High Energy Theory Seminars 2020-21

Due to COVID-19 outbreak, all seminars are currently done remotely via zoom.
The organizers for this seminar are Monica Kang and David Meltzer.

2020-2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Oct 2	Matthew Dodelson	IPMU	Singularities of thermal correlators at strong coupling
Oct 9	Maria Rodriguez	Utah State Univ.	Central Charges for AdS Black Holes
Oct 16	Clifford Johnson	USC	Non-perturbative physics for JT gravity and supergravity
Oct 23	Tom Faulkner	UIUC	The holographic map as a conditional expectation
Oct 30 3PM*	Davide Gaiotto	Perimeter	The ODE/IM solution of integrable Kondo problems
Nov 6	Roberto Emparan	University of Barcelona	Quantum BTZ black hole
Nov 13	Steven Rayan	University of Saskatchewan	Generalized hyperpolygons, meromorphic Higgs bundles on curves, and integrability
Nov 20	Francesca Ferrari	SISSA and INFN	Canceled
Nov 27	No Seminar		Thanksgiving
Dec 4	Mina Aganagic	UC Berkeley	Khovanov homology from string theory
-	-	-	Winter break
Jan 15	Jordan Cotler	Harvard University	New non-perturbative effects in the gravitational path integral
Jan 22	Rob Myers	Perimeter Institute	Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy
Jan 29	David Vegh	Queen Mary Univ. of London	Pole-skipping in holographic theories
Feb 5	Clay Córdova	University of Chicago	Axions, Higher Groups, and Emergent Symmetry
Feb 12	Lakshya Bhardwaj	Oxford University	Confinement in 4d N=1 from 6d N=(2,0)
Feb 19	Irene Valenzuela	Harvard University	Recent Developments on the Swampland Distance Conjecture
Feb 26	Sebastian Mizera	IAS	Bounds on Crossing Symmetry
March 5	Andrea Puhm	Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT	Shocks and Shifts in Celestial CFT
March 12	Douglas Stanford	Stanford University	Wormholes without averaging
-	-	-	Spring break
April 2	Geoff Penington	UC Berkeley	Cancelled
April 9	Sasha Zhiboedov	CERN	Probing gravitational EFTs with the four-graviton amplitude
April 16	Zohar Komargodski	SCGP	Dynamics of 1+1 Dimensional Gauge Theories and Exotic Symmetries
April 23	Mukund Rangamani	UC Davis/QMAP	Real-time gravitational replicas
April 30	Nikita Nekrasov	SCGP	Towards Lefschetz thimbles in sigma models
May 7	Monica Pate	Harvard University	Flatspace Holography: Celestial Amplitudes and Symmetries
May 14	Lorenz Eberhardt	IAS	Worldsheet correlators in AdS3
May 21	Eliot Hijano	Princeton University	From AdS/CFT to soft theorems in flat space
May 28	Mark van Raamsdonk	UBC	Cosmology from confinement
June 4	Jacob McNamara	Harvard	Symmetries and Completeness in Field Theories and Gravity