MATH/PHYSICS SEMINAR

Spring 2003 Schedule

This semester the seminar will mostly meet either Mondays at 4:00 PM in VV B239 or 4274 Chamberlin OR Tuesdays at 4:00 PM in VV B139 or 4274 Chamberlin.        

Akikazu Hashimoto (IAS Princeton)
``The Nature of Non-locality in String Theory''
TIME: Tuesday, January 28 at 4:00 PM in 4274 Chamberlin

Daniel Kabat (Columbia University)
``Branes, Cosmology and M-theory''
TIME: Monday, February 3 at 4:00 PM in 4274 Chamberlin

Clifford Johnson (Durham)
``Black Holes, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics''
TIME: Monday, February 10 at 4:00 PM in VV B239

Kentaro Hori (Toronto)
``D-Branes, Orientifolds and Mirror Symmetry''
TIME: Friday, February 14 at 1:20 PM in VV 901 [special day: joint Math/Physics/Topology Seminar]

Albrecht Klemm (Berlin)
``String Theory and Geometric Engineering of Quantum Field Theories''
TIME: Monday, February 17 at 4:00 PM in VV B239

Maulik Parikh (Columbia University)
``A Time-Unoriented Space''
TIME: Monday, March 3 at 4:00 PM in VV B239

Koenraad Schalm (Columbia University)
``A Matrix-Valued Generalization of Diffeomorphisms: D0-branes in Curved Space''
TIME: Monday, March 10 at 4:00 PM in VV B239

Jae-suk Park (Postech)
``Pursuing the Quantum World''
TIME: Monday, March 31 at 4:00 PM in VV B239

Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)
``Duality and Fibrations on G_2 Manifolds''
TIME: Monday, April 7 at 4:00 PM in VV B239

Eric Mortenson (UW Madison)
``Hypergeometric Series, Character Sums, and Calabi-Yau Manifolds''
TIME: Monday, May 5 at 4:00 PM in VV B239

The Fall 2002 schedule is available here.

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