2009

0_common, 1_CP3, 2_IIHE, 3_Joint-THEP, 4_Antwerpen, 5_PhTh-FI-ULB, 6_IFPA-ULg, Antwerpen, BEL-center, BEL-center_pheno, BEL-center_theory, CP3, IFPA-ULg, IIHE, Joint-THEP, PhTh-FI-ULB, THEP_Leuven, VUB, common
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Wednesday, February 4
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D 06.32
Summary: Mukund Rangamani: Gravity and hydrodynamics
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D 06.32
Summary: Mukund Rangamani: Brownian motion in AdS/CFT
Wednesday, February 18
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, <strong> 9th floor, Salle des Professeurs</strong>
Summary: Francesco Bigazzi: Adding massive dynamical quarks to the gauge/string correspondence
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, <strong>9th floor, Salle des Professeurs</strong>
Summary: Jean-Luc Lehners: The return of the phoenix universe
Wednesday, February 25
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan <strong>200E 01.209</strong>
Summary: Kellogg Stelle:
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan <strong>200E 01.209</strong>
Summary: Liuba Mazzanti: Holographic gluon plasma from 5d dilaton-gravity
Wednesday, March 4
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Emiliano Imeroni: Deformed gauge theories and their string duals
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Raphael Benichou: Conformal current algebra in two dimensions
Wednesday, March 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan <strong>200E 01.209</strong>
Summary: Alexey Koshelev: Cosmological perturbations in non-local SFT cosmological models
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan <strong>200E 01.209</strong>
Summary: Sheer El-Showk: Quantizing N=2 Multicenter Solutions
Wednesday, March 18
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Jan De Rydt: N=1 supergravity with Chern-Simons terms and anomaly cancellation
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Mboyo Esole: Orientiholes: black hole technology applied to flux vacua
Wednesday, March 25
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan <strong> 200E 01.209</strong>
Summary: Priscila De Aquino: Top anomalous couplings in single top production
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan <strong> 200E 01.209</strong>
Summary: Frank Ferrari: Galois symmetries in Super Yang-Mills Theories
Wednesday, April 1
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, <strong> 9th floor, Salle des Professeurs </strong>
Summary: Marios Petropoulos: Gravitational instantons, Ricci flows and integrable structures
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, <strong>9th floor, Salle des Professeurs</strong>
Summary: Pierre Vanhove: Simplicity in the Structure of N=8 Supergravity Amplitudes
Wednesday, April 22
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, <strong> 9th floor, Salle des Professeurs </strong>
Summary: Vasily Pestun: Conformally supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, <strong>9th floor, Salle des Professeurs </strong>
Summary: Stefan Vandoren: Large D-instanton effects in string theory
Wednesday, April 29
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan <strong> 200E 01.209</strong>
Summary: Ella Jamsin: Hidden symmetries as a black hole solution generating technique
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan <strong> 200E 01.209</strong>
Summary: Anatoly Dymarsky: D-brane Inflation in String Theory
Wednesday, May 6
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D 06.34
Summary: Andreas Brandhuber: On-shell methods in gauge theory and gravity
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D 06.34
Summary: Andreas Brandhuber: Hidden structures in gauge theory and gravity
Wednesday, May 20
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Thomas Hambye: Dark matter interpretation of the Pamela and Fermi results: theoretical trends
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Toby Wiseman: Lattice simulation of thermal D0-branes
Wednesday, May 27
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D 06.34
Summary: Walter Van Herck: Donaldson-Thomas partitions and refined bound state indices
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D 06.34
Summary: Wieland Staessens: Susy and the brane: A σ model story
Wednesday, June 3
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Maulik Parikh: Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Robert Brandenberger: Testing String Theory with Cosmological Observations
Tuesday, September 29
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Valery Rubakov: Inaugural lecture of the 2009 Solvay chair in physics <p>Particle physics and cosmology: towards understanding the Universe
Monday, October 5
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Valery Rubakov: Solvay chair in physics 2009:<BR> Lectures on inflation
Tuesday, October 6
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Valery Rubakov: Solvay chair in physics 2009:<BR> Lectures on inflation
Wednesday, October 7
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, room 01.207
Summary: Marco Serone: Renormalization group in Lifshitz-type theories
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, room 01.209
Summary: François Dehouck: Why not a NUT story ?
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Valery Rubakov: Solvay chair in physics 2009:<BR> Lectures on inflation
Thursday, October 8
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Valery Rubakov: Solvay chair in physics 2009:<BR> Lectures on inflation
Wednesday, October 14
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Darya Krym: Half BPS Supergravity Solutions and Superalgebras
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Jakob Palmkvist: M2-branes, triple systems and superalgebras
Wednesday, October 21
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Luis Alvarez-Gaumé: Comments on Supersymmetry and Inflation
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Valery Rubakov: Topology of gauge fields and anomalous baryon number non-conservation
Wednesday, October 28
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, room 05.34
Summary: Alice Bernamonti: Multi-Trace Deformations of AdS/CFT and Spherical D-branes
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, room 06.32
Summary: Jelle Hartong: Tensor Hierarchies and Supergravities
Wednesday, November 4
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Paul Smyth: Spontaneous partial supersymmetry breaking in supergravity
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Cristina Timirgaziu: Moduli fixing in asymmetric heterotic orbifold
Wednesday, November 18
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Pau Figueras: Instabilities and new phases of higher-dimensional rotating black holes
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Silvia Penati: N=2 Chern-Simons matter theories: RG flows and IR behavior
Wednesday, November 25
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, room 05.34
Summary: Johanna Erdmenger: A flavour superconductor from string theory
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, room 06.32
Summary: Marco Billò: Stringy instanton calculus
Wednesday, December 2
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Sara Pasquetti: Large N duality beyond the genus expansion
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Andy O'Bannon: Holographic Flavor Transport
Wednesday, December 9
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, room 05.34
Summary: Joan Simon: Quantum aspects of black holes
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, room 06.32
Summary: Daniel Elander: A light scalar from walking solutions in gauge-string duality
Wednesday, December 16
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Jan Pieter van der Schaar: Non-Gaussian constraints on excited states in effective field theories of inflation
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: VUB/ULB, Campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor, Salle Solvay
Summary: Francesco Benini: M5-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces