String Theory Group Meetings: Fall 2005
click here for
a link to the visitor program webpage
This semester, the group meetings are returning to their previous time and
location:
Wednesdays, 3 p.m., Director's Conference Room (LBNL 50A-5132).
Starting from October 19, the group meetings
have been moved
to the Oppenheimer Room
(4th floor Birge Hall).
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(click here for the Spring 2006 schedule
and here for the Spring 2005 schedule)
 September 7
Cindy Keeler (UCB/LBNL), Noncritical M-Theory in Three
Dimensions
3 p.m., Director's Conference Room (LBNL 50A-5132)
September 14
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Veronika Hubeny and Mukund Rangamani (UCB/LBNL/Durham),
Inflation in AdS/CFT
12:30 p.m., INPA Conference Room (LBNL 50-5026)
September 21
Bom Soo Kim (UCB/LBNL), Massive Twistor String
Theory
3 p.m. (sharp!), Director's Conference Room (LBNL 50A-5132)
September 28
No official speaker, Free discussion (plus organization of
future group meetings)
3 p.m., Director's Conference Room (LBNL 50A-5132)
October 5
Sumit Das (Kentucky), From Matrices to Cosmological
Singularities in String Theory
3 p.m., Director's Conference Room (LBNL 50A-5132)
October 12
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Riccardo Barbieri (Pisa), A Natural Electroweak Theory at the
LHC
3 p.m., Director's Conference Room (LBNL 50A-5132)
October 19
Ofer Aharony (Weizmann), 0A Matrix Model and Strings on
AdS_2
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
October 20
Tommy Levi (Penn), 3-Charge Microstates
3:30 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
October 26
Jessie Shelton (MIT), Nongeometric Flux Compactifications
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
November 2
Peter Shepard (UCB/LBNL), Black Hole Statistics from
Holography
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
November 9
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Mina Aganagic (UCB/LBNL), Topological Strings and Black
Holes
12:30 p.m., INPA Conference Room (LBNL 50-5026)
November 16
David Shih (Princeton), Exact Black Hole Degeneracies and the
Topological String
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
November 23
No official speaker (Thanksgiving week), Free
discussion
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
November 30
Frederik Denef (Rutgers), Black Holes and Open String Flux
Vacua
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
December 7
Ben Freivogel (UCB/LBNL), Asymptotic States of the Bounce
Geometry
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
December 14
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Matthew Schwartz (UCB/LBNL), String Theory Meets Phenomenology:
the AdS/QCD Correspondence
This seminar was postponed; will take place on January 18
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December 21
No official speaker, Free discussion
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
horava@berkeley.edu
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