High Energy Theory Informal Meeting

All talks at 10:30am Pacific time in 469 Lauritsen or on Zoom (unless indicated*).

Must have valid Caltech ID to attend meeting in 469.

Zoom link, inquire for password.

The organizer of this seminar is Julio Parra-Martinez.

Fall 2021 - Spring 2022


Sept 29	Riccardo Gonzo (Dublin)	Gravitational event shapes and coherent states for gravitational waves
Oct 6	Aidan Hederschee (Michigan)	A Novel Framework for Higher Loop Witten Diagrams
Oct 13	Nathan Benjamin (Caltech)	Harmonic analysis of 2d CFT partition functions
Oct 20	Yuya Kusuki (Caltech)	Page Curve from Holographic Moving Mirrors"
Oct 27	Yue-Zhou Li (McGill)	Helicity basis in three dimensional CFT
Nov 3	Sahand Seifnashri (Stony Brook)	On 1+1d quantum field theories with non-invertible symmetries
Nov 9* 12pm Special date	Ji Hoon Lee (Perimeter)	A microscopic expansion for superconformal indices
Nov 17	Cyuan-Han Chang (Caltech)	The light-ray OPE and energy correlators
Nov 24 Zoom	Suman Kundu (TIFR, Mumbai)	Bounds on Regge growth of flat space scattering from bounds on chaos
Dec 1	No seminar
Dec 8	Richard Derryberry (Perimeter)	Zero-curvature formulation for novel two-dimensional field theories
Dec 9	Ying Lin (Harvard)	Numerical evidence for a Haagerup conformal field theory
Jan 5 Zoom	Craig Lawrie (DESY)	Infinitely-many 4d SCFTs with a=c
Jan 12 Zoom	Wenli Zhao (Princeton)	The statistical mechanics of near BPS black holes
Jan 18 (Tuesday) POSTPONED	Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew U.)	POSTPONED
Jan 19	Itamar Yaakov (INFN, Milan)	Localization and duality for ABJM latitude Wilson loops
Jan 26	Andreas Helset (Caltech)	Geometric Soft Theorems
Feb 9	Orr Sela (UCLA)	Emergent symmetries in 3d and compactification from 5d
Feb 16	No Seminar
Feb 23 - POSTPONED	Indranil Halder (Harvard)	POSTPONED
March 2	Elliott Gesteau (Caltech)	Holographic tensor networks from hyperbolic buildings
March 9 *11am	Piotr Tourkine (Annecy)	On the unitarity and low energy expansion of the Coon amplitude
March 9	Emily Nardoni (IPMU)	N=2 Argyres-Douglas Theories and Holography
SPRING BREAK
March 30	Rodolfo Panerai (Uppsala)	Exact TTbar deformation of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory
April 6	Temple He (Davis)	An effective description of energy transport from holography
April 13. via ZOOM	Indranil Halder (Harvard)	Triality in String Theory on AdS_3
April 20	Waltraut Knop (Stony Brook)	Dispersive Sum Rules in AdS_2
April 27	No seminar
May 4	Allic Sivaramakrishnan (Kentucky)	On-shell Correlators and Color-Kinematics Duality in Curved Spacetimes
May 11	Nabha Shah (Caltech)	Non-perturbative double copy in 2D
May 18 *10:30am	Shozab Qasim (Freie U. Berlin)	Dynamical Holographic Tensor Networks
May 18	Umang Mehta (Chicago)	Effective field theory of Fermi surfaces from bosonization
May 25	Zhu-Xi Luo (KITP)	Boundary of fracton phases of matter from a continuum perspective
June 1	Vincent Lee (Caltech)	Near-Horizon Quantum Dynamics of 4-d Einstein Gravity from 2-d JT Gravity
June 8	Aidan Hederschee (Michigan)	TBD