High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2012All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red. The organizer for this seminar is Abhijit Gadde. |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Aug 31 |
Peter Koroteev (University of Minnesota) |
BPS States in Omega Background and Integrability |
Sep 14 |
Sergey Cherkis (University of Arizona) |
Tropical Geometry of Monopoles and Quantum Field Theories in Five Dimensions |
Sep 21 |
Philip Argyres (University of Cincinnati) |
Instantons on R^3 x S^1 and a semi-classical realization of IR renormalons |
Sep 28 |
Sophia Domokos (Weizmann Institute) |
A more comprehensive AdS/QCD |
Oct 5 |
Andy Stergiou (UC at San Diego) |
RG Limit Cycles |
Oct 12 |
Vijay
Kumar (KITP) |
Gromov-Witten invariants from the S^2 partition function |
Oct 19 |
Chris Beem (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) |
Holomorphic Blocks in Three Dimensions |
Oct
26 11 am |
Samson
Shatashvili (Trinity College Dublin) |
Gauge Theory angle on Integrability |
Oct
26 1 pm |
Raffaele Savelli (MPI, Munich) |
F Theory vs Type IIB Orientifolds: Some global aspects |
Nov 2 |
Claudius Klare (Milan-Bicocca) |
Supersymmetry on Curved Spaces and Holography |
Nov 9 |
Omid Saremi (UC Berkeley) |
Disordered AdS/CFT, Localization and Random Matrix Theory |
Nov
16 11 am |
David Poland (Yale University) |
Carving out the Space of Conformal Field Theories |
Nov
16 1 pm |
Shinsei
Ryu (UIUC) |
Holographic Geometry of Entanglement Renormalization |
Nov 30 |
Jaume Gomis (Perimeter Institute) |
Exact Results in D=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Applications |
Dec 7 |
Erik
Verlinde (University of Amsterdam) |
Error Correcting the Black Hole Firewall |