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Come and join us!
(Look here
for past semesters'
seminars)
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Seminars for Spring Semester 2005
Seminars
are usually based around a presentation from an external speaker while
group meetings are in a more open format, typically with local
discussion leaders. See below.
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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Location*
and time
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| Wed. Jan. 26th |
Clifford Johnson (USC) |
Backlund Transformations and D-Branes in Minimal String Theory |
319,
2:30pm |
| Wed. Feb. 2nd |
Christian Roemelsberger (Perimeter), and Nick Warner (USC) |
The Search for Holographic Duals of Some N=1 Gauge Theories |
319,
2:30pm |
| Wed. Feb. 23rd |
Per Kraus (UCLA) |
Supertubes and the 4D Black Hole |
319,
2:30pm |
| Wed. Mar. 2nd |
Keisuke Ohashi (TITECH) |
Solitons in the Higgs Phase and Their Moduli Spaces |
319,
2:30pm |
| Wed. Mar. 9th |
Hubert Saleur (USC)
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postponed |
319, 2:30pm |
| Wed. Mar. 23rd |
Chris Herzog (UCSB) |
Scaling the Cascades: RG flow from AdS/CFT |
319,
2:30pm |
| Wed. Mar. 30th |
Hubert Saleur (USC)
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Sigma models on supergroups |
319, 2:30pm |
| Wed. Apr. 6th |
Zvi Bern (UCLA) |
Twistor Space and Gauge Theory |
319, 2:30pm |
| Wed. Apr. 27th |
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis) |
Worldsheet RG and target space time evolution |
319, 2:30pm |
Group Meetings for Spring Semester 2005
The
group
meetings are where we discuss in detail techniques, research papers,
and/or research topics of
interest. These meetings are usually led by local faculty, postdocs, or
students, or sometimes by a visitor to the group. Come and join us!
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Date
|
Discussion
Leader
|
Topic
|
Location*
and time |
| Tues. Jan. 25th |
All
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Topics
to think about as a group over the coming semester
|
SSC319,
3:00pm |
| Tue. Feb. 1st |
Ramakrishnan Iyer, Arnab Kundu |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (AdS focus) |
SSC319,
3:00pm |
| Tue. Feb. 15th |
Arnab Kundu, Tameem Albash |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (AdS focus, cont'd; Gauge Theory) |
SSC319,
3:00pm |
Tue. Feb. 22nd
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Tameem Albash, Veselin Filev |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (Gauge Theory Focus, cont'd; The Dictionary) |
SSC319,
3:00pm |
| Tue. Mar. 1st |
Veselin Filev |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (The Dictionary, cont'd) |
SSC319,
3:00pm |
| Tue. Mar. 8th |
Chih-Wei Wang |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (Wilson Loops) |
SSC319, 3:00pm |
| Tue. Mar. 22nd |
Chih-Wei Wang, Bora Orcal |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (Wilson Loops cont'd; Holographic Principle) |
SSC319, 3:00pm |
| Tue. Mar. 29th |
Bora Orcal |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (Holographic Principle) |
SSC319, 3:00pm |
| Tue. April 5th |
Nick Halmagyi |
Thesis Grilling |
SSC319, 3:00pm |
| Tue. April 12th |
Chih-Wei Wang |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (Wilson Loops and thermal properties) |
SSC319, 3:00pm |
| Tue. April 19th |
Veselin Filev |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (The Dictionary, cont'd) |
SSC319, 3:00pm |
| Tue. April 26th |
Veselin Filev |
Aspects of AdS/CFT (The Dictionary, cont'd) |
SSC319, 3:00pm |
| Tue. May 3rd |
Week off to do the take home exam! |
Week off to do the take home exam! |
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