2nd Term (Jan to Mar 2008)

[January 2008]   [February 2008]   [March 2008]  

Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008
Room 516
2:00pm Dipankar Chakrabarti (Swansea U.)
Diffraction Pattern in Deeply Virtual Compton scattering

Friday, Jan 25, 2008
Room 413
2.30pm  Maurizio Piai  (Swansea U. & WIMCS)

4.00pm  Terry Gannon (Alberta U.)
WIMCS MP Colloquium

Wednesday, Jan 30, 2008
Room 516, 2pm
Dan Israel (Paris U. VI & IAP)
Brane decay in curved spacetime

Friday, Feb 1, 2008
Room 413, 2pm
Simon Ross (Durham U.)
Winding tachyons in BTZ black holes

Friday, Feb 8, 2008
Room 413, 2pm
Johannes Schmude (Swansea U.)
Non-perturbative gauge dynamics from classical strings

Friday, Feb 15, 2008
Room 413, 2pm
Francis Bursa (Oxford U.)
Meson masses at large N_c

Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008
Room 516, 2pm
Stefano Cremonesi (SISSA)
Gauge/gravity duality from fractional branes on an orbifold of the conifold

Friday, Feb 22, 2008
Room 413, 2pm
Adriano Di Giacomo (Pisa U.)
On some open problems in color confinement

Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008
Common Room, 2.30pm
Roberto Auzzi (Swansea U.)
Non-Abelian vortices

Friday, Feb 29, 2008
Room 413, 2pm
Akihiro Ishibashi (KEK)
Black holes in higher dimensions

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008
Common room, 2 pm
Nick Evans (Southampton U.)
Holographic QCD and hadronization

Friday, Mar 7, 2008
Room 413, 2pm
Agostino Patella (Swansea U.)
Meson masses in the planar limit from the lattice

Tuesday, Mar 11, 2008
Common Room, 2pm
Ehud Fuchs (Max Planck I. A.E.I.  Postdam)
Introduction to String Field Theory I

Wednesday, Mar 12, 2008
Room 516, 2pm
Ehud Fuchs (Max Planck I. A.E.I.  Postdam)
Introduction to String Field Theory II

Friday, Mar 14, 2008
Room 413, 2pm
Massimo D'Elia (Genova U.)
Finite density QCD via an imaginary chemical potential

Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008
Room 516, 2pm
Harvey Reall (Cambridge U.)
Black holes in String Theory