High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2016
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red.
The organizer for this seminar is Ning Bao.
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2016All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red. The organizer for this seminar is Ning Bao.
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Jan 8 |
Matthew Dodelson (Stanford) |
Drama from strings |
| Jan 15 |
Daniel Jafferis (Harvard) |
Toda theory from six dimensions |
| Jan 22 |
Per Kraus (UCLA) |
Conformal blocks from AdS |
| Jan 29 |
Clay Cordova (IAS) |
Deformations of SCFT's |
| Feb 5 |
Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis) |
The Fluid Manifesto: Topological sigma models and dissipative hydrodynamics |
| Feb 12 |
Pavel Putrov (IAS) |
Fivebranes and 3-manifold homology |
| Feb 12 |
Abhijit Gadde (IAS) |
Conformal constraints on defects |
| Feb 19 |
Dieter Luest (LMU) |
Classical and Quantum Black Hole Hair |
| Feb 19 |
Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) |
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-theory |
| Feb 26 |
F Theory Conference |
(no seminar) |
| Mar 4 |
Oscar Varela (Utah) |
AdS4 solutions of massive IIA from dyonic supergravity and their simple Chern-Simons duals |
| Mar 4 |
Max Metlitski (Perimeter) |
S-duality of u(1) gauge theory with theta=pi on non-orientable manifolds: Applications to topological insulators and superconductors |
| Mar 9 |
Jennifer Lin (IAS) |
Gravity Dual of Relative Entropy and Comments on Bulk Reconstruction |
| Mar 10 |
Sameer Murthy (King's College) |
Black hole degeneracies from brane-instantons |
| Mar 18 |
Chris Beem (IAS) |
Deformation quantization from superconformal symmetry in three dimensions |
| Mar 25 |
Hee-Cheol Kim (Perimeter) |
Defects and Instantons in five-dimensional field theories |
| Apr 1 |
Lampros Lamprou (Stanford) |
A stereoscopic look into the bulk |
| Apr 8 |
Tom Rudelius (Harvard) |
The Many Dimensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture |
| Apr 15 |
Thomas Faulkner (Illinois) |
Shape dependence of entanglement Hamiltonians and the averaged null energy condition |
| Apr 22 |
William Donnelly (UCSB) |
Entanglement and nonlocality in quantum gravity |
| Apr 29 |
Mario Martone (Cincinnati) |
Expanding the landscape of N=2 Super-conformal field theories |
| May 6 |
Alberto Nicolis (cancelled) (Columbia) |
Phonons and rotons in liquid helium |
| May 13 |
Andreas Stergiou (Yale) |
4D N=1 Superconformal Bootstrap |
| May 20 |
Dan Roberts (MIT) |
Chaos and the growth of operators |
| May 27 |
Wenbin Yan (Harvard) |
Chiral algebra of Argyres-Douglas theory from M5 brane |
| May 27 |
Andrew Waldron (UC Davis) |
Renormalized Volume |
| Jun 3 |
Andrea Puhm (UCSB) |
Tunneling into Black Hole Microstates |