String Theory Group Meetings: Spring 2007
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The group meetings are held on Wednesdays, 3:10 p.m., in 402 Old Le Conte
Hall.
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(and here for the Fall 2007 schedule)
 January 17
Organizational meeting, No official speaker
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
January 24
I-Sheng Yang (UCB/LBNL), Dynamics and Predictions on the
Landscape
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
January 31
Chris Hull (Imperial College), Non-Geometric String
Backgrounds
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 7
Adrian Lee (UCB), Studying Inflation with the CMB
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 14
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING GROUP MEETING
Hitoshi Murayama (UCB/LBNL), Supersymmetry Breaking Made Easy,
Viable, and Non-Anthropic
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 21
Don N. Page (U. Alberta), Is the Universe Decaying at
an Astronomical Rate?
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 28
Eric G. Gimon (UCB/LBNL), Black Hole Parts and Phase
Transitions
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 7
Joan Simon (UCB/LBNL), Near-Extremal AdS R-Charged
Black Holes (II)
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 14
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING GROUP MEETING
Stephen W. Hawking (University of Cambridge), The Measure of the
Universe
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
(PLEASE, NOTE THE UNUSUAL TIME AND LOCATION!)
March 21
Petr Hořava (UCB/LBNL), Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz
Point
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 28
No group meeting, Spring break
April 4
Takuya Okuda (KITP Santa Barbara), Wilson Loops,
String/Brane/Geometry Transitions, and Bubbling Calabi-Yau's
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
April 11
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING GROUP MEETING
Jesse Thaler (UCB/LBNL), Natural/Unnatural
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
Monday, April 16JOINT SEMINAR WITH MATH
Jim Bryan (UBC), The Quantum McKay Correspondence
1 p.m., 402 Le Conte
PLEASE NOTE THE UNUSUAL DATE AND TIME!
This seminar replaces the regular group meeting that would take place
on Wednesday, April 18.
April 25
Daniel Butter (UCB/LBNL), Classically Conformal N=1, D=4
Superspace
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
May 2
Ori Ganor (UCB/LBNL), M-Theory Orbifolds, E10, DE10, and
Other Infinite Lie Algebras
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
May 9
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING GROUP MEETING
Mina Aganagic (UCB/LBNL), Large N Duality and Supersymmetry
Breaking
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL
May 23
Alessandro Tomasiello (Stanford), Progress on the Geometry of
Supersymmetric String Vacua
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
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