High Energy Theory Seminars 2023-2024
Seminars are held in 469 Lauritsen at 11am and via Zoom.
The organizers for this seminar series are Sridip Pal and Temple He.
Contact theoryinfo@caltech.edu for Zoom information.
2023-2024
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29 | Tom Melia | IPMU | The classical equations of motion of quantised gauge theories |
| Oct 6 *10am* | Alfredo Guevara Gonzalez | Harvard | Integrable Kerr Black Hole Spectrum from Twistor Symmetries |
| Oct 13 | Richard Nally | Cornell | Evidence for KKLT de Sitter Vacua |
| Oct 20 | Per Kraus | UCLA | Actions, S-Matrices and Edge Modes |
| Oct 27 | Ahmed Almheiri | NYU | Holography on the quantum disk |
| Nov 3 | Prahar Mitra | Amsterdam | Celestial Amplitudes in Effective Field Theories |
| Nov 10 | Antony Speranza | UIUC | Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity |
| Nov 17 | Nima Lashkari | Purdue University | Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity |
| Nov 24 | No seminar | Thanksgiving break | |
| Dec 1 | Giulia Isabella | UCLA | Massive gravity is not positive |
| - | - | - | Winter break |
| Jan 5 | Pratik Rath | UC Berkeley | A new proposal for holographic Renyi entropy |
| Jan 12 | Minjae Cho | Princeton | How Bootstrap and Monte Carlo became friends |
| Jan 19 | Yijian Zou | Perimeter Institute | The g-function and Defect Changing Operators from Wavefunction Overlap on a Fuzzy Sphere |
| Jan 26 (*11am) | Chi-Ming Chang | Tsinghua University | BPS states in the large N limit |
| Jan 26 (*1pm) | Yin-Chen He | Perimeter Institute | Fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFTs |
| Feb 2 | Andreas Karch | UT Austin | AdS Higgs mechanism for double trace deformed CFTs |
| Feb 5(*2:30pm) | Sandip Trivedi | TIFR, Mumbai | Matrix Entanglement and Beckenstein- Hawking Entropy |
| Feb 9 | Gabriel Cuomo | Princeton/NYU | The EFT of Large Spin Mesons |
| Feb 16 | Marija Tomasevic | University of Amsterdam | The correspondence between rotating black holes and fundamental strings |
| *Feb 20 (*2:00pm) | Takuya Yoda | Kyoto University | Complex saddles and possible chaos in string scatterings |
| Feb 23 | Shreya Vardhan | Stanford | Emergence and breakdown of the membrane picture in Brownian models |
| March 1 (*11am*) | Joaquin Turiaci | University of Washington | Gravitational index of the heterotic string |
| March 1 (*1pm*) | Nikolay Bobev | KU Leuven | A Holographic Triptych at Large N |
| March 8 (*11am*) | Grant Remmen | NYU | Effective Field Theory Breakdown Near Cool Black Holes |
| March 8 (*1 pm*) | Jonah Kudler-Flam | IAS, Princeton | Algebras and entropies for quantum field theory, black holes, and inflationary cosmology |
| - | Spring break | ||
| April 5 | Enrico Herrmann | UCLA | Precision Black Hole Collider Physics |
| April 12 (*11am*) | Edward Mazenc | ETH | Strings From Feynman Diagrams |
| April 12 (*1pm*) | Alejandra Castro | University of Cambridge | Keeping matter in the loop in 3D quantum gravity |
| April 19 | No seminar | ||
| April 26 | Victor Rodriguez | Princeton University | New dualities between string theories and random ensembles |
| May 3 | Luca Delacretaz | University of Chicago | Bound on the thermalization time of d>2 CFTs |
| May 10 | Daniel Brennan | UC San Diego | |
| May 17 | Ronak Soni | University of Cambridge | Multipartite Edge Modes and Tensor Networks |
| May 24 | No seminar | ||
| May 31 | Eugenia Colafranceschi | UCSB/University of Western Ontario |