High Energy Theory Seminars 2017-18

2017-2018


29-Sep	Philip Argyres	Univ of Cincinnati	Coulomb branches of conformal field theories
6-Oct	Matteo Lotito	Univ of Cincinnati	Uncovering flavor of N=2 SCFTs through geometry
13-Oct	Clay Cordova	IAS	Applications of the Average Null Energy Condition
20-Oct	Eduardo Teste Lino	Centro Atomico Bariloche	The Markov property of the CFT vacuum and the entropic proof of the a-theorem
27-Oct	Shira Chapman	Perimeter Institute	Complexity in holography and QFT
3-Nov	Sean Weinberg	UCSB	The Dynamical Holographic Entropy Cone and General Holography
10-Nov	Pietro Longhi	Uppsala	BPS Graphs of Class S Theories
16-Nov	Tarek Anous	UBC	A string-inspired SYK model and some 4d black hole phenomenology
17-Nov	Masahito Yamazaki	IPMU	Gauge Theory and Integrability (Two seminars)
24-Nov	No seminar	Thanksgiving
1-Dec	Ricardo Schiappa	Lisboa	Resurgence and Transseries in String Theory
1-Dec	Tin Sulejmanpasic	ENS, Paris	Domain walls, anomalies and (de)confinement in quantum magnets and gauge theories
8-Dec	Jennifer Lin	IAS	Entanglement in gauge theories and gravity
8-Dec	Xinan Zhou	Stony Brook	Holographic Mellin Amplitudes
12-Jan	Dan Freed	UT Austin	Three applications of topology to physics
12-Jan	Daniel Harlow	MIT	Symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity
19-Jan	Aleksey Cherman	Univ of Washington	Emergent dimensions from large N confinement
26-Jan	Leonardo Rastelli	Stony Brook	Higgs branches and chiral algebras of 4d N=2 theories -- a progress report
26-Jan	Tom Rudelius	IAS	6D SCFTs and Group Theory
2-Feb	Jeffrey Harvey	Chicago	Hecke operators for characters of Rational Conformal Field Theory
2-Feb	Jared Kaplan	Johns Hopkins	Exact Bulk Operators and the Fate of Locality
9-Feb	Frederik Denef	Columbia	Higher Spin de Sitter Hilbert Space
16-Feb	Mario Martone	UT Austin	On singularities of super-conformal field theories
16-Feb	Dan Xie	Harvard	Seiberg-Witten differential via primitive forms
23-Feb	Sasha Zhiboedov	Harvard	Correlation Functions in CFTs with Weakly Broken Higher Spin Symmetry
23-Feb	Pavel Putrov	IAS	Topological terms in Yang-Mills theory with time-reversal symmetry
2-Mar	Daniel Harlow	MIT	Splittability and Noether's Theorem in Quantum Field Theory
9-Mar	Aron Wall	Stanford	How Low can the Energy Density Go?
16-Mar	Xi Yin	Harvard	Old stringy tales revisited
16-Mar	Feng Xu	UC Riverside	On relative entropy in CFT
23-Mar	No seminar	Spring Recess
30-Mar	No seminar	Spring Recess
6-Apr	Ning Bao	UC Berkeley	Generalized holographic entanglement of purification
13-Apr	Lorenzo Di Pietro	Perimeter Institute	Perturbative Approaches for QED3
20-Apr	Mukund Rangamani	UC Davis	Entropy production via an inflow mechanism
27-Apr	Jacques Distler	UT Austin	Tinkertoys for E8
4-May	Michael Geracie	UC Davis	Categories of Line Operators in 3d N=4 Theories
11-May	Markus Luty	UC Davis	A positive sum rule for the c anomaly in 4D conformal field theory
18-May	Xiaoliang Qi	Stanford	2d eternal traversable wormhole
25-May	Volker Schomerus	DESY	Schroedinger's Equation for Conformal Symmetry
25-May	Christoph Keller	Univ of Arizona	Holographic Orbifold CFTs
1-Jun	Matthew Heydeman	Caltech	Unifying Tree Super-Amplitudes in 6D: Branes, SYM, and SUGRA