Archive
Fall 2008
Sept. 9 & 23
Cecilia Garraffo (University of Buenos Aires)
Ultraviolet corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action
Sept. 16
Hajar Ebrahim (Brandeis University)
Black holes and qubits
Sept. 29
Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University)
Tachyon actions in string theory: a no-go theorem
Oct. 7
Hajar Ebrahim (Brandeis University)
Quantum entropy function from AdS2/CFT1 correspondence
Oct. 14
Ian Swanson (MIT)
An overview of the closed string tachyon
Oct. 16
Herman Nicolai (AEI Potsdam)
M2 branes and maximal gauged supergravities in D=3
Oct. 21
Sean Hartnoll (Harvard University)
Holographic superconductors
Oct. 28
Matthias Wapler (Perimeter Institute)
Transport properties of holographic defects
Nov. 4
Alessandro Tomasiello (Harvard University)
AdS4 vacua in string theory, and their CFT duals
Nov. 11
Cynthia Keeler (Harvard University)
Closed string tachyon condensation in E8
Nov. 18
Howard Schnitzer (Brandeis University)
Regge behavior in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory
Nov. 25
Delia Schwartz-Perlov (Tufts University)
The path(s) most taken: anthropic selection in the landscape
Dec. 4
Gaston Giribet (U. of Buenos Aires)
Duality between non-rational CFTs and their string theory interpretation
Dec. 11
Chethan Gowdigere (HRI Allahabad)
Explicit Calabi-Yau metrics on resolved spaces
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
Oct. 13
Hajar Ebrahim (Brandeis University)
TBA
Oct. 27
Sumit Das (University of Kentucky)
Spin models and emergent gauge fields at Lifshitz points
Nov. 3
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (KITP/UC Santa Barbara)
Constraining F-theory model building
Nov. 10
Radu Roiban (Penn State University)
On short strings in AdS_5 x S5
Spring 2010
January 26
Xi Yin (Harvard University)
Higher spin gauge theory and holography
February 2
Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University)
Holography and entanglement entropy
February 9
Wei Song (Harvard University)
The Kerr-Fermi sea
February 23, 1 pm (Joint Theory Blackboard)
Ilya Gruzberg (University of Chicago)
Quantum Hall transitions and conformal restriction
March 2
Diego Hofman (Harvard University)
Generalized Lifshitz-Kosevich scaling at quantum criticality from the holographic correspondence
March 9
Lance Dixon (SLAC)
Perturbative Ultraviolet Behavior of N=8 Supergravity
March 16
Mboyo Esole (Harvard University)
New weak coupling limits in F-theory and non-Kodaira singular fibers
March 23
Miranda Cheng (Harvard University)
Deforming the Lifshitz Holography
April 8, 2:30 pm
Eric Bergshoeff (University of Groningen)
Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions
April 13
Simone Giombi (Harvard University)
Quantum AdS_5 x S^5 superstring in the AdS light-cone gauge
April 19, 1 pm (Joint Theory Blackboard)
Hong Liu (MIT)
From Black Holes to Strange Metals
April 27
Alex Maloney (McGill University)
Where are the Microstates of the Kerr Black Hole?
May 4
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis University)
An effective field theory for chaotic inflation
May 18
Henriette Elvang (University of Michigan)
A new approach to counterterms in N=8 supergravity
Spring 2011
January 25
Xingang Chen (Cambridge University)
Strongly coupled inflation
March 15 (note earlier start time: 1:30pm)
Dimitra Karabali (Lehman College)
Casimir Effect: Edges and Diffraction