String Theory Group Meetings:
Spring 2010

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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 Fall 2009 schedule)

FRIDAY, January 22

Frederik Denef (Harvard), Landscape Duals
2:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

January 27

Thomas Banks (UC Santa Cruz), Holographic Spacetime, SUSY and the Pyramid Scheme
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

MONDAY, February 1

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING (with a string-theory speaker)
Roni Harnik (Stanford), Entropic Universe
2:30 p.m., 402 Le Conte
(NOTE THE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION!)

February 3

Michael R. Douglas (Stony Brook), Compactification and Warp Factor Dynamics
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

February 10

Ben Freivogel (Berkeley), Observational Signatures of Eternal Inflation
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

February 17

There is no group meeting on this date; instead, we recommend Michele Papucci's talk on PAMELA, Fermi and Indirect Signals of Dark Matter, 12:30 p.m., INPA room, LBNL.

February 24

Stefan Leichenauer (Berkeley), Saturating the Holographic Entropy Bound
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

March 3

Yu Nakayama (Berkeley), Schrodinger-like Dilaton Gravity
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

March 10

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Zoltan Ligeti (UCB/LBNL), Tension in the CKM Fit?
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

March 17

No official speaker, This is the week of the Strings 2010 Conference

March 24

No seminar (Spring break)
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

March 31

Tommy Levi (UBC), When Worlds Collide
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

April 7

Ben Freivogel (Berkeley), Regulating Eternal Inflation with the UV/IR Connection
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

April 14

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Yu Nakayama (UCB), Scale Invariance vs. Conformal Invariance from Holography
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL

April 21

No group meeting (due to the organizer's preoccupation with a volcanic eruption)

April 28

Zohar Komargodski (IAS), Supercurrents and Supergravity
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

May 5

No group meeting

May 12

Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech/IPMU), Instability with Chern-Simons Terms
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

May 19

No group meeting

May 26

Yasuhiro Sekino (Okayama/Stanford), On the Topological Phases of Eternal Inflation
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

June 2

No group meeting

June 9

Eva Silverstein (UCSB/Stanford), Micromanaging de Sitter Holography
NOTE THE LAST-MINUTE TIME CHANGE: the talks starts at 1:00 p.m., 402 Le Conte

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