String Theory Group Meetings: Fall 2006
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In the Fall semester of 2006, the group meetings will relocate first to
402 Old Le Conte Hall, and eventually (but not yet!) to the skylight area
420 Old Le Conte.
The meetings will be held on Wednesdays, 3:10 p.m.
(click here for the Spring 2006 schedule)
 September 6
I-Sheng Yang (UCB/LBNL), Eternal Inflation
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
September 13
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING GROUP MEETING
Raphael Bousso (UCB/LBNL), Holographic Probabilities in
Eternal Inflation and the Entropic Principle
12:30 p.m., INPA Room (LBNL)
September 20
Joan Simon (UCB/LBNL), Entropy of Non-Extremal Black Holes in
AdS
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
September 27
Ori Ganor (UCB/LBNL), A Lorentz Violating Theory from
String Theory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
October 4
Ben Freivogel (UCB/LBNL), A Holographic Framework for Eternal
Inflation
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
October 11
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING GROUP MEETING
Lawrence Hall (UCB/LBNL), Landscape Predictions for Top Quark
and Higgs Boson Masses
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
October 18
Richard Easther (Yale), Worldlines in an Eternally Inflating
Universe
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
October 25
Petr Hořava (UCB/LBNL), Conformal Limit of Noncritical
M-Theory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
November 1
Christopher Beem (UCB/LBNL), Geometrically Induced Metastability
and Holography
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
November 8
No group meeting.
November 15
No group meeting; instead, everyone is encouraged to attend the 2006 Bowen
Lectures organized by the Math Department:
E. Witten (IAS Princeton), Gauge Theory and the Geometric
Langlands Program
November 22
No official speaker, Thanksgiving week
November 29
Raphael Bousso (UCB/LBNL), Predicting Lambda
3:10 p.m.
December 8
Harald Ita (Swansea), The No-Triangle Hypothesis for N=8
Supergravity
2:00 p.m. (NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME!)
December 13
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING GROUP MEETING
Petr Hořava (UCB/LBNL), Membranes at Quantum
Criticality
12:30 p.m., INPA Room (LBNL)
December 20
Ian Ellwood (U. Wisconsin), NS-NS Fluxes in Hitchin's
Generalized Geometry
3:10 p.m.
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