High Energy Theory Informal Meeting 2025-2026

All talks at 11:00am Pacific time in 469 Lauritsen or on Zoom (unless indicated*).

The organizers of this seminar are Temple He and Marc Klinger

Contact [email protected] for Zoom information.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Oct 1	Deniz Bozkurt	DESY	Towards an Analytic Bootstrap Framework for Thermal CFTs
Oct 8	David Kolchmeyer	IAS	Bottom-up de Sitter holography
Oct 15	Sonja Klisch	Perimeter Institute	The soft physics of amplitudes in background fields
Oct 22	Zechuan Zheng	Perimeter Institute	The Analytic Functional in the Numerical Conformal Bootstrap
Oct 29	Romain Ruzziconi	Harvard	Flat Space/Carrollian Limit of AdS/CFT
Nov 5 - 11am	Jinzhao Wang	Stanford	Free mutual information and higher-point OTOCs
Nov 5 - 1pm	Sebastian Harris	DESY	Sparsity in the numerical six-point bootstrap
Nov 12	Pratik Rath	UC Berkeley	A Black Hole Airy Tail
Nov 19	Yoav Zigdon	Tel Aviv University	Ensemble Averages of Fuzzballs
Nov 26	No seminar	Day before Thanksgiving
Dec 3	Brandon Rayhaun	IAS
WINTER BREAK
Jan 7	Anna Wolz	UCLA
Jan 14	Mina Himwich	Princeton
Jan 21	Jeremy van der Heijden	University of British Columbia
Jan 28	Diego Garcia Sepulveda	Harvard University
Feb 4	Francesco Calisto	Caltech
Feb 11	Sam Leutheusser	KITP
Feb 18	Jose Calderon Infante	Caltech
Feb 25	Jackie Caminiti	Perimeter Institute
March 4	Christian Ferko	Northeastern
March 11	Elisa Tabor	UC Berkeley
SPRING BREAK
April 1	Joonhwi Kim	Caltech
April 8
April 15
April 22
April 29
May 6
May 13
May 20
May 27