tep seminars


spring 2005

Mon Apr 11
3 PM

Michael Gutperle (UCLA)
Two Loop Superstrings and S-duality

Tue Apr 12
4 PM

Sydney Meshkov (Caltech)
Neutrino Masses and Mixing from Hierarchy and Symmetry

Mon Apr 18
3 PM

Iosif Bena (UCLA)
Supertubes, Black Rings, and Black Hole Entropy

Tue Apr 19
4 PM

Emery Sokatchev (LAPTH Annecy, CERN)
Three-Loop Test of BMN Scaling in N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory

Tue Apr 26
4 PM

Sergio Ferrara (CERN, UCLA)
M-Theory Compactification on Twisted Seven-Torus with Fluxes
and its Unusual 4d-Supergravity

Tue May 3
4 PM

Dmitri Kharzeev (BNL)
Quantum black holes, strong color fields, and relativistic heavy ions.

Tue May 10
4 PM

Eric D'Hoker (UCLA)
Two-Loop superstrings -- recent progress

Mon May 16
3 PM

Seth Lloyd (MIT)
Quantum Limits to Measuring Geometry

Tue May 17
4 PM

Ralf Hofman (Heidelberg and Frankfurt)
SU(2)/SU(3) Yang-Mills thermodynamics: nonperturbatively and analytically

Fri. May 20'th
Sat. May 21'st
USC campus

Special Event -- Southern California Strings Seminar
Joint seminars between string theory groups in Southern California
Schedule and directions

Mon. May 23
3 PM


Chris Fronsdal (UCLA)
Growth of a Black Hole

Tue May 24
4 PM


Nelia Mann (UC Santa Barbara)
Finite Density and "String-Like" States in a Two-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory

Tue May 31
4 PM


Andrew Frey (Caltech)
Effects of Strings During Inflation and Reheating.

Mon Jun 6
3 PM


Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab)
Massless gauge bosons other then the photon

Tue Jun 7
4 PM


Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)
TBA


winter 2005


Tue
Jan 18
4 PM

Konstantin Petrov (Brookhaven)
Quark interaction in quark-gluon plasma.

Tue Jan 25
4 PM

Don Marolf (UCSB)
Asymptotically AdS energy: A comparison of proposals

Tue Feb 1
4 PM

Mike Schulz (Caltech)
Geometry from fluxes

Mon Feb 7
3 PM

Mike Cornwall (UCLA)
Heavy-quark hybrid baryons

Tue Feb 8
4 PM

Stefano Profumo(FSU)
Split Supersymmetry and Dark Matter

Mon. Feb. 14
3 PM

David Kosower (Saclay)
Twistors and gauge theory

Tue Feb 15
4 PM

Roman Buniy (Oregon)
Instabilities and the null energy condition

Tue Feb 22
4 PM

Carola Berger (SLAC)
Dijet event shapes

Mon. Mar 7
3 PM

Philippe de Forcrand (ETH Zurich and CERN)
Simulations of QCD at finite baryon density QCD

Mar 8
4 PM

Keisuke Ohashi (Tokyo Inst of Technology)
Solitons in the Higgs Phase and Their Moduli Spaces

Mon Mar 14
3 PM


Jim Liu (Michigan)
Bubbling 1/4 BPS solutions in type IIB and supergravity reductions on S^n x S^n

Tue Mar 15
4 PM


Marcus Spradlin (KITP, UCSB)
Aspects of the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence

Mon Mar 21
3 PM


Chris Korthals-Altes (Marseille)
Magnetic quasi-particles in hot QCD


fall2005

Mon Oct 4
3 PM

Bjoern Garbrecht (Heidelberg)
Stress Energy as Seen by Unruh's Detector

Tue Oct 6
4 PM

Jan Gutowski (Oxford)
Black Rings

Mon Oct 11
3 PM

Weng Kai (Oklahoma State)
Hidden Symmetries and Their Implications in Particle Physics

Tue Oct 12
4 PM

Graciela Gelmin (UCLA)
Prospects for relic neutrino searches

Mon Oct 19
4 PM

Tommy Levi (UPenn)
Holography and the Horizon

Tue Oct 25
4 PM

Emil Mottola (LANL)
Macroscopic Effects of the Trace Anomaly and Event Horizons

Mon Nov 1
3 PM

Pierpaolo Mastrolia (UCLA)
Differential Equation for Feynman Integrals

Tue Nov 2
4 PM

Michail Shifman (Minnesota U.)
From supersymmetric gluodynamics to one-flavor QCD

Mon Nov 8
3 PM

Zvi Bern (UCLA)
Twistor Space Loop Amplitudes

Tue Nov 15
4 PM

Bob Finkelstein (UCLA)
The Quantum Groups and the Standard Theories.
A Solitonic Model Based on the q-Electroweak Theory


Tue Nov 16
4 PM


Partha Mukhopadhay (Kentucky)
Non-BPS D-branes in light-cone Green-Schwarz formalism

Tue Nov 22
4 PM


Valentin Zakhor

Tue Nov 23
4 PM


Hector Rubinstein (Uppsala)
Magnetic fields in the universe and the photon mass

Tue Nov 29
4 PM


Kris Sigurdson (Caltech)
Cosmological Effects of Electromagnetic Interactions in the Dark Sector

Tue Nov 30
4 PM


Dam Thanh Son (Washington)
Viscosity from black-hole physics

Tue Dec 2
4 PM


Shyamoli Chaudhuri
String Thermodynamics From Scratch

Tue Dec 6
4 PM


Toshifumi Yamashita
Anomalous U(1) GUT

Tue Dec 14
4 PM

Alan Watson (University of Leeds)
The Status of Theoretical and Observational Work on Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays



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