DATE: Tuesday, May 17,
2016
California Institute of Technology
East Bridge Building
Room 114
REGISTRATION
To register, please send an e-mail here with your name and affiliation. If you are interested in giving a 10-minute talk, please include a talk title. This is an informal meeting, so blackboard talks are ok/encouraged!
PROGRAM
(Subject to change.)
Time |
Speaker | Talk Title |
| < 9:00 | Come get your caffeine | |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Opening Remarks | |
| 9:10 - 10:40 | 10-minute talks | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Emily Nardoni (UCSD) | Deformations of WA,D,E SCFTs |
| 11:50 - 12:40 | James (J.J.) Stankowicz (UCLA) | Computing Maximally Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes |
| 12:40 - 2:00 | Lunch | For those interested, we'll walk over to Chandler cafeteria together to get lunch. |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Eliot Hijano (UCLA) | Witten diagrams and the geometry of conformal blocks |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Gabriel Wong (UVirginia/KITP) | Entanglement in String Theory and 2D Yang Mills |
| 3:00 - 3:50 | Ingmar Saberi (Caltech) | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About BPS States (but were afraid to ask) |
| 3:50 - 4:10 | Break | |
| 4:10 - 5:00 | Ben Michel (UCSB) | Life at the Entangling Surface |
We'll go out to dinner after the last talk if there is interest.
Parking Permit Instructions:
If you are coming by car, let us know in advance so that we can arrange a parking permit for you. If you would like us to mail you a parking permit in advance, please include your mailing address in your registration e-mail. Otherwise, permits will be made available before the program begins on the 17th.
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