String Theory Seminar

Listed below are the String Theory seminars held at UNC-CH and related talks held at the String Theory seminar at Duke. To watch a live broadcast of the seminars hosted by UNC-CH on Thursdays at 4:00 pm, please follow these instructions.
The seminars can be viewed subsequently on our video archives available through the links below.

NOTE: You will need to have RealPlayer to watch the broadcast or the video archieves. You can download RealPlayer from Real's website.

Thursday, February 5, 2004, 2:30pm, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Duiliu Diaconescu (Rutgers University),
Fractional Branes in Landau-Ginzburg Orbifolds

Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:00pm, 277 Physics, String Theory Seminar at UNC
   Hanno Sahlmann (Penn State University),
   Loop Quantum Gravity
   [abstract ] [video] [transparencies]

Thursday, March 25, 2004, 2:30pm, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke
Steve Gubser (Princeton University),
A string-inspired modification of cold dark matter

Thursday, April 1, 2004, 2:45pm, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke, hosted by UNC

Lev Rozansky (UNC, Chapel Hill),

Defining a topological 2d QFT on a world-wheet foam

[abstract]

Thursday, April 8, 2004, 2:30pm, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke

Eric Sharpe (University of Urbana-Champaign),

Some mathematical aspects of D-branes

Thursday, April 15, 2004, 2:30pm, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke

Emil Martinec (University of Chicago),

Holography duals with large N=4 supersymmetry

Thursday, April 22, 2004, 2:30pm, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke

K. Narayan (Duke University),

Localized closed string tachyons in C³/Z_N

Thursday, May 6, 2004, 2:30pm, 120 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke

Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago),
TBA

Seminars and Video Archives from

Fall 2003
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Summer 2001
Spring 2001
Fall 2000
Spring 2000
Fall 1999

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