Talks

**Talks:**
Apr 7 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Hirotaka Hayashi (HKIAS)** || **F-theory topics, part 1** ||  || http://20a.ust.hk/eng/calendar/index.html || http://ias.ust.hk/cosmo/ ||
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 * Thu, Feb 10 || 4:00 pm || IAS || **Yoske Sumitomo (TIFR)** || //** Axion Monodromy Quintessence **// || [[file:yoskesumitomo-feb2011.pdf]] ||
 * || 5:45 pm || IAS || **Edna Cheung (Nanjing)** || **Bound to bounce: a coupled scalar-tachyon model for a smooth cyclic universe** || Blackboard talk ||
 * Fri, Feb 11 || 4:00 pm || IAS || **Gang Xu (Cornell)** || //** Downward Spiral in D-brane Inflation(Part 1) **// || [[file:MultiField_Talk.pdf]] ||
 * Wed, Feb 16 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Dan Wohns (Cornell)** || **Resonance Tunneling in QFT: Superfluid Helium-3 Phase Transition** || [[file:IAS.pdf]] ||
 * Tue, Feb 22 || 5:00 pm || IAS || **Jinn-Ouk Gong (CERN)** || **Informal Discussion: Higgs Inflation** || Blackboard talk ||
 * Thu, Feb 24 || 3:00 pm || IAS || **Jinn-Ouk Gong (CERN)** || **A covariant approach to non-linear cosmological perturbations** || [[file:2011-02-24_HKUST-IAS.pdf]] ||
 * Tue, Mar 1 || 1:00 pm || IAS || **Pablo Soler (Madrid)** || **D-brane instanton effects from D-particle loops, Part I** || [[file:D-brane instantons.pdf]] ||
 * Wed, Mar 2 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Pablo Soler (Madrid)** || **D-brane instanton effects from D-particle loops, Part II** ||  ||
 * Mon, Mar 7 || 5:00 pm || IAS || **Fernando Marchesano (IFT-Madrid)** || **Instantons, Fluxes and Yukawas in F-theory** ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 9 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Koenraad Schalm (Leiden)** || **A new approach to strongly coupled fermions: quantum criticality and anti-de Sitter string theory** ||  ||
 * Mon, Mar 14 || 4:00 pm || IAS || **Paul McGuirk (UW Madison)** || **Warped open strings and their applications to (dual) models of supersymmetry breaking** || slides ||
 * Fri, Mar 18 || 2:30 pm || LTG* || **Gary Shiu (UW-Madison; HKIAS)** || **The promise of string cosmology** ||  ||
 * Mon, Mar 21 || 5:00pm || IAS || **Pablo Soler (Madrid)** || **Informal discussion: Topological strings Part 1** || scanned notes [[file:DOC110321.pdf]] ||
 * Tue, Mar 22 || 3:30pm || IAS || **Pablo Soler (Madrid)** || **Informal discussion: Topological strings Part 2** || [[file:DOC110322.pdf]] ||
 * Wed, Mar 23 || 2:30pm || IAS || **Pablo Soler (Madrid)** || **Informal discussion: Topological strings Part 3** || [[file:DOC110323.pdf]] ||
 * Thur, Mar 24 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Several speakers** || **Short talks: Michael Kiewe, Tsz Yan Lam, Timm Wrase, Gang Xu** ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 29 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Paul McGuirk** || **Informal discussion: Effective action of F-theory compactification** || [[file:DOC110329.pdf]] ||
 * Tue, Mar 29 || 4:00 pm || IAS || **Michael Kiewe (UW Madison)** || **Soft Terms Induced by Non-SUSY Fluxes** || [[file:Project1.pdf]] ||
 * Wed, Mar 30 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Timm Wrase (Cornell)** || **dS hunting in a classical landscape** || [[file:dSvacuaIIA.pdf]] ||
 * Thur, Mar 31 || 6:00pm || LTA || **Henry Tye (HKIAS; Cornell) + others** || **UST Great Minds** || http://www.facebook.com/hkust.connect#!/event.php?eid=195520780481541 ||
 * Thur,
 * Mon, Apr 11 || 10:30 am || IAS || **Hirotaka Hayashi (HKIAS)** || **F-theory topics, part 2** ||  ||
 * Tue, Apr 12 || 3:30 pm || IAS || **Sven Krippendorf (Cambridge)** || **Global Influences on Local Models, part 1** ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 13 || 4:00 pm || IAS || **Sven Krippendorf (Cambridge)** || **Global Influences on Local Models, part 2** ||  ||
 * Thur, Apr 14 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Emille Ishida (IPMU), Rafael de Souza (IPMU)** || **RS: Exploring the cosmic dawn, the first light after dark ages**
 * EI:SN Cosmology, Observation and data analysis** || [[file:Pop III GRBs.pdf]][[file:ishida_HKUST.pdf]] ||
 * Fri, Apr 15 || 2:30 pm || IAS || **Timm Wrase (Cornell)** || **Localized Sources in Flux Compactifications** || [[file:localizedsources.pdf]] ||
 * Tue, Apri 19 || 5:00 pm || IAS || **Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria (UPenn)** || **Non-perturbative effects in String Theory, part 1** ||  ||
 * Thur, Apr 21 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria (UPenn)** || **Non-perturbative effects in String Theory, part 2** ||  ||
 * Tue, Apr 26 || 10:30 am || IAS || **Raffaele Savelli (MPI, Munich)** || **Effective Field Theory of F-theory Compactifications I** ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 27 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Raffaele Savelli (MPI, Munich)** || **Effective Field Theory of F-theory Compactifications II** ||  ||
 * Thu, Apr 28 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Raffaele Savelli (MPI, Munich)** || **Effective Field Theory of F-theory Compactifications III** ||  ||
 * Sat, May 7 || 3:30 pm || LT-B || **Gary Shiu (UW Madison; HKIAS)** || //** Einstein@HKUST **// || HKUST event:
 * Thu, May 12 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Janet Hung (Perimeter Institute)** || **Holographic Entanglement Entropy** ||  ||
 * May 18 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Wai-Yee Keung (U. of Illionois at Chicago)** || **Introduction to Particle Phenomenology, Lecture 1** || http://ias.ust.hk/enews.html?id=54 ||
 * May 19 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Wai-Yee Keung (U. of Illionois at Chicago)** || **Introduction to Particle Phenomenology, Lecture 2** ||  ||
 * May 20 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Wai-Yee Keung (U. of Illionois at Chicago)** || **Introduction to Particle Phenomenology, Lecture 3** ||  ||
 * May 24 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Janet Hung (Perimeter Institute)** || **Informal discussion: PBH transformation and AdS/CFT** ||  ||
 * May 24 || 3:00 pm || IAS || **Chiu-Man Ho (Vanderbilt University)** || **Non-Commutative Field Theories and non-equilibrium dynamics** ||  ||
 * May 30-Jun 1 ||  ||   ||   || //** Cosmology Since Einstein Conference **// || International Conference
 * Jun 2 || 9 am-3 pm || IAS ||  || //** One-day Informal Cosmology Workshop **// || Satellite Workshop ||
 * June 9 || 2:00 pm || IAS || **Lam Hui (Columbia)** || **Equivalence Principle and Cosmic Acceleration** ||  ||
 * Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre (LTG)
 * Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre (LTG)