1st Term (Sep to Dec 2007)

[September 2007]   [October 2007]   [November 2007]   [December 2007]

Friday, Sep 21, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Philippe de Forcrand (ETH Zurich)
The QCD phase diagram from lattice simulations

Wednesday, Sep 26, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Guido Cossu (SNS Pisa)
Monopole condensation in two-flavour Adjoint QCD

Friday, Sep 28, 2007
11am, Room 413
Joan Simon (U. of  Edinburgh)
Entropy of near extremal AdS_5 black holes

Friday, Oct 5, 2007
2pm, Room 413

A4 slide session

Thursday, Oct 11, 2007
2pm, Room 504
Mikhail Shifman (U. of Minnesota)
Highly excited mesons, linear Regge trajectories and pattern of the chiral symmetry realization

Friday, Oct 12, 2007
12am, Lecture theatre Glyndwr B
Mikhail Shifman (U. of Minnesota)
Physics colloquium: Supersymmetry and how it helps to understand our world

Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007
2pm, Room 504
Simon Catterall (Syracuse U.)
Recent developments in lattice supersymmetry

Wednesday, Oct 24, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Dhagash Mehta (Imperial College)
Modified Landau gauge on a lattice: Grivob copies/ Neuberger problem, new algorithms and algebraic geometry

Friday, Oct 26, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Daniel Arean (Santiago de Compostela U.)
Holographic flavour on the Higgs branch

Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007
2pm, Room 504
Gert Aarts (Swansea U.)
Transport and spectral functions in high temperature QCD

Friday, Nov 2, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Francesco Sannino (NBI Copenhagen & SDU Odense)
Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking: From LHC to Cosmology

Tuesday, Nov 6, 2007
2pm, Room 504
Abhishek Agarwal (Max Planck Institute, Potsdam)
Aspects of strongly coupled Yang-Mills in D=2+1

Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Dave Dunbar (Swansea U.)
UV structure of N=8 supergravity

Friday, Nov 9, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Tim Morris (Southampton U.)
The MHV Lagrangian and missing amplitudes

Tuesday, Nov 13, 2007
2pm, Room 504
Tim Hollowood (Swansea U.)
The refractive index of curved spacetimes

Friday, Nov 16, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Chris Allton (Swansea U.)
The scale of SU(N) gauge theories

Tuesday, Nov 20, 2007
2pm, Room 504
David Berenstein (U. of California, Santa Barbara)
Strings on conifolds from strong coupling

Friday, Nov 23, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Federico Farchioni (Munster U.,  ITP)
Lattice simulation of QCD with one quark flavour

Tuesday, Nov 27, 2007
2pm, Room 504
Romuald A. Janik (Jangellonian U.)
Wrapping interactions in gauge theory and finite size effects in string theory

Friday, Nov 30, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Nelia Mann (U. of Chicago)
Finite size effects in integrable theories

Tuesday, Dec 4, 2007
2pm, Room 504
Mukund Rangamani (Durham U.)
Entanglement entropy in AdS/CFT

Friday, Dec 7, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Nadav Drukker (Humboldt U.)
Wilson loops in 4d SYM in 2d YM and in 0d

Tuesday, Dec 11, 2007
2pm, Room 504
Francesco Bigazzi (Brussels U. & Intl. Solvay Inst., Brussels)
Five dimensional string theory and QCD

Friday, Dec 14, 2007
2pm, Room 413
Joyce Myers (Washington U.)
Towards understanding quark confienement via monopole condensation in adjoint QCD