Seminars Website
Lectures on String Theory from the Center for Geometry and Theoretical Physics.
Fall 2005:
- Z_4 orbifold limits of K3 and a family of smooth quartic K3s: A nonclassical duality (Katrin Wendland)
 - Topological Correlators from the Coulomb Branch (Ilarion Melnikov)
 - Some remarks about axions and other pseudoscalar particles (Raul Rabadan)
 - Closed String Tachyon Dynamics (Albion Lawrence)
 - On singular effective superpotentials in supersymmetric gauge theories (Mohammed Edalati)
 - On Moduli Stabilisation in Calabi-Yau Flux Compactifications (Per Berglund)
 - An index to count chiral primaries in N=1 d=4 SCFT's (Christian Romelsberger)
 
- Generalized Kahler geometry and T-duality (Marco Gualtieri)
 - Geometric transitions with branes and flux (David Page)
 - Elements of Topological M-Theory (Andy Neitzke)
 - Flux compactifications and the hybrid formalism (Daniel Robbins)
 - Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions for the N = 2 Sigma Model with Non-Abelian Gauge Fields (Sven Rinke)
 - Worldsheet RG and target space time evolution (Albion Lawrence)
 - Conformality and String Phenomenology (Paul Frampton)
 - Counting flux vacua with special properties (Washington Taylor)
 
- Target Space in Minimal String Theory (David Shih)
 - Towards a c-theorem in Four Dimensions (Brian Wecht)
 - Non-Lagrangian A-branes and Mirror Symmetry (Paul Grange)
 - The type IIB effective action, threebranes and instantons (Christian Stahn)
 - LISA in the Sky with Dark Matter (Allan Adams)
 - Observing the string: The cosmic matter-antimatter asymmetry from string theory an
d the universality of the Green-Schwarz mechanism (Stephon Alexander) - The Coulomb Branch in Gauged Linear Sigma Models (Ilarion Melnikov)
 - Dual views of string impurities (Robert Duivenvoorden)
 
- Residues and world-sheet instantons (Christopher Beasley)
 - del Pezzo, Markov and Seiberg (Christopher Herzog)
 
- Higher derivative terms in harmonic superspace (Philip Argyres)
 
- Geometric Constructions of Nongeometric String Theories (Brook Williams)
 - Effective field theory on unstable branes (Brian Wecht)
 
- Linear sigma models for open strings, with applications (John McGreevy)
 - Toric duality' is Seiberg duality (Ronen Plesser)
 - Triples, Fluxes, and Strings (David Morrison)
 - Linear Thinking in Perturbative String Theory (Simeon Hellerman)
 
- D-Branes, Mirror Symmetry and Counting Holomorphic Discs (Mina Aganagic)
 - The ADHM Moduli Space and Light Cone Description of Open Membrane Theory (Micha Berkooz)
 - M Theory, G_2 Holonomy spaces and N=1 Theories in Four Dimensions (Bobby Acharya)
 - String Theory and Derived Categories (Paul Aspinwall)
 - Mirror Symmetry and Noncommutative Geometry (Anton Kapustin)
 - Low-Energy Physics of Warped Compactifications (Albion Lawrence)
 - An analytical approach towards understanding the topology of crepant resolutions of Calabi-Yau orbifolds (Anda Degeratu)
 
- Elements of D-Geometry (Bartomeu Fiol)
 - N=1 Gauge Theory and Warped Deformed Conifold (Igor Klebanov)
 - Warped Compactifications on Calabi-Yau Fourfolds (Sergei Gukov)
 - M theory and twisted K theory (Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu)
 - The Zero-Brane as a Soliton (Shiraz Minwalla)
 - A New Perspective on Calabi-Yau Geometry, II (David Morrison)
 - A New Perspective on Calabi-Yau Geometry (David Morrison)
 
- Five Dimensions from Four: On Dimensional Transmogrification (Vijay Balasubramanian)
 - Exp(n) (Rajesh Gopakumar)
 
- Dun with Supersymmetric Three-Cycles (Shamit Kachru)
 - Compactifications with G-Flux (Savdeep Sethi)
 - D-Branes on Calabi-Yau Threefolds (Albion Lawrence)
 - Holomorphic gerbes and field theory (Jean-Luc Brylinski)
 - Integers in the Gromov-Witten theory of 3-folds (Pandharipande)
 
- (unknown title) (Eva Silverstein)
 - (unknown title) (Ofer Aharony)
 - D-Branes and Asymmetric Orbifolds (Jeff Harvey)
 - Conformal Nonsupersymmetric Gauge Theory in d=4 from AdSICFT Superstring Duality (Paul Frampton)
 - Four-Manifolds, Symplectic Geometry, and Mirror Symmetry (Nikita Nekrasov)
 - D-Branes and Discrete Torsion (Michael Douglas)
 - N=2 Supersymmetric Fixed Points at Rank Two (Philip Argyres)
 - Brane Configurations and Branes at Singularities (Angel Uranga)
 - Holography and Spacetime Locality (Albion Lawrence)
 
- Constraints from Supersymmetry (Savdeep Sethi)
 - Non-abelian Tensor-Multiplet Anomalies from M-Theory (Ruben Minasian)
 - Bonus Symmetries of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Correlation Functions via AdS Duality (Ken Intriligator)
 - Strings in Flat Space (Shamit Kachru)
 - Kähler Cone Substructure (Eric Sharpe)
 - Large N Phases, Holography and Quantum Gravity (Clifford Johnson)
 - Non-Spherical Horizons, II (David Morrison)
 - Lie Groups, Calabi-Yau Threefolds and Anomalies (Paul Aspinwall)
 - Conformal Field Theories from Branes at Singularities (Ronen Plesser)
 - Non-Spherical Horizons, I (David Morrison)