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High Energy Theory Informal Meeting 2022-2023
High Energy Theory Informal Meeting 2022-2023
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
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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) | The Penrose Inequality as a Constraint on Low Energy Quantum Gravity |
| Feb 15 | Sera Cremonini (Lehigh U.) | Comments on black holes, higher derivatives and weak gravity constraints |
| Feb 22 | Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam (Stanford) | Restricted Quantum Focusing |
| March 1 | Miguel Correia (CERN & EPFL) | Nonperturbative Anomalous Thresholds |
| March 8 | Yuk Ting Albert Law (Harvard) | Horizon Scattering, Partition Functions, and Edge Modes |
| SPRING BREAK | ||
| March 29 (2:00 PM) | Jordan Wilson-Gerow (Caltech) | An Effective Field Theory for Extreme Mass Ratios |
| April 5 | Nima Afkhami-Jeddi (McGill) | Exponentially Slow Thermalization and WGC in AdS/CFT |
| April 12 | Henry Maxfield (Stanford) | Counting states of black holes with replica wormholes |
| April 19 | Maria Derda (Caltech) | Soft Phonon Theorems |
| April 26 | Houri Christina Tarazi (Harvard) | Infinite distance limits as a path to the String Lamppost |
| May 3 | Yichul Choi (Stony Brook) | Noninvertible Gauss Law and Axions |
| May 10 | Kasia Budzik (Perimeter Institute) | Holomorphic twist of 4d N=1 gauge theories |
| May 17 | Suzanne Bintanja (Amsterdam) | A toolbox for holographic CFTs |
| May 24 | Temple He (Caltech) | From Shockwaves to the Gravitational Memory Effect |
| May 31 | Zhencheng Wang (UCSB) | Algebras of boundary observables from the gravitational path integral |
| June 5 (3:00 PM) | Pouria Dadras (Caltech) |