Some recent talks

A Shift Symmetry for the Higgs and the Inflaton - Talk at ``String Phenomenology TH Institute'', CERN, 2012

Fluxbrane Inflation and the 125-GeV-Higgs - Talk within Program ``Mathematics and Applications of Branes in String and M-theory'' at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, 2012

String Phenomenology - Lectures at Autumn School on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Hamburg 2011

Infrared-Safe Correlation Functions from Inflation - "Scalars 2011" in Warsaw

Fluxbrane Inflation - DESY Theory Seminar 2010

Inflationary correlation functions without IR divergences - Workshop on "IR issues and loops in de Sitter space" 2010 at Perimeter Institute

Matching Type IIB Moduli and M-theory Cycles - String Phenomenology Conference 2010 in Paris

Precision Unification from Extra Yukawas - Planck 2010 at CERN

Issues in F-theory geometry (An Explicit Matching of Type IIB Moduli and F-Theory Cycles)
- Workshop on GUTs and Strings at the MPI in Munich and seminar talk at "Rencontres theoriciennes", Paris, 2010

Grand Unification in the Landscape - Physics Colloquia in Freiburg and at the MPI in Munich, 2010

A Realistic Gauge Coupling from the Micro-Landscape of Orbifold GUTs - Planck 2009 in Padua

Phenomenology of Supersymmetric Gauge-Higgs Unification - Workshop on SUSY Breaking, Durham, 2009

Fixing D7-Brane Positions by F-Theory Fluxes - Ahrenshoop Symposium: Developments in String/M-Theory and Field Theory, Berlin, 2008

Issues in Type IIB Cosmology and Phenomenology - 32nd Johns-Hopkins-Workshop, Seoul 2008

Sequestered Dark Matter - Quarks 2008, Moscow

Throats, Compactifications and Dark Matter - Reunion GDR SUSY, Strasbourg 2008

D7-Brane Motion from M-Theory and Obstructions - Workshop on String Phenomenology and Dynamical Vacuum Selection, Liverpool 2008

Fine-Tuning in Particle Physics and Cosmology - Physics Colloquium at the University of Mainz, 2008

Energy Transfer in a Multi-Throat World - at Meeting in honour of Mariano Quiros' 60th birthday, Barcelona 2007

Large Hierarchies in String Compactifications - Review talk at various colloquia and seminars 2006/2007

The Ubiquitous Throat - String Phenomenology Conference 2006 in Santa Barbara

The Randall-Sundrum Model in String Theory and SUSY Breaking by Throat Fields - Planck 2006 in Paris

Throats and Randall-Sundrum Cosmology - Dark Energy Workshop 2005 in Munich

Gauge Unification on Highly Anisotropic orbifolds - String Phenomenology Conference 2005 in Munich

Gauge Unification in Anisotropic String Compactifications - Sendai Workshop 2005

SUSY GUTs and Extra Dimensions - Zuoz Summer School 2004

Fundamentals of Orbifold GUTs - DESY Theory Workshop 2003