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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