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High Energy Theory Informal Meeting 2017-18
High Energy Theory Informal Meeting 2017-18
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This meeting is for relatively informal discussions on topics that happen to be interesting us - occasionally we also have a formal seminar.
The organizer of this seminar is Mykola Dedushenko. The location of this meeting is 469 Lauritsen.
Fall 2017, Wednesdays, 1:30 pm
| Sep 27 |
Joseph Farrow (Durham University) |
From Ambitwistor Strings to On Shell Diagrams and Back |
| Oct 4 |
Mikhail Evtikhiev (Weizmann) |
Studying superconformal symmetry enhancement through indices |
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Oct 11 (248 Lauritsen, 12:00PM) |
Roji Pius (Perimeter) |
Quantum Closed Superstring Field Theory and the Weil-Petersson Symplectic Geometry |
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Oct 11 (1:30PM) |
Congkao Wen (Caltech) |
M5-Brane and D-Brane Scattering Amplitudes |
| Oct 18 |
Eric Perlmutter (Caltech) |
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| Oct 25 |
Michael Walter (University of Amsterdam) |
Rigorous free fermion entanglement renormalization from wavelets |
| Nov 1 |
Miroslav Rapcak (Perimeter) |
Vertex Operator Algebras via Topological Vertex Like Construction |
| Nov 8 |
Emil Akhmedov (ITEP) |
Surprises of quantization in de Sitter space |
| Nov 15 |
Natalie Paquette (Caltech) |
Dual Boundary Conditions in 3d QFTs |
| Nov 22 | No seminar | Thanksgiving |
| Nov 29 |
Yifan Wang (Princeton) |
A Precision Study of 5d Superconformal Fixed Points |
| Dec 6 |
Dmitrii Galakhov (Berkeley) |
On ADE link homology |
Winter 2018, Wednesdays, 1:30 pm
| Jan 3 |
Cyril Closset (CERN) |
Supersymmetric gauge theories on Seifert manifolds |
| Jan 10 |
Arnav Tripathy (Harvard) |
Multicenter black hole counts at higher genus |
| Jan 17 |
Sarthak Parikh (Caltech) |
Towards Adelic Mellin Amplitudes |
| Jan 24 |
Josephine Suh (Caltech) |
Quantization of the Schwarzian |
| Jan 31 |
Ying-Hsuan Lin (Caltech) |
Topological lines in 2d CFTs and constraints on RG flows |
| Feb 7 |
Sergei Gukov (Caltech) |
Chiral Algebras and Topology |
| Feb 14 |
Grant Remmen (Berkeley) |
Proof of the Weak Gravity Conjecture from Black Hole Entropy |
| Feb 21 |
Jorgen Ellegaard Andersen (Aarhus) |
Geometric Recursion |
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Feb 28 (11:00AM) |
Dongmin Gang (Seoul National University) |
Quantum invariants of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds and resurgence |
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Feb 28 (1:00PM) |
Mykola Dedushenko (Caltech) |
3D N=4 Coulomb branches from cutting and gluing |
| Mar 7 |
Alexandra Miller (UCSB) |
Code Subspaces for LLM Geometries |
| Mar 14 |
Shinji Mukohyama (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics) |
Horova-Lifschitz cosmology revisited |
| Mar 21 |
Philip Argyres (University of Cincinnati, Caltech) |
Moduli spaces of N=3 superconformal field theories in four dimensions |
| Mar 28 |
Spring 2018, Wednesdays, 1:30 pm
| April 4 |
Murat Kologlu (Caltech) |
The Conformal Bootstrap at Finite Temperature |
| April 11 |
Shai Chester (Princeton) |
Bootstrapping M-theory from 3d CFT |
| April 18 |
David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech) |
Light-ray operators in conformal field theory |
| April 25 |
Hiraku Nakajima (Kyoto University) |
Moore-Tachikawa 2d TQFTs whose values are holomorphic symplectic varieties, part 2 |
| May 2 |
Martin Fluder (Caltech) |
Through the lens (space) to chiral algebras and holographic RG flows |
| May 9 |
Lev Spodyneiko (Caltech) |
On dual description of the deformed O(N) sigma model |
| May 16 |
Adam Levine (UC Berkeley) |
Energy is Entanglement |
| May 23 |
Jason Pollack (University of British Columbia) |
Traversible Wormholes as Quantum Channels |
| May 30 |
Dean Carmi (Caltech) |
Dispersion relations for CFT 4-point correlators |
| June 6 |
Anton Kapustin (Caltech) |
Chern insulators and algebraic geometry |
| June 13 |