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High Energy Theory Informal Meeting 2016-17
High Energy Theory Informal Meeting 2016-17
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This meeting is for relatively informal discussions on topics that happen to be interesting us - occasionally we also have a formal seminar.
The organizer of this seminar is Slava Lysov. The location of this meeting is 469 Lauritsen.
Fall 2016, Wednesdays, 1:30 pm
| Oct 5 | Ying-Hsuan Lin (Caltech) |
Towards carving out 5d SCFT |
| Oct 12 | Jaewon Song (UCSD) |
N=1 "Lagrangians" for "non-Lagrangian" N=2 SCFT's |
| Oct 19 | Mykola Dedushenko (Caltech) |
A one dimensional theory for Higgs branch operators of 3d N=4 theories from localization |
| Oct 26 | Lars Brink (Chalmers University) |
Exceptional vs superPoincare algebra as the defining symmetry of maximal Supergravity |
| Nov 2 | Arnab Rudra (UC Davis) |
Type I/Heterotic Duality and M-theory Amplitudes |
| Nov 9 | Ke Ye (Caltech) |
Argyres-Douglas theory and the Verlinde formula on wild Hitchin moduli space |
| Nov 16 (11:00 am) | Laurent Baulieu (LPTHE, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universites) |
Early Universes with Effective Discrete Time |
| Nov 16 (1:00 pm) | Piotr Sulkowski (University of Warsaw) |
Knots and quivers |
| Nov 23 | No Seminar. Thanksgiving week | |
| Nov 30 | Eric Perlmutter (Princeton) |
A New Approach to AdS Amplitudes |
| Dec 7 | Dalimil Mazac (Perimeter) |
Analytic Bounds from Confromal Bootstrap |
This meeting is for relatively informal discussions on topics that happen to be interesting us - occasionally we also have a formal seminar.
The organizers of this seminar are Mykola Dedushenko and Slava Lysov. The location of this meeting is 469 Lauritsen.
Winter 2017, Wednesdays, 1:30 pm
| Jan 25 | No seminar | |
| Feb 1 | Satoshi Nawata (Fudan University) |
Algebra of line operators in 4d N=2* and DAHA |
| Feb 8 | Scott Aaronson (UT Austin) |
AdS/CFT and Computational Complexity |
| Feb 15 (12:30PM) |
Dan Xie (Harvard) |
Argyres-Douglas matter and N=2 dualities |
| Feb 15 (2:30PM) |
Anton Kapustin (Caltech) |
Topological phases of fermions and bosonization |
| Feb 22 | John Schwarz (Caltech) |
What is H Theory? |
| Mar 1 | Lev Spodyneiko (Caltech) |
Instabilities of AdS compactifications and collapse of spheres |
| Mar 8 | ||
| Mar 15 | Christoph Uhlemann (UCLA) |
Holographic duals for 5d SCFTs |
This meeting is for relatively informal discussions on topics that happen to be interesting us - occasionally we also have a formal seminar.
The organizer of this seminar is Mykola Dedushenko. The location of this meeting is 469 Lauritsen.
Spring 2017, Wednesdays, 1:30 pm
| Apr 5 | No seminar | |
| Apr 12 (1:15PM) |
John Preskill (Caltech) |
Local correctability and holography. |
| Apr 19 | ||
| Apr 26 | Petr Kravchuk (Caltech) |
A New Spin on Conformal Blocks |
| May 3 | Ning Bao (Caltech) |
Haar randomness and holography |
| May 10 | Victor Mikhaylov (Simons Center) |
Teichmuller TQFT vs Chern-Simons Theory |
| May 17 | Sergio Ferrara (CERN & UCLA) |
Superconformal Formulation of Supergravity |
| May 24 1:30PM |
Grant Salton (Stanford) |
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction from a Quantum Bayes' Rule |
| May 24 4PM |
Mudassir Moosa (UC Berkeley) |
Dynamics, observer-dependence, and geometry of holographic screens |
| May 31 |