Johannes Walcher Theory Division CERN Office: 4-1-014 Contact: Johannes.Walcher arXiv local seminars seminars this week forthcoming string seminars

Current Interests

• Mirror Symmetry for Open Strings
• Non-geometric String Compactifications

Recent Publications

• with Daniel Krefl and Sara Pasquetti: The Real Topological Vertex at Work
• Calculations for Mirror Symmetry with D-branes
• with Daniel Krefl: The Real Topological String on a local Calabi-Yau
• with Daniel Krefl: Real Mirror Symmetry for One-Parameter Hypersurfaces
• Evidence for Tadpole Cancellation in the Topological String
• Open Strings and Extended Mirror Symmetry (a review)
• with David Morrison: D-branes and Normal Functions
• with Andrew Neitzke: Background Independence and the Open Topological String Wavefunction
• with Katrin Becker and Melanie Becker: Runaway in the Landscape
• Extended Holomorphic Anomaly and Loop Amplitudes in Open Topological String

Events

• Symplectic Geometry and Physics, BICMR, May 12-16
• Mirror Symmetry 2009, Hausdorff Center, June 2-5,
• Penn Boot Camp Geometry and Physics,
• Strings 09, Rome, June 22-26
• Simons Workshop 09, Stony Brook, July 27 - August 21
• YITP on Workshop Branes, Strings and Black Holes, October 2009
• CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory, January 25--29, 2010

People

• Alex Buchel
• Wolfgang Lerche
• David Gross
• Chris Herzog
• Rahul Pandharipande
• Carl Jakob Walcher