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Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna
| Workshop: Mathematical Challenges in String Phenomenology |
| Speaker: | R. Blumenhagen, M.R. Douglas, M. Kreuzer, E. Scheidegger (organizers) (ESI) |
| Abstract: | Program of the second week |
| Date: | Mon, 13.10.2008 |
| Time: | 09:30 |
| Duration: | 14400 min |
| Location: | ESI |
| Contact: | M. Kreuzer |
| Pizza Seminar - Recent developments in 3d gravity |
| Speaker: | Niklas Johansson (Uppsala University) |
| Abstract: | A consistent quantization of three-dimensional AdS gravity would be
of great interest, since this theory contains black holes. Recently,
a chiral version of 3D topologically massive gravity was constructed.
This theory has many appealing features. Its CFT dual was conjectured
to be purely right moving, and therefore holomorphic. In this talk we
review this construction, and the sometimes heated debate regarding
its properties.
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| Date: | Tue, 14.10.2008 |
| Time: | 12:30 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th Floor, Large Seminar Room |
| Contact: | Max Attems, Daniel Grumiller, Beatrix Hiesmayr |
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