High Energy Theory Seminars: Winter 2012


All seminars will be held in 469 Lauritsen on Fridays at 11AM, unless marked in red.
The organizers for this seminar are Piotr Sułkowski and Christoph Keller.
Date
 Speaker
 Title
 Slides
Jan 4
1.15 pm 		Tom Banks
 (UC Santa Cruz) 		Holographic Theories of  Inflation and Fluctuations
Jan 6
11am 		Tudor Dimofte
(IAS) 		3-Manifolds, 3d SCFT's, and 3d Indices
Jan 13
11am 		Raphael Bousso
(Berkeley) 		Vacuum Structure and the Arrow of Time
Jan 20
11am 		Hiroyuki Fuji
(Nagoya)
 The homological knot invariants and QFT
Jan 27
11am		 Jaewon Song
(Caltech)		 ABCDEFG of instantons and W-algebras
Feb 1
1.15 pm 		Bogdan Stefanski
 (City U. London) 		Integrability and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence
Feb 3
11am 		Krzysztof Pilch
(USC)
 Consistent truncation of d=11 supergravity
on AdS_4 x S^7
Feb 10
11am 		Natalia Saulina
(Perimeter) 		OPE of Wilson-'t Hooft loop operators
Feb 15
1.15 pm 		Vasily Pestun
(IAS) 		Instanton calculus in quiver gauge theories
Feb 17
11am		 Hong Liu
(MIT) 		A refinement of entanglement entropy and the number of degrees of freedom
Feb 22
1.15 pm 		Chris Hull
(Imperial)		 TBA
Feb 24
11am
Room 269		 Balt van Rees
(Stony Brook) 		TBA
Mar 2
11am		 David Berenstein
(UCSB)		 TBA
Mar 9
11am 		Martin Ammon
(UCLA) 		TBA
Mar 16
11am		 Xi Yin
(Harvard)		 TBA


Archived High Energy Theory Seminar Schedules:
Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Winter 2011,  Fall 2010,  Spring 2010,  Winter 2010,  Fall 2009,  Spring 2009,  Winter 2009,  Fall 2008,  Spring 2008, Winter 2008 Fall 2007, Winter 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001

Slides of past seminars are available here (access restricted).

Other Caltech seminars: Other local seminars of interest: Recent hep-th papers from nearby institutes

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