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	Navigating Collider Phenomenology with Light-Ray Operators & Chew-Frautschi Plot
April 10	Kelian Häring	University of Amsterdam	Scattering on the Coulomb Branch of N=4 SYM
April 17	Ji Hoon Lee	ETH-Zurich	Polar states in AdS3 holography
April 24	Shruti Paranjape	Brown University	Zeros and Singularities of Cosmological Wavefunctions
May 1	Gaston Giribet	NYU	Imaginary Liouville Theory
May 8	Xi Dong	UCSB	Modular flow in a large holographic code
May 15	Victor Rodriguez	UCSB	c=1 as a matrix integral
May 22 11 AM	Barak Gabai	EPFL	Strings Attached: the Confining Flux Tube as a Conformal Defect
May 22 3 PM	Sabrina Pasterski	Perimeter Institute	Swing Surfaces in AdS/CFT
May 29	Minjae Cho	UChicago	A bootstrap framework for equilibrium, nonequilibrium, and disorder