High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2013All 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 |
Oct 4 |
Arthur Lipstein (University of Oxford) |
From dlogs to dilogs |
Oct 11 |
Vladimir Rosenhaus (UC Berkeley) |
Holography for a small world |
Oct 18 |
Ehsan Hatefi (ICTP) |
BPS, Non-BPS and D-brane anti D-brane effective actions in type II Superstring theory with their corrections to all orders in alpha-prime |
Oct 25 |
Benjamin Safdi (Princeton University) |
Probing Induced Higher-Spin Gauge Theory |
Oct 25 @ 1 pm |
Yu Nakayama (Caltech) |
Vector beta function |
Nov 1 |
Ilarion Melnikov (MPI, Potsdam) |
A (0,2) overview |
Nov 8 |
Denis Klevers (University of Pennsylvania) |
F-theory Compactifications With Multiple U(1)-Factors |
Nov 15 |
Sergey Cherkis (University of Arizona) |
Phases of 5d Gauge Theories, Monopole Walls, and Melting Crystals |
Nov 18 Special @ 1.30 pm |
Daniel Roggenkamp (University of Heidelberg) |
Defect lines in 2d CFTs |
Nov 22 |
Jacob Bourjaily (Harvard University) |
Scattering Amplitudes, Unitarity, and the Positive Grassmannian |
Nov 29 |
Thanksgiving | |
Dec 6 |
Wilke van der Schee (Utrecht University) |
Collisions in AdS and the thermalization of heavy-ion collisions |
Dec 13 |
Rod Crewther (University of Adelaide) |
\Delta I = 1/2 Rule for Kaon Decays derived from QCD Infrared Fixed Point |
Dec 20 @ 1.30 pm |
David Kosower (CEA-Saclay) |
Maximal Unitarity at Two Loops |