Seminar/Colloquium Archive

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Xi Yin (Harvard)
Title:	Higher spin gauge theory and vector models
Date:	Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Serge Richard (U.Lyon, Tsukuba U)
Title:	Wave operators and a topological version of Levinson's theorem
Date:	Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	There will be a 5-minute break after the first 25 min.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Johannes Schmude (IPMU)
Title:	G-structures and calibrations in supergravity and steps towards SUSY breaking on the conifold
Date:	Tue, Dec 07, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Krzysztof Gawedzki (ENS-Lyon)
Title:	Gerbes and Topological Actions in Field Theory
Date:	Tue, Nov 30, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tomoki Nakanishi (Nagoya U)
Title:	Dilogarithm identities in CFT and cluster algebras
Date:	Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sergei Gukov (Caltech)
Title:	Surface Operators and Wall Crossing
Date:	Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 16:00 - 17:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	David Morrison (UC Santa Barbara )
Title:	Supersymmetric T^3 Fibrations
Date:	Thu, Nov 18, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	As usual in this seminar, the first 25 minutes will provide a general introduction to the subject aimed at a broad audience.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yoichi Mieda (Kyushu U)
Title:	Lefschetz trace formula and the l-adic cohomology of the Rapoport-Zink spaces
Date:	Tue, Nov 16, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	There will be a 5-minute break after the first 25 min.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ruben Minasian (CEA/Saclay)
Title:	String-Loop Corrections to c-a
Date:	Tue, Nov 16, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Davide Forcella (ENS)
Title:	Hydrodynamics, Holographic Optics and Negative Refractive Index
Date:	Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Koji Hashimoto (Riken)
Title:	Nuclear Matrix Model
Date:	Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 13:15 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Todor Milanov (IPMU)
Title:	Gromov-Witten invariants and representations of infinite dimensional Lie algebras
Date:	Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	There will be a 5-minute break after the first 25 min.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Washington Taylor (MIT)
Title:	Supergravity and string vacua in six dimensions
Date:	Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Robbert Dijkgraaf (University of Amsterdam)
Title:	Gauge theories and matrix models
Date:	Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Scott Carnahan (IPMU)
Title:	Borcherds products in monstrous moonshine.
Date:	Tue, Sep 14, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	There will be a 5-minute break after the first 25 min.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Zengo Tsuboi (Osaka City University)
Title:	Wronskian solutions of T, Q and Y-systems for AdS/CFT
Date:	Tue, Sep 07, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Shin Nakamura (Kyoto University)
Title:	Negative Differential Registivity from Holography
Date:	Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Mircea Voineagu (IPMU)
Title:	Semi-topological invariants of real algebraic varieties
Date:	Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	There will be a 5-minute break after the 25-minute first part.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Alexander Voronov (U. Minnesota)
Title:	Introduction to Quantum Deformation Theory
Date:	Tue, Jul 13, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Brian Wecht (IAS)
Title:	Recursion Relations and String Theory Amplitudes
Date:	Wed, Jun 30, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Alexander Voronov (U. Minnesota)
Title:	Higher Categories and TQFTs
Date:	Tue, Jun 29, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Balcony A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Nakwoo Kim (Kyung Hee University)
Title:	Holographic superconductors from M5-branes.
Date:	Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	291.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Andreas Karch (University of Washington, Seattle)
Title:	A Particle Physicist's Perspective on Topological Insulators
Date:	Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	255.ppt

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Linda Uruchurtu (Imperial College London)
Title:	Warped anti-de Sitter spaces from brane intersections in type II string theory
Date:	Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	288.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University)
Title:	New approaches to numerical Calabi-Yau metrics
Date:	Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	270.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Johanna Knapp (IPMU)
Title:	Global SO(10) F-theory GUTs
Date:	Tue, May 25, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	278.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Antal Jevicki (Brown university)
Title:	Classical AdS String : Solutions and Dynamics of Moduli
Date:	Tue, May 18, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Daniel Moskovich (JSPS/RIMS Kyoto)
Title:	Untying coloured knots
Date:	Tue, May 11, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Masato Taki (YITP)
Title:	2D Conformal Symmetries, 4D Gauge Theories, & AGT Relations
Date:	Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Hiroyuki Fuji (Nagoya Univ)
Title:	Volume Conjecture and Topological Recursion
Date:	Tue, Apr 06, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	243.pdf
Remarks:	Presentation file will be updated. Please see the newest files at http://qken.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~fuji/dfm/ipmu10_1.pdf http://qken.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~fuji/dfm/ipmu10_3.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Jacopo Stoppa (Cambridge)
Title:	D0-D6 states counting and Gromov-Witten invariants.
Date:	Tue, Mar 16, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ryo Suzuki (Trinity Colledge, Dublin)
Title:	Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz for Konishi-like states in AdS_5 x S5
Date:	Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Robert Penner (Aarhus Univ/USC/Caltech)
Title:	Finite type invariants and the Ptolemy groupoid
Date:	Tue, Mar 02, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ernesto Lupercio (CINVESTAV)
Title:	Nearly Frobenius Structures and Quantum Field Theory.
Date:	Tue, Feb 23, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room D

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Barton Zwiebach (MIT)
Title:	T-duality, field theory, and Courant brackets
Date:	Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 17:00 - 18:30
Place:	Balcony A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Nathan Berkovits (The University of São Paulo)
Title:	Holography from the AdS_5xS^5 Pure Spinor Formalism
Date:	Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Volker Schomerus (DESY, Hamburg)
Title:	Solving Complex Projective Superspace
Date:	Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	226.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Daniel Krefl (IPMU)
Title:	Aspects of orientifolds in topological string theory
Date:	Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sergey Galkin (IPMU)
Title:	Mirror symmetries of P2 enumerated by Markov triplets.
Date:	Tue, Jan 19, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Balcony B on the 5th floor of the IPMU new building

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sumit Das (Kentucky University)
Title:	DILATON COSMOLOGIES AND THEIR GAUGE THEORY DUALS
Date:	Tue, Jan 12, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	207.pdf