Triangle Seminars

Week of 13 Mar 2006 - 19 Mar 2006

Monday, 13 Mar 2006

Adding branes to hyperkahler manifolds
Andrew Dancer (Oxford)
Venue: IC · Room: Ballroom, 58 Princes Gate · Time: 13:30 · Type: String Theory & Geometry Seminar
Abstract:
We investigate quaternionic
(especially hyperkahler) analogues of the
symplectic cut construction. In low dimensions this can
be interpreted as a adding a brane to a hyperkahler manifold.
Posted by: IC

Wednesday, 15 Mar 2006

Black hole partition functions and duality
📍 London
Thomas Mohaupt (Liverpool)
Venue: KCL · Room: 423 · Time: 13:15 · Type: Regular Seminar
Correlation functions in integrable spin-chains 1
Michio Jimbo (Tokyo University)
Venue: City U. · Room: CM320 · Time: 14:00 · Type: Exceptional Seminar
Abstract:
Please follow this link for details: http://www.city.ac.uk/sems/mathematics/speciallectures.html
Posted by: CityU
M-theory on the Orbifold (C'2 mod Z_N)
Andre Lukas (Oxford)
Venue: QMW · Room: 112 · Time: 14:00 · Type: Regular Seminar
Random matrices with independent entries
Giovanni Cicuta (Parma)
Venue: Brunel U. · Room: M128 · Time: 16:00 · Type: Regular Seminar
Abstract:
The algorithm by M.Bauer and O.Golinelli to evaluate the moments of the spectral density of the incident matrix of random graphs is very useful also for other matrix ensembles: real symmetric, real anti-symmetric, real, laplacian, Wishart,... In most cases it may efficiently be performed by computer. The moments thus evaluated presumably will be useful to complement numerical simulations. In the large n limit, they are a transparent way to examine possible n-dependent rescaling then the emergence of universality and the validity of the addition theorem for random matrices.
Posted by: brunel

Thursday, 16 Mar 2006

Intersecting Brane Worlds: a Possible Path from String Theory to Particle Physics
Rodolfo Russo (QMW)
Venue: QMW · Room: 112 · Time: 14:00 · Type: Regular Seminar
Abstract:
I will discuss the main features of the string
compactifications with magnetized (or equivalently
intersecting) D-branes and explain why they represent a
very interesting setup for phenomenological
applications. In particular, I will discuss how to use string techniques to systematically derive brane world effective actions for models with magnetized (or equivalently intersecting) D-branes.
Posted by: QMW

Friday, 17 Mar 2006

Gravity duals of field theory vacua
Marika Taylor (Amsterdam)
Venue: IC · Room: Huxley 503 · Time: 14:00 · Type: Regular Seminar
Abstract:
In the first part of the talk we discuss how to construct
geometries sourced by branes carrying general condensates. As an example
we consider fundamental strings carring fermion bilinear condensates.
Dualizing to the D1-D5 system these correspond to the missing geometries
needed to account for all black hole microstates in the fuzzball
conjecture. In the second half of the talk we discuss new results in
extracting field theory data from (asymptotically AdS) geometries. These
methods can be used to show that the D1-D5 geometries do indeed correspond
to R vacua with all the requisite properties.
Posted by: IC

Week of 13 Mar 2006 - 19 Mar 2006