Theoretical Physics Seminars - Fall 2006

Some titles have been linked to a paper by the speaker which may be at best loosely related to the actual talk Also:

TODAY -- Boston Area Physics Calendar -- Astrophysical Journal Club -- Math Department Seminars -- Spring 2006
 

SEPTEMBER 2006

 14 September 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM (Note day change) 
                   
  A Marginal Deformation of the D=3 N=8 SCFT and Vacuum Decay
                Dr.   Ioannis Papadimitriou  (DESY)


  20 September 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 1:00PM   (Note time change)
                   
  Holography of Wilson-Loop Expectation Values with Local Operator Insertions
                Prof. Tamiaki Yoneya (U Tokyo)

  29 September 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM   (Note day change)
                   
  Energy Loss of a Heavy Quark from AdS/CFT
                Dr.  Chris Herzog  (U Washington)

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OCTOBER 2006

  4 October 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  
                   
  On the CFT/AdS Correspondence
                Dr.   Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Institute and IAS/Princeton)
 
  6 October 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555, Friday - 1:30PM   (Note day and time)
                   
  Intelligent Design of Quark Gluon Plasma: An Overview of RHIC Physics
                Prof. Rudy Hwa  (U Oregon)  

  11 October 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555  2:30PM
                   
  How a Black Hole Emerges from a Pure State
                Dr. Masaki Shigemori  (Caltech) 

 
  18 October 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  
                   
  Twistor Space and Perturbative Gravity
                Dr.   N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr (Princeton U)

  19 October 2006 --- Joint Condensed Matter - Theoretical Seminar: B&H 190 4:00PM  
                   
  Exact Haldane Mapping for All S and Super Universality In Spin Chains
                Prof. Aad Pruisken (U of Amsterdam)

  25 October 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  
                   
  Aspects of Factorized Scattering in Ads/CFT
                Dr.  Ian Swanson  (IAS - Princeton)

  26 October 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  (Note day)
                   
  Magnon Bounstates in Gauage/String Duality
                Heng-Yu Chen  (DAMTP, Cambridge)

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NOVEMBER  2006

1 November 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  
                   
 Correlators of Giant Wilson Loops and Chiral Primaries
                Mr. Diego Trancanelli  (Stony Brook U)


8 November 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  
                   
  On the Various S-Matrices of AdS/CFT
                Prof.  Radu Roiban (Penn State) 

22 November 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  
                   
 Black Hole Attractors, Marginal Stability & Mirror Symmetry
                Dr.  Alexander Maloney  (IAS - Princeton)


29 November 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  
                   
  Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory
                Prof.  Chris Beasley  (Harvard U)

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DECEMBER 2006

1 December 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM   (Note Day)
                   
  Matrix Field Theorists Fold RNA   (CANCELLED)

                Prof. Anthony Zee (U California, Santa Barbara)
 
6 December 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  
                   
  Phase Tansitions of N=4 Super Yang-Mills with Flavor
                Andy O'Bannon  (U Washington)
 

7 December 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM  (Note Day)
                   
  Duality in 2D Dilaton Gravity
                Dr. Daniel Grumiller  (MIT) 


 20 December 2006 --- Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
                  
 Time Dependent Variational Methods:  The Dynamics of Solitary Waves in Classical and   Quantum Field Theories
                 Prof. Fred Cooper  (NSF)

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