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 * < **Focus Weeks**: ||< //**Cosmology**// : March 22 - 25; 57 week 3 **⬇** ||
 * ~  ||< // **F-theory** // : March 29 - April 1; 58 week 4 **⬇** ||
 * ~  ||< // **String Phenomenology** // : May 3 - 7; 59 week 9 **⬇** ||

Week 1 //- The heterotic week//

 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ 60 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Mon, Mar 8 || 1:30pm || Aud || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **Lara Anderson** || //Supersymmetry and global constraints in heterotic theories// ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 9 || 10:30am || SSR || **Ralph Blumenhagen** || //61 String Vacua: Status and Prospects// || Discussion ||
 * Wed, Mar 10 || 10:30am || Aud || **Burt Ovrut** || //Prospects of Heterotic String // ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || MSR || **Stanley Deser** || //Quantum Gravity and Its (Dis)contents// || KITP Colloquium ||
 * Thu, Mar 11 || 10:30am || Aud || **Michael Ratz** || //The role of discrete symmetries in string-derived models of particle physics// ||  ||
 * Fri, Mar 12 || 10:30am || SSR || **James Gray** || //Introductory Lecture on Heterotic String Compactifications// || Lecture ||

Week 2 - //Strings 2010//
Note that Wed, Mar 17 is 63 Saint Patrick's Day...
 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ 62 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Tue, Mar 16 || 12:00am || Aud || **Ryuichiro** **Kitano** || //Thoughts on Supersymmetry and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking// ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 17 || 10:30am || Aud || **Stuart Raby** || //Moduli stabilization and SUSY breaking in heterotic orbifold string models// ||  ||
 * Thu, Mar 18 || 10:30am || SSR || **Timo Weigand** || //Introductory Lecture on F-theory, pt. 1// || Lecture ||
 * || 2:00pm || SSR || **Paul Steinhardt** || //Cosmology with a Bounce// ||  ||
 * Fri, Mar 19 || 10:30am || SSR || **Timo Weigand** || //Introductory Lecture on F-theory, pt. 2// || Lecture ||

Week 3 - //Focus Week: Cosmology//
Note that the KITP will be closed on Fri, Mar 26 due to the 65 César Chávez Day. 
 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ 64 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Mon, Mar 22 || 10:30am || Aud || **Leonardo Senatore** || //Inflation, Effective Field Theory and Loops// ||  ||
 * || 12:15am || Aud || **Mirjam Cvetič** || //String Theory Bridges to Particle Physics and Cosmology// || Director's Blackboard Lunch Seminar ||
 * || 2:00pm || Aud || **Enrico Pajer** || //Dante's Inferno: inflation from axion monodromy// ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 23 || 10:30am || Aud || **Phil Lubin** || //Origin and Fate - The Planck Mission// ||  ||
 * || 1:30pm || SSR || **Raphael Flauger** || //Resonant Non-Gaussianity// ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 24 || 10:30am || Aud || **Liam McAllister** || //Nonperturbative Effects in D-brane Inflation// ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || MSR || **Robert Brandenberger** || //Testing String Theory with Cosmological Observations// || KITP Colloquium ||
 * || 3:30pm || Aud || **Cliff Burgess** || //D-brane inflation: Status and Prospects// || Discussion ||
 * Thu, Mar 25 || 10:30am || Aud || **Chao-Lin Kuo** || //CMB polarization experiments: status and prospect// ||  ||

Week 4 - //Focus Week: F-theory//

 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ 66 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Mon, Mar 29 || 10:30am || Aud || **Jonathan Heckman** || //Minimal F-theory GUTs at the LHC// ||  ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Natalia Saulina** || //Compact F-theory GUTs with PQ symmetry// ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 30 || 10:30am || Aud || **Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria** || //Global F-theory models: instantons and gauge dynamics// ||  ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Andres Collinucci** || //On instanton effects in F-theory// ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 31 || 10:30am || Aud || **Martijn Wijnholt / Ron Donagi** || //Unification in M- and F-theory// || Seminar+Discussion ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Vijay Kumar** || //The F-theory Landscape in Six Dimensions// ||  ||
 * Thu, Apr 1 || 10:30am || Aud || **Thomas Grimm** || //Global F-theory GUTs and N=1 duality// ||  ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Hans Jockers** || //Effective Couplings for heterotic strings and F-theory// ||  ||

Week 5
//How to Improve a Difficult Relationship// || Director's Blackboard Seminar ||
 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ 67 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Mon, Apr 5 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Brigitte Roethlein** || //"Scientists are Geeks" contra "Journalists are Clueless"://
 * Tue, Apr 6 || 12:00pm || Aud || **Joe Conlon** || //Moduli Stabilization// || Discussion ||
 * Wed, Apr 7 || 10:30am || Aud || **Massimo Bianchi** || //Branes at Singularities// ||  ||
 * Thu, Apr 8 || 2:00pm || SSR || **Bert Schellekens** || //CFT approaches to String Vacua// ||  ||

Week 6
Remember the whale watching tour on Thu, Apr 15 at 10:45am.
 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ 68 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Tue, Apr 13 || 12:00pm || Aud || **Robert Richter** || // Bottom-up Analysis of MSSM Quivers // ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 14 || 10:30am || Aud || **Alon Faraggi** || //Exophobic Quasi-Realistic Heterotic String Vacua// ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 14 || 2:00pm || MSR || **Dieter Lüst** || //Strings at the LHC// || KITP colloquium ||
 * Fri, Apr 16 || 10:30am || SSR || **Hans-Peter Nilles** || //Supersymmetry Breaking Scenarios in String Theory// || Discussion ||

Week 7

 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ 68 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Mon, Apr 19 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Sri Sastry** || //The Physics of Glasses// || Director's Blackboard Seminar ||
 * Tue, Apr 20 || 12:00pm || Aud || **Marco Billo** || //Computation of stringy instanton effects and duality checks// ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 21 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Rachel Courtland / Brigitte Roethlein** || //On and Off the Record: How to Talk to Journalists// || Journalists in Residence ||
 * Thu, Apr 22 || 10:30am || SSR || **Denis Klevers** || //Heterotic F-theory Duality and Five-Brane Superpotentials// || extra informal seminar ||
 * Thu, Apr 22 || 2:00pm || SSR || **Gary Shiu** || //Holographic Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking// ||  ||
 * Fri, Apr 23 || 10:30am || SSR || **V. Braun / K. Bobkov** || //Moduli Stabilization in Type IIB Orientifolds and G2 manifolds// ||  ||

Week 8
//inflation with low-energy SUSY// ||  || //D-brane dynamics// ||  || 
 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ 68 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Tue, Apr 27 || 12:00pm || Aud || **Taizan Watari** || //GUTs & String Theory// || discussion ||
 * Tue, Apr 27 || 2:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Ian Morrison** || //Loop Effects and the IR Stability of de Sitter Space// || high energy & gravity seminar ||
 * Wed, Apr28 || 10:30am || Aud || **Fernando Marchesano** || //Non-perturbative effects on seven-branes// ||  ||
 * Thu, Apr 29 || 10:30am || SSR || **Alexander Westphal** || //Gravity waves and the LHC: Towards high-scale//
 * Thu, Apr 29 || 2:00pm || SSR || **Simeon Hellerman** || //A Universal Inequality in CFT and Quantum Gravity// || high energy & gravity seminar ||
 * Fri, Apr 30 || 10:30am || SSR || **Pablo Camara** || //Non-perturbative vacuum destabilization and//
 * Fri, Apr 30 || 4:00pm || South Hall 6635 || **David Morrison** || //A Mathematical Introduction to F-theory// || Geo-Topo-Phys Seminar ||

Week 9 - //Focus Week: String Phenomenology//
//Status of Fayet-Iliopoulos Terms in Supergravity and String Theory// ||  || //Explicit Models of the String-Theory Landscape// ||  ||
 * // & SVP mini-workshop //**
 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ 68 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * **SVP mini-workshop** ||
 * Mon, May 03 || 9:15am || MSR || tba || //Opening remarks// || SVP workshop ||
 * || 9:30am ||  || **K. Dienes** || //Semper FI? Supercurrents, R-symmetries, and the//
 * || 10:10am ||  || **P. Langacker** || //Alternatives to the GUT Seesaw// ||   ||
 * || 10:50am ||  || **J. Marsano** || //Constraining F-theory GUTs// ||   ||
 * || 11:30am ||  || Lunch ||   ||   ||
 * || 1:30pm ||  || **B. Thomas** || //String Cosmology, Z' Physics, and Large Numbers of Vacua://
 * || 2:10pm ||  || **B. Dundee** || //Stabilizing Moduli and Breaking SUSY in Heterotic Orbifold String Models// ||   ||
 * || 2:50pm ||  || **M. Schulz** || //Generalized Compactification and the SU(2) WZW Model// ||   ||
 * || 3:30pm ||  || **J. Halverson** || //Instanton Effects in Semi-Realistic MSSM Quivers and F-theory// ||   ||
 * || 5:00pm ||  ||   || Wine and Cheese Reception ||   ||
 * Tue, May 04 || 9:30am || MSR || **M. Douglas** || //Questions About the String Landscape// || SVP workshop ||
 * || 10:10am ||  || **W. Taylor** || //Global Aspects of the Space of 6D String Vacua// ||   ||
 * || 10:50am ||  || **P. McGuirk** || //Holographic Gauge Mediation with Strongly Coupled Messengers// ||   ||
 * || 11:30am ||  || Lunch ||   ||   ||
 * || 1:30pm ||  ||   || //Discussion of Future Directions for the SVP// ||   ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 1640 || **P. Langacker** || // Hunt for New Physics at the LHC // || Colloquium in Phys. Dept. ||
 * Wed, May 05 || 9:30am || MSR || **G. Kane** || //String Theory, Moduli, Dark Matter, and Cosmological History// || SVP workshop ||
 * || 10:10am ||  || **P. Kumar** || //Dynamical Realization of the String Axiverse and Solution to the Strong CP Problem// ||   ||
 * || 10:50am ||  || **K. Bobkov** || //Kaehler-Independent G2 Fluxless Vacua and their Phenomenology// ||   ||
 * || 11:30am ||  || Lunch ||   ||   ||
 * || 1:30pm ||  || **E. Kuflik** || //The LSP in M-Theory// ||   ||
 * || 2:10pm ||  || **J. Shao** || //The Implication of F-theory GUTs for LHC// ||   ||
 * || 2:50pm ||  || **T. Renner** || //Systematic Investigations of the Free Fermionic Heterotic String Landscape at Baylor University// ||   ||
 * || 3:30pm ||  ||   || //Workshop Summary and Conclusion// ||   ||
 * **Focus Week SPHENO** ||
 * Thu, May 06 || 10:30am || SSR || **Lisa Everett** || //Status of supersymmetry breaking scenarios// ||  ||
 * Thu, May 06 || 1:30pm || SSR || **Lian-Tao Wang** || //Modern jet tools for discovering new physics at the LHC// ||  ||
 * Fri, May 07 || 10:30am || SSR || **Jeff Richman** || //Early Results and Physics Prospects for the CMS Experiment at the LHC// ||  ||
 * Fri, May 07 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Jonathan Feng** || //Implications of Recent Data for Theories of Dark Matter// ||  ||
 * Fri, May 07 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Jonathan Feng** || //Implications of Recent Data for Theories of Dark Matter// ||  ||



Week 10

 * ~ **Day** ||~ Time ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffe0; border: 1px dashed #a9a9a9; color: black; font-size: small; padding: 1px; position: absolute; visibility: hidden;">67 Place* ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links,... ||
 * Tue, May 11 || 12:00pm || Aud || **Ignatios Antoniadis** || //Non-linear supersymmetry and brane dynamics// ||  ||
 * Tue, May 11 || 2:30pm || SSR || **Mike Douglas** || //More questions about the string landscape// || discussion ||
 * Wed, May 12 || 10:30am || MSR || **Katrin Becker** || //D-brane couplings and background fields// ||  ||
 * Thu, May 13 || 2:00pm || SSR || **Shanta de Alwis** || //Comparing Mechanisms of SUSY breaking and Mediation// || discussion ||
 * Fri, May 14 || 4:00pm || South Hall 6635 || **David Morrison** || //A Mathematical Introduction to F-theory// || Geo-Topo-Phys Seminar ||

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