Theoretical
Physics Spring - 2010
Some titles have been linked to a paper by the speaker which may
be at best loosely related to the actual talk, Also:
TODAY
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Area Physics Calendar -- Astrophysical
Journal Club -- Math
Department Seminars -- HET
Journal Club
February 2010
1 February 2010 --- HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)The Generalized Scaling Function in AdS/CFT: A Strong Coupling Test
Dr. Cristian Vergu (Brown U)
3 February 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
The OPE in Non-relativistic CFT's
Dr. Emmanuel Katz (Boston U)
8 February 2010 --- HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)
Two-Loop Spectroscopy of Short ABJM Operators
Dr. Georgios Papathanasiou (Brown U)
15 February 2010 --- HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)
DIS after AdS/CFT
Marko Djuric (Brown U)
17 February 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
Local Physics in (and from) the Grassmannian
Dr. Jacob Bourjaily (Princeton U)
18 February 2010 --- HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)
No Journal Club
24 February 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
The Fermion Spectral Funtion in Holographic Superconductors
Dr. Amos Yarom (Princeton U)
March 2010
1 March 2010 --- HET Journal
Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)The Kerr-Fermi Sea
Dr. Tom Hartman (Harvard U)
3 March 2010 --- Kyungsik Kang Special HET Seminar: B&H 190 3:30 p.m.
High Energy Scattering: from Theory to Phenomenology and Back
Dr. Genya Levin (U Tel Aviv)
8 March 2010 --- HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)
To be announced
10 March 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
On the Structure of Scattering Amplitudes
Dr. Henriette Elvang (U Michigan)
15 March 2010 --- HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)
To be announced
Dr. Johannes Henn (Humboldt U)
17 March 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
Membrane Dynamics and Geometry from Yang-Mills Theory
Dr. Robert de Mello Koch (U Witwatersrand
18 March 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM (Thursday)
New Mechanism for Neutrino Mass Generation
Dr. Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State U)
22 March 2010 --- HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)
No Journal Club
24 March 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
The Hamiltonian Approach to Yang-Mills (2+1): An Expansion Scheme and Corrections to String Tension
Dr. V. P. Nair (CUNY)
29 March 2010 --- HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)
No Journal Club
31 March 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
No Seminar
April 2010
5 April 2010 --- HET Journal Club: B&H 12:00 Noon (Monday)The Next-to-Simplest Quantum Field Theories
Dr. Suvrat Raju (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
6 April 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 1:00PM (Tuesday) Note change of time
Exploring the Heterotic Landscape
Dr. Yang-Hui He (Oxford U)
7 April 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 3:30PM (Note time)
Membranes with Topological Charge and AdS/CFT
Dr. Igor Klebanov (Princeton U)
12 April 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
The Box Functions in Momentum-twistor Space
Dr. Andrew Hodges (Oxford U)
14 April 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
LHC Phenomenology with BlackHat
Dr. Carola Berger (MIT)
21 April 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 12:00 Noon
No Seminar
26 April 2010 --- HET Journal Club : B&H 555 2:30PM (Monday)
Stability of non-BPS States in Heterotic String Theory
Jihye Seo
28 April 2010 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
Embedding O(6) sigma model into N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory
Dr. Benjamin Basso (Princeton U)