High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 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 |
Jan 10 |
Thomas Dumitrescu (Princeton University) |
The Geometry of Supersymmetric Partition Functions |
Jan 17 |
No seminars |
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Jan 24 |
Julian Sonner (MIT) |
Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Broken Symmetry |
Jan 31 |
Zvi Bern (UCLA) |
UV surprises in supergravity |
Feb 7 |
Oscar Varela (Harvard University) |
The Holography of Electric/Magnetic Duality Breaking |
Feb 7 1 pm |
Maria Rodriguez (Harvard University) |
Scattering Coefficients from Monodromies |
Feb 14 |
JJ Carrasco (Stanford University) |
Gluons for nothing, gravitons for free... |
Feb 21 |
Peter Koroteev (Perimeter Institute) |
Revisiting 3d Mirror Symmetry |
Mar 4 1:30 pm |
Rutger Boels (Hamburg University) |
Back to the roots of string theory |
Mar 7 |
Kazuya Yonekura (IAS) |
Dynamics of class S theories and 5d Super-Yang-Mills |
Mar 7 1 pm |
Slava Rychkov (CERN) |
Conformal bootstrap: the status of the 3d Ising project |
Mar 14 |
Arkady Vainshtein (University of Minnesota) |
Reducing Supersymmetry of Two-dimensional Sigma Models Down to N=(0,2) |
Mar 14 1 pm |
Eliezer Rabinovici (KITP, The Hebrew University) |
Complementary Hamiltonians, Conformal maps and Big Crunches |
Mar 21 |
Yu Nakayama (IPMU) |
Deriving (foliation preserving diff) quantum gravity from AdS/CFT |
Mar 28 |
Lance Dixon (SLAC) |
The Hexagon Function Bootstrap |