High Energy Theory Seminars 2023-2024

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

The organizers for this seminar series are Sridip Pal and Temple He.

Contact theoryinfo@caltech.edu for Zoom information.

2023-2024

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sep 29	Tom Melia	IPMU	The classical equations of motion of quantised gauge theories
Oct 6 10am	Alfredo Guevara Gonzalez	Harvard	Integrable Kerr Black Hole Spectrum from Twistor Symmetries
Oct 13	Richard Nally	Cornell	Evidence for KKLT de Sitter Vacua
Oct 20	Per Kraus	UCLA	Actions, S-Matrices and Edge Modes
Oct 27	Ahmed Almheiri	NYU	Holography on the quantum disk
Nov 3	Prahar Mitra	Amsterdam	Celestial Amplitudes in Effective Field Theories
Nov 10	Antony Speranza	UIUC	Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity
Nov 17	Nima Lashkari	Purdue University	Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity
Nov 24	No seminar		Thanksgiving break
Dec 1	Giulia Isabella	UCLA	Massive gravity is not positive
-	-	-	Winter break
Jan 5	Pratik Rath	UC Berkeley	A new proposal for holographic Renyi entropy
Jan 12	Minjae Cho	Princeton	How Bootstrap and Monte Carlo became friends
Jan 19	Yijian Zou	Perimeter Institute	The g-function and Defect Changing Operators from Wavefunction Overlap on a Fuzzy Sphere
Jan 26 (*11am)	Chi-Ming Chang	Tsinghua University	BPS states in the large N limit
Jan 26 (*1pm)	Yin-Chen He	Perimeter Institute	Fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFTs
Feb 2	Andreas Karch	UT Austin	AdS Higgs mechanism for double trace deformed CFTs
Feb 5(*2:30pm)	Sandip Trivedi	TIFR, Mumbai	Matrix Entanglement and Beckenstein- Hawking Entropy
Feb 9	Gabriel Cuomo	Princeton/NYU	The EFT of Large Spin Mesons
Feb 16	Marija Tomasevic	University of Amsterdam	The correspondence between rotating black holes and fundamental strings
Feb 20 (2:00pm)	Takuya Yoda	Kyoto University	Complex saddles and possible chaos in string scatterings
Feb 23	Shreya Vardhan	Stanford	Emergence and breakdown of the membrane picture in Brownian models
March 1 (11am)	Joaquin Turiaci	University of Washington	Gravitational index of the heterotic string
March 1 (1pm)	Nikolay Bobev	KU Leuven	A Holographic Triptych at Large N
March 8 (11am)	Grant Remmen	NYU	Effective Field Theory Breakdown Near Cool Black Holes
March 8 (1 pm)	Jonah Kudler-Flam	IAS, Princeton	Algebras and entropies for quantum field theory, black holes, and inflationary cosmology
-			Spring break
April 5	Enrico Herrmann	UCLA	Precision Black Hole Collider Physics
April 12 (11am)	Edward Mazenc	ETH	Strings From Feynman Diagrams
April 12 (1pm)	Alejandra Castro	University of Cambridge	Keeping matter in the loop in 3D quantum gravity
April 19	No seminar
April 26	Victor Rodriguez	Princeton University	New dualities between string theories and random ensembles
May 3	Luca Delacretaz	University of Chicago	Bound on the thermalization time of d>2 CFTs
May 10	Daniel Brennan	UC San Diego	The Callan Rubakov Effect
May 17	Ronak Soni	University of Cambridge	Multipartite Edge Modes and Tensor Networks
May 24	No seminar
May 31	Eugenia Colafranceschi	UCSB/University of Western Ontario	Type I von Neumann algebras from gravitational path integrals: Ryu–Takayanagi as entropy without holography