String Theory, < Fall 2000 >  

• Thursday, August 31, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  David Morrison (Duke University), A New Perspective on Calabi-Yau Geometry   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 7, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  David Morrison (Duke University), A New Perspective on Calabi-Yau Geometry, II   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 14, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Peter Miller (University of Michigan), The Zero-Brane as a Soliton   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 21, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu (Institute for Advanced Study), M theory and twisted K theory   [abstract]

• Friday, September 22, 2000, 4:00pm, UNC Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
  Henry Tye (Cornell University), Brane World: A New Scenario of Our Universe   [abstract]

• Thursday, September 28, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
  Louise Dolan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Noncommutative Geometry and Yang-Mills Symmetry

• Thursday, October 12, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
  Katrin Wendland (UNC-CH), Consistency of Z_M Orbifold Conformal Field Theories on K3

• Thursday, October 26, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Sergei Gukov (Caltech & Princeton University), Warped Compactifications on Calabi-Yau Fourfolds   [abstract]

• Thursday, November 2, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Igor Klebanov (Princeton University), N=1 Gauge Theory and Warped Deformed Conifold   [abstract]

• Thursday, November 9, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Bartomeu Fiol (Rutgers University), Elements of D-Geometry   [abstract]

• Thursday, November 16, 2000, 4:00pm, Colloquium
  Jim Arthur (University of Toronto), The principle of functorialty: an elementary introduction   [abstract]

• Monday, November 20, 2000, 4:00pm, Geometry/Topology Seminar
  Hubert Bray (M.I.T.), Proof of the Penrose Inequality Using the Positive Mass Theorem   [abstract]

• Wednesday, November 22, 2000, 1:00pm, Geometry/Topology Seminar
  Hubert Bray (M.I.T.), Volume Comparison Theorems Involving Scalar Curvature   [abstract]

• Thursday, November 23, 2000, 4:00pm, String Theory Seminar
  

  No talk today -- Thanksgiving break

• Monday, November 27, 2000, 4:00pm, UNC Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics Seminar
  Paul Frampton (UNC-CH), The Finite-N AdS/CFT correspondence for Pedestrians

• Thursday, November 30, 2000, 4:30pm, String Theory Seminar at UNC-CH
  Antal Jevicki (Brown University), Fluctuations of the Giant Graviton   [abstract]