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04/22/08, H.Liu, A Prediction From String Theory, with Strings Attached
04/15/08, S.Sethi, Non-Supersymmetric String Theory
04/08/08, A.Konechny, Radiation from unstable D1 branes in 2D string theory
03/11/08, A.Tomasiello, New string vacua from simple topologies
03/04/08, D.Shih, General Gauge Mediation
02/26/08, M.Schnabl, Light-like tachyon condensation in Open String Field Theory
02/19/08, M.Kleban, When Worlds Collide
02/12/08, D.Kutasov, Supersymmetry breaking in gauge theory and string theory
02/05/08, P.Graham, Searching for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry
01/29/08, C.Bauer, Factorization for Jet Production
Fall 2007
12/11/07, E.Witten, More On Three-Dimensional Gravity
12/05/07, J.Harvey, Jets, Pseudo-Chern-Simons term in the Standard Model, with applications
11/27/07, G.Salam, Jets, our window on partons at the LHC
11/13/07, J.Thaler, GenEvA: A New Framework for Event Generation
11/06/07, S.Gukov, Refined Topological Vertex, Instanton Counting, and Link Homologies
10/23/07, F.Denef, D-brane deconstructions in IIB orientifolds
10/09/07, D.Kreimer, Renormalization revisited: from periods and motives to non-perturbative physics
Spring 2007
02/01/07, M.Rocek, Instantons and SL(2,Z) duality in Type IIB Compactifications
02/13/07, M.Voloshin, Spontaneous and induced decay of false vacuum
02/27/07, A.Polyakov, Gauge/Strings at Large Curvatures and Related Problems
03/06/07, I.Klebanov, From Weak to Strong Coupling in N=4 SYM Theory
03/13/07, M.Dine, Metastability
03/27/07, D.Kutasov, Supersymmetry and gauge symmetry breaking from intersecting branes
04/03/07, F.Petriello, Recent advances in perturbative QCD and LHC physics
04/10/07, S.Sachdev, Quantum Critical Transport, Duality, and M Theory
04/10/07, N.Nekrasov, N-2 Super-Yang-Mills and Statistical Models in 1,2,3 (and 4?) Dimensions
04/17/07, G.Shiu, Cosmology and Particle Physics with Warped Throats
04/24/07, J.Conlon, Hierarchy Problems in String Theory - The Power of Large Volume
05/01/07, E.Akhmedov, Exponent of Cubic Matrices and Non-Abelian Tensor Fields
05/08/07, J.Teschner, Warm-up for noncompact sigma models: The Sinh-Gordon model
05/09/07, C.Hull, Geometry, duality and non-geometric string backgrounds
Fall 2006
09/19/06, N.Arkani-Hamed, Locality, Cosmology and the Landscape
09/26/06, M.Huang, Seiberg-Witten theory, instanton counting, modular foms
10/03/06, H.Liu, The arrow of time, black holes and quantum mixing of large N Yang-Mills theories
10/31/06, J.Maldacena, Comments on the worldsheet S-matrix for string threory
11/07/06, D.Shih, Meta-stable Vacua in SQCD and MQCD
11/14/06, R.Velandro, Warped Models in String Theory
12/05/06, O.Aharony, A holographic model of deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration
12/12/06, L.Wang, Top Final States and New Physics
Spring 2006
03/07/06, H.Verlinde, Open Strings and Particle Physics
03/21/06, M.Schmaltz, Conformal sequestering and hidden sector susy breaking
03/28/06, S.Sethi, From the Beginning to the end of Time
04/04/06, P.Langacker, Beyond the MSSM
04/11/06, R.Roiban, Perturbative Gauge Theories and Closed String Tachyons
04/18/06, S.Giusto, Dynamics of 2-charge microstates
04/25/06, L.Smolin, Emergence of the Standard Model Fermions from Quantum Geometry
05/02/06, D.Kaplan, Lattice Supersymmetry
05/09/06, L.Yaffe, Phase diagram of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory with chemical Potentials
Fall 2005
09/20/05, N.Seiberg, New Phenomena in 2d String Theory
10/25/05, M.Graesser, Towards a High Energy Theory for the Higgs Phase of Gravity
11/01/05, M.Luty, Naturalness and SUSY
11/08/05, D.Kutasov, New results on the string/black hole correspondence
11/15/05, E.Witten, Gauge Theory And Langlands Duality
Spring 2005
02/01/05, N.Arkani-Hamed, Predictive Landscapes and New Physics at a TeV
02/08/05, J.Walcher, Stability of Landau-Ginzburg branes
02/15/05, N.Berkovits, Superstring Quantization on Ad5xS5
02/22/05, P.Aspinwall, Computation of Superpotentials and A-infinity Algebras
03/29/05, A.Kapustin, Generalized complex geometry and D-branes
04/05/05, D.Kutasov, Phases of Quantum Gravity in AdS3 and Linear Dilation Backgrounds
04/12/05, N.Lambert, Flux and Freund-Rubin Superpotentials in M-theory
04/19/05, V.P.Nair, Yang-Mils Theory in (2+1) Dimensions: Vacuum Wave Function, String Tension, etc.
05/03/05, R.Plesser, Coulomb Branch of GLSM and Localized Closed String Tachyons
05/17/05, M.Jackson, Detecting Cosmic Superstrings
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