High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter/Spring 2017
All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red.
The organizer for this seminar is Martin Fluder.
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High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter/Spring 2017All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red. The organizer for this seminar is Martin Fluder.
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Jan 6 |
Sarah Harrison (Harvard University) |
K3 String Theory, Lattices, and Moonshine |
| Jan 13 |
Márk Mezei (Princeton University) |
Moving the CFT into the bulk |
| Jan 20 |
Shu-Heng Shao (IAS) |
Indices, Particles, Surfaces, and Monsters |
| Jan 27 |
Guy Gur-Ari (Stanford University) |
Black Holes and Random Matrices |
| Feb 3 |
Simeon Hellerman (Kavli IPMU) |
tba |
| Feb 10 |
Xi Dong (IAS) |
Entanglement, Gravity, and Quantum Error Correction |
| Feb 17 |
Maxime Gabella (IAS) |
Spectral Networks, BPS Graphs, and BPS Quivers |
| Feb 24 |
Claire Zukowski (Columbia University) |
Emergent de Sitter Spaces from Entanglement Entropy |
| Mar 3 |
Jaewon Song (KIAS) |
Macdonald index and chiral algebra |
| Mar 10 |
Joshua Erlich (College of William & Mary) |
Quantum Gravity: A Free Lunch |
| Mar 17 |
Ethan Dyer (Stanford University) |
Information loss from partition functions at late times |
| Mar 24 | Tudor Dimofte (QMAP, UC Davis) |
Equivariance and the cosmological constant |
| Mar 31 |
Andy Neitzke (University of Texas at Austin) |
Abelianization in complex Chern-Simons theory |
| Apr 7 |
Tom Hartman (Cornell University) |
Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling |
| Apr 14 |
Chi-Ming Chang (QMAP, UC Davis) |
Chaos in 2D CFT and Spinning Particle in AdS |
| Apr 21 |
Ingmar Saberi (University of Heidelberg) |
Holographic Lattice Field Theories |
| Apr 28 |
Efrat Gerchkovitz (Weizmann Institute) |
Vortices in 4d, N=2 SQCD and their Worldsheet Theory from Supersymmetric Localization |
| May 5 *11AM* May 5 *1PM* |
Shamil Shakirov (Harvard University) Gabriel Wong (University of Virginia) |
Integrability of refined Chern-Simons theory Entanglement Branes in a two-dimensional String Theory |
| May 12 |
Veronika Hubeny (QMAP, UC Davis) |
Covariant Entanglement Constructs |
| May 19 *11AM* |
Gary Horowitz (UC Santa Barbara) |
Applications of light-cone cuts in holography |
| Special Geometry & Physics Seminar: | ||
| May 19 *1PM* | Alexei Oblomkov (University of Massachusetts) |
Mirror Symmetry for HOMFLYPT Knot Homology |
| May 26 *11AM* May 26 *1PM* |
Thomas Dumitrescu (Harvard University) Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute) |
New Indices in Four-Dimensional N=2 Theories Complexity in Holographic Theories and QFT |
| Jun 2 |
Vatche Sahakian (Harvey Mudd College) |
Emergent spacetime and Quantum Entanglement in Matrix theory |
| Jun 9 |
Andreas Karch (University of Washington) |
Dualities in 2+1 Dimensions and Quantum Hall Physics. |
| Special Summer Seminar: | ||
| *Tuesday* July 25 *11AM* |
Koji Hashimoto (Osaka University) |
Time Evolution of Complexity in Abelian Gauge Theories - And Playing Quantum Othello Game - |