High Energy Theory Seminars 2016-17

2016-2017


30-Sep	Matthew Walters	Boston University	Studying IR Dynamics with Conformal Truncation
7-Oct	Andrew McLeod	Stanford University	From Hexagons to Heptagons: Bootstrapping Seven-Point Amplitudes in Planar N=4 super-Yang Mills Theory
14-Oct	Alba Grassi	ICTP Trieste	Seiberg-Witten theory as a Fermi gas
14-Oct	Wolfgang Wieland	Perimeter Institute	Quasilocal free energy in GR: Positivity and monotonicity
21-Oct	No seminar	Southern California String Seminar at UCLA
28-Oct	Stephen Jordan	NIST/Univ of Maryland	Quantum computing and topological invariants
4-Nov	Brian Willett	KITP/UC Santa Barbara	3d N = 2 theories on circle bundles and the Bethe equations
4-Nov	Pavel Putrov	IAS	Exact solutions of N = (0 , 2) Landau - Ginzburg models
11-Nov	Callum Quigley	University of Toronto	Second quantized MSW strings on K3 fibrations
11-Nov	Elias Kiritsis	University of Crete	Holography and the quantum renormalization group
18-Nov	No seminar	Symposium to celebrate 75th birthday of John Schwarz
25-Nov	No seminar	Thanksgiving
2-Dec	Edgar Shaghoulian	UC Santa Barbara	Gravity from conformal large-N gauge theory
2-Dec	Natalie Paquette	Stanford University	Automorphy, Wall Crossing, and Symmetries of BPS States
6-Jan	Sarah Harrison	Harvard University	K3 String Theory, Lattices, and Moonshine
13-Jan	Márk Mezei	Princeton University	Moving the CFT into the bulk
20-Jan	Shu-Heng Shao	IAS	Indices, Particles, Surfaces, and Monsters
27-Jan	Guy Gur-Ari	Stanford University	Black Holes and Random Matrices
3-Feb	Simeon Hellerman	Kavli IPMU	tba
10-Feb	Xi Dong	IAS	Entanglement, Gravity, and Quantum Error Correction
17-Feb	Maxime Gabella	IAS	Spectral Networks, BPS Graphs, and BPS Quivers
24-Feb	Claire Zukowski	Columbia University	Emergent de Sitter Spaces from Entanglement Entropy
3-Mar	Jaewon Song	KIAS	Macdonald index and chiral algebra
10-Mar	Joshua Erlich	College of William & Mary	Quantum Gravity: A Free Lunch
17-Mar	Ethan Dyer	Stanford University	Information loss from partition functions at late times
24-Mar	Tudor Dimofte	QMAP, UC Davis	Equivariance and the cosmological constant
31-Mar	Andy Neitzke	UT Austin	Abelianization in complex Chern-Simons theory
7-Apr	Tom Hartman	Cornell University	Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling
14-Apr	Chi-Ming Chang	QMAP, UC Davis	Chaos in 2D CFT and Spinning Particle in AdS
21-Apr	Ingmar Saberi	Univ of Heidelbeg	Holographic Lattice Field Theories
28-Apr	Efrat Gerchkovitz	Weizmann Institute	Vortices in 4d, N=2 SQCD and their Worldsheet Theory from Supersymmetric Localization
5-May	Shamil Shakirov	Harvard University	Integrability of refined Chern-Simons theory
5-May	Gabriel Wong	University of Virginia	Entanglement Branes in a two-dimensional String Theory
12-May	Veronika Hubeny	QMAP, UC Davis	Covariant Entanglement Constructs
19-May	Gary Horowitz	UC Santa Barbara	Applications of light-cone cuts in holography