High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2011
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red.
The organizer for this seminar is Christoph Keller.
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2011All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red. The organizer for this seminar is Christoph Keller. |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Slides |
| Jan 4 3pm (107 Annenberg) |
Mark van Raamsdonk (University of British Columbia) |
Emergent Spacetime and Quantum Entanglement | |
| Jan 7 11am |
Petr Hořava (UC Berkeley) |
General Covariance in Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point | |
| Jan 14 11am |
Michael Dine (UC Santa Cruz) |
Discrete R Symmetries and Low Energy Supersymmetry | |
| Jan 21 11am |
Michael Kiermaier (Princeton) |
Counterterms in N=8 supergravity | |
| Jan 28 11am |
Jacques Distler (University of Texas) |
Tinkertoys for Gaiotto Duality | |
| Feb 4 11am |
Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam) |
The Lost Phase Space of the Universe | |
| Feb 9 1:15pm |
Sean Hartnoll (Harvard) |
Holography for metallic quantum criticality | |
| Feb 11 11am |
Tudor Dimofte (IAS) |
A New Perspective on Gluing in TQFT | |
| Feb 18 11am |
Duiliu Emanuel Diaconescu (Rutgers) |
D-branes, quivers, and surface operators | |
| Feb 25 11am |
Jnan Maharana (IoP Bhubaneswar) |
T-duality for massive stringy states | |
| Feb 25 2pm |
Jaemo Park (POSTECH) |
AGT on the S-duality wall | |
| Mar 4 11am |
Rob Myers (Perimeter) |
Holographic c-theorems | |
| Mar 11 11am |
Joe Polchinski (KITP) |
Wilsonian and Holographic Renormalization Groups | |
| Mar 18 11am |
Herman Verlinde (Princeton) |
Twistors and de Sitter holography |