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M. Ronen Plesser

Professor of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, Department of Physics, Durham, NC 27708-0305
245 Physics Bldg, 120 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Prospects for (0,2) Mirror Symmetry · February 11, 2019 Invited Talk Weizmann Theory Group, Weizmann Institute of Science
Accidents in (0,2) Landau Ginzburg Theories - Theory Group Meeting · July 21, 2014 Invited Talk Weizmann Theory Group, Weizmann Institute of Science
Hybrid Conformal Field Theories - Workshop on Heterotic Strings and (0,2) CFT · April 28, 2014 - May 3, 2014 Invited Talk Texas A&M University
Online Education Panel · November 22, 2013 Lecture
Creating Community in MOOCs · April 26, 2013 Lecture Durham, NC
Hybrid Conformal Field Theories · March 5, 2013 Lecture Ann Arbor, MI
Linear Sigma Models and (0,2) Models · May 14, 2012 Lecture Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY SB
Conifold Transitions in M-Theory · March 7, 2012 Lecture MPI Potsdam
Geometry and Physics of Perturbative Heterotic Vacua · October 27, 2011 Lecture Brandeis University
Recent Results in (0,2) Models · May 12, 2011 Lecture Harvard University
(0,2) Elephants · March 3, 2011 Lecture KITP, Santa Barbara, CA
A (0,2) Mirror Map · November 25, 2010 Lecture Tel Aviv University
String Duality - an Introduction · November 16, 2010 Lecture Northeastern University
(0,2) Deformations of (2,2) Models · November 15, 2010 Lecture Northeastern University
(0,2) Elephants · November 2, 2010 Lecture University of Pennsylvania
A (0,2) Mirror Map · February 1, 2010 Lecture Banff International Research Station

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Speaker - LWMOOC · August 14, 2014 Event Participation Coursera , MIT flag Massachusetts Invited Conference Talk: The Power of Community: MOOC > Digital Textbook
Speaker - Givatayim Observatory Science Talks · July 17, 2014 Event Participation Israel Astronomical Society , Givatayim Observatory flag Israel Public Lecture: String Theory - What it is and Why We Should Care
Unknown - Journal referee · December 21, 2013 Other
Unknown - Journal referee · December 21, 2013 Other Other Service to the Community ; Refereed multiple papers for JHEP
Organizer - Duke Teaching Observatory · 2002 Community Outreach Ongoing Science Outreach to Durham community, regular public stargazing events held at Duke Teaching Observatory

Service to the Profession


Editor - JHEP · March 2020 Editorial Activities Journal of High Energy Physics,
Proposal referee · December 21, 2013 Committee Service
SEString Math Conference · October 11, 2013 Event/Organization Administration
Journal referee · December 15, 2012 Editorial Activities
Reviewer for NSF Grant Proposals · December 15, 2012 Committee Service
JHEP, 2011 · December 15, 2011 Editorial Activities
Nuclear Physics, 2011 · December 15, 2011 Editorial Activities
CAREER Proposals reviewed · December 15, 2011 Committee Service
NSF Mathematical Physics Panel · February 10, 2011 - February 12, 2011 Committee Service
NSF Grant Proposals · December 20, 2010 Committee Service
JHEP · December 20, 2010 Editorial Activities
Nuclear Physics · December 20, 2010 Editorial Activities
JHEP · December 19, 2009 Editorial Activities
Nuclear Physics B · December 19, 2009 Editorial Activities
JHEP · December 24, 2008 Editorial Activities
Nuclear Physics · December 24, 2008 Editorial Activities
Theory Search Committee, UNC · October 2008 - February 2009 Editorial Activities
Panel Chair : NSF Mathematical Physics Proposals Panel · February 7, 2008 - February 9, 2008 Committee Service NSF

Service to Duke


Global Education Committee (University) · June 2018 Committee Service
DKU Ad-hoc Course Committee (University) · March 2017 Committee Service