String Theory Group Meetings:
Spring 2009
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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 Fall 2008 schedule)
 January 14
Matthew Kleban (NYU), A Conformal Field Theory for Eternal
Inflation
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
January 21
Jaemo Park (POSTECH/Stanford), Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and
M2-Brane CFTs
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
January 28
Igor Klebanov (Princeton), M2-Branes and AdS/CFT
Correspondence
2:00 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 4
Petr Hořava (UCB/LBNL), Gravity in Detailed Balance
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 11
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING (with a 4D speaker)
Yasunori Nomura (UCB/LBNL), Dark Matter Through the Axion
Portal
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 18
Korkut Bardakci (UCB/LBNL), Field Theory on the World
Sheet
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 25
Per Kraus (UCLA), Holographic Approach to the Quantum Hall
Effect
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 4
Dan Freed (Austin), The Geometry and Topology of
Orientifolds
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 11
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Raphael Bousso (UCB/LBNL), Think Global Act Causal:
Complementarity in the Multiverse
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL
March 18
Bianca Cerchiai (UCB/LBNL), Exceptional Lie Groups, Duality and
Applications to Supergravity
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 25
No speaker, Spring break
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
April 1
Andy Neitzke (Harvard), Wall-crossing and Fivebranes
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
April 8
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Martin Schmaltz (UCB/Boston U.), Discovery Potential
of the First Year of LHC Running
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
April 15
Ben Freivogel (UCB/LBNL), Eternal Inflation, Bubble Collisions,
and the Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
April 22
Leonard Susskind (Stanford), Questions for All Your Answers on
Eternal Inflation
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
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April 29
Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC), What is Quantum Gravity?
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
May 6
TBA (TBA), TBA
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
May 13
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Ori Ganor (UCB/LBNL), TBA
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL
horava@berkeley.edu
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