String Theory Group Meetings: Spring 2006
click here for the Fall 2006 schedule
and here for the
visitor program
webpage
This semester, the group meetings will continue to take place
on Wednesdays, 3 p.m. (or, more precisely, at 3:10 p.m.), in Oppenheimer
Room, 4th floor Birge Hall.
(click here for the Fall 2005 schedule)
 January 18
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Matthew Schwartz (UCB/LBNL), String Theory Meets Phenomenology:
the AdS/QCD Correspondence
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
(rescheduled from December 14)
January 25
Eva Silverstein (Stanford/SLAC), Catalyzed Decays in String
Theory
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
February 1
Joel Moore (UCB), How Entanglement Entropy Defines Central
Charge Without Conformal Invariance
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
February 8
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Tom Banks (Santa Cruz), Regulating Eternal Inflation
12:30 p.m., Director's Conference Room (50A-5132 LBNL)
NOTE THE UNUSUAL LOCATION OF THIS TALK
February 15
No official speaker, Free discussion
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
February 22
Albrecht Klemm (Wisconsin/MSRI), Informal Discussion of Topological
Strings
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
March 1
Niels Obers (NBI), Instabilities of Smeared Branes and the
Correlated Stability Conjecture
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
March 8
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Mary K. Gaillard (UCB/LBNL), Is the Universal String Axion the
QCD Axion?
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
March 15
Matthew Lippert (U. Kentucky), Probabilities in the Landscape:
The Decay of Nearly Flat Space
3 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
March 22
Lisa Dyson (UCB/LBNL), Linking Chronology Protection to the
Second Law of Thermodynamics
3:10 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
March 29
No seminar, Spring break
April 5
No group meeting, Replaced by meetings with prospective graduate
students
3:10 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
April 12
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Eric G. Gimon (UCB/LBNL), From Supergravity Solutions
to Black Hole Horizons
12:30 p.m., INPA Conference Room (50-5026 LBNL)
April 19
Norma Quiroz (UCB/LBNL/UNAM), Two-Dimensional Quantum Gravity
and Boundary States
3:10 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
April 26
No group meeting.
Instead, we recommend attending
Robbert Dijkgraaf's
lectures on Tue, April 25 (at 4:30 at MSRI) and Thu, April 27
(at 4:10 in Evans).
May 3
Alessandro Tomasiello (Stanford), String Theory Dynamics of
Generalized Structures
3:00 p.m. sharp
Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
May 10
JOINT 4D SEMINAR & STRING-THEORY GROUP MEETING
Gilad Perez (UCB/LBNL), A Weakless Universe
3:10 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
May 24
Stephen Shenker (Stanford), TBA
3:10 p.m., Oppenheimer Room (4th floor Birge)
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