Seminar Information (2005)

• Dr. S. Sugimoto (YITP)
• Low energy hadron physics in holographic QCD

• Dr. M. Cyrier (Harvard Univ.)
• Microscopic Entropy of the Black Ring

• Prof. A. Taormina (Durham Univ.)
• Appell Functions as buildingblocks of non-rational characters

• Dr. T. Maeda (Osaka Univ.)
• Five-Dimensional Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories and Random Plane Partitions

• Dr. K. Hashimoto (Tokyo Univ.)
• Reconnection of Colliding Cosmic String

• Prof. B. de Wit (Utrecht Univ.)
• Black hole entropy from M-Theory and supergravity

• Prof. H. Kanno (Nagoya U.)
• Nekrasov's partition function and Macdonald function (informal)

• Prof. A. Lukas (Oxford U.)
• String Compactifications with Flux and Torsion: Heterotic on Half-flat manifolds

• Dr. Y. Aisaka (Tokyo Univ.)
• Origin of Pure Spinor Superstring

• Dr. Y. Takayama (KEK)
• Bubbling 1/2 BPS Geometries and Penrose Limits

• Prof. G. Semenoff (British Columbia U., Canada)
• AdS/CFT and higher string loop corrections on a DLCQ pp-wave background

• Dr. T. Yamashita (KEK)
• Higgs Mass in the Gauge-Higgs Unification

• Dr. Y. Ookouchi (Univ. of Tokyo)
• N=1 4D CFTs with Mesonic Potentials

• Prof. E. T. Akhmedov (ITEP)
• Towards the Theory of Non-Abelian Tensor Fields

• Prof. A. Niemi (Uppsala Univ.)
• SPLITTING THE GLUON?

• Prof. K. Yoshioka (Kyushu Univ.)
• 重いグラビティーノ模型におけるモジュライ場の物理

• Prof. B. A. Ovrut (Pennsylvania Univ.)
• A Heterotic Standard Model

• Prof. I. Kostov (Saclay)
• Time-dependent Backgrounds of c=1 String Theory: Complex Curve and Instantons

• Prof. Al. Zamolodchikov (Univ. Montpellier II)
• Gravitational Sin-Gordon: Recent Updates

• Prof. H. Ooguri (CALTECH)
• Baby Universes in String Theory

• Dr. K. Yoshida (KEK)
• Open Semiclassical Strings and Long Defect Operators in AdS/dCFT Correspondence

• Dr. N. Okada (KEK)
• Invisible Technicolor

• Prof. N. Haba (Tokushima Univ.)
• Structure of Split Supersymmetry and Simple Models

• Dr. K. Tobe (Michigan State Univ.)
• Enhancement of the ``CP-odd'' Higgs Production Cross Section in MSSM with Explicit CP Violation

• Prof. C. Chu (Durham Univ.)
• Locality and Causality in String and Noncommutative Geometry

• Dr. K. Hosomichi (Toronto Univ.)
• Non-Perturbative Orientifold Transitions at the Conifold

• Dr. M. Nagai (ICRR)
• Hadronic EDMs in SUSY GUT models

• Dr. M. Shigemori (CALTECH)
• Massless Black Holes and Black Rings as Effective Geometries of the D1-D5 System

• Dr. K. Sakai (Ecole Normale Superieure)
• Solving Spectral Problems in AdS/CFT

• Dr. Y. Nakayama (Univ. of Tokyo)
• Search for Conformally Sequestered SUSY Models

• Prof. Y. Yasui (Osaka City Univ.)
• Kerr Black Hole and Sasaki Einstein Geometry

• Dr. T. Matsuo (RIKEN)
• ブラックホール対応点における弦のプランクスケール散乱

• Prof. H. Kanno (Nagoya Univ.)
• Generalizations of the Topological Vertex

• Dr. N. Maru (RIKEN)
• Gauge-Higgs Unification at Finite Temperature

• Dr. Y. Okawa (MIT)
• Heterotic String Field Theory

• Dr. T. Matsuda (Saitama Inst. Of Tech)
• Probing the structure of internal dimensions from cosmological observations ?`PBH and DM from cosmic necklaces?`

• Prof. P.-M. Ho (National Tawiwan Univ.)
• Infinite Symmetry in the High Energy Limit

• Dr. J. Raeymaekers (Univ. of Tokyo)
• Small Black Holes and Superconformal Quantum Mechanics

• Prof. F. A. Bais (Amsterdam Univ. and YITP)
• Quantum Symmetries and Their Breaking in Planar Physics

• Dr. T. Asaka (Tohoku Univ.)
• The nuMSM --Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe--

• Dr. M. Eto (TITECH)
• The Moduli Space of Domain Walls and Their Web

• Prof. A. Hashimoto (Univ. of Wisconsin)
• To Be Announced