High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2014All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red. The organizer for this seminar is Wenbin Yan. |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Sep 19 |
Leo Hughes (Imperial College) |
A Magic Pyramid of Supergravities |
Oct 3 |
Radu Roiban (Penn State) |
Perturbative and nonperturbative worldsheet string theory in AdS^n x S_n x M^{10-2n} |
Oct 3 1:30pm |
Piotr Sulkowski (University of Warsaw) |
Knots and BPS states |
Oct 10 10:30am |
Vladimir Kazakov (ENS) |
Quantum spectral curve of N=4 SYM |
Oct 10 1pm |
Satoshi Nawata (NIKHEF) |
Givental J-functions, Quantum integrable systems, AGT relation with surface operator |
Oct 17 |
Ilarion Melnikov (Harvard) |
Global aspects of (0,2) moduli space |
Oct 24 |
Aleksey Cherman (University of Minnesota) |
Resurgence in quantum field theory: handling the Devil's invention |
Oct 24 1pm |
Arkady Vainshtein (University of Minnesota) |
Making Supersymmetric Quivers from N=(0,2) Sigma Models |
Oct 31 |
Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley) |
Triality and AGT |
Nov 7 |
Joao Gomes (Cambridge) |
Quantum supergravity and exact holography |
Nov 14 |
Jonathan Maltz (IPMU) |
Deconfinement transition as black hole formation by the condensation of QCD strings |
Nov 21 |
Babak Haghighat (Harvard) |
On Strings of Minimal 6d SCFTs |
Dec 5 |
Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC) |
Constraints on gravitational physics from entanglement inequalities |
Dec 5 1pm |
Masahito Yamazaki (IPMU) |
Recursion Relation for Conformal Blocks |
Dec 8-Dec 12 |
Workshop on "Grassmannian Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes" | |
Dec 19 |
Jim Halverson (KITP) |
Non-Higgsable Seven-branes and Symmetry in the Landscape |