String Theory Group Meetings: Fall 2008

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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 2009 schedule
(or here for the Spring 2008 schedule)

September 3

Ori J. Ganor (UCB/LBNL), S-Duality and Topological Field Theory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

September 10

Anthony Tagliaferro (UCB/LBNL), Star Products and Differential Forms
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

September 17

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Eric G. Gimon (UCB/LBNL), What Can Multi-Center Supergravity Solutions Teach Us about Black Holes
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL

September 24

Stefan Leichenauer (UCB), Star Formation in the Multiverse
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

October 1

Shinsei Ryu (UCB), Entanglement Entropy and AdS/CFT
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

October 8

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Zoltan Ligeti (UCB/LBNL), Flavor Physics at the LHC
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

October 15

Sergio Ferrara (CERN/UCB), Extremal Black Hole Attractors in N-Extended Supergravity
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

October 22

Ben Freivogel (UCB/LBNL), Axion Dark Matter
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

October 29

No group meeting

November 5

Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS), What is the Simplest QFT?
THIS GROUP MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED!

November 12

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Sergio Ferrara (CERN/UCB), Supersymmetric Properties of Black Holes: Universality of the Attractor Flow
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL

November 19

Heng-Yu Chen (U. Wisconsin), Updates on Warped Brane Inflation
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

November 26

No official speaker, Thanksgiving week

December 3

Yu Nakayama (UCB/LBNL), Index for Non-Relativistic Superconformal Field Theories
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

December 10

JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Michael Chanowitz (UCB/LBNL), Evidence for a Z' Boson Coupled to B - L
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

December 17

Jonathan Heckman (Harvard), Flavor Hierarchy from F-Theory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte

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