High Energy Theory Seminars 2019-20

2019-2020

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4-Oct	Avia Raviv	Tel Aviv University	Supersymmetric Lifshitz Field Theories
4-Oct	Mithat Unsal	NCSU	Mixed anomalies, semi-classics and quantum distillation in QCD
11-Oct	Cumrun Vafa	Harvard	Cobordism Classes and the Swampland
18-Oct	Miroslav Rapčak	UC Berkeley	Extensions of Kac-Moody algebras and Calabi-Yau Singularities
25-Oct	Baur Mukhametzhanov	IAS	Modular Bootstrap and Tauberian Theorems
25-Oct	Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam	UC Berkeley	Ignorance is Cheap: From Black Hole Entropy To Energy-Minimizing States In QFT
1-Nov	Andrea Manenti	EPFL	Implications of the ANEC in four dimensional SCFTs
8-Nov	Ahmed Ahlmeiri	IAS	Quantum Extremal Islands and the Information Paradox
15-Nov	Pietro Longhi	ETH Zurich	Physics and geometry of the knots-quivers correspondence
22-Nov	Shota Komatsu	IAS	Holey Sheet, Integrability!
29-Nov	No Seminar	Thanksgiving
6-Dec	Edward Mazenc	Stanford	The TT and JT deformations as topological gravity and gauge theory.
10-Jan	Rob Myers	Perimeter Institute	Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy
10-Jan	Edgar Shaghoulian	Cornell	Replica wormholes and the black hole information paradox
17-Jan	Mauricio Romo	Tsinghua University	Hemisphere partition function, LG orbifolds and FJRW invariants
24-Jan	Eduardo Casali	UC Davis/QMAP	Monodromy relations in string theory from twisted homology
31-Jan	Gábor Sárosi	CERN	Chaos in the butterfly cone
31-Jan	Jerome Gauntlett	Imperial College London	Geometric Extremization for AdS/CFT and Black Hole Entropy
7-Feb	Carlos Cardona	Bohr Institute	OPE inversion and light cone bootstrap in generic dimensions
14-Feb	Raghu Mahajan	IAS	Entanglement islands and the information paradox
21-Feb	No Seminar	Southern California Strings Seminar
28-Feb	Joseph Minahan	Uppsala University	Maximal Super Yang-Mills and their holographics duals
28-Feb	Yang Hui-He	City University of London	Universes as Bigdata: Superstrings, Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Machine-Learning
6-Mar	Henry Maxfield	UCSB	Black hole information, spacetime wormholes, baby universes and ensembles
13-Mar	Tom Rudelius	IAS	Generalized Global Symmetries and the Swampland
20-Mar	Paolo Benincasa	Bohr Institute	Cosmological Evolution Without Time
27-Mar	No Seminar	Spring Recess
3-Apr	Felix Haehl	IAS	Reparametrization modes in CFTs & applicationsReparametrization modes in CFTs & applications
10-Apr	Luca Ilesiu	Princeton	The Statistical Mechanics of Near-Extremal Black Holes
17-Apr	Jaroslav Trnka	UC Davis	Nothing is certain in string compactifications
24-Apr	Vladimir Narovlansky	Princeton	Double-scaled and Supersymmetric SYK
1-May	Kantaro Ohmori	SCGP	1+1d adjoint QCD and non-invertible topological lines
8-May	Daniel Harlow	MIT	Covariant phase space with boundaries
15-May	Chiara Toldo	Ecole Polytechnique	Holographic duals of refined partition functions
22-May	Tom Hartman	Cornell	Sphere packing, 3d gravity, and random CFTs
29-May	Miguel Montero	Harvard	Nothing is certain in string compactifications
5-Jun	Ken Intriligator	UCSD	Higher Symmetry and Anomalies in 4d and 6d QFTs

Summer 2020


26-Jun	Max Zimet	Harvard BHI	K3 metrics
3-Jul	No Seminar	Strings 2020 (Zoom)
10-Jul	Alex Maloney	McGill	Gravity from Averaging CFTs
17-Jul	Mithat Unsal	NC State	Strongly coupled QFT dynamics via TQFT coupling
24-Jul	Venkatesa Chandrasekaran	UC Berkeley	Gravity Dual of Connes Cocycle Flow
31-Jul	Dongmin Gang	APCTP	M-theoretic genesis of topological phases
7-Aug	William Linch	Texas A&M	Eleven-dimensional Supergravity with Four Off-shell Supersymmetries
14-Aug	Greg Moore	Rutgers	Moonshine, Supersymmetry, and Quantum Codes
21-Aug	Daniel Junghans	Heidelberg	O-plane Backreaction and Scale Separation in Type IIA Flux Vacua
28-Aug	Joanna Karczmarek	UBC	Entanglement entropy in the BFSS model and noncommutative geometry
4-Sep	Dalimil Mazac	Simons Center	Dispersive CFT Sum Rules
11-Sep	Srimoyee Sen	Iowa State University	Higgs-confinement phase transitions with fundamental representation matter
18-Sep	Jan de Boer	Amsterdam	To average or not to average