String Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminars

Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR

The String Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminars are held on Monday and Thursdays at 4:00 PM in the Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (A304).

2015
Oct 5	Suvrat Raju	ICTS-TIFR	TBA
Jul 23 (at 11:30 a.m.)	Anshuman Maharana	HRI, Allahabad	Inflation, CMB and Moduli
Jul 20 (at 11:30 a.m.)	R. Loganayagam	AS, Princeton	Chern-Simon terms, Noether Charge and Entanglement entropy
Jul 13	Abhijit Rudra	Durham University	Type I/Heterotic Duality in M-theory
Jul 10 (at 11:00 a.m.	Abhijit Gadde	IAS, Princeton	No-perturbative beta function in 2d supersymmetric QCD
Jul 9 (at 11:30 a.m.	R. Loganayagam	IAS, Princeton	A topological gauge theory for the entropy current
Jun 30	K. Narayan	Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai	de Sitter Space, Extremal Surfaces and the Wavefunction of the Universe
Jun 8	Sachin Jain	Cornell University	Causality constraints from CFT
Jun 4	Karthik Inbasekar	TIFR	$2\to 2$ scattering in supersymmetric matter Chern-Simons theories at large N
May 18	Prasanta Tripathy	IIT, Madras	Geroch Group in Einstein Spaces
May 5	Bidisha Chakrabarty	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Geroch Group Description of Black Holes
Apr 30	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	A membrane paradigm in large D
Apr 21	P. Ramadevi	IIT Bombay	Knots, homologies and A-polynomials
Apr 13	Bhabani Prasad Mandal	BHU, Varanasi	Generalized BRST transformations
Mar 5	M. Sivakumar	Univ. of Hyderabad	Higher spin theories: From Dirac to Vasiliev
Feb 24	Abhijit Gadde	IAS, Princeton	Exact Solutions of 2d Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
Feb 9	R. Loganayagam	IAS, Princeton	Fluids : Effective theory and Schwinger-Keldysh
Feb 5	R. Loganayagam	IAS, Princeton	Entropy current and Eightfold way
Feb 4	Gautam Mandal	TIFR	Thermalization with chemical potentials, and higher spin black holes
Feb 2	Mukund Rangamani	Durham University	Holographic entanglement & constraints on gravitational dynamics
Jan 30	Mukund Rangamani	Durham University	Permutation orbifolds and holography
Jan 22	Sandip Trivedi	TIFR	Entanglement entropy for gauge theories
2014
Nov 13	Massimo Taronna	Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Golm, Germany	From Higher Spins to Strings: A Constructive Approach
Nov 7	Somyadip Thakur	TIFR	Logarithmic Corrections to Twisted Indices from the Quantum Entropy Function
Oct 16	Oleg Evnin	Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok	Renormalization group, secular term resummation and AdS (in)stability
Oct 14	Arunabha Saha	TIFR	Phase Structure of Higher Spin Black Holes
Sep 15	Shubho Roy	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Resolution of Cosmological Singularities in Higher Spin Gravity
Sep 11	Shamik Banerjee	IPMU, Univ. of Tokyo	Dilaton Effective Action and Entanglement Entropy
Aug 25	Sujay Ashok	The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Elliptic genera of non-compact CFTs
Aug 11	Arnab Rudra	Cambridge Univ.	Some computations using Off-shell (super)string theory [Part 2]
Aug 8	Arnab Rudra	Cambridge Univ.	Some computations using Off-shell (super)string theory
Jun 17	Rajesh Gopakumar	HRI	From Higher Spins to Strings
Mar 31	Sandip Trivedi	TIFR	More on Theoretical Implications of BICEP-2
Mar 19	Aninda Sinha	IISc, Bangalore	Holographic stress tensor in higher derivative gravity
Feb 11	Surjeet Rajendran	Stanford University	Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment
2013
Dec 17	Ashoke Sen	HRI, Allahabad	Off-shell string theory
Nov 28	Mansi Dhuria	IIT Roorkee	Aspects of D3/D7 mu-split supersymmetry
Nov 25	Sumit Das	Univrsity of Kentucky	The Hologram of a Quantum Quench
Oct 3	Tomohisa Takimi	Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	Phase structure of the Chern-Simons matter theory on S^2 times S^1
Jun 20	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	Chern Simons Theories with fundamental matter and their bulk duals
Jun 19	Rakibur Rehman	Universite Libre de Bruxelles	Holographic Constraints On A Vector Boson
Jun 17	Matthew Headrick	Brandeis Univ.	Are quantum field theories characterized by their entanglement entropies?
Jun 13	Arjun Bagchi	Univ. of Edinburgh	Holographic Adventures in 3d Flat Space
Apr 29	Pawel Caputa	WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa	Correlators with Giant Gravitons
Apr 11	Rudranil Basu	S. N. Bose National Centre For Basic Sciences, Kolkata	Consistent dS_3 Quantum Gravity: Probing Through Lens Spaces and holographic aspects.
Feb 25	Oleg Evnin	Chulalongkorn University, Thailand	Quantum back reaction in string theory
Jan 17	Takeshi Morita	KEK, Japan	Quantum Quench in Matrix Models: Dynamical Phase Transitions, Equilibration and Emergence of Generalized Gibbs Ensemble
Jan 10	Xenia de la Ossa	Oxford University	Moduli space of manifolds with an SU(3) structure in heterotic string compactifications
Jan 4	Xi Yin	Harvard University	Low Temperature Expansion of Supersymmetric (Matrix) Quantum Mechanics
Jan 3	Hong Liu	MIT	Holographic vortex liquids and superfluid turbulence
2012
Dec 24	Chi-Ming Chang	Harvard University	W_N minimal model and its Gravity dual
Dec 14	Borun Chowdhury	University of Amsterdam	Is Alice burning, fuzzing or merely falling?
Oct 29	Arnab Kundu	The University of Texas at Austin	Dynamics of Fundamental Flavours and Holographic Duals of Large N Gauge Theories
Oct 22	Justin David	Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc, Bangalore	Sum rules and three point functions
Aug 30	Ashoke Sen	HRI, Allahabad	Black Holes to Quivers (Video Conference talk)
Sep 17	S. Prem Kumar	Swansea University, UK	Thermodynamics of 3d higher spin black holes
Aug 16	Takehiro Azuma	Setsunan University	Monte Carlo studies of the rotational symmetry breaking in dimensionally reduced matrix models
Aug 16	Sara Pasquetti	Queen Mary College, London	Holomorphic blocks in 3d
Aug 14	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	Higher Spins from Strings
Aug 6	Sumit Das	Univ. of Kentucky	Large-N Collective Fields and Holography : Sp(N) Models
Jul 31	Mukund Rangamani	Durham University, UK	Causal holographic information
Jul 30	Laurent Baulieu	LPTHE Paris and CERN	Minimizing gauge-functional for 2-d gravity and string theory
Jul 27	Hiroyuki Kitamoto	KEK, Japan	Quantum infra-red effects in de Sitter space
July 6	Suvrat Raju	Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	An Infalling Observer in AdS/CFT
May 14	Blaise Gouteraux	Univ. of Paris	Einstein-(Maxwell)-Dilaton theories: holographic applications and generalised dimensional reduction
Apr 16	Rishi Khatri	Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Munich	Bose-Einstein condensation of CMB and damping of sound waves in the early Universe ("State of the Universe" seminar series)
Mar 26	Bogdan Stefanski	City University, London	Integrability and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence
Mar 22	Subir Sarkar	Oxford University	ISW imprint of Cosmic Superstructures: A Problem for Lambda CDM
Mar 5	Nilanjan Sircar	TIFR	Bianchi Attractors
Mar 1	Atish Dabholkar	CNRS/University of Paris V	Localization and Quantum Entropy of Black Holes
Feb 23	Surjeet Rajendran	Stanford University	A Simple Harmonic Universe
Feb 20	Nabamita Banerjee	ITF, Utrecht	Constraints on Fluid Dynamics from Equilibrium Partition Function
Jan 23	Nabamita Banerjee	ITF, Utrecht	Moduli and electromagnetic black brane holography
Jan 19	Subir Sachdev	Harvard University, USA	Compressible quantum liquids: field theory versus holography (Joint STMP - Random Interactions seminar)
Jan 13	Suvrat Raju	HRI, Allahabad	Four Point Functions of the Stress Tensor and Conserved Currents in AdS_4/CFT_3
Jan 12	Suvrat Raju	HRI, Allahabad	Flat Space S-Matrix Elements from AdS Correlators
Jan 5	Abhijit Gadde	Stony Brook University, USA	SCFTs and Macdonald Polynomials
Jan 2	Amin A. Nizami	Univ. of Cambridge, UK	Towards de Sitter solutions in supergravity
2011
Dec 28	Takehiro Azuma	Setsunan University	Monte Carlo studies of the phase transition of finite-temperature large-N gauge theory in 0+1 dimension with a large number of adjoints
Dec 22	Miranda Cheng	Harvard Univ.	String Theory and the Moonshine Program
Dec 1	Anshuman Maharana	Cambridge Univ.	Symmetry Breaking in Local Model Building
Nov 18	Joris Raeymaekers	(Inst. of Physics of the ASCR, Prague, Czech)	Conical Defects in Higher Spin Theories
Nov 3	Harvendra Singh	SINP, Kolkata	5D Super-Yang-Mills and M5-branes
Oct 19	Borun Chowdhury	Utrecht University	Moulting Black Holes (SUSY and non SUSY)
Oct 10	Danie Elander	TIFR	Holographic Wilsonian flows and emergent fermions in extremal charged black holes
Oct 3	Tomohisa Takimi	TIFR	Studies of an M5-brane through the BLG model
Sep 27	R. Loganayagam	Harvard Univ.	The CFT dual of the AdS Dirichlet problem
Aug 1	Yoske Sumitomo	TIFR	Toward Dark Energy in String Theory
Jul 25	Prasanta Tripathy	IIT Madras	Non-supersymmetric quantum attractors in sting theory
Jul 26	Abhijit Gadde	State University of New York at Stony Brook	4d Index, 3d partition function and 2d q-Yang Mills
Jul 18	Abhijit Gadde	State University of New York at Stony Brook	S duality, Superconformal Index and 2d Topological QFT
Jul 15	Archisman Ghosh	University of Kentucky	Chaotic solutions in String Theory
Jul 7	Zheng Sun	TIFR	Low energy supersymmetry from R-symmetries
May 30	Satoshi Nawata	TIFR	On relation between 4d superconformal indices and lower-dimensional partition functions
May 2	Chrysostomos Kalousios	Humboldt University, Berlin	Dressed magnons in symmetric spaces and dressed Wilson loops on S^2
Apr 25	S. Prem Kumar	Swansea Univ., U.K.	Strongly coupled dense matter and hedgehog black holes
Apr 18	Joao Gomes	Univ. of Paris, France	Exact holography for small black holes
Apr 11	Satoshi Nawata	TIFR	Localization of N=4 SCFT on S^1 x S^3 and Index
Mar 17	Xenia de la Ossa	Oxford University	On The Geometry of Heterotic String Compactifications
Feb 21	Jesper Grimstrup	Niels Bohr Institute	Coupling fermions to quantum gravity via spectral triples
Feb 17	Sanjit Mitra	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	Planck Mission: Goals, Early Results and Analysis Challenges
Feb 14	Kimyeong Lee	KIAS, Seoul	M2 and M5 branes
Feb 3	Jay Armas	Niels Bohr Institute	Blackfolds
Jan 31	Borun D. Chowdhury	The University of Amsterdam	Turning on interactions in the D1D5 CFT
Jan 17	Holger Nielsen	Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark	String Field Theory - Liberating Right and Left Movers
Jan 13	Ipsita Mandal	HRI, Allahabad	Supersymmetry, Localization and Quantum Entropy Function
2010
Dec 27	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Unravelling the novel Higgs mechanism
Dec 3	Sameer Murthy	LPTHE, Paris	Infra red effects in de Sitter space
Nov 29	Daniel Elander	TIFR	Glueball Spectra from Gauge-Gravity Duality
Oct 15	Gautam Mandal	TIFR	Holographic RG flows
Aug 2	Sumit Das	Univ. of Kentucky	Towards Quantum Quench in ADS/CFT
Jul 19	Satoshi Nawata	TIFR	Nekrasov partition function and Pestun's Localization formula II
Jul 16	Satoshi Nawata	TIFR	Nekrasov partition function and Pestun's Localization formula I
Jul 14	K. Narayan	Chennai Mathematical Institute	Lifshitz spacetimes from AdS null and cosmological solutions
Jul 12	Takeshi Morita	TIFR	Thermodynamics of Large N Gauge Theories with Chemical Potentials in a 1/D Expansion
Jun 30	Samir Mathur	Ohio State University	Proof that Unitarity implies Fuzzballs
Jun 28	Mohit Randeria	The Ohio State University	Viscosity of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Jun 18	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	Quantum Black Holes, Wall Crossing, and Mock Modular Forms
Jun 10	Anirban Basu	IOP, Bhubaneswar	Higher derivative corrections in type IIB string theory
May 25	Satoshi Nawata	TIFR	Review on the virtue of defects in 4D gauge theories and 2D CFTs [arXiv:1003.1112]
May 14	Manavendra Mahato	TIFR	Thermodynamic bubble ansatz
Apr 30	Prithvi Narayan	TIFR	On the stability of Non-Supersymmetric AdS vacua
Apr 26	Sameer Murthy	LPTHE, France	Black hole degeneracy {\it is} an index (but which one?)
Apr 23	Sandip Trivedi	TIFR	Non-supersymmetric AdS Vacua in String Theory and Their Stability
Apr 19	Bogdan Stefanski	City College, London	Integrability, supercosets and AdS/CFT
Apr 9	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	Small Hairy Black Holes in Global AdS_5 \times S^5
Apr 1	Andrew Low	Queen Mary College, London	Worldvolume superalgebra of Nambu-Poisson M5-brane
Feb 26	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Review of "String scattering in flat space and a scaling limit of Yang-Mills correlators" by Okuda and Penedones
Feb 5	Shuichi Yokoyama	Univ. of Tokyo	A Monopole Index for N=4 Chern-Simons Theories
Feb 2	Zhang Sen	KEK, Japan	Quiver Chern-Simons Theories, D3-branes and Lorentzian Lie 3-algebras
Feb 1	Seok Kim	Seoul National University	Indices for superconformal Chern-Simons theories
Jan 29	Shoichi Kawamoto	National Taiwan Normal University	Holographic Anyons in the ABJM theory
Jan 22	Laurence Yaffe	University of Washington	Large N Volume Independence in Confining and Conformal Theories
Jan 22	Ayan Mukhopadhyay	HRI, Allahabad	Universal Phenomena in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories and Gravity
2009
Dec 17	Rituparno Goswami	University of Cape Town	Black Holes in Fourth Order Gravity
Dec 11	Michael Abbott	TIFR	Giant Magnons for SYM and ABJM Theories
Dec 10	Arjun Bagchi	HRI, Allahabad	The non-relativistic limit of AdS/CFT
Nov 16	Yoske Sumitomo	TIFR	Non-SUSY infrared perturbations to the warped deformed conifold and Holographic Gauge Mediation
Nov 13	K. Madhu	TIFR	Review of the papers by V.Pestun and S.Giombi Wilson, 't Hooft loop correlators of N=4 SYM from bosonic 2d YM and matrix models (arXiv:0906.1572, arXiv:0909.4272)
Nov 6	Takeshi Morita	TIFR	One dimensional Large-N gauge theory in a 1/D expansion
Oct 26	Mathew Headrick	Brandies Univ.	Calabi-Yau Metrics for Dummies
Oct 23	Joris Raeymaekers	IOP, Prague	Godel space from wrapped M2-branes
Oct 19	Satoshi Nawata	TIFR	LHC Phenomenology for String Hunters
Sep 25	Zheng Sun	TIFR	SUSY breaking and R-symmetry breaking in O'Raifeartaigh Models
Sep 24	K. Narayan	CMI, Chennai	Null Cosmological Singularities and Free Strings
Sep 22	Partha Mukhopadhyay	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	A phase-space operator method for string worldsheet theory and general covariance
Sep 14	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Review of "Liouville Correlation Functions from Four Dimensional Gauge Theories" by Alday, Gaiotto and Tachikawa' (arXiv:0906.3219)
Aug 31	K. Madhu	TIFR	Review of `Charges of Monopole operators in Chern-Simons Yang-Mills theory (arXiv: 0906.3008 by Benna, Klebanov & Klose)
Aug 28	Archisman Ghosh	University of Kentucky	Slowly varying dilaton cosmologies and their field theory duals
Jul 20	Sameer Murthy	LPTHE, Universit de Paris	Non-perturbative contributions to black hole entropy
Jul 17	Borun D. Chowdhury	TIFR	The 'Recoupling' of AdS/CFT to flat space and Emission from D1D5 system
Jul 14	K. Madhu	TIFR	Aspects of Monopole operators in ABJM
Jun 19	Costis Papageorgakis	TIFR	The fuzzy S^2 structure of M2-M5 systems in ABJM
June 16	Gautam Mandal	TIFR	Asymptotically free four-fermi theory in 4 dimensions at the z=3 Lifshitz-like fixed point
June 15	Rajesh Gopakumar	HRI, Allahabad	The Heat Kernel on AdS_3 and its Applications
May 22	Suvrat Raju	HRI, Allahabad	Horava's theory of gravity and its discontents
Apr 16	Anindya Mukherjee	Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada	Aspects of holographic superconductors
Apr 8	Sayantani Bhattacharyya	TIFR	Weak Field Black Hole Formation in Asymptotically AdS Spacetimes
Mar 30	Suvrat Raju	HRI, Allahabad	S-matrix in Twistor Space
Mar 6	Subodh Patil	Humboldt University Berlin	An IR modification to gravity from the running of G_N, and the cosmological constant problem
Jan 30	Borun Chowdhury	TIFR	Radiation from the Non-extremal fuzzball
Jan 7	Aninda Sinha	Perimeter Institute	The viscosity bound in string theory
Jan 9	Sameer Murthy	LPTHE, Paris	Corrections to the entropy of 5d black holes
2008
Dec 19	Subhaneil Lahiri	Harvard University	A review of "Black holes as lumps of fluid" by Caldarelli et al.
Dec. 1	Bartek Czech	(Univ. of Pennsylvania)	Quiver Topology and RG Dynamics
Oct 17	Bartek Czech	Univ. of Pennsylvania)	Statistics of Black Hole Microstates
Sep 26	Constantinos Papageorgakis	TIFR	Towards a proof of Olive-Montonen Duality via multiple M2s
Sep 15	Takeshi Morita	TIFR	Small AdS black holes from SYM
May 23	Costis Papageorgakisr	TIFR	Thoughts on Bagger-Lambert
May 26	Costis Papageorgakisr	TIFR	Thoughts on Bagger-Lambert (Part II)
Apr 11	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	Counting all dyons in N=4 string theory
Apr 11	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Multiple Membranes
Mar 26	Takehiro Azuma	TIFR	Monte Carlo studies of the spontaneous rotational symmetry breaking in simplified IKKT matrix models
Mar 25	Sandip Trivedi	TIFR	A Hologram for Cosmological Singularities (Part II)
Mar 24	Sandip Trivedi	TIFR	A Hologram for Cosmological Singularities
Mar 17	Piotr Surowka	Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)	What can we say about an expanding plasma?
Mar 14	Partha Nag	TIFR	Quark mass and chiral symmetry breaking in modified Sakai-Sugimoto model
Mar 10	Amitabh Virmani	UC Santa Barbara	Stress Tensor for Asymptotically Flat Gravity
Feb 25	Subodh Patil	Humboldt Univ., Berlin	UV/IR mixing and the CMB: Planck Scale physics in the Sky?
Feb 22	R. Loganayagam	TIFR	Conformal Hydrodynamics and Entropy Current
Feb 14 (Thu)	Tom Brown	Queen Mary College, London	Operator mixing in N=4 SYM and U(N)
Feb 12 (Tue)	Suvankar Datta	HRI, Allahabad	Free Fermions and Thermal AdS/CFT
Feb 7 (Thursday)	Madhu Kallingalthodi	Chennai Mathematical Institute	Perturbative study of Leigh-Strassler deformations of N=3 supersymmetric Yang-Mills
Feb 4	Jyotirmoy Bhattacharyya	TIFR	Indices for Superconformal Field Theories in 3,5 and 6 Dimensions
Jan 21	Neil Copland	Queen Mary College, London	Fuzzy Funnels
2007
Dec 31	Aniket Basu	TIFR	Some Speculations About Critical Exponents
Nov 26	Takeshi Morita	TIFR	Hawking Radiation and Higher-spin Current in Near Horizon Conformal Field Theory
Nov 5	Manavendra Mahato	TIFR	Thermal properties of black holes in Cascading theories
Oct 26	Matthew Headrick	Stanford University	Hedgehog black holes and the deconfinement transition
Oct 11	Neil Lambert	King's College London	Modelling Multiple M2-branes
Aug 31	Kevin Goldstein	TIFR	A review of `On the gravitational stability of D1-D5-P black holes' by Vitor Cardoso, Oscar J.C. Dias, Robert C. Myers (http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3406)
Aug 24	Anshuman Maharana	UCSB	Effective Actions in IIB Flux Compactifications
Aug 13	Swarnendu Sarkar	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Phase transitions with alpha' corrections
Jul 27	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Dyon Death Eaters
Jul 23	Takehiro Azuma	TIFR	Review of "Non-latticesimulation for supersymmetric gauge theories in one dimension (arXiv:0706.1647) by Masanori Hanada, Jun Nishimura and Shingo Takeuchi"
Jul 20	Suresh Nampuri	TIFR	Aspects of dyon counting
Jul 16	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	TBA
May 4	Takehiro Azuma	TIFR	Discussion on paper "Exact fuzzy sphere thermodynamics in matrix quantum mechanics" arXiv:0704.3183 by Naoyuki Kawahara, Jun Nishimura and Shingo Takeuchi
Apr 30	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	Exact Chiral Ring of AdS3/CFT2
Apr 20	Konstantinos Zoubos	Queen Mary, Univ. of London	MHV Rules and Pure Yang-Mills at One Loop
Apr 5	Kevin Goldstein	TIFR	Black hole deconstruction (hep-th/0703252)
Mar 26	T.P. Singh	TIFR	Quantum mechanics without classical spacetime: from theory to experiment (Part II)
Mar 23	Bobby Ezhuthachan	TIFR	Plasma balls/kinks as solitons of large N confining gauge theories
Mar 9	Niklas Beisert	Albert Einstein Institute, Germany	The S-Matrix of AdS/CFT
Mar 2	T.P. Singh	TIFR	Quantum mechanics without classical spacetime: from theory to experiment
Feb 23	Takeshi Morita	KEK Accelerator Laboratory, Japan	Higher-spin Currents and Thermal Flux from Hawking Radiation
Feb 19	Satoshi Iso	KEK Accelerator Laboratory, Japan	Hawking radiation and quantum anomalies at horizon
Feb 12	Costis Papageorgakis	TIFR	Fuzzy spheres, matrix D-branes and the nonabelian DBI: II
Feb 9	Sangmin Lee	Seoul National University	Toric AdS4/CFT3 dual pairs and Crystal Lattices
Feb 7	Carlo Albert	ETH Zurich	Batalin-Vilkovisky Gauge Fixing, Homogeneous Spaces and Chern-Simons Theory
Feb 7	Maulik Parikh	IUCAA, Pune	Mach's Holographic Principle
Jan 22	Constantinos Papageorgakis	TIFR	Fuzzy spheres, matrix D-branes and the nonabelian DBI
2006
Dec 7	Joris Raeymaekers	University of Tokyo	Fuzzy (p,q) strings
Dec 4	Sudarshan Ananth	Albert Einstein Inst., Postdam	Deformations of N=4 Yang-Mills and ultra-violet finiteness
Nov 30	Suresh Nampuri	TIFR	Counting dyons, Borcherds lift and string webs
Nov 6	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	Black Holes, Modular Forms, and Genus-two Worldsheets (Part II)
Nov 3	Takehiro Azuma	TIFR	Monte Carlo studies of the spontaneous rotational symmetry breaking in a matrix model with the complex action
Oct 27	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	Black Holes, Modular Forms, and Genus-two Worldsheets
Oct 9	Kevin Goldstein	TIFR	Rotating Attractors
Oct 6	K. Narayan	TIFR	Cosmologies with null Big-Bang singularities and their gauge theory duals [II]
Oct 3	K. Narayan	TIFR	Cosmologies with null Big-Bang singularities and their gauge theory duals [I]
Sep 18	Michael Peskin	SLAC, USA	A particle physicist's view of Dark Matter
Sep 14	Joe Polchinski	KITP, Santa Barbara	AdS/CFT and Wormholes
Aug 18	Aseem Paranjape	TIFR	Thermodynamic Route to Field Equations in Lanczos-Lovelock Gravity
Aug 4	Ashoke Sen	HRI, Allhabad	Dyon Spectrum in N=4 Supersymmetric String Theories
Jul 24	Gautam Mandal	TIFR	Counting bulk configurations
Jul 21	Seok Kim	KIAS, Seoul	Comments on 1/16-BPS objects in $AdS_5 \times S^5$
Jul 7	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	Supersymmetric States in $N=4$ Yang Mills from Giant Gravitons
Jul 4	Matthew A. Buican	Princeton Univ.	Effective Field Theory of a D3-brane Probing a Compactified del Pezzo Singularity
Jun 30	Rajesh Gopakumar	HRI, Allahabad	Open-Closed String Duality and Strebel Differentials
Jun 29	Rajesh Gopakumar	HRI, Allahabad	On Wald's Entropy in AdS Spaces
Jun 16	Rukmani Dey	HRI, Allahabad	Geometric quantization of the hyperKahler structure in the Hitchin system and the vortex moduli space
Jun 9	Rajesh Gopakumar	HRI, Allahabad	From spacetime to worldsheet: four point correlators (Part II)
Jun 7	Rajesh Gopakumar	HRI, Allahabad	From spacetime to worldsheet: four point correlators (Part I)
May 22	Nemani V Suryanarayana	Perimeter Institute	Single-Charge Extremal Small Black Holes
May 19	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	Spectrum of Dyons in N=4 compactifications
May 15	Anirban Basu	IAS, Princeton	A four-point function in the AdS_5/CFT_4 Correspondence
May 12	Tatsuya Tokunaga	YITP	String Theories on Supermanifolds
May 8	Kyriakos Papadodimas	Harvard University	Report on the paper `Dynamical SUSY in Meta-Stable Vacua' by K. Intriligator, N. Seiberg, D. Shih, hep-th/0602239
May 5	Pallab Basu	TIFR	Black hole string transition of small Swarzschild black hole in $AdS_5 \times S^5$ and Critical Unitary Matrix models (Part II)
May 1	Joseph Marsano	Harvard University	S-Matrix of the N=4 Spin Chain
Apr 28	Pallab Basu	TIFR	Black hole string transition of small Swarzschild black hole in $AdS_5 \times S^5$ and Critical Unitary Matrix models
Apr 21	Masaki Shigemori	Caltech	How a black hole emerges from a pure state
Apr 17	Ugo Bruzzo	SISSA, Trieste, Italy	Localization on instanton moduli space and topological field theory
Apr 10	Justin Raj David	HRI, Allahabad	Towards a string bit formulation of N=4 Super Yang-Mills (Part II)
Apr 7	Justin Raj David	HRI, Allahabad	Towards a string bit formulation of N=4 Super Yang-Mills (Part I)
Mar 31	Arvind Rajaraman	University of California, Irvin	The eight derivative action of M-theory
Mar 30	Bobby Ezhuthachan	TIFR	An alternate interpretation of the "missing branes" in non-susy orbifolds of $C^{2}$ (Parti II)
Mar 23	Subodh Patil	McGill University	String Cosmology in the Hagedorn Phase: Towards an Alternative to Inflation
Mar 17	Bobby Ezhuthachan	TIFR	An alternate interpretation of the "missing branes" in non-susy orbifolds of $C^{2}$
Mar 10	Ali Reza Tavanfar	IPM, Tehran, Iran	Partition function of non-supersymmetric black holes in the supergravity limit (ref.: hep-th/0602292)
Feb 24	Ari Pakman	TIFR	Liouville theory without an action (Part II)
Feb 20	Ari Pakman	TIFR	Liouville theory without an action
Feb 17	Dumitru Astefanesei	HRI, Allahabad	Boundary Black Holes in ADS/CFT
Feb 13	Davide Gaiotto	Harvard Univ.	Black Hole Microstates and Near-Horizon Geometry (Part II)
Feb 10	Davide Gaiotto	Harvard Univ.	Black Hole Microstates and Near-Horizon Geometry (Part I)
Feb 6	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	Supersymmetric States in $N=4$ Yang Mills on $S^3$ (Part II)
Jan 31	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	Supersymmetric States in $N=4$ Yang Mills on $S^3$
Jan 27	Rudra Pratap Jena	TIFR	A C-function for Non Supersymmetric Attractors
Jan 13	Joao Baptista	DAMTP, Cambridge	On Vortex Moduli Spaces
Jan 12	Tirthobir Biswas	McGill University	Bouncing universes in string-inspired gravity
Jan 9	Dileep Jatkar	HRI, Allahabad	Dyon Spectrum in CHL models
2005
Dec 19	Abhishek Agarwal	City College, City University, New York	New Integrable Systems From Giant Gravitons in N=4 SYM
Nov 29	Avinash Dhar	TIFR	Quantum mechanics of LLM geometries and bosonization of finite number of fermions
Nov 28	Gautam Mandal	TIFR	Quantum mechanics of half-BPS geometries
Nov 14	Swapna Mahapatra	Utkal University	Exploring the relation between four and five dimensional supersymmetric solutions
Sep 26	Rudra Pratap Jena	TIFR	Non-susy attractors-II
Sep 19	Kevin Goldstein	TIFR	Non-Supersymmetric Attractors I
Sep 5	Norihiro Iizuka	TIFR	A Stringy-Small Black Ring
Aug 8	Sudarshan Ananth	University of Florida	Maximally Supersymmetric Theories in Light-Cone Superspace
Jul 22	Bobby Ezhuthachan	The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	D-branes on Landau-Ginzburg Orbifolds and Calabi-Yau spaces
May 2	Rajesh Gopakumar	HRI, Allahabad	Baby Universes in String Theory
May 9	Rajesh Gopakumar	HRI, Allahabad	From Free Fields to AdS
Apr 25	Sujay Ashok	Rutgers University	D-Branes in Non-critical Strings and N=1 Super Yang-Mills
Mar 30	Spenta Wadia	TIFR	AdS_5 blackholes, finite temperative gauge theory and 1/N expansion
Mar 21	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	Exact and Asymptotic Degeneracies of Small Black Holes
Mar 7	Kevin Goldstein	TIFR	de Siter space, Alpha-vacua and interacting QFT
Jan 17	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	High Energy YM scattering from the bulk
Jan 7	Maulik Parikh	Columbia University	De Sitter's Dual: Finite Fuzzy Fermionic Fock Space
2004
Dec 14	Liam McAllister	Stanford University	Open String Corrections to D-brane Dynamics
Dec 7	Andrew Strominger	Harvard University	Superconformal Black Holes
Nov 22	K. Narayan	TIFR	Localized tachyons and conifold flip transitions in C^3/Z_N
Nov 9	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Introduction to Topological Strings
Nov 8	Jnan Maharana	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Nonlocal Conserved Currents for NSR String in AdS_3 X S_3
Oct 26	Aalok Mishra	IIT Roorkee	Flux Vacua Statistics for Two-Parameter Calabi-Yau's
Sep 14	Nemani V Suryanarayana	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada	A deformation of $AdS_5\times S^5$
Aug 17	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Perturbation Series and Nonperturbative Effects in Noncritical String Theory
Jun 15	K.P. Yogendran	HRI, Allahabad	D branes in the 2D Lorentzian black hole
May 6	Swapna Mahapatra	Utkal University	de Sitter vacua from N=2 gauged supergravity
May 5	Jnan Maharana	IOP Bhubaneshwar	Symmetries of Axion-dilaton String Cosmology
Apr 5	Nori Iizuka	TIFR	An Inflationary Model in String Theory
Mar 22	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space (Part III)
Mar 19	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space (Part II)
Mar 15	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space (Part I)
Feb 17	Subodh Patil	Brown University	Radion Stabilization by Stringy Effects in GR and Dilaton Gravity
Jan 27	Bhabani Prasad Mandal	Maulana Azad College Calcutta	Generalized BRST and Coulomb gauge problems
Jan 13	Sameer Murthy	Princeton University	Non-critical superstrings, 2-d black holes and the supersymmetric matrix model
2003
Nov 25	Lars Goerlich	TIFR	N=1 and non-supersymmetric open string theories in six and four space-time dimensions
Nov 11	T. Jayaraman	TIFR and IMSc, Chennai	Review of the paper: Quantum Calabi-Yau and Classical Crystals by Okounkov, Reshetikhin and Vafa.
Nov 4	Sandip P. Trivedi	TIFR	Attempts at Inflation in String Theory
Sep 25	Ashoke Sen	HRI and TIFR	Implications of open-closed string duality
Sep 16	Norihiro Iizuka	TIFR	Aspects of holography: D0-branes, membranes and Matrix model on pp-waves
Sep 9	Shahrokh Parvizi	Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics N=2 SYM theories from Dijkgraaf-Vafa Matrix Model
Aug 12	Sudhakar Panda	HRI, Allahabad	The deSitter solution in gauged N=4 Supergravity model
Jul 25	Jarah Evslin	INFN, Italy	Topology Change from T-Duality
Jul 22	Chethan Gowdigere	University of Southern California	Supersymmetric solutions with fluxes using "algebraic" killing spinors
Jun 12	Gautam Mandal	TIFR	c=1 matrix model and the dynamics of unstable D-branes (Part II)
Jun 9	Gautam Mandal	TIFR	c=1 matrix model and the dynamics of unstable D-branes
June 3	Sumit Das	University of Kentucky	Collectove Field Theories and Holography (Part II)
May 27	Sumit Das	University of Kentucky	Collectove Field Theories and Holography
May 20	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	C=1 String Theory and the Conifold Singularity : II
May 13	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	C=1 String Theory and the Conifold Singularity : I
Apr 29	Avinash Dhar	TIFR	String bits in small radius AdS and weakly coupled N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory
Apr 21	Matthew Headrick	TIFR	The Busso Bound
Mar 25	Allan Adams	TIFR	Searching for Lost Susy
Feb 10 Feb 11	Sandip Trivedi	TIFR	deSitter Vacua in String theory
Feb 4	Sanjay	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Aspects of Gauge/String Duality
Jan 28	Shesansu Sekhar Pal	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Nonsingular cosmologies from branes
Jan 21	Ryu Sasaki	Yukawa Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University	Calogero-Moser models: integrability for all root systems
2002
Dec 27	Nathan Berkovits	Sao Paulo Univ., Brazil	Covariant Quantization of the Super Particle
Dec 26	Akikazu Hashimoto	IAS, Princeton	Holography and String Dynamics in Time-dependent Backgrounds
Nov 26	Alok Kumar	Inst. of Physics, Bhubaneswar	D-Branes in PP-wave background
Oct 22	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Strings on pp-wave spacetimes and massive mirror symmetry
Sep 23	Debashis Ghoshal	HRI, Allahabad	Matrix Strings from PP-wave?
Sep 17	Justin R. David	University of California at Santa Barbara	Unstable magnetic fluxes in heterotic string theory (2 lectures)
Sep 16	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	Duality twists, Fluxes and Orbifolds
Aug 27	Shiraz Minwalla	Harvard University	Spacetime Energy Loss along Renormalisation Group Flow
Aug 13	Sandip Trivedi	TIFR	IIB string theory with fluxes: an example
Jul 29	Rajesh Gopakumar	H. R. I. Allahabad/I. A. S. Princeton	Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Matrix Models (three lectures)
Jul 23	K. Narain	ICTP	PP wave limit for D5-D1 systems and the dual symmetric product CFT
Jun 25	Prasanta Kumar Tripathy	TIFR	Stable de Sitter vacua from gauged supergravity
Jun 18	Spenta R. Wadia	TIFR	Semiclassical String Theory in Anti-deSitter Space
Jun 4	Anindya Biswas	TIFR	D5 brane in AdS and PP-wave backrgounds
May 21	Joris Raeymaekers	TIFR	Rolling Tachyons
May 14	V. Ramanan	TIFR	Strings on Time-dependent Orbifold backgrounds
Apr 16	Spenta Wadia	TIFR	The Gauge-String Correspondence
Feb 26	Satish Joglekar	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur	How well do we understand Gauge Invariance?
Jan 10	Shiraz Minwalla	Harvard University	href="http://www.theory.tifr.res.in/local/stmp/shiraz/" Tachyon Condensation on Twisted Circles II
Jan 8	Shiraz Minwalla	Harvard University	href="http://www.theory.tifr.res.in/local/stmp/shiraz/" Tachyon Condensation on Twisted Circles
2001
Oct 30	Joris Raeymaekers	TIFR	Some aspects of tachyon condensation in string field theory
Oct 18	Rajesh Gopakumar	Harvard University	Open-Closed String Correspondence-VI
Oct 16	Rajesh Gopakumar	Harvard University	Open-Closed String Correspondence-V
Oct 11	Rajesh Gopakumar	Harvard University	Open-Closed String Correspondence-IV
Oct 9	Rajesh Gopakumar	Harvard University	Open-Closed String Correspondence-III
Oct 4	Rajesh Gopakumar	Harvard University	Open-Closed String Correspondence-II
Oct 1	Rajesh Gopakumar	Harvard University	Open-Closed String Correspondence-I
Sep 25	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	On Condensation of Closed String Tachyons
Sep 24	Rajesh Gopakumar	Harvard University	Non-commutative Multi-solitons
Sep 17	Debashis Ghoshal	Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	Tachyon Condensation in NS-5 brane background
Sep 10	K. P. Yogendran	TIFR	Fuzzy 2-spheres and Topology Change in Matrix Models-II
Aug 21	K. P. Yogendran	TIFR	Fuzzy 2-spheres and Topology Change in Matrix Models
Aug 7	P. Ramadevi	Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai	Knots, Links, Three-Manifold Invariants from Chern-Simons Theory-II
Jul 31	P. Ramadevi	Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai	Knots, Links, Three-Manifold Invariants from Chern-Simons Theory
Jul 24	Shahrokh Parvizi	TIFR	Noncommutative Gauged WZW Models
Jul 17	Sudhakar Panda	Harish Chandra Research Institute	Assisted Inflation via Tachyon Condensation
Jul 16	Tapobrata Sarkar	TIFR	Linear Sigma Models and Disc Instantons-II
Jul 10	Tapobrata Sarkar	TIFR	Linear Sigma Models and Disc Instantons-I
Jul 3	Anindya K. Biswas	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Cardy-Verlinde formula on the Brane in presence of Stiff matter
Jul 2	Shiraz Minwalla	Harvard University	Fermionic Excitations of the Bosonic String
Jun 26	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Derivative Corrections from Noncommutativity