# Seminars (MTH)

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Date Time Speaker Title
6th February 2002 11:30 to 12:30 O Aharony Non-local string theories
7th February 2002 14:00 to 15:30 Unknown
19th February 2002 14:15 to 15:30 S Trivedi Moduli stabilisation from fluxes
20th February 2002 17:00 to 17:30 Video of "Horizion" programme on M-Theory
21st February 2002 14:15 to 15:30 A Van Proeyen Five dimensional supersymmetry and quaternionic structures
26th February 2002 14:15 to 15:30 F Larsen De Sitter holography and the cosmic microwave background
28th February 2002 14:15 to 15:30 C Hull De Sitter space, supergravity and M-Theory
6th March 2002 11:30 to 12:30 A Tseytlin Superstrings in plane wave backgrounds
7th March 2002 14:15 to 15:30 M Gaberdiel Monstrous branes
12th March 2002 14:15 to 15:30 E Bergshoeff Domain walls in nine dimensions and their ten dimensional origin
14th March 2002 14:15 to 15:30 M Marino Towards vacuum superstring field theory
19th March 2002 14:15 to 15:30 P Horava The big click: ekpyrosis by remote control in heterotic m-theory
21st March 2002 14:15 to 15:30 J Louis String compactifications with background fluxes
23rd April 2002 14:15 to 15:30 P Yi D-brane probes and closed string tachyons in flux brane backgrounds
25th April 2002 14:15 to 15:30 D Tong NS5-branes, T-duality and worldsheet instantons
30th April 2002 14:15 to 15:30 N Lambert de Sitter space in (stringy) supergravity
2nd May 2002 11:00 to 12:30 S Kachru New phenomena in string compactifications with flux
2nd May 2002 14:15 to 15:30 E Silverstein Clean time-dependent string backgrounds from bubble baths
7th May 2002 14:15 to 15:15 C Pope An M-theory unification of the deformed and resolved conifolds
9th May 2002 14:15 to 15:15 M Gunaydin The spectra of PP-wave limits of M/Superstring theory compactified over spheres and holography
14th May 2002 14:15 to 15:15 P Aspinwall D-brane stability and monodromy
16th May 2002 11:30 to 12:30 P Aspinwall Introduction to derived categories for physicists
16th May 2002 14:15 to 15:15 M Cvetic Standard model and GUT's from orientifolds and $G_2$ holonomy
21st May 2002 14:15 to 15:15 A Peet S-branes
23rd May 2002 14:15 to 15:15 W Taylor Branes and vacua in open string field theory
28th May 2002 14:15 to 15:15 D Freedman Perturbative gauge theory and string interactions
30th May 2002 14:15 to 15:15 A Dabholkar Tachyon condensation and black hole entropy
5th June 2002 14:15 to 15:15 K Skenderis Brane in AdS and pp-wave spacetimes
6th June 2002 14:15 to 15:15 A Hanany Toric duality, Seiberg duality and Picard-Lefshetz transformations
7th June 2002 15:00 to 16:00 P Di Vecchia W=1 and N=2 refer Yang-Mills theories from wrapped branes
11th June 2002 14:15 to 15:15 C Bachas Anti de Sitter branes and holography
13th June 2002 14:15 to 15:15 B Julia Borcherds dualities in supergravities
18th June 2002 14:15 to 15:15 N Warner N=1 holographic R.G fixed points and their Penrose limits
20th June 2002 14:15 to 15:15 T Banks de Sitter space and supersymmetry breaking
25th June 2002 15:30 to 16:30 H Ooguri Worldsheet derivation of a large $N$ duality
27th June 2002 14:15 to 15:15 A Sen Tachyon dynamics
3rd July 2002 14:15 to 15:15 NA Nekrasov Seiberg-Witten prepotential from instanton counting
4th July 2002 14:15 to 15:15 G Horowitz Colliding Kaluza-Klein bubbles
9th July 2002 14:15 to 15:15 S Giddings Black hole formation at high energies
10th July 2002 14:15 to 15:15 J Maldacena Introduction to pp-waves
11th July 2002 16:30 to 17:30 J Maldacena Introduction to pp-waves