String Theory Group Meetings: Fall 2007
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The group meetings are held on Wednesdays, 3:10 p.m., in 402 Old Le Conte
Hall,
unless explicitly stated otherwise.
click here for the Spring 2008 schedule
(or here for the Spring 2007 schedule)
 September 5
LBNL NUCLEAR THEORY SEMINAR
David Mateos (UCSB), String Theory and RHIC Physics: The
Fundamental Story
2:00 p.m., LBNL, Buliding 70, Room 228
(NOTE THE UNUSUAL LOCATION AND TIME!)
September 12
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Petr Hořava (UCB/LBNL), Closed-String Tachyon Condensation
and Spacetime Decay to Nothing
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL
September 19
Albert S. Schwarz (UC Davis), How p-adic numbers can be
used to answer questions of physics
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
September 26
Bom Soo Kim (UCB/LBNL), Non-Relativistic String
Theories - An Elementary Approach with beta-gamma CFT
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
October 3
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Piyush Kumar (UCB/LBNL), LHC String Phenomenology
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
October 10
Luca Mazzucato (Tel-Aviv), Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua from
M-Theory Fivebranes
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
October 17
Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS), Euclidean Wormholes in String
Theory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
October 24
Yu Nakayama (UCB/LBNL), Moduli Stabilization in Stringy ISS
Models
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
October 31
NOTE: TWO TALKS IN ONE DAY!
Simeon Hellerman (IAS), Informal Discussion of Closed-String
Tachyon Condensation
2:00 p.m., 402 Le Conte
Thomas Grimm (Wisconsin), Axion Inflation in Type II String
Theory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
November 7
Eric G. Gimon (UCB/LBNL), The Atomic Picture of Extremal Black
Holes
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
November 14
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Raphael Bousso (UCB/LBNL), The Measure Problem in
Cosmology
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL
November 21
No official speaker, Thanksgiving week
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
THURSDAY, November 29
Ari Pakman (Stony Brook), Progress in AdS3/CFT2
3:40 p.m., 402 Le Conte
PLEASE NOTE THE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME!
December 5
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Lawrence Hall (UCB/LBNL), The LHC: More Symmetries or More
Universes?
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
December 12
Per Berglund (UNH), Topology from Cosmology
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
December 19
No speaker;
the group meetings will resume in January 2008.
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