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 organizers of this seminar are Allic Sivaramakrishnan and Julio Parra-Martinez.

2022-2023


Sept 28	Kevin Langhoff (Berkeley)	The Irreducible Axion
Oct 5	Sruthi Narayanan (Harvard)	Probing the Space of Celestial CFTs
Oct 12	Nick Geiser (UCLA)	Coon amplitudes and their generalizations
Oct 19	Aaron Hillman (Princeton)	Building Gravitational UV Completions of the Standard Model
Oct 26	Zihan Zhou (Princeton)	Love Numbers From Amplitudes
Nov 2	Jan Albert (Stony Brook)	Bootstrapping large-N confining gauge theories
Nov 9	Mitch Weaver (Cincinnati)	Mixing local and extended operators: a 2d vertex algebra in 4d N = 2 SCFTs
Nov 16	Naomi Gendler (Cornell)	Moduli Space Reconstruction and Weak Gravity
Nov 23	no talk	day before Thanksgiving holiday
Nov 30	Sanjit Shashi (UT Austin)	Holographic BCFT Spectra from Brane Mergers
Dec 2 (3:00 PM)	Max Rota (Amsterdam)	The holographic entropy cone from marginal independence
WINTER BREAK
Jan 6 (3:30 PM)	Zhengdi Sun (UCSD)	On triality defects in 2d CFT
Jan 11	Jake McNamara (Caltech)	Reflections on Parity Breaking
Jan 18	Seminar cancelled
Jan 25	Jaewon Song (KAIST)	On the landscape of 4d N=1 SCFTs
Feb 1	Gregoire Mathys (Cornell)	Gravity as a phase of matter
Feb 8	Åsmund Folkestad (MIT)	TBD
Feb 15	Sera Cremonini (Lehigh U.)	TBD
Feb 22	Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam (Stanford)	TBD
March 1	Miguel Correia (CERN & EPFL)	TBD
March 8	Yuk Ting Albert Law (Harvard)	TBD
SPRING BREAK
April 5	Nima Afkhami-Jeddi (Chicago)	TBD
April 12	Henry Maxfield (Stanford)	TBD
April 19	Maria Derda (Caltech)	TBD
April 26	Houri Christina Tarazi (Harvard)	TBD
May 3	Yichul Choi (Stony Brook)	TBD
May 10	Kasia Budzik (Perimeter Institute)	TBD
May 17
May 24
May 31	reserved