December '08

    • Monday, 1st, 16:30

      Z. Nagy    (DESY)
      Parton Shower as QCD Prediction. (Colloquium)

    • Tuesday, 2nd, 14:30

      C. Burrage    (DESY)
      Fayet-Iliopoulos Terms in N=2 Supergravity - and the Implications for D3/D7 Brane Inflation.

    • Monday, 8th, 16:30

      M. Tortola    (Hamburg)
      Neutrino Oscillations: Current Status and Future Prospects.

    • Monday, 15th, 16:30

      G. Semenoff    (British Columbia)
      Relativistic Dynamics of Graphene. (Colloquium)

    • Tuesday, 16th, 14:30

      A. Parkhomenko    (Yaroslavl/DESY)
      B -> V γ Decays and CKM Phenomenology.                         
                                                                             
 

 November '08

    • Tuesday, 4th, 14:30

      L. Alvarez-Gaumé    (CERN)
      Scaling Phenomena in Gravity and Yang-Mills Theories. (Colloquium)

    • Monday, 10th, 16:30

      T. Bringmann    (Stockholm)
      Indirect Dark Matter Searches, Radiative Corrections and the Need for Clear Spectral Signatures. (Colloquium)

    • Tuesday, 11th, 14:30

      R. Janik    (Cracow)
      Perturbative Gauge Theory from Strings in AdS5 x S5. (Colloquium)

    • Wednesday, 12th, 16:30

      A. Westphal    (Stanford)
      Monodromy in the CMB: Chaotic Inflation & Gravity Waves in String Theory.

    • Monday, 18th, 16:30

      D. Colferai    (INFN Firenze)
      Resummation for Structure Functions at small-x (Colloquium).

    • Tuesday, 18th, 14:30

      G. Salam    (Paris)
      Towards Jetography. (Colloquium)

    • Tuesday, 25th, 14:30

      S. Kanemura    (Toyama U.)
      Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter and Baryon Asymmetry via TeV-scale Physics.                         
                                                                             
 

 October '08

    • Thursday, 2nd, 16:30, buildg. 1b, Sem.R. 3a

      A. Jevicki    (Brown University, Providence)
      STRING THEORY SEMINAR: Dynamics of AdS Strings.

    • Monday, 13th, 16:30

      D. Ross    (Southampton)
      Inclusive and Diffractive Processes using DAF-BFKL Pomerons.

    • Monday, 27th, 16:30

      S. Hofmann    (NORDITA)
      Decoupling the Vacuum from Geometry.

    • Tuesday, 28th, 14:30

      All    (DESY, Hamburg)
      Show and Tell Seminar                         
                                                                             
 

 August '08

    • Thursday, 28th, 14:00

      R. Boels    (Niels Bohr Inst., Copenhagen)
      STRING THEORY SEMINAR: Buzzword Bingo: MHV, CSW and BCFW for (Super)string Amplitudes.                         
                                                                             
 

 July '08

    • Tuesday, 1st, 14:30

      D. Steer    (APC, Univ. Paris 7)
      Primordial Fluctuations and Non-Gaussianities in Multi-field DBI Inflation.

    • Monday, 7th, 16:30

      J. Redondo    (DESY)
      Hunting in the Hidden Photon Parameter Space.

    • Tuesday, 15th, 14:30

      L. Kofman    (CITA, Toronto)
      SPECIAL SEMINAR: Gravity Waves from before and after Inflation.                         
                                                                             
 

 June '08

    • Monday, 2nd, 16:30

      B. Pecjak    (DESY)
      Improving Theory Predictions in B → V  Gamma Decays

    • Tuesday, 3rd, 14:30, DESY Main Auditorium

      U. Seljak    (Zurich)
      Cosmology as a Probe of Fundamental Physics

    • Tuesday, 10th, 14:30

      A. Neronov    (Geneva)
      Fast-variable Gamma-ray Emission from Active Galaxies: A New Tool to Probe the Black Hole Physics?

    • Friday, 13th, 11:30

      M. Halpern    (Berkeley)
      SPECIAL SEMINAR: The Orbifolds of Permutation-type as Physical String Systems at Multiples of c=26.

    • Monday, 16th, 16:30

      D. Bödeker    (Bielefeld)
      QCD Plasma Instabilities.

    • Tuesday, 17th, 14:30

      A. H. Mueller    (Columbia N.Y.)
      High Energy and Hard Scattering in Strongly Coupled Field Theories.

    • Monday, 23rd, 16:30

      J. Roberts    (Warsaw)
      Use and Abuse of Fine-tuning: Dark Matter at the LHC.

    • Tuesday, 24th, 14:30

      B. Spanjaard    (Hamburg)
      DISPUTATION: Compactifications of IIA Supergravity on Manifolds with SU(2)-structure.

    • Monday, 30th, 16:30

      S. Groot-Nibbelink    (Heidelberg)
      Explicit and Toric Resolutions of Heterotic Orbifolds.                         
                                                                             
 

 May '08

    • Monday, 5th, 16:30

      C. Biggio    (MPI Munich)
      Can we distinguish among Different Models for Neutrino Mass in the Near Future?

    • Wednesday, 7th, 14:30

      T. Quella    (Amsterdam)
      STRING THEORY SEMINAR: From Asymmetric Cosets to Plane Wave Geometries

    • Monday, 19th, 16:30

      A. Raklev    (Cambridge)
      Sparticle Mass Measurements at the LHC

    • Tuesday, 20th, 14:30

      K. Kunze    (Salamanca)
      Cosmological Magnetic Fields

    • Monday, 26th, 16:30

      G. Palma    (DESY)
      Metastable de Sitter Vacua and Modular Inflation in Supergravity and String Theory

    • Tuesday, 27th, 14:30

      Ch. Wetterich    (Heidelberg)
      Why the cosmological "constant" goes to zero, and why we see it now                         
                                                                             
 

 April '08

    • Tuesday, 8th, 14:30

      R. Engel    (Karlsruhe)
      Recent Results and New Puzzles from the Pierre Auger Observatory

    • Monday, 14th, 16:30

      J. Kotanski    (Hamburg)
      Cusp Anomalous Dimension in Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

    • Monday, 21st, 16:30

      D. Ridout    (DESY)
      An Introduction to Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory

    • Tuesday, 22nd, 14:30

      M. Galaverni    (Bologna)
      Effects of Photon Couplings to Pseudo-scalar Fields on Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

    • Monday, 28th, 16:30 Buildg. 1b, Sem.R. 3

      G. Niccoli    (DESY)
      Isomorphism of Critical and Off-critical Operator Spaces in Two-dimensional Quantum Field Theory

    • Tuesday, 29th, 14:30

      P. Skands    (CERN and Fermilab)
      Time-Like Showers and Matching with Antennae

    • Wednesday, 30th, 14:30

      J.-M. Maillet    (Lyon)
      Correlation Functions of Quantum Integrable Models: Recent Advances                         
                                                                             
 

 March '08

    • Monday, 10th, 16:30, Buildg. 1b, Sem.R. 4a

      J. Simon    (Edinburgh)
      Coarse-graining and Typicality in the AdS/CFT Correspondence

    • Friday, 14th, 11:00, Buildg. 1b, Sem.R. 5

      A. Hebecker    (Heidelberg)
      SPECIAL THEORY SEMINAR: Sequestered Dark Matter

    • Wednesday, 26th, 14:30

      J. Hoogeveen    (Amsterdam)
      STRING THEORY SEMINAR: BRST Quantization of the Pure Spinor Superstring                         
                                                                             
 

 February '08

    • Monday, 4th, 16:30

      A. Donos    (DESY)
      Looking for Higher Dimensional Droplets in AdS5 x S5

    • Tuesday, 5th, 14:30

      M. Henneaux    (Brussels)
      From Platonic Solids to Infinite Coxeter Groups and Lorentzian Kac-Moody Algebras:
      The Road to Uncover the Hidden Symmetries of Gravity?                         
                                                                             
 

 January '08

    • Monday, 7th, 16:30

      C. Papineau    (DESY)
      F-term Uplifting in Metastable Vacua at Finite Temperature

    • Tuesday, 8th, 14:30

      L. Maccione    (SISSA, Trieste)
      High Energy Astrophysics, Cosmic Rays and Fundamental Physics: Tests of Lorentz Invariance Violation

    • Monday, 14th, 16:30

      A. Anisimov    (DESY)
      Seesaw Dark Matter

    • Tuesday, 15th, 14:30

      L. Schrempp    (DESY)
      DISPUTATION: Neutrinos and Dark Energy

    • Monday, 21st, 16:30

      A. Bacchetta    (DESY)
      Are Parton Distribution Functions Universal?

    • Monday, 28th, 16:30

      R. Alkofer    (Graz)
      Confinement and Green Functions in Landau Gauge QCD

    • Tuesday, 29th, 14:30

      P. Rønne    (DESY)
      Factorization of Seiberg-Witten Curves