October 15:
E. Witten (Institue for Advanced Study)
"D-brane charges and K-theory."
The Mathematics
/ Physics seminar
at
the University of Pennsylvania is held
every Thursdays
from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., usually in room 4N30,
in the David
Rittenhouse Laboratory.
October 15:
E. Witten (Institue for Advanced Study)
"D-brane charges and K-theory." October 22:
O. Ganor (Princeton University) "Non-Commutative Instantons
as Quantum Moduli Spaces."
October 29:
M. Bershadsky (Harvard University) "WZW models and R-R
background." .
November 5:
G. Moore (Yale University) "Some remarks on M-theory
superpotentials."
November 19:
J. Bryan (Tulane University) "Modular forms and modified Gromov-Witten theory for
Calabi-Yau surfaces."
November 24:
P.S. Aspinwall (Duke University)
"Lie Groups, Calabi-Yau Threefolds and String Theory."
December 3:
A. Polishchuk (Harvard University) "Mirror symmetry for abelian
varieties."
January 28:
A. Klemm (Institute for Advanced Study)
"Precision test of M-theory/Type IIA duality."
February 11:
G. Rajesh (Institue for Advanced Study)
"Some results in F-Theory/Heterotic Duality in Four Dimensions."
February 25:
D. Morrison (Duke University)
"Non spherical horizons."
March 4:
E. Lieb (Princeton University) "The stability of matter: from Schroedinger's equation to
non-perturbative QED."
March 11:
P. Candelas (University of Texas) "Toric geometry and dualities
in string theory" .
March 18:
C. Pope (Texas A&M University) "Twisted Self-Duality, and Superdualities".
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