High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter/Spring 2018
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red.
The organizers for this seminar are Ying-Hsuan Lin (Winter) and Natalie Paquette (Spring).
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter/Spring 2018All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red. The organizers for this seminar are Ying-Hsuan Lin (Winter) and Natalie Paquette (Spring).
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Jan 12 *11AM* Jan 12 *1PM* |
Dan Freed (UT Austin) Daniel Harlow (MIT) |
Three applications of topology to physics
Symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity |
| Jan 19 |
Aleksey Cherman (University of Washington) |
Emergent dimensions from large N confinement |
| Jan 26 *11AM* Jan 26 *1PM* |
Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook) Tom Rudelius (IAS) |
Higgs branches and chiral algebras of 4d N=2 theories -- a progress report
6D SCFTs and Group Theory |
| Feb 2 *11AM* Feb 2 *1PM* |
Jeffrey Harvey (Chicago) Jared Kaplan (Johns Hopkins) |
Hecke operators for characters of Rational Conformal Field Theory
Exact Bulk Operators and the Fate of Locality |
| Feb 9 |
Frederik Denef (Columbia) |
Higher Spin de Sitter Hilbert Space |
| Feb 16 *11AM* Feb 16 *1PM* |
Mario Martone (UT Austin) Dan Xie (Harvard) |
On singularities of super-conformal field theories
Seiberg-Witten differential via primitive forms |
| Feb 23 *11AM* Feb 23 *1PM* |
Sasha Zhiboedov (Harvard) Pavel Putrov (IAS) |
Correlation Functions in CFTs with Weakly Broken Higher Spin Symmetry
Topological terms in Yang-Mills theory with time-reversal symmetry |
| Mar 2 |
Daniel Harlow (MIT) |
Splittability and Noether's Theorem in Quantum Field Theory |
| Mar 9 |
Aron Wall (Stanford) |
How Low can the Energy Density Go? |
| Mar 16 *11AM* Mar 16 *1PM* |
Xi Yin (Harvard) Feng Xu (UC Riverside) |
Old stringy tales revisited
On relative entropy in CFT |
| Mar 23 |
No seminar |
Spring Recess |
| Mar 30 |
No seminar |
Spring Recess |
| Apr 6 |
Ning Bao (Berkeley) |
Generalized holographic entanglement of purification |
| Apr 13 |
Lorenzo Di Pietro (Perimeter) |
Perturbative Approaches for QED3 |
| Apr 20 |
Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis) |
Entropy production via an inflow mechanism |
| Apr 27 |
Jacques Distler (UT Austin) |
Tinkertoys for E8 |
| May 4 |
Michael Geracie (UC Davis) |
Categories of Line Operators in 3d N=4 Theories |
| May 11 |
Markus Luty (UC Davis) |
A positive sum rule for the c anomaly in 4D conformal field theory |
| May 18 |
Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford) |
2d eternal traversable wormhole |
| May 25 *11AM* May 25 *1PM* |
Volker Schomerus (DESY) Christoph Keller (U Arizona) |
Schroedinger's Equation for Conformal Symmetry
Holographic Orbifold CFTs |
| June 1 |
Matthew Heydeman (Caltech) |
Unifying Tree Super-Amplitudes in 6D: Branes, SYM, and SUGRA |
| June 8 |
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