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High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter/Spring 2020 All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red. The organizer for this seminar is David Meltzer (Winter) and Monica Jinwoo Kang (Spring). Due to COVID-19 outbreak, all seminars from March 13th are done remotely via zoom.
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Jan 10 *11AM* Jan 10 *1PM* |
Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute) Edgar Shaghoulian (Cornell) |
Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy Replica wormholes and the black hole information paradox |
| Jan 17 |
Mauricio Romo (Tsinghua University) |
Hemisphere partition function, LG orbifolds and FJRW invariants |
| Jan 24 |
Eduardo Casali (UC Davis/QMAP) |
Monodromy relations in string theory from twisted homology |
| Jan 31 *11AM* Jan 31 *1PM* |
Gábor Sárosi (CERN) Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College London) |
Chaos in the butterfly cone Geometric Extremization for AdS/CFT and Black Hole Entropy |
| Feb 7 |
Carlos Cardona (Bohr Institute) |
OPE inversion and light cone bootstrap in generic dimensions |
| Feb 14 |
Raghu Mahajan (IAS) |
Entanglement islands and the information paradox |
| Feb 21 |
No Seminar |
Southern California Strings Seminar |
| Feb 28 *11AM* Feb 28 *1PM* |
Joseph Minahan (Uppsala University) Yang Hui-He (City, University of London) |
Maximal Super Yang-Mills and their holographics duals Universes as Bigdata: Superstrings, Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Machine-Learning |
| Mar 6 |
Henry Maxfield (UCSB) |
Black hole information, spacetime wormholes, baby universes and ensembles |
| Mar 13 |
Tom Rudelius (IAS) |
Generalized Global Symmetries and the Swampland |
| Mar 20 |
Paolo Benincasa (Bohr Institute) |
Cosmological Evolution Without Time |
| Mar 27 |
No Seminar |
Spring Recess |
| Apr 3 |
Felix Haehl (IAS) |
Reparametrization modes in CFTs & applications |
| Apr 10 |
Luca Ilesiu (Princeton University) |
The Statistical Mechanics of Near-Extremal Black Holes |
| Apr 17 |
Jaroslav Trnka (UC Davis) |
Towards the geometric picture for gravity amplitudes |
| Apr 24 |
Vladimir Narovlansky (Princeton) |
Double-scaled and Supersymmetric SYK |
| May 1 |
Kantaro Ohmori (SCGP) |
1+1d adjoint QCD and non-invertible topological lines |
| May 8 |
Daniel Harlow (MIT) |
Covariant phase space with boundaries |
| May 15 |
Chiara Toldo (Ecole Polytechnique) |
Holographic duals of refined partition functions |
| May 22 |
Tom Hartman (Cornell) |
Sphere packing, 3d gravity, and random CFTs |
| May 29 |
Miguel Montero (Harvard) |
Nothing is certain in string compactifications |
| June 5 |
Ken Intriligator (UCSD) |
Higher Symmetry and Anomalies in 4d and 6d QFTs |