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