| Date | Speaker | Institution |
Title | |
| August
14 |
Massimo
Porrati |
NYU
and Pisa |
Gravitational Back-Reaction of Matter Inhomogeneities | |
| August
28 |
Shamit
Kachru |
Stanford |
Simple
Stringy Dynamical SUSY Breaking | |
| September
4 |
Eva
Silverstein |
Stanford |
Dimensional
Duality | |
| September
11 |
Lara
Anderson |
Oxford |
M-theory on singular G2 manifolds | |
| September
18 |
Yu Nakayama |
UC Berkeley |
D-branes (orientifold) in 2D BH | |
| September
25 |
Amos
Yarom |
Munich |
Energy loss in a quark-gluon plasma using AdS/CFT | |
| October
2 |
Nelia
Mann |
Chicago |
A
diagrammatic approach to finite size corrections in the Bethe Ansatz of N = 4 SYM | |
| October
9 |
Steve
Giddings |
UCSB |
High-energy scattering and locality: gravity and strings | |
| October
16 |
Andrew
Strominger |
Harvard |
Central Charge for AdS2 Quantum Gravity | |
| October
23 |
Simeon Hellerman |
IAS |
Dynamical transitions from closed string tachyon condensation | |
| October
30 |
Vasilis Niarchos |
Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT |
The Many Phases of Higher Dimensional Black Holes | |
| November 6 |
Niklas
Beisert |
Max
Planck Institute |
Spectral Curve for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT | |
| November 13 |
Navin Sivanandam |
Stanford |
Volume Weighted Measures of Eternal Inflation in the Bousso-Polchinski Landscape | |
| November 20 |
Dieter van den Bleeken |
Leuven |
Multi-Centered Black Holes in AdS | |
| November 27 |
Oscar Valera |
Imperial College |
AdS spacetimes and Kaluza-Klein consistency | |
| December 4 |
Daniel Baumann |
Princeton |
Microscopic Aspects of Inflation in String Theory | |
| December 11 |
Vatche Sahakian |
Harvey Mudd Coll |
UV-IR quantum entanglement and its imprints on the CMB | |
| January 22 |
Magdalena Larfors |
Uppsala U |
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| January 29 |
David Tong |
Cambridge |
Berry's Phase, Supersymmetry and D-Branes | |
| March 4 |
Eric Sharpe |
Utah |