High Energy Theory Seminars: Spring 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 |
April 4 |
Ibou Bah (USC) |
Probing 1/4 BPS AdS geometries from wrapped M5 branes |
April 11 |
Daniel Jafferis (Harvard) |
Holographic modular (entanglement) evolution |
April 11 1pm |
Noppadol Mekareeya (CERN) |
3d N=4 Gauge Theories, Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood Polynomials |
April 18 |
Jennifer Lin (U. Chicago) |
TBA |
April 18 1pm |
Guillaume Bossard (Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT) |
Minimal representations as a generalisation of holomorphy for supergravity F-terms |
April 25 |
Guilherme Pimentel (Princeton University) |
TBA |
May 2 |
Sungjay Lee (U. Chicago) |
New Exact Results in Calabi-Yau, D-branes, and Orientifolds |
May 2 1pm |
Jnan Maharana (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar) |
T-duality and scattering of stringy states |
May 9 |
Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Insitute of Fundamental Research) |
Unitarity and crossing symmetry in the S-matirx of large N Chern-Simons theory with fundamental matter |
May 13 4pm |
Monica Guica (U. Penn) |
Black holes, star products and entanglement |
May 16-May 17 |
Workshop on Primordial Gravitational Waves and Cosmology | |
May 23 |
David Simmons-Duffin (IAS) |
Bootstrapping Conformal Field Theories |
May 30 |
Elias Kiritsis (University of Crete) |
QCD in the Veneziano Limit |
Jun 6 |
Abhijit Gadde (Caltech) |
Exact solutions of 2d supersymmetric gauge theories |