Theoretical Physics FALL -  2009

Some titles have been linked to a paper by the speaker which may be at best loosely related to the actual talk, Also:

TODAY -- Boston Area Physics Calendar -- Astrophysical Journal Club -- Math Department Seminars -- HET Journal Club

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September 2009

16 September 2009 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
                   
  Higher Derivative Gravity, Causality and Positivity of Energy in a UV complete QFT
                Dr. Diego Hofman  (Princeton U)

21 September 2009 ---HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
 
The Ugly Duck of Supergravity: Black Holes      
                 Dr. Ilies Messamah  (Brown U)
 
23 September 2009 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
                   
  Recent Developments on Dynamical r-Matrices
                Dr. Jean Avan   (U Cergy Pontoise)


28 September 2009 ---HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
  To be announced    
                 Dr. Ilies Messamah  (Brown U)
 

30 September 2009 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
                   
  Longitudinal Rescaling, Integrability and Confinement
                Dr. Peter Orland  (Niels Bohr Institute)

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October 2009

05 October 2009--- HET Journal Club:  B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
 
  On the Possibility of Finite Charge Renormalization in QED     
                Dr.  Herb Fried  (Brown U)

07 October 2009--- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
 
  To be announced       
                Dr.  Matthew Kleban  (New York U)

9 October 2009--- HET Journal Club:  B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Friday)
                   
  Liouville Correlators and N=2 Gauge Theories
              Dr. Ari Pakman  (Brown U) 
 
12 October 2009--- HET Journal Club:  B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
 
  R⁴ Counterterm and  E₇₍₇₎ - Symmetry in Maximal Supergravity     
                Dr.  Johannes Broedel  (MPI Golm)

 14 October 2009--- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
 
  Probing Particle Physics with Extraterrestrial Neutrinos      
                Prof. Ina Sarcevic  (Arizona U)
 
  19 October 2009--- HET Journal Club: B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
 
   The Non-Relativistic Limit of AdS/CFT     
                Dr. Arjun Bagchi  (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

  21 October 2009--- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30 PM
 
  To be announced         
                Dr. James Grey  (Oxford U)

  26 October 2009--- HET Journal Club: B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
 
   Flavor-branes in Gauge/String Dality and M-Theory       
                Dr. Johannes Shmude  (Swansea)


  28 October 2009--- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30 PM
 
  Spin Models and  Emergent Gauge Fields at Lifshitz Points
                Prof. Sumit Das  (U Kentuckey)

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November 2009

02 November 2009--- HET Journal Club:  B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
                   
  The Kerr/CFT Correspondence
              Dr. Wei Song  (Harvard) 

05 November 2009--- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  (Thursday)  - Note date change
                   
  The Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes
              Dr. David Skinner (Perimeter Institute)

 09 November 2009--- HET Journal Club:  B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
 
  S-Duality and 2d TQFT        
                Dr. Shlomo Razamat  (Stonybrook)


  11 November  2009--- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
                   
  On Short Strings in AdS_5 x S^5
              Dr. Radu Roiban  (Penn State U)

  13 November  2009--- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
                   
  Low-Scale Gravity Black Holes at LHC
              Dr. Eniko Regoes   (CERN)
 
  16 November  2009---HET Journal Club:  B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
                   
  To be announced
               Dr. Yuji Tachikawa  (IAS)


  19 November 2009--- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  (Thursday)
                   
   Gluon Tree Amplitudes in Open Twistor String Theory
              Prof. Louise Dolan  (U North Carolina)

  23 November  2009---HET Journal Club:  B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
                   
  Scattering Amplitudes and Surfaces in AdS
               Kewang Jin  (Brown U)


  30 November  2009---HET Journal Club:  B&H 555 12:00 Noon  (Monday)
                   
  Boost-Invariant Early Time Dynamics from AdS/CFT Correspondence
               Dr. Michal Heller  (Jagiellonian)

 

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December  2009

02 December    2009--- Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555 2:30PM
                   
 Perturbative Spectra in Gauge Theories with Gravity Duals
at Four Loops and Beyond
               Dr. Christoph Sieg  (Niels Bohr Institute)

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