High Energy Theory Seminars 2025-2026
Seminars are held in 469 Lauritsen at 11am and via Zoom.
The organizers for this seminar series are Temple He and Alexandre Homrich.
Contact [email protected] for Zoom information.
2025-2026
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3 | No seminar | SoCal Strings | |
| Oct 10 *11 AM* | Albert Law | Stanford University | Horizon Edge Modes in Λ > 0 Quantum Gravity |
| Oct 10 *1 PM* | Ian Moult | Yale University | Energy Operators in Particle Physics, QFT, and Gravity |
| Oct 17 | Tom Hartman | Cornell University | Triangulating Quantum Gravity in AdS_3 |
| Oct 24 | Mark Van Raamsdonk | UBC | Algebras for generalized entanglement wedges? |
| Oct 31 | Diego Delmastro | UCLA | Continuous Non-Invertible Symmetries |
| Nov 7 | Fedor Popov | Stony Brook University | Entropic Order |
| Nov 14 | Nima Lashkari | Purdue University | Algebras and Emergence of Time: global physics from a local state |
| Nov 21 | Miguel Correia | McGill University | Maximizing the Interaction Strength |
| Nov 28 | No seminar | Day after Thanksgiving | |
| Dec 5 *11 AM* | Jaewon Song | KAIST | Large N Universality of 4d N=1 SCFT and Holography |
| Dec 5 *1 PM* | Tianli Wang | Harvard University | Emergent Flat Space from Quantum Entanglement |
| WINTER BREAK | |||
| Jan 9 | Kurt Hinterbichler | Case Western Reserve University | Constraints on Long-Range Forces in De Sitter Space |
| Jan 16 | Per Kraus | UCLA | Hamiltonian approach to near extremal black hole physics |
| Jan 23 | Ignatios Antoniadis | LPTHE | Large extra dimensions from higher-dimensional inflation |
| Jan 30 | Rachel Rosen | Carnegie Mellon University | Exploring Entropy-Positivity Bounds |
| Feb 6 | Sebastian Mizera | Columbia University | Unitary Architecture of Renormalization |
| Feb 13 | Björn Hassfeld | University of Wisconsin, Madison | The Measure Problem and the Beginning of the Universe |
| Feb 20 | Alberto Castellano | UChicago | Exact Path Integral Methods in AdS$_2\times \mathbf{S}^2$ and Non-Perturbative Black Holes |
| Feb 27 | Veronika Hubeny | UC Davis | New insights into holographic entropy inequalities |
| March 6 | Nathan Benjamin | USC | CFT entropy at large spin |
| March 13 | Sunjin Choi | IPMU | Fortuity and hairy black holes in AdS |
| SPRING BREAK | |||
| April 3 | Hao Chen | MIT | |
| April 10 | Kelian Häring | University of Amsterdam | |
| April 17 | Ji Hoon Lee | ETH-Zurich | |
| April 24 | |||
| May 1 | Gaston Giribet | NYU | |
| May 8 | Xi Dong | UCSB | |
| May 15 | |||
| May 22 | Sabrina Pasterski | Perimeter Institute | |
| May 29 | Minjae Cho | UChicago |