Seminar List 2015-2016

    First term.

  • 13th October - Nikolaos Tetradis, "Classical and Quantum Aspects of Higher-Derivative Scalar Theories."
  • 20th October - Fady Bishara, "Dark Matter & Continuous Flavor Symmetries."
  • 27th October - Siraj Khan, "TBA"
  • 3th November - Ivonne Zavala, "Mirror quintic vacua: hierarchies and inflation."
  • 10th November - Louis Gall, "Introduction to Kahler and Special Geometry."
  • 17th November - , "No Seminar Speaker"
  • 24th November - Glyn Harries , "Classification of Left-Right Symmetric Heterotic String Vacua."
  • 1st December - Benjamin Assel, "Partition function on Hopf surfaces and Casimir Energy"
  • 8th December - Thomas Mohaupt, "Hessian geometry and the holomorphic anomaly"
  • 15th December - James Unwin, "High Scale Supersymmetry and F-theory GUTs "
  • Second term.

  • 9th February - Panos Athnasopouls, "Heterotic free fermionic and symmetric toroidal orbifold models"
  • 16th February - Isabel Garcia Garcia, "Natural Scherk-Schwarz Theories of the Weak Scale"
  • 23rd February - Luigi Delle Rose, "Superconformal sum rules and the spectral density flow of the dilaton multiplet in N=1 theories"
  • 15th March - Toby Hall, "A survey of topological surface dynamics"
  • Third term.

  • 19th April - Alon Faraggi, "The 750GeV diphoton excess and extra Z' in heterotic--string models"
  • 26 April - Radu Tatar, "Knots and string theory"
  • 3rd May - Matthew Buican, "Conformal Manifolds in Four Dimensions and Chiral Algebras"
  • 10th May - Radu Tatar, "Knots and string theory"