Seminars are at 12 noon in Room CP 179 unless otherwise indicated.

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2009/2010 Seminars
(Also, see our calendar.)
Date Speaker Title
Tue. Jul. 28 Gautam Mandal
(TIFR, Mumbai)		 Phase Transition in Matrix Quantum Mechanics and Gregory-Laflamme
Fri. Sep. 4 Sekhar Chivukula
(Michigan State)		 Higgsless Models of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Fri. Sep. 11
11:00 AM
 Stuart Raby
(Ohio State)		 Heterotic - F theory Duality
Thu. Sep. 17
1:00 PM
 Anyi Li
(UK and Duke)		 Study of QCD critical point using canonical ensemble method
Mon. Sep. 21 Keh-Fei Liu
(UK)		 Spectrum of D_S meson and decay constants f_{D_S} and f_D from 2+1 flavor chiral fermions
Fri. Oct. 2 Oleg Lunin
(UK)		 Brane-Antibrane Dynamics From the Tachyon DBI Action
Mon. Oct. 5
1:30 PM
 Philip Argyres
(University of Cincinnati)		 The stability of the quark wake in a strongly coupled plasma
Mon. Oct. 19 Jae-Hyuk Oh
(UK)		 Supersonic Waves and Their Gravity Duals
Fri. Oct. 23 Eduardo Fradkin
(UIUC)		 Entanglement Entropy at 2D quantum critical points and topological fluids
Mon. Oct. 26 Noah Bray-Ali
(UK)		 Topological order in paired fermion systems with breaking of parity and time-reversal symmetries in two-dimensions
Mon. Nov. 2 Sumit Das
(UK)		 Spin Models and Emergent Gauge Fields at Lifshitz Points
Mon. Nov. 9 Alfred Shapere
(UK)		 Spacelike Chronologies
Fri. Nov. 13
2:00 PM
 Djordje Minic
(Virginia Tech)		 String Theory and Condensed Matter Physics
Tue. Dec. 1
11:00 AM
 Junko Shigemitsu
(Ohio State)		 CKM Physics and Quark Masses from Recent Lattice Simulations
Mon. Dec. 7 Ayan Mukhopadhyay
(HRI (Allahabad))		 Universal Phenomena in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories and Gravity
2008/2009 seminars


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