High Energy Theory Seminars 2022-2023

Seminars are held in 469 Lauritsen at 11am and via Zoom.

The organizers for this seminar series are Nathan Benjamin and Julio Parra-Martinez.

Contact theoryinfo@caltech.edu for Zoom information.

High Energy Theory Seminars 2022-2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sep 30 (10:30am)	Ying Zhao	UCSB	Collisions of shockwaves and quantum circuits
Oct 7 (12pm) 114 E. Bridge	Chris Akers	MIT	The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity
(3pm)	Ying-Hsuan Lin	Harvard	Words to describe a black hole
Oct 14	Kartik Prabhu	UCSB	Infrared finite scattering in QFT & quantum gravity
Oct 21	John McGreevy	UCSD	Entanglement Bootstrap and Remote Detectability
Oct 28	No Seminar - HirosiFest
Nov 4	Henry Lin	Stanford	The bulk Hilbert space of double scaled SYK
Nov 11	Vijay Balasubramanian	UPenn	How The Black Hole Got Its Horizon: Chaos Complexity, and Randomness
Nov 18	Clifford Johnson	USC	Random Matrix Spectroscopy and Quantum Gravity
Nov 25	Thanksgiving holiday
Dec 2	Abhiram Kidambi	IPMU	Gravitational Path Integral for 1/4 BPS N = 4 black holes from Siegel Modular Forms
-	-	-	Winter break
Jan 6	Alexey Milekhin	UCSB	Measurement-induced phase transition in teleportation and wormholes
Jan 13	Seminar canceled
Jan 20	Tom Hartman	Cornell	Holographic codes in CFT
Jan 27	Craig Lawrie	DESY	Distinguishing SCFTs in Four and Six Dimensions
Feb 2 @2pm	Murat Kologlu	Yale	Quantum Detectorology
Feb 3	Alexander Zhiboedov	CERN	Nonperturbative scattering amplitudes from dispersive iterations of unitarity
Feb 10	Shiraz Minwalla	Tata Institute	Crossing Symmetry in Matter Chern Simons theories at finite N and k
Feb 17	Jacques Distler	UT Austin	VOAs and RG flows in 4D N=2 Theories
Feb 24	Connor Behan	Oxford	Coupled minimal models revisited
March 3 (10:30am)	Kimyeong Lee	KIAS	Twisting 6d (2,0) SCFTs and LSTs
March 10	Avia Raviv-Moshe	Stony Brook	Line Defects in CFTs: from Spin Impurities to Wilson Lines
-	-	-	Spring break
March 31	Dalimil Mazac	IAS	Conformal measure spaces
April 7	Silviu Pufu	Princeton	Mass shift in lattice Hamiltonian approach to Schwinger model
April 14	Liam Fitzpatrick	Boston University	Thermalization and Chaos from Energy Eigenstates in QFT
April 21	Clay Cordova	Chicago	Non-Invertible Chiral Symmetry
April 28	Edgar Shaghoulian	UCSC	Some comments on modular invariance in higher dimensions
May 5	Vladimir Rosenhaus	CUNY	Kinetic Theory of Waves for Turbulent States
May 12 (11am)	Andrea Cristofoli	Edinburgh	An On-Shell Approach to Self-Force on Gravitational Plane Waves
May 12 (1pm)	Jingyuan Chen	Tsinghua University	Instanton Operator in Lattice QCD from Higher Category Theory
May 19	Konstantinos Roumpedakis	UCLA	Non-Invertible Symmetries in Higher Dimensions
May 26 (11am)	Zimo Sun	Princeton	Kallen-Lehman representations in de Sitter spacetime
May 26 (1pm)	Massimo Porrati	NYU	A New Supertranslation-Invariant Angular Momentum Flux in Gravitational Scattering