String Theory Group Meetings: Fall 2004

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September 1

free discussion of the future format
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

September 8

JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING:
Hitoshi Murayama (UCB/LBNL), Gravitational Baryogenesis
12:30 p.m., INPA Conference Room, 50-5026 LBNL

September 15

Indrajit Mitra (UCB/LBNL), A Strong Quantum Effect on the Dynamics of Moduli
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

September 22

Ori Ganor (UCB/LBNL), E_10 Orbifolds
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

September 29

no group meeting is scheduled for 3:10 p.m., because
Michael Peskin (SLAC) will give a talk at 3:30 p.m. (in Perseverance Hall at LBNL), on
Particle Physics and Cosmology

October 6

Raphael Bousso (UCB/LBNL), Holographic Constraints on Flat Space Physics
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

October 13

JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING:
Petr Horava (UCB/LBNL), Astrophysics of Compact Objects in String Theory
12:30 p.m., INPA Conference Room, 50-5026 LBNL

October 20

Mina Aganagic (UCB/LBNL), A Non-Perturbative Completion of the Topological String
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

October 27

Herman Verlinde (Princeton), Holography at Weak Coupling
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

November 3

Veronika Hubeny (UCB/LBNL), Probing AdS Bulk via CFT Correlators
3:10 p.m., 50B-4205 LBNL (note the non-standard location)

November 10

JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Taizan Watari (UCB/LBNL), Local Construction of Particle Physics
3:30 p.m., 70A-3377 LBNL (note the unusual time and location)

November 17

Eric Gimon (UCB/LBNL), Fat D-Branes, Why They Matter
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

November 24

no official speaker (Thanksgiving week), free discussion
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

December 1

Allan Adams (Harvard), Heterotic Mirrors
2:10 p.m., Oppenheimer Room, 4th floor Birge, Campus
(note the unusual time and location, due to the black-ring workshop on campus)

December 8

JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Ori Ganor (UCB/LBNL), Twistors and QCD: Review of Witten's Program
12:30 p.m., INPA Conference Room, 50-5026 LBNL

December 15

Raphael Bousso (UCB/LBNL), Cosmology, Event Horizons, and the S-Matrix
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

December 22

no official speaker, free discussion
3:10 p.m., Director's Conference Room, 50A-5132 LBNL

horava@socrates.berkeley.edu