Seminars
We hold a range of seminars - weekly research seminars, triangular
seminars
(held jointly with King's College and Imperial College London), and
pedagogical
and reading group talks.
See the
The
London Triangle for details of seminars across
London.
Our weekly research seminars are held in Room 112 on Thursdays at 2PM,
unless otherwise noted. The organiser for this seminar is
Konstantinos Zoubos.
Forthcoming talks
October 2006
Thursday 12/10/2006 - Paul Heslop (QMUL)
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Title: N=4 Superconformal Characters and Partition Functions
Wednesday 18/10/2006 - Asad Naqvi (Swansea)
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Title: Phase Structure of N=4 SYM and Gravity in Anti-de Sitter
Space
| Time 2:00pm; Place: Room 112
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Thursday 26/10/2006 - Pietro Antonio Grassi (Alessandria - Univ. Piemonte
Orientale)
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Title: Pure Spinor Strings and Non-Critical Strings
November 2006
Thursday 2/11/2006 - Yusuke Kimura (QMUL)
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Title: Describing curved spaces by matrices
Triangular Seminar at KCL
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| Wednesday 15/11/2006 - Samson Shatashvili (Trinity, Dublin)
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| Title: Higgs Bundles, Gauge Theories and Quantum Groups
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| Time: 3:30pm; Place: Franklin-Wilkins Building, Room 1.60
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Triangular Seminar at KCL
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| Wednesday 15/11/2006 - Troels Harmark (Niels Bohr Institute)
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| Title: Matching the Hagedorn temperature in AdS/CFT
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| Time: 5:00pm; Place: Franklin-Wilkins Building, Room 1.60
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Thursday 23/11/2006 - Riccardo Ricci (Imperial)
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Title: Wilson Loop Correlators from D-branes and Matrix Models
Thursday 30/11/2006 - Ian Moss (Newcastle)
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Title: Heterotic M-theory Simplified.
December 2006
Tuesday 5/12/2006 - Chethan Gowdigere (ICTP, Trieste)
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Title: Towards Black Rings in AdS
| Time 2:00pm; Place: Room 410
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Thursday 7/12/2006 - Valeria Gili (QMUL)
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Title:
Boundary Conformal Field Theory and Ribbon Graphs: A Tool for Open/Closed
String Dualities
Triangular Seminar at IC
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| Wednesday 13/12/2006 - Bert Schellekens
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| Title: Sightseeing in the Landscape
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| Time: 4:00pm; Place: Lecture Theatre 2, First Floor, Blackett Lab
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Triangular Seminar at IC
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| Wednesday 13/12/2006 - Radu Tatar (Liverpool)
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| Title: Metastable Vacua, Geometric Engineering and MQCD Transition
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| Time: 5:30pm; Place: Lecture Theatre 2, First Floor, Blackett Lab
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January 2007
Thursday 11/1/2007 - Valya Khoze (Durham)
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Title: SUSY breaking by a metastable ground state:
Why the early Universe preferred the non-supersymmetric vacuum
Recent Talks
For a list of past talks see
Jan-Jun 2005
, Jul-Dec 2005
and Jan-Jun 2006 .
Our seminar organiser is
Konstantinos Zoubos.