Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 10:30 and 12:00 in NS.
Oct. 23 Irit Maor
``Voids of dark energy"
Mikael Smedback, WIS
"Supersymmetric Giant Graviton Solutions in AdS_3"
Nov. 6 Amit Giveon
"On the Landscape in SQCD and its Embedding in String Theory"
Nov. 20 Ramy Brustein
"Wald's Noether charge entropy is equal to a
quarter of the horizon's area in units of the
effective gravitational coupling"
Nissan Itzhaki
"Inflection Point Inflation and String Theory"
Dec. 11 Ofer Aharony
"Rho meson condensation at finite isospin chemical potential in a holographic model for QCD"
Edward Shuryak, (SUNY)
"TBA"
Dec. 25 Eliezer Rabinovici
"Issues in Little String Holography"
Misha Smolkin
"Classical Effective Field Theory and Caged Black Holes"
Jan . 8 (Note the time) 10:00 AM
Carlo Angelantonj, (Turin U. & INFN, Turin)
"(meta)stable vacua for non-supersymmetric strings"
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis U.)
"Dimensional Duality"
Finn Larsen (Michigan U.)
"Resolution of gravitational singularities"
Jan. 15 Sean Hartnoll (UCSB)
"Tabletop ads/cft: from black holes to superconductors"
Nadav Drukker (Humboldt U., Berlin)
"Wilson loops in 4d SYM, in 2d YM and in 0d"
Feb. 26 Adam Schwimmer
"Entanglement Entropy,Trace Anomalies and Holography"
Luca Mazzucato
"Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes"
Mar. 18 Amit Sever (Brandeis U.)
"Partons scattering amplitudes at strong coupling"
Matthew Lippert
"Phases of Holographic QCD"
Mar. 25 Roberto Emparan (ICREA, Barcelona & Barcelona U., Dept. Fund. Phys.)
"New phases of black holes in higher dimensions"
Maciej Nowak (Jagiellonian U.)
"Confinement and turbulence"
Apr. 15 Chris Quigg, (Fermi National Accelerator)
"Extremely High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos and Relic Neutrinos."
Masanori Hanada (Weizmann)
"Monte Carlo studies of supersymmetric matrix quantum mechanics with sixteen supercharges at finite temperature"
May. 6 Barak Kol (Hebrew U.)
"The Delocalized Effective Degrees of Freedom of a Black Hole at Low Frequencies"
Umpei Miyamoto (Hebrew U.)
"Rayleigh-Plateau and Gregory-Laflamme instabilities"
May. 20 Leonardo Rastelli (SUNY, Stony Brook)
"Large N field theory and AdS tachyons"
Zohar Komargodski
"On SQCD with massive and massless flavors"
Jun. 17 Aki Hashimoto (Wisconsin U., Madison)
"Effectiveness of Effective Field Theory with Spontaneous Lorentz Symmetry Breaking"
Anatoly Dymarsky (Princeton U.)
"TBA"
Jun. 24 Paul Mackenzie (Fermilab)
"Lattice Gauge Theory in the LHC Era"