with Anisotropic Scaling
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL

October 21

Omid Saremi (McGill), Hydrodynamic Long-Time Tails from Anti-de Sitter Space
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

October 28

I-Sheng Yang (Columbia), Stretched or Sealed? The Fate of Extra Dimensions
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

November 4

Natalia Saulina (Caltech), Compact 3-Generation F-Theory GUT's with U(1)_{PQ} Gauge Symmetry
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

November 11

No seminar, Veterans' Day

November 18

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Lawrence Hall (UCB/LBNL), A Finely-Predicted Higgs Boson Mass from a Finely-Tuned Weak Scale
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

November 25

Thanksgiving week

December 2

Barak Kol (Hebrew U.), Classical Effective Field Theory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

December 9

NO 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING

December 16

Tudor Dimofte (Caltech), Quantum Wall Crossing in N=2 Gauge Theories
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

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