Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics 2007: Talks and Events

(all talks in Math Common Room - Math Tower 4-125 unless otherwise stated)
[RealAudio files can be played with RealPlayer]

Jul 30, 2007, Monday
9:00AM - 10:00AM Welcome with coffee/tea and snack
10:00AM - 12:00PM Organization meeting
2:00PM - 3:30PM Mina Aganagic(UC Berkeley) Metastability and Holography [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
Jul 31, 2007, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Sally Dawson (BNL) Issues in Collider Physics: Discovery Possibilities at the LHC [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:00PM Sav Sethi (Chicago) Aspects of Flux Compactification [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
Aug 1, 2007, Wednesday
10:00AM - 11:00PM Martijn Wijnholt (Max Planck Institute) String Phenomenology and Supersymmetry Breaking, part 1 [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
11:00AM - 12:00PM Herman Verlinde (Princeton) String Phenomenology and Supersymmetry Breaking, part 2 [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
2:00PM - 3:30PM Sally Dawson (BNL) Issues in Collider Physics: Discovery Possibilities at the LHC, part 2 [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
Aug 2, 2007, Thursday
11:00AM at Smith Point Beach Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech) On the Ubiquity of Metastable Vacua [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
Aug 3, 2007, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Kostas Skenderis (Amsterdam) A Fuzzball Proposal for Black Holes [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:30PM Nick Halmagyi (Chicago) The Generalized Kahler Potential of Supergravity [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
Aug 6, 2007, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Ron Donagi (Penn) Model Building and Algebraic Geometry [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:30PM Jonathan Heckman (Harvard) Stringy Standard Models [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
Aug 7, 2007, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Frank Saueressig (Utrecht) Instanton Corrected Hypermultiplet Moduli Spaces [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:30PM Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor (Amsterdam) SU(3) Structure Reduction and Gauged Supergravity [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
Aug 8, 2007, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Ori Ganor (Berkeley) Puff Field-theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:30PM Simeon Hellerman (IAS) Dynamical Transition from Clossed String Tachyon Condensation [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
Aug 9, 2007, Thursday
11:00AM at Smith Point Beach Sergei Gukov (Caltech) Four-dimensional Kondo Problem [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
Aug 10, 2007, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM David Shih (Harvard) Gauge Mediation and Its Minimal Completions [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:30PM Chris Beasley (Harvard) Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
Aug 13, 2007, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Robert Shrock (Stony Brook) Some Ideas for and Constraints on Physics Beyond the Standard Model [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM - 3:30PM Katrin Becker (Texas A&M) New Directions in Flux Compactification [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
Aug 14, 2007, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Albrecht Klemm (UW Madison) Matrix Model for Open String [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
3:00PM . Coffee, Open Discussion.
Aug 15, 2007, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Joe Marsano (Caltech) Brane Anti-brane Configurations in IIA and M-theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
3:00PM . Coffee, Open Discussion.
Aug 16, 2007, Thursday
11:00AM at Smith Point Beach Dave Morrison (U.C. Santa Barbara) Ricci-flow and Membrane Theory [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
Aug 17, 2007, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Johannes Walcher (IAS) Holomorphic Anomaly in Open Topological String [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
3:00PM . Coffee, Open Discussion.
4:30PM . Physics Department Keg by Physics Building (ask a local)
6:30PM . Party at Martin's House
Aug 20, 2007, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Vincent Bouchard (Perimeter Institute) Remodeling the B-model [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
3:00PM . Coffee, Open Discussion.
Aug 21, 2007, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Robbert Dijkgraaf (UVA) Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, Intersecting Branes, and Free Fermions [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
3:00PM . Coffee, Open Discussion.
Aug 22, 2007, Wednesday
10:00AM Morning coffee and discussion
2:00PM - 3:30PM Andy Neitzke (IAS) Quaternionic Geometry, Black Holes and the Topological String [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
Aug 23, 2007, Thursday
11:00AM at Smith Point Beach Juan Maldacena (IAS, Princeton) Gluon Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 SYM [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
Aug 24, 2007, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Kiril Saraikin (Harvard) Topological Strings and Non-supersymmetric Black Holes [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
3:00PM . Coffee, Open Discussion.
Aug 27, 2007, Monday
10:00AM at P-131 Nathan Berkovits (Sao Paolo) Higher Derivative Nonrenormalization Theorems [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM . Open Discussion.
3:00PM . Coffee
Aug 28, 2007, Tuesday
11:00AM at Smith Point Beach Martin Rocek (Stony Brook) Sigma Models, NS-fluxes, and Generalized Kahler Geometry [MP3: 1] [RealAudio: 1] [WMA: 1]
Aug 29, 2007, Wednesday
10:00AM Dennis Sullivan (Stony Brook) A Mini Course in Algebraic Topology Leading up to Differential K Theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM . Open Discussion.
3:00PM . Coffee
Aug 30, 2007, Thursday
10:00AM Duiliu Diaconescu (Rutgers) Moduli of ADHM Sheaves and Local Donaldson-Thomas Theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
1:00PM . Simons Workshop Lunch in 4-125
2:00PM . Open Discussion.
3:00PM . Coffee
Aug 31, 2007, Friday
10:00AM Jacob Bourjaily (Princeton) Building Phenomenological Models in M-Theory [MP3: 1, 2] [RealAudio: 1, 2] [WMA: 1, 2]
2:00PM . Open Discussion.
3:00PM . Coffee