Informal Seminar (2006-)


Date/Time: 10/9, 2008 (Thu.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 306
Speaker: Dr. Shigenori Seki
Title: Topological Sigma Model on Anti-de Sitter Space.


Date/Time: 7/8, 2008 (Tue.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. Y306 (Yukawa Hall)
Speaker: Dr. Tadaashi Takayanagi
Title: On Type IIA Penrose Limit and N=6 Chern-Simons Theories
Reference: Tatsuma Nishioka, Tadashi Takayanagi arXiv:0806.3391


Date/Time: 6/17, 2008 (Tue.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. Y306 (Yukawa Hall)
Speaker: Dr. Tastuma Nishioka
Title: Gravity duals for non-relativistic CFTs
Reference: Koushik Balasubramanian, John McGreevy arXiv:0804.4053


Date/Time: 5/27, 2008 (Tue.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 102
Speaker: Dr. Kazunobu Maruyoshi
Title: Extended supersymmetric moduli space and a SUSY/non-SUSY duality
Reference: M. Aganagic, C. Beem, J. Seo, and C. Vafa arXiv:0804.2489


Date/Time: 4/1, 2008 (Tue.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 206
Speaker: Dr. Hiroaki Kanno
Reference: Kapustin-Witten hep-th/0604151


Date/Time: 2/19, 2008 (Tue.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 102
Speaker: Dr. Tatsuo Azeyanagi
Title: Farey Tail and OSV conjecture
Reference: R.Dijkgraaf, J.M.Maldacena, G.W. Moore and E.P.Verlinde hep-th/0005003, J. Manschot and G.W.Moore arXiv:0712.0573 F.Denef and G.W.Moore hep-th/0702146,


Date/Time: 11/15, 2007 (Thu.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 206
Speaker: Dr. Masato Taki
Title: The Refined Topological Vertex
Reference: A.Iqbal, C.Kozcaz and C.Vafa hep-th/0701156, S.Gukov, A.Iqbal, C.Kozcaz and C.Vafa arXiv:0705.1368


Date/Time: 10/16, 2007 (Tue.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 206
Speaker: Dr. Tatsuya Tokunaga
Title: Gopakumar CFT
Reference: R. Gopakumar hep-th/0308184 ,hep-th/0402063,hep-th/00409233,hep-th/00504229,hep-th/00604161,hep-th/00606078,hep-th/00703141


Date/Time: 9/19, 2007 (Wed.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 206
Speaker: Dr. Tetsuji Kimura
Title: Split states, entropy enigmas, holes and halos
Reference: F. Denef and G. Moore hep-th/0702146, hep-th/0005049, hep-th/0206072


Date/Time: 9/12, 2007 (Wed.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 206
Speaker: Dr. Yuji Tachikawa
Title: A-D-E Quivers and Baryonic Operators
Reference: arXiv:0709.0348


Date/Time: 5/7, 2007 (Mon.) 16:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 202
Speaker: Dr. Takao Suyama
Title: Geometric tachyon to universal open string tachyon
Reference: A. Sen, hep-th/0703157,


Date/Time: 3/19/2007 (Mon.) 15:00-17:00
Place: YITP Rm. 202
Speaker: Dr. Tetsuji Kimura
Title: Generalized complex geometries and supersymmetric theories (in English)
Reference: hep-th/0401100, hep-th/0405085, hep-th/0411186,


Date/Time: 2/15/2007 (Thu.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 202
Speaker: Dr. Seiji Terashima
Title: Geometrically Induced Metastability and Holography
Reference: M. Aganagic, C. Beem, J. Seo, C. Vafa, hep-th/0610249,


Date/Time: 12/8 (Fri.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 202
Speaker: Dr. Tadashi Takayanagi
Title: Fundamental Strings and Black Holes
Reference: Amit Giveon, David Kutasov, hep-th/0611062,


Date/Time: 10/19 (Thu.) 17:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 202
Speaker: Dr. Yu Nakayama
Title: Rolling D-brane in two-dimensional black holes
Reference: hep-th/0605013, hep-th/0507040
ptp file

ptp file for the seminar titled "The Nothing at the beginning of the universe made precise "

Date/Time: 10/3 (Tue.) 15:00-
Place: YITP Rm. 202
Speaker: Dr. Akihide Shirosaka
Title: The Attractor Mechanism in Five Dimensions
Reference: Finn Larsen, hep-th/0608191