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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
02/15/05, 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
2004
02/03/04, S.Cherkis, Deformations of N=4 Super Yang-Mills and Quantum Groups
02/10/04, A.Adams, Through (0,2) Looking Glass
02/17/04, N.Berkovits, Superstring Loop Amplitudes using the Pure Spinor Formalism
02/24/04, M.Becker, Moduli Stabilization in Weakly and Strongly Coupled Heterotic Theory
03/02/04, F.Cachazo, New Constraints on N=4 Super Yang Mill Amplitudes
03/09/04, V.Schomerus, Liouville Theory and Rolling Tachyons
03/23/04, A.Parnachev, Localized tachyons and D-branes
03/30/04, L.Rastelli, Open/closed duality in topological matrix models
04/06/04, D.Kutasov, UV/IR Mixing in Little String Theory
04/13/04, T.Takayanagi, Flux Backgrounds in 2D String Theory
04/20/04, Ami Hanany, Duality Walls In String Theory
04/27/04, Eva Silverstein, DBI in the Sky
05/04/04, Katrin Becker, Fluxes, Torsion and the Ground State of String Theory
05/11/04, John McGreevy, Supercritical Duals for Unstable Branes
05/18/04, Predrag Cvitanovic, Tracks, Lie's and Exceptional Magic
2003
10/28/03, A.Leclair, Russian Doll Renormalization Group Theory
10/30/03, M.Douglas, Statistics of String Vacua
11/04/03, J.Maldacena, Matrix models for Superstrings in less than three dimensions
11/18/03, A.Konechny, Type O Strings on a 2-D black hole
11/25/03, D.Martelli, Supersymmetric Geometries of M-Theory
12/09/03, S.Thomas, Conformally Seized Moduli Inflation
12/16/03, P.Fendley, Topological Field Theories and Conformal Quantum Critical Points
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