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String theory at Tsinghua University
Welcome to the string theory group at Tsinghua University.

Fall 2018 Seminar Schedule

Our seminars (usually) take place every Thursday @ 1.30 pm at the Jinchunyuan West building, 3rd floor.

SEPTEMBER
9.6 Matthias Gaberdiel ETH Zurich "AdS3 at the string scale"
9.20 (at Jing Zhai 304) Yinan Wang MIT/Oxford University "New constructions of Calabi-Yau manifolds from F-theory"
9.27 Bin Chen Peking University "Entanglement Entropy in TTbar-Deformed CFT"
OCTOBER
10.4 --- National Day holiday ---
10.8 (10 am at Jing Zhai 304) Alfredo Najera Instituto de Matematicas UNAM "Toric degenerations of cluster varieties, cluster duality and mirror symmetry"
10.11 Hossein Yavartanoo ITP "H0 Tension & Swampland Conjectures"
10.18 Bartek Czech IASTU "Modular Berry Connection in CFT and Transport in AdS"
10.25 Andreas Braun Oxford "What's new in G_2?"
NOVEMBER
11.1 Dieter Luest MPI & LMU Munich "Non-geometric fluxes and non-associativity in string/M-theory"
11.8 Falk Hassler University of Oviedo "Poisson-Lie T-duality in double field theory"
11.15 Ioannis Papadimitriou KIAS "SQFTs on curved backgrounds and supersymmetry anomalies"
11.22 Yiwen Pan Zhongshan University "Fiber-base duality and 3d dualities"
11.29 Max Riegler Universite libre de Bruxelles "Warped Black Holes in Lower-Spin Gravity"
DECEMBER
12.6 Alex Belin University of Amsterdam "Holographic Symplectic forms and extremal volumes: a new York time story"
12.13 Sangmin Lee SNU "Brane brick models, colored quivers, and calibrated geometry"
12.20 (11.45 am) Si Li YMSC “Homotopy Algebras in Higher Spin Theory”
12.27 Jiahua Tian Northeastern University "Non-simply-laced symmetry algebras in F-theory on singular spaces"
JANUARY, 2019
1.3 Zhihao Duan "Computing the elliptic genus of higher rank E strings from genus 0 GW invariants"