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  • Curtis Callan
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Phenomenology Seminars

A series of informal seminars and discussions focusing on the interface between string theory, particle phenomenology, and cosmology.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005
12:45, Jadwin 343
Discussion: "A Standard Model from the E8 x E8 Heterotic Superstring" (hep-th/0502155)

Tuesday, December 6, 2005
12:30, Jadwin 343
Speaker: Paul Steinhardt (Princeton)
Title: "Thoughts about the Cosmological Constant"

Tuesday, January 31, 2006
1:30, Jadwin 343
Speaker: Volker Braun (University of Pennsylvania)
Topic: “A Standard Model from the Heterotic String”

Tuesday, February 7, 2006
12:30, Joe Henry Room (Pizza will be served)
Speaker: Mark Spradlin (IAS & Michigan)
Topic: "The String Landscape, Black Holes, and Gravity as the Weakest Force" (hep-th/0601001), and
"Bounds on masses of bulk fields in string compactifications" (hep-th/0601111).

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
12:30, Jadwin 343
Speaker: Herman Verlinde (Princeton)
Topic: “The LHC Olympics”

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
12:30, Jadwin 343
Speaker: Nissan Itzhaki (Princeton)
Topic: “Technical Naturalness and the Cosmological Constant”