High Energy Theory Seminars 2024-2025
Seminars are held in 469 Lauritsen at 11am and via Zoom.
The organizers for this seminar series are Sridip Pal and Temple He.
Contact [email protected] for Zoom information.
2024-2025
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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| Sept 27 | Luca Ciambelli | Perimeter Institute | Quantizing Null Hypersurfaces |
| Oct 4 | Adam Ball | Perimeter Institute | Dynamical Edge Modes and Entanglement in Gauge Theory |
| Oct 11 | Tomasz Taylor | Northeastern University & University of Warsaw | Yang-Mills-Liouville Theory |
| Oct 18 | Kristan Jensen | University of Victoria | Hierarchy from duality |
| Oct 25 | Andrea Dei | UChicago | Tensionless AdS_3/CFT_2 and Single Trace TTbar |
| Nov 1 | Alexandre Homrich | KITP & Caltech | Multi-Twist Trajectories, Light Ray Wave Functions and the Missing Zeroes |
| Nov 8 | Cindy Keeler | ASU | Classical Double Copy: Solutions, Horizons, and Penrose Limits |
| Nov 15 | Sean Colin-Ellerin | UC Berkeley | Generalized entropy of gravitational fluctuations |
| Nov 22 | Luca Iliesiu | UC Berkeley | The evaporation of charged black holes |
| Nov 29 | no seminar | Day after Thanksgiving - institute holiday | |
| Dec 6 | Moshe Rozali | University of British Columbia | Randomness in conformal field theories |
| WINTER BREAK | |||
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Jan 10 POSTPONED Stay tuned for new date |
Laurent Freidel | Perimeter Institute | Null Raychauduri and Damour equations : Canonical Structure, Dressing Time and Quantisation |
| Jan 17 | Prahar Mitra | University of Amsterdam | New Phases in SYM |
| Jan 24 | Gautam Satishchandran | Princeton University | Local Consequences of Asymptotic Symmetries |
| Jan 31 | Batoul Banihashemi | UCSC | Conformal boundary conditions and cosmic horizons |
| Feb 7 | Yifan Wang | New York University | Pinning Defects, Fusion and Factorization |
| Feb 14 | Lance Dixon | SLAC | Antipodal (Self-)Duality in Planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory |
| Feb 21 *Zoom Seminar* | Simon Caron-Huot | McGill | Gravity and a universal cutoff for field theory |
| Feb 28 | Leonardo Rastelli | Stony Brook | Where is tree-level string theory? |
| March 7 | Shu-Heng Shao | MIT | On lattice chiral symmetries |
| March 13 (Lauritsen 269) *2 PM* | Zheng-Cheng Gu | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Fixed-point tensor network construction for rational conformal field theory |
| March 14 | Anastasia Volovich | Brown University | Mathematical Structures in Scattering Amplitudes |
| March 14 *1 PM* | Jesse Thaler | MIT | Flavor Physics from Quantum Entanglement? |
| March 21 | Yue-Zhou Li | Princeton University | A universal cutoff for field theory with gravity |
| SPRING BREAK | |||
| April 4 | Eric Perlmutter | IPhT-Saclay, Paris | An L-function Approach to 2D CFT |
| April 11 | Sam Gralla | University of Arizona | Decoherence near Black Holes: Causality, Fluctuation and Dissipation |
| April 18 | David Poland | Yale University | Exploring CFT Moments |
| April 25 | Ho Tat Lam | MIT | Conformal Manifolds from Topological Gauging and Continuous SymTFTs |
| May 2 | Julian Sonner | University of Geneva | Towards quantum simulating holographic duality |
| May 9 | Sruthi Narayanan | Perimeter Institute | Collinear Corrections to the Cachazo-Strominger Soft Theorem |
| May 16 | Daniel Green | UCSD | Soft Metric Fluctuations in Cosmology |
| May 23 | Ning Bao | Northeastern University | A connection between non-invertible symmetries and quantum error correction |
| May 30 | Dan Kapec | Harvard University | Quasinormal Corrections to Near-Extremal Black Hole Thermodynamics |