TALKS
Beyond the Standard Model
AIO–School THEF (10 lectures), Zeist, The Netherlands, 23 January 2006
Sightseeing in the Landscape
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 26 April 2006
Landelijk Seminarium THEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19 May 2006
Workshop on String Vacua and the Landscape, Trieste, Italy, 31 May 2006
Strings 2006 Shanghai Workshop, Shanghai, China, 14 June 2006
RCFT Orientifolds and Standard Model Realizations
String Phenomenology 2006, Santa Barbara, USA, 29 August 2006
Chalmers University, Goteborg, Sweden, 3 October 2006
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Golm, Germany, 26 October 2006
London Triangle Seminar, London, United Kingdom, 13 December 2006
Model Building With RCFT Orientifolds
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 29 March 2007
Instanton induced neutrino masses in RCFT Orientifolds
String Phenomenology 2007, Frascati, Italy, 7 June 2007
The RCFT orientifold Landscape
Strings 2007, Madrid, Spain, 25 June 2007
DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 10 July 2007
University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 10 October 2007
Neutrino masses from Instantons in RCFT orientifolds
Workshop on instantons and effective actions, Munich, Germany, 14 November 2007
Workshop GUTs in Strings, Desy, Hamburg, 5 February, 2009
(About the uncomfortable marriage between GUTs and String Theory)
GGI String Theory Workshop, Florence, Italy, 6 April, 2009
String Phenomenology 2009 conference, Warsaw, Poland, 16 June, 2009
University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, 13 October, 2009
Freiburg University, 18 May, 2010
GUTs and Strings, München, 10 February 2010
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 3 September 2008
Madrid, Universidad Autonoma Seminar, 4 March 2011
Bad Honnef, 13 March 2006
Bonn, 15 october 2007
(Coupling constant evolution, GUTs)
(Low Energy Supersymmetry)
(The String Theory Landscape and the Anthropic Principle)
(RCFT Orientifolds)
(RCFT Orientifolds)
(RCFT Orientifolds. Contains a critical discussion of low energy supersymmetry, a few months before ths (false) start of LHC)
(RCFT Orientifolds)
(Heterotic Weight Lifting)
(Heterotic and Orientifold constructions of the Standard Model)
Dalfsen, DRSTP Meeting, 14 May, 2009
(The String Theory Landscape and the Anthropic Principle)
2010
2011
2009
2008
2007
2006
KITP program Strings at the LHC and in the Early Universe,
Santa Barbara, 8 April 2010
(Heterotic Model Building, Heterotic Weight Lifting)
String Phenomenology 2010, Paris, 6 July 2010
(Heterotic Model Building, Heterotic Weight Lifting)
Groningen, Quantum Universe Workshop, 20 April, 2011
Nordita Workshop on String Phenomenology, Stockholm, 30 and 31 May 2011
Conformal Field Theory with Applications to String Phenomenology
CSIC, Madrid 21 June 2011
Memorial Conference for Max Kreuzer, Vienna, 27 June 2011
(Heterotic Model Building, Heterotic Weight Lifting)
(The String Theory Landscape and the Anthropic Principle)
(The history of simple currents, centerred around Max Kreuzer’s contribution
(Charge quantization: Heterotic vs. orientifolds)
2002
2003
Bad Honnef, 12 March 2003
Orientation Matters for NIMreps
2004
2005
Modular properties of WZW-models
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUE), Eindhoven, April, 1998
Inaugural speech, Universiteit Nijmegen, September 16, 1998
1998
Meromorphic c=24 conformal field theories
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, January 1999
Recent developments in String theory
Universiteit Nijmegen, April 1999, A.N. Schellekens
Open Strings, Simple Currents and Fixed Points
Wigner Symposium, Istanbul (Turkey), August 1999
1999
(Just after the big earthquake...)
(Introducing The Landscape)
2000
Meromorphic c=24 conformal field theories
Workshop on Algebraic Combinatorics, Monster and Vertex Operator Algebras, Santa Cruz (CA), USA, July 24- 28, 2000.
Open Strings, Simple currents and fixed points
ESI-Workshop “Duality, Strings and M-Theory” Erwin Schroedinger Institut, Vienna, Austria, April 16, 2000.
Open Strings, Simple currents and fixed points
University Freiburg, Germany, January 19, 2000.
Boundaries, crosscaps and simple currents
ITP, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain, November 2000.
Open Ends in String Theory
Univ. of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome (Italy), April 4, 2001
Open Ends in String Theory
Univ. di Firenze, Florence (Italy), April 16, 2001
Open Ends in String Theory
Univ. di Genova, Genua (Italy), April 23, 2001
Open Ends in String Theory
Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, May 23, 2001
2001
Supersymmetric standard model spectra from RCFT orientifolds
Spinoza Institute, Utrecht, 19 November 2004
Supersymmetric standard model spectra from RCFT orientifolds
Inivited talk in the “String Vacuum Workshop” Max Planck Institute, München, 23 November 2004
Supersymmetric Standard Model Spectra from RCFT Orientifolds,
February, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Supersymmetric Standard Model Spectra from RCFT Orientifolds,
Ecole Polytechnique, May, Paris, France
Sightseeing in the Landscape,
Workshop “Strings and the Real World”, November, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Paris area common seminar, Institute Henri Poincare, November, Paris, France
String Theory,
Marie Curie Colloquium, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, December, Nijmegen
The RCFT orientifold Landscape
University of Turin, Italy, 11 December 2007
The RCFT Orientifold Landschap
Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, 22 February, 2008
Workshop String Phenomenology and Vacuum Selection, Liverpool, 28 March, 2008
Non-supersymmetric Gepner Orientifolds
String Phenomenology 2008, Philadelphia, USA, 29 May, 2008
Nordita Theory Colloquium, Stockholm, 8 June 2011
(The “Elliptic Genus” and the classification of c=24 meromorphic CFTs)
NIKHEF Jaarvergadering, 17 December 2010
(Contribution to the NIKHEF yearly meeting)
(The String Theory Landscape and the Anthropic Principle)
An unoriented trip to the edge of string theory
Ehrenfest Colloquium, Leiden, January 30, 2002
String Theory – Van Leidsche Flesch tot Kleinse Fles
Symposium ”De Leidsche Flesch”, March 19, 2002
Meromorphic c=24 conformal field theory
Wiskunde colloquium, Universiteit Nijmegen, April 2002
The geometry of WZW orientifolds
Seminarium, Universidad Autonoma (Madrid), May 2002
The geometry of WZW orientifolds
Seminarium, LPTHE, Jussieu (Parijs), June 2002
StringVac11, Busan, Korea, 5 September 2011
2012
Newton Institute, Cambridge, 29 june 2012
(Landscape History and Discrete Scans)
CERN Theory Seminar, 11 April 2012
CERN, 16 July 2012
2013
NNV Jaarvergadering, Lunteren, 1 November 2013
S.N.S. Seminar, Pisa, 23 May 2013
2014
Hannover, 5 februari 2014
FOM Veldhoven, 22 januari 2014
Free University of Amsterdam (VU), 26 februari 2014
Bethe Forum, Bonn, 12 june 2014
Bethe Colloquium, Bonn University, 3 july 2014
Frontiers in String Phenomenology, Schloss Ringberg, 28 july 2014
Niels Bohr Colloquium, NBI, Copenhagen, 10 september 2014
Theory seminar, NBI Copenhagen, 11 september 2014
Mathematics Colloquium, University of Liverpool, 31 october 2014
Physics Colloquium, University of Crete, Heraklion, 23 october 2014
Theory seminar, University of Crete, Heraklion, 22 october 2014
2015
Theoretical High-Energy Seminar, University of Nijmegen, 9 March 2015
A Derivation of the Standard Model
Strings and Cosmology, IAS Hong Kong, 2 June 2015
String Phenomenology 2015, UAM Madrid, 12 June 2015
Theoretical Seminar, CSIC Madrid, 19 June 2015
Lectures at the school “Selected Topics in Theoretical High Energy Physics”, Tbilisi, 21-25 September 2015
2017
JürgenFest, Hamburg, 9 June 2017
Nikhef, 30-31 May 2017
2016
HPP meeting, Nikhef, 30 September 2016
2018
String_Data, Munich, 28 March 2018
Aachen, 17 November 2009
Driebergen, AIO-School (evening lecture) 8 Februari 2010
2019
Ioannina, 6 April 2019
CERN, 12 August 2008
