String Theory Seminars - Spring 2009

Listed below are the String Theory seminars held at UNC-CH and related talks held at the String Theory seminar at Duke in Spring 2009.

Thursday, February 19, 2009, 4:30PM, 247 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH

Thomas Hartman (Harvard), The Kerr/CFT Correspondence: Holography for Real World Black Holes
[video] [transparencies]

Thursday, March 5, 2009, 4:30PM, 258 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH

Joseph Minahan (Uppsala), Integrability in superconformal Chern-Simons theories
[video] [transparencies]

Thursday, March 19, 2009, 4:30PM, 277 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH

Christian Stahn (Rochester), Five-point one-loop superstring amplitudes from pure spinors

Monday, March 30, 2009, 2PM, 258 Phillips Hall, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH

Katrin Wendland (Augsburg), A classification of a family of free fermionic orbifold models
[transparencies]

Thursday, April 2, 2009, 2:45pm, 119 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke

Robert Karp (Virginia Tech), A convex optimization problem in string theory

Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:15AM, Levine Science Research Center, Room A156, String Theory Seminar at Duke

Paul Aspinwall (Duke), Geometry with zero-brane probes

Friday, April 3, 2009, 1:15PM, Levine Science Research Center, Room A156, String Theory Seminar at Duke

Lev Rozansky (UNC-CH), A 2-category of the boundary conditions of a 3-dimensional topological sigma-model

Friday, April 3, 2009, 2:45PM, Levine Science Research Center, Room A156, String Theory Seminar at Duke

Djordje Minic (VT), The physics of the Riemann zeros

Thursday, April 23, 2009, 2:45pm, 119 Physics, String Theory Seminar at Duke.

Mark Jackson (Leiden University), Superstring Cosmology: New Physics in the Sky

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