Archive
Spring 2009
Jan. 13
Hong Liu (MIT)
A worldsheet instanton-induced 3rd order phase transition
Jan. 27
Stephen Naculich (Bowdoin College)
Iterative structures in N=4 SYM and N=8 supergravity amplitudes
Feb. 3
Marcus Spradlin (Brown University)
Aspects of graviton scattering amplitudes
Feb. 9 (Monday)
Toby Wiseman (Imperial College London)
Lattice simulation of thermal D0-branes
Feb. 10
Andrew Neitzke (Harvard University)
BPS wall-crossing and 3-dimensional field theory
Feb. 17
Michael Duff (Imperial College London)
Black holes, qubits and octonions
Feb. 24
Isaac Cohen-Abbo (Brandeis University)
About the nature of dark matter and dark energy
March 3
John McGreevy (MIT)
Gravity duals of non-relativistic quantum critical points
March 10
Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University)
New approaches to numerical Calabi-Yau metrics
March 17
Frederik Denef (Harvard University)
Orientiholes
March 24 and March 31
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis University)
Black holes and gauge theory
April 21
Nathaniel Reden (Brandeis University)
Constraints on inflation
April 28 at 2 pm
Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR)
Weak field black hole formation in asymptotically AdS spacetimes
June 23
Claudio Chamon (Boston University)
Why glasses? vs. universality in glassy dynamics
Fall 2009
Sept. 22
Gaston Giribet (University of Buenos Aires and CONICET)
The Black Holes of New Massive Gravity