String Theory

Seminars

FALL-SPRING 2016/17 & FALL-SPRING 2017/18 & FALL-SPRING 2018/19 & FALL-SPRING 2019/20
(Seminar Abstracts)

SpeakerInstitutionTitleDateVenue
A. CotroneFlorence Webinar: Complexity in the presence of a boundary June 29 @ 15h00 Online
D. BykovMoscow Webinar: Flag manifold sigma-models and Ricci flow June 22 @ 15h00 Online
C. MarteauParis Webinar: New boundary conditions for AdS_2 June 8 @ 15h00 Online
S. NagyNottingham Webinar: Perturbative gravity via Yang-Mills^2 June 1 @ 15h00 Online
M. BergKarlstad Webinar: Plane gravitational waves and Jacobi-Maass forms May 25 @ 15h00 Online
S. HiranoWits Webinar: Random Boundary Geometry and Gravity Dual of T \bar T Deformation May 18 @ 15h00 Online
K. GrosvenorWuerzburg Webinar: Information geometry in quantum field theory: lessons from simple examples May 11 @ 15h00 Online
E. HirstLondon Webinar: Machine-Learning Dessins d'Enfants: Explorations via Modular and Seiberg-Witten Curves May 4 @ 15h00 Online
J. McKayConcordia Video talk @ Perimeter: The Monster and its Moonshine Functions April 27 @ 15h00 Online
G. SarosiCERN Webinar: Holographic Probes of Inner Horizons April 20 @ 15h00 Online
A. CastroAmsterdam Video talk @ Perimeter: The Holographic Landscape of Symmetric Product Orbifolds April 13 @ 15h00 Online
G. SarosiCERN Holographic Probes of Inner Horizons: CANCELLED due to Covid-19 containment measures March 23 @ 15h00 P3.10
S. RossDurham Generalized Gibbs Ensemble and KdV charges in 2d CFTs March 2 @ 15h00 P3.10
J. CaetanoSimons Center Integrability in and beyond AdS/CFT December 16 @ 15h00 P3.10
P. BenincasaCopenhagen An SLE approach to four dimensional black hole microstate entropy December 9 @ 15h00 P3.10
F. FerrariTrieste A look into 3d modularity November 18 @ 15h00 P3.10
M. CiraficiTrieste Supersymmetric line operators and their spectral problem October 22 @ 16h00 (unusual day, hour) P3.10
D. GhoshalNew Delhi Designing matrix models for zeta functions September 27 @ 16h00 (unusual day, hour) P3.10
S. AndrioloHong Kong The Weak Gravity Conjecture June 24 @ 15h00 P3.10
V. JejjalaJohannesburg Experiments with Machine Learning in Geometry & Physics May 20 @ 15h00 P3.10
N. CarquevilleVienna TQFTS, Orbifolds and Topological Quantum Computation May 7 @ 10h00 (unusual day, hour, room ) P5.18
C. SimsekGroningen Spacetime geometry of non-relativistic string theory May 6 @ 15h00 P3.10
D. MasoeroLisbon Meromorphic opers and the Bethe Ansatz April 1 @ 15h00 P3.10
D. PoliniLisbon Counting formulae for extremal black holes in an STU-model November 26 @ 15h00 P3.10
A. BelinAmsterdam Siegel Modular Forms in AdS/CFT November 12 @ 15h00 P3.10
Z. DuanParis Instantons in the Hofstadter butterfly: resurgence and quantum mirror curves November 5 @ 15h00 P3.10
A. KidambiVienna BPS algebras and Moonshine October 3 @ 11h30 (informal seminar ) P3.10
A. KidambiVienna Gamma_0(N), quantum black holes and wall crossing October 1 @ 15h00 P3.10
V. KupriyanovMunich L-infinity bootstrap approach to non-commutative gauge theories July 9 @ 15h00 P3.10
F. FerrariBrussels On Melonic Matrix Models and SYK-like Black Holes June 4 @ 15h00 P3.10
S. BaldinoLisbon Introduction to resurgence (III) May 28 @ 15h00 P3.10
M. SchwickLisbon Introduction to resurgence (II) April 30 @ 16h00 P3.10
P. BetziosCrete Matrix Quantum Mechanics and the S1/Z2 orbifold April 24 @ 11h00 (unusual day, hour, room ) 6.2.33
O. PapadoulakiSouthampton FZZT branes and non-singlets of Matrix Quantum Mechanics April 23 @ 15h00 P3.10
M. HondaWeizmann Institute Resurgent transseries and Lefschetz thimble in 3d N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons matter theories April 16 @ 15h00 P3.10
R. VegaLisbon Introduction to resurgence (I) April 9 @ 15h00 P3.10
J. YagiPerimeter String theory and integrable lattice models December 4 @ 16h00 P3.10
M. CiraficiLisbon On two applications of persistent homology to string theory vacua November 13 @ 16h00 P3.10
S. NampuriLisbon Hot Attractors and Area Laws November 2 @ 16h00 (unusual day, hour, room ) V1.17
G.L. CardosoLisbon Exact results in the STU model November 2 @ 15h00 (unusual day, hour, room ) V1.17
J. RodriguesJohannesburg Constructing AdS_4 from three-dimensonal vector valued fields July, 17 @ 14h30 (unusual hour) P3.10
V. ReysMilano Exact entropy of 1/4 BPS black holes in N=4 supergravity and the mixed Rademacher expansion May, 8 @16h30 P3.10
V. JejjalaJohannesburg On the shape of things: from holography to elastica April, 17 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. NampuriLisbon A Riemann-Hilbert approach to rotating attractors March, 20 @ 16h30 P3.10
K. Wendland Freiburg Reflections on K3 surfaces February, 27 @ 16h30 P3.10
N. Petri Milano-Bicocca Gauged supergravities with Hamilton-Jacobi December, 5 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Bourjaily Copenhagen Stratifying on-shell cluster varieties November, 28 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Tierz FCUL Quantum phase transition in many-flavor supersymmetric QED in three dimensions November, 7 @ 16h30 P3.10
G. Inverso CAMGSD, IST Doubled, exceptional and new generalised geometries (unusual hour) October, 24 @ 14h30 P3.10
L. Borsten Dublin IAS On the symmetries of Yang-Mills squared October, 10 @ 16h30 P3.10

SPRING 2016

SpeakerInstitutionTitleDateVenue
R. Monteiro CERN Black holes and the double copy July, 15 @ 12h (unusual day and hour) P3.10
S. Alexandrov University of Montpellier D-instantons, mock modular forms and BPS partition functions June, 6 @ 16h30 P3.10
O. Gurdogan Saclay Integrable chiral scalars and Feynman integrals May, 23 @ 16h30 P3.10
T. Bautista ICTP Weyl Anomalies and Quantum Cosmology May, 9 @ 16h30 P3.10
V. Jejjala University of the Witwatersrand Consistency and derangements May, 2 @ 16h30 P3.10
A. Veliz-Osorio Queen Mary London Scrambling without chaos Abril, 11 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Rebelo SISSA Symplectic Field Theory and Quantum Integrable Systems Abril, 4 @ 16h30 P3.10
P. Benincasa IFT Madrid Correlators, Amplitudes and Polytopes March, 21 @ 16h30 P3.10


String Theory Seminar:

Typically held on mondays at 16h30, in room P3.10. The audience is sometimes mixed, including not only string theorists or mathematical physicists, but occasionally also mathematicians (mostly geometers) and/or students (both undergraduate and graduate). As such, we usually ask our speakers to take this diverse audience into account, making sure at least half the talk should be comprehensible by everyone attending. (Organizer: Gabriel Lopes Cardoso)

String Video Club:

Alternating with the String Theory Seminar, typically held on mondays at 16h30, in room P3.10. Consists of video talks from conferences or workshops, covering current research trends. Suggestions for upcoming video clubs welcome! (Organizer:)

String Journal Club:

Occasionally held on wednesdays at 14h30, in room P3.10. Consists of blackboard talks covering classical papers in String Theory and Mathematical Physics, within their historical context. In order to make sure we stick to the classics, there is a pre-assigned list from where you may select papers for your upcoming Journal Club in here. (Organizer:)

String Working Seminar:

Alternating with the String Journal Club, occasionally held on wednesdays at 14h30, in room P3.10. Consists of blackboard discussions covering recent research topics of interest to the members of the group. Brainstorming sessions welcome! (Organizer: Gabriel Lopes Cardoso)

Further information on the current topics and schedule of the String Working Seminar may be found here.


FALL 2015

SpeakerInstitutionTitleDateVenue
M. Chiodaroli AEI Golm Scattering amplitudes in N=2 Maxwell-Einstein and Yang-Mills-Einstein supergravities February, 8 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Alim Goettingen | Geometric hints of non-perturbative topological strings December, 14 @ 16h30 P3.10
A. Veliz-OsorioWits Johannesburg Entanglement and mutual information in 2d nonrelativistic field theories November, 9 @ 16h30P3.10
D. LuestLMU Munich Large N graviton scattering and black hole production November, 2 @ 16h30P3.10


SPRING 2015

SpeakerInstitutionTitleDateVenue
T. MohauptLiverpool Non-extremal solutions in N=2 supergravity with vector multiplets (unusual date and hour) July, 28 @ 11h00P3.10
J. HartongULB Life on the Boundary of a Lifshitz Space-Time May, 11 @ 16h30P3.10
C. MaccaferriTorino Open string field theory and D-branes April, 27 @ 16h30P3.10
J. IsidroValencia Quantum mechanics as an emergent phenomenon March, 16 @ 16h30P3.10

FALL 2014

SpeakerInstitutionTitleDateVenue
R. Couso SantamariaCAMGSD/IST Resurgence in topological string theory Dec, 1 @ 16h30P3.10
A. GrassiGeneva Topological strings and quantum mechanics (unusual hour) Nov, 17 @ 15h30P3.10
A. OsorioWitwatersrand Attractive holographic c-functions Oct, 27 @ 16h30P3.10
J. GomesCambridge Quantum supergravity and exact holography Oct, 20 @ 16h30P3.10

SPRING 2014

SpeakerInstitutionTitleDateVenue
O. VaughanHamburg Special Kaehler geometry of N=2 supergravity, dimensional reduction and stationary solutions July, 21 @ 16h30P3.10
S. MurthyKing's College London Exact quantum black hole entropy: a macroscopic window into quantum gravity July, 1 @ 16h30P3.10
R. BlumenhagenMPI Munich Non-associative Deformations of Geometry in Double Field Theory June, 16 @ 16h30P3.10
A. TomasielloMilano-Bicocca All AdS7 solutions in type II supergravity, and their CFT duals May, 19 @ 16h30P3.10
D. PerssonChalmers Mathieu moonshine, Siegel modular forms and N=4 dyons May, 12 @ 16h30P3.10
F. MouraMinho Extremal and non-extremal black hole scattering in string theory April, 7 @ 16h30P3.10
S. TheisenAEI Golm Conformal field theory - old and new March, 19 @ 16h30P3.10
J. RochaCENTRA IST Holographic collisions in confining theories Feb., 17 @ 16h30P3.10

FALL 2013

SpeakerInstitutionTitleDateVenue
T. MohauptLiverpool (Para-)Quaternion Kaehler geometry from Supergravity (Part 2) (unusual date and hour) Jan, 15 @ 11hP3.10
T. MohauptLiverpool (Para-)Quaternion Kaehler geometry from Supergravity (Part 1) Jan, 13 @ 16h30P3.10
K. HristovMilano-BicoccaSupersymmetric black holes in AdS4 and their CFT dualsDec, 9 @ 16h30P3.10
D. BermanQueen MaryDuality Symmetric String and M-TheoryDec, 2 @ 16h30P3.10
P. RichmondOxfordLocalization on Three-ManifoldsNov, 25 @ 16h30P3.10
A. OsorioISTRegularizing Extremal Black Branes in Gauged SupergravityNov, 4 @ 16h30P3.10
B. PiolineCERNQuantum Hypermultiplet Moduli Spaces in N=2 String VacuaOct, 21 @ 16h30P3.10
O. DiasCAMGSDGravitational TurbulenceOct, 14 @ 16h30P3.10

SPRING 2013

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
R. Couso Santiago Resurgence and the Topological String (unusual date!) Jul, 11 @ 16h30 P3.10
R. Vaz Stony Brook The Resurgent Quartic Matrix Model: A Progress Report (unusual date, hour and place!) Jul, 11 @ 14h30 P4.35
M. Lemos Stony Brook The Conformal Bootstrap Program in d=4 (unusual date and hour!) Jul, 11 @ 11h30 P3.10
O. Varela Utrecht Electric/Magnetic Duality in AdS4/CFT3 (unusual date and hour!) Jun, 28 @ 11h30 P3.10
R. Szabo Heriot-Watt Quantization of Non-Geometric Flux Backgrounds (unusual date!) Jun, 11 @ 16h30 P3.10
V. Filev Dublin Magnetic Catalysis in Compact Spaces (unusual date and hour!) Jun, 7 @ 11h30 P3.10
S. Giusto Padova D-Brane Geometries and Black Hole Microstates Jun, 3 @ 16h30 P3.10
D. Bombardelli Porto TBA and Double-Wrapping Corrections for Non-Supersymmetric Deformations of AdS/CFT May, 20 @ 16h30 P3.10
I. Sachs Munich Homotopy Algebras and String Field Theory May, 6 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Russo Barcelona Evidence for Large N Phase Transitions in N=2* Theory Apr, 29 @ 16h30 P3.10
D. Zoakos Porto Holographic Flavor in Chern-Simons-Matter Theories Apr, 8 @ 16h30 P3.10

FALL 2012

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
N.T. Zung Toulouse Torus Actions in Normalization Problems of Dynamical Systems (unusual time) Dec, 17 @ 15h00 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Putrov @ PI 2011 Dec, 10 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Grover Aveiro Enhanced AdS Horizons Dec, 3 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Rocha Centra Inverse Scattering Construction of Black Objects 2 Nov, 26 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Rocha Centra Inverse Scattering Construction of Black Objects 1 Nov, 19 @ 16h30 P3.10
D. Waldram Imperial College Generalised Geometry and Supergravity Nov, 12 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Yamazaki @ PI 2011 Nov, 5 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Guttenberg CAMGSD Quantum Siegel Algebra Oct, 29 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Stosic IST Knots and HOMFLY 2 Oct, 22 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Stosic IST Knots and HOMFLY 1 Oct, 15 @ 16h30 P3.10
V. Cardoso Centra Black Hole Bombs Oct, 8 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Mazzucato @ PI 2011 Oct, 1 @ 16h30 P3.10
N. Orantin CAMGSD Generalized Loop Equations and their Formal Solution on Deformed Spectral Curves Sep, 24 @ 16h30 P3.10

SPRING 2012

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
J. Gomes Paris Recent Developments in Computing the Quantum Entropy Function
of Supersymmetric Black Holes and Exact Holography		 Jun, 11 @ 16h30 P3.10
P. Grassi Alessandria Fluid/Gravity Correspondence: Navier-Stokes Equations from Einstein Equations Jun, 4 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Cirafici CAMGSD Line Defects and Framed BPS Quivers May, 28 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Takayanagi @ PI 2011 May, 21 @ 16h30 P3.10
G. Borot Geneva Matrix Models, Nonperturbative Topological Recursion, and Knot Invariants May, 14 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Mazzucato @ PI 2011 May, 7 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Penedones Porto Conformal Regge Theory Apr, 30 @ 16h30 P3.10
Y. Lozano Oviedo Non-Singlet Baryons in Gauge/Gravity Duality Apr, 23 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Monnier ENS Paris Geometric Quantization and the Metric Dependence of the Self-Dual Field Theory Apr, 16 @ 16h30 P3.10
——— ——— No Seminar: Holiday Apr, 9 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Yau @ PI 2011 Apr, 2 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Klebanov @ KITP 2012 Mar, 26 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Mourão IST Geometric Quantization and Simple Non-Equivalent Quantizations of the Harmonic Oscillator Mar, 19 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Esteves CAMGSD Geometric Quantization: a Beginner's Perspective Mar, 12 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Costa Porto Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering from Gauge/Gravity Duality Mar, 5 @ 16h30 P3.10

FALL 2011

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
Video Club ——— Talk of Gopakumar @ KITP 2011 Dec, 12 @ 16h30 P3.10
R. Russo London Microstate Geometries from String Amplitudes Dec, 5 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Manschot Bonn Wall-Crossing from a String Theory Perspective Nov, 28 @ 16h30 P3.10
P. Caputa NBI String Scattering and Minimal Surfaces Nov, 21 @ 16h30 P3.10
E. Plauschinn Utrecht Non-Geometric Fluxes, Asymmetric Strings and Nonassociative Geometry Nov, 14 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Ramgoolam London Representation Theory of Symmetric Groups and Local Operators in Gauge Theory
(unusual date and time)		 Nov, 11 @ 14h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Razamat @ PI 2010 Oct, 31 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Zarembo @ PI 2010 (II) Oct, 24 @ 16h30 P3.10
D. Tsimpis Lyon Form Superstrings to the Periodic Table (unusual time) Oct, 17 @ 14h00 P3.10
I. Aniceto CAMGSD The Resurgence of Instantons in String Theory Oct, 10 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Zarembo @ PI 2010 Oct, 3 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Verlinde @ PI 2010 Sep, 26 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Tachikawa @ PI 2010 Sep, 19 @ 16h30 P3.10
H. Gomez São Paulo Scattering Amplitudes in the Pure Spinor Formalism Sep, 12 @ 16h30 P3.10

SPRING 2011

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
H. Irie NTU Stokes Phenomena and Integrable Structures in Noncritical String/M-Theory Jul, 4 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Nampuri Munich Attractors and Fluxes — A First-Order Approach Jun, 27 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Gromov @ PI 2009 Jun, 20 @ 16h30 P3.10
——— ——— No Seminar: Holiday Jun, 13 @ 16h30 P3.10
F. Paccetti Porto Hermitian YM Instantons on (Resolved) Calabi-Yau Cones Jun, 6 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Rychkov Paris Exploring Four-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories with Bootstrap Equations
(unusual date)		 June, 2 @ 14h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Vieira @ PI 2009 May, 23 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Edelstein Santiago Lovelock Gravities and AdS/CFT May, 16 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Yamazaki @ PI 2009 May, 9 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Djuric Porto Deep Inelastic Scattering at Small x Using the AdS Pomeron May, 2 @ 16h30 P3.10
——— ——— No Seminar: Holiday April, 25 @ 16h30 P3.10
D. Bombardelli Porto S-Matrix and Finite-Size Corrections of Deformed AdS/CFT April, 18 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Alim @ KITP 2009 April, 11 @ 16h30 P3.10
F. Moura Minho Spherically Symmetric Gauss-Bonnet Black Holes in d Dimensions:
Perturbations and Absorption Cross-Section		 April, 4 @ 16h30 P3.10
N. Obers NBI Blackfold Approach to Higher-Dimensional Black Holes (unusual date and time) March, 29 @ 14h00 P3.10
G. Papadopoulos King's College Topology of Black Hole Horizons (unusual date) Jan, 19 @ 16h30 P3.10

FALL 2010

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
Video Club ——— Talk of Bertoldi @ PI 2008 Dec, 13 @ 16h30 P3.10
A. Alekseev Geneva Tropical Avatar of the Gelfand-Zeitlin Integrable System Joint Seminar Geo@LX Dec, 6 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Argyres @ PI 2008 Nov, 29 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Nampuri Munich Forced Fluid Dynamics in the Fluid-Gravity Correspondence Nov, 22 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Nampuri Munich Fluid Dynamics from an AdS/CFT Perspective Nov, 15 @ 16h30 P3.10
C. Kristjansen NBI Integrability and Non-Planarity Nov, 8 @ 16h30 P3.10
——— ——— No Seminar: Holiday Nov, 1 @ 16h30 P3.10
N. Orantin CAMGSD Gromov-Witten Invariants of the Resolved Conifold and Topological Recursion Oct, 25 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Guttenberg CAMGSD Pure Spinor Superspace: on BRST Cohomology, Globality and Holomorphicity Oct, 18 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Larfors Munich G-Structures on Smooth Complex Toric Varieties Oct, 11 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Larfors Munich Flux Compactification on Manifolds with SU(3) Structure Oct, 4 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Skenderis @ KITP 2008 Sep, 27 @ 16h30 P3.10
O. Bertolami Porto Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Cosmology and Black Holes Sep, 20 @ 16h30 P3.10

SPRING 2010

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
Video Club ——— Talk of Yin @ PI 2006 Jun, 28 @ 16h30 P3.10
L. Hollands Caltech Vortex Counting, Surface Operators and Geometric Engineering Jun, 21 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Vandoren Utrecht Quaternion-Kahler Geometry from String Theory Jun, 14 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Mann @ PI 2006 Jun, 7 @ 16h30 P3.10
R. Boels NBI On-shell Recursion in String theory on the Disc and Sphere May, 31 @ 16h30 P3.10
N. Wyllard @ IST Matrix Models and Geometry Thematic Period: Lecture 3 May, 24 @ 16h30 P3.10
N. Wyllard @ IST Matrix Models and Geometry Thematic Period: Lecture 1 May, 17 @ 16h30 P3.10
B. de Wit Utrecht BPS Black Holes and the Topological String - A Progress Report May, 10 @ 16h30 P3.10
G. Dall'Agata Padova Supergravity Dual of 4d CFT's Universal Sector May, 3 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Pasquetti CERN Matrix Models and Geometry Thematic Period: Lecture 1 Apr, 26 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Shih @ PI 2005 Apr, 19 @ 16h30 P3.10
I. Kostov CEA-Saclay Matrix Models and Geometry Thematic Period: Lecture 2 Apr, 12 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Beisert @ PI 2005 Apr, 5 @ 16h30 P3.10
C. Herdeiro Porto Applying Numerical Relativity to High Energy Physics Scenarios Mar, 29 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Faddeev @ IGST 2008 Mar, 22 @ 16h30 P3.10

FALL 2009

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
Video Club ——— Talk of Pioline @ Strings 2008 Dec, 14 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talks of Cachazo and Hellerman @ Strings 2008 Dec, 7 @ 16h30 P3.10
D. Cirilo-Lombardo JINR, Dubna On the Non-Abelian and Supersymmetric Extensions of the Born-Infeld Action Nov, 30 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Vazquez-Mozo Salamanca Gravitational Collapse, Criticality and Holography Nov, 23 @ 16h30 P3.10
B. Eynard CEA-Saclay Matrix Models and Geometry Thematic Period: Lecture 4 Nov, 16 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talks of Strominger and Sen @ Strings 2008 Nov, 9 @ 16h30 P3.10
A. Klemm Bonn Matrix Models and Geometry Thematic Period: Lecture 1 Nov, 2 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talks of Mariño and Berkovits @ Strings 2008 Oct, 26 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Shatashvili Dublin/CERN SUSY Gauge Theories and Quantization of Integrable Systems Oct, 19 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talks of Staudacher and Janik @ Strings 2008 Oct, 12 @ 16h30 P3.10
——— ——— No Seminar: Holiday Oct, 5 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Abbott Brown/TIFR Giant Magnons for SYM and ABJM Theory Sep, 28 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Cirafici CAMGSD Instantons, Hypermultiplets and Calabi-Yau Compactifications Sep, 21 @ 16h30 P3.10

SPRING 2009

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
Video Club ——— Talks of Bern and Zwiebach @ Strings 2007 Jul, 27 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talks of Emparan and Witten @ Strings 2007 Jul, 20 @ 16h30 P3.10
N. Orantin CERN Enumerative Geometry from Topological Recursion Jul, 13 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talks of Beisert and Zarembo @ Strings 2007
(unusual date and place)		 Jul, 6 @ 15h00 P4.35
B.-L. Hu Maryland Nonlocality and Stochasticity in Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Gravity
(unusual date and place)		 Jun, 19 @ 16h30 P3.31
B.-L. Hu Maryland Emergent/Quantum Gravity: Macroscopic and Microscopic Structures of Spacetime
(unusual date)		 Jun, 17 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Murthy Paris Exact Counting of Black Hole Microstates in String Theory Jun, 8 @ 16h30 P3.10
I. Aniceto Brown The Spectrum of String Solitons: Giant Magnons in AdS_5xS^5 and AdS_4xCP^3
(unusual date)		 Jun, 4 @ 15h00 P3.10
B. de Wit Utrecht Near-Horizon Analysis of D=5 BPS Black Holes and Rings May, 25 @ 16h30 P3.10
O. Dias Cambridge Black Holes as Lumps of Fluid May, 18 @ 16h30 P3.10
P. Aschieri Alessandria Abelian Gerbes, Nonabelian Gerbes, and Global Anomalies May, 11 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Ooguri @ KITP 2009 May, 4 @ 16h30 P3.10
G.L. Cardoso CAMGSD Black Hole Partition Functions and Duality Apr, 27 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Aganagic @ MSRI 2006 Apr, 20 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Klemm @ MSRI 2006 Apr, 13 @ 16h30 P3.10
F.P. Correia Porto From Two-Dimensional Surfaces to AdS_5 Supersymmetric Black Holes Apr, 6 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Gopakumar @ MSRI 2006 Mar, 30 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talk of Beasley @ MSRI 2006 Mar, 23 @ 16h30 P3.10
N. Johansson Uppsala Recent Developments in Three-Dimensional Gravity Mar, 16 @ 16h30 P3.10

FALL 2008

Speaker Institution Title Date Venue
Video Club ——— Talk of Mariño @ MSRI 2006 Dec, 15 @ 16h30 P3.10
——— ——— No Seminar: Holiday Dec, 8 @ 16h30 P3.10
——— ——— No Seminar: Holiday Dec, 1 @ 16h30 P3.10
P. Vieira Potsdam Squeezed Integrability Nov, 24 @ 16h30 P3.10
J. Rocha Centra Evaporation of Large Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Nov, 17 @ 16h30 P3.10
M. Vonk CAMGSD Field Theory Structures in String Theory Amplitudes Nov, 10 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Colloquium by Dijkgraaf @ KITP 2008 Nov, 3 @ 16h30 P3.10
P.P. Pacheco CAMGSD (Exceptional) Generalised Geometry Oct, 27 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talks of Rastelli and Taylor @ Strings 2002 Oct, 20 @ 16h30 P3.10
D.G. Vergel Madrid Axiomatic Structure of Quantum Mechanics Oct, 13 @ 16h30 P3.10
Video Club ——— Talks of Ooguri and Atiyah @ Strings 2002 Oct, 6 @ 16h30 P3.10
N. Romão Aarhus Spectral Data of Singular Monopoles Oct, 1 @ 15h P3.10
Video Club ——— Talks of Dijkgraaf and Vafa @ Strings 2002 Sep, 22 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Guttenberg Athens Pure Spinor String in General Background Sep, 15 @ 16h30 P3.10
S. Pasquetti CERN Modularity of the Remodeled Open Topological String Sep, 10 @ 14h P3.10