High Energy Theory Seminars: Fall 2016All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red. The organizer for this seminar is Martin Fluder. |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Sept 30 |
Matthew Walters (Boston University) |
Studying IR Dynamics with Conformal Truncation |
Oct 7 |
Andrew McLeod (Stanford University) |
From Hexagons to Heptagons: Bootstrapping Seven-Point Amplitudes in Planar N=4 super-Yang Mills Theory |
Oct 14 *11AM* Oct 14 *1PM* |
Alba Grassi (ICTP Trieste) Wolfgang Wieland (Perimeter Institute) |
Seiberg-Witten theory as a Fermi gas Quasilocal free energy in GR: Positivity and monotonicity |
Oct 21 |
No seminar |
Southern California String Seminar at UCLA |
Oct 28 |
Stephen Jordan (NIST/QuICS, University of Maryland) |
Quantum computing and topological invariants |
Nov 4 *11AM* Nov 4 *1PM* |
Brian Willett (KITP/UC Santa Barbara) Pavel Putrov (IAS) |
3d N = 2 theories on circle bundles and the Bethe equations Exact solutions of N = (0 , 2) Landau - Ginzburg models |
Nov 11 *11AM* Nov 11 *1PM* |
Callum Quigley (University of Toronto) Elias Kiritsis (University of Crete) |
Second quantized MSW strings on K3 fibrations Holography and the quantum renormalization group |
Nov 18 |
No seminar |
Symposium to celebrate 75th birthday of John Schwarz |
Nov 25 |
No seminar |
Thanksgiving |
Dec 2 *11AM* Dec 2 *1PM* |
Edgar Shaghoulian (UC Santa Barbara) Natalie Paquette (Stanford University) |
Gravity from conformal large-N gauge theory Automorphy, Wall Crossing, and Symmetries of BPS States |