Archive of IAS Physics Group Meetings

Apr
02
2008

Physics Group Meeting

Stable Islands in the Landscape
Korneel van den Broek
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library
We will consider stability in the string theory landscape. A survey over several classes of flux vacua with different characteristics indicates that the vast majority of flux vacua with small cosmological constant are unstable to rapid decay to a...
Mar
26
2008

Physics Group Meeting

Vacuum States of N = 4 SYM on T^3 and S-duality
Mans Henningson
1:30pm|Bloomberg Physics Library
Non-abelian maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on a flat spatial three-torus has an intricate structure of normalizable zero-energy states, characterized by their values of the discrete abelian electric and magnetic 't Hooft fluxes, and by...
Mar
19
2008

Physics Group Meeting

Amplitudes in Gravity and Yang-Mills
N. Emil Bjerrum-Bohr
1:00pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library
Mar
05
2008

Physics Group Meeting

Preparing for the First New Physics at the LHC
Philip Schuster/Natalia Toro
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library
Jan
09
2008

Physics Group Meeting

Informal Discussion - Suggested Readings: E. Silverstein, "Simpe De Sitter Solutions," arXiv:0712.1196 and Michael Dine, Guido Festuccia, Alexander Morisse, Korneel van den Broek, "Metastable Domains of the Landscape", arXiv:0712.1397
Brian Wecht
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library
Nov
21
2007

Physics Group Meeting

Informal Discussion - Suggested Reading hep-th/0611108, arXiv:0711.0955
Discussion Leader: Anirban Basu
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library
J. Bagger and N. Lambert, "Modeling Multiple M2's", hep-th/0611108. J. Bagger and N. Lambert, "Gauge Symmetry and Supersymmetry of Multiple M2-Branes", arXiv:0711.0955.
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