KITP

Tue, Jan 17

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Ted Jacobson

Horizon entropy and higher curvature equations of state

Univ of Maryland & KITP

Tue, Jan 24

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Nabil Iqbal

Luttinger's theorem, superfluid vortices, and holography

KITP

Thu, Jan 26

2:00pm

KITP AUD

Igor Klebanov

Testing the F-theorem

Princeton Univ

Tue, Feb 7

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Peter Koroteev

Non-Abelian vortices and 4d/2d correspondence

Univ of Minnesota & KITP

Tue, Feb 14

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Aron Wall

Quantum causal dynamics without absolute space or time

UCSB

Tue, Feb 21

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Jorge Santos

Hairy black holes and solitons in global AdS_5

UCSB

Tue, Feb 28

12:30pm

SEMINAR CANCELED

Thu, Mar 1

10:30am

KITP AUD

Ibrahima Bah

4D N=1 SCFT's from M5 branes

** NOTE CHANGE IN TIME AND VENUE **

Univ of Michigan

Tue, Mar 6

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Jim Hartle

Connecting DeSitter and Anti-DeSitter with the No-Boundary Wave Function

UCSB

Tue, Mar 13

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Donald Marolf

Fun with Holographic Fluids

UCSB

Tue, Oct 11

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Steve Giddings

Growth of geometrical fluctuations, (q-)observables, and infrared safety in inflationary spacetimes

UCSB

Tue, Oct 18

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Nick Tsamis

Gravitational Screening

Univ. of Crete

Tue, Oct 25

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Canceled

Canceled

Thu, Oct 27

2:00pm

KITP Auditorium

Ilarion Melnikov

N=2 heterotic flux vacua in the context of type II/heterotic duality

Albert-Einstein-Institute, Golm

Tue, Nov 1

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Curtis Asplund

Formation of black holes in the plane-wave/BMN matrix model, a numerical simulation.

UCSB

Tue, Nov 15

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Xi Dong

FRW Holography from Uplifted AdS/CFT

Stanford

Tue, Nov 29

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Steve Giddings

Black Holes, Quantum Information, and Unitary Evolution

UCSB

Thu, Dec 1

2:00pm

KITP SSR

Jim Halverson

N=1 Gauge Theories, Instantons, and the Landscape

Univ. of Penn.

Tue,
Dec 6

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Diana Nacir

Dissipative effects in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Tue,
Dec 8

2:00pm

KITP SSR

Adam Brown

On Nothing

Princeton

Tues, April 19

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Tom Banks

  Symmetries and Strings in Field Theory and Gravity

Rutgers and UCSC

Thurs, April 21

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Rajesh Gopakumar

A Large N dual to 2d CFTs 

Harish Chandra

Friday, April 22

12:30 pm

KITP SSR

Keith Olive

A Frequentist Approach to Supersymmetric Models - post LHC2010

Minnesota

Thurs, April 28

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Mboyo Esole

The binomial geometry of SU(5) GUTs in F-theory 

Harvard

Tues, May 10

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Mauricio Romo

Monopole operators, moduli spaces and dualities in 3d CS matter theories

UCSB

Tues, May 24

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Curtis Asplund

Evolution of Entanglement Entropy in the D1D5 System

UCSB

Tues, Jan 11

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Richard Eager

 Equivalence of A-Maximization and Volume Minimization

UCSB

Thurs, Jan 13

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Per Kraus

RG flow of magnetic brane correlators 

UCLA

Tues, Jan 18

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Michael Gary

Emergent Curvature and Dual Giant Gravitons

UCSB

Thurs, Jan 20

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Richard Woodard

A Quantum Gravitational Model of Inflation

Florida

Fri, Jan 21

2:00 pm

KITP Auditorium

Nathan Seiberg

Symmetries and Strings in Field Theory and Gravity

IAS

Tues, Jan 25

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Gary Horowitz

A Holographic Josephson Junction

UCSB

Thurs, Jan 27

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Yasunori Nomura

More Supersymmetries or No Supersymmetry at the LHC

Berkeley

Tues, Feb 1

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

 Congkao Wen

Twistor String and Grassmannian:Tree Amplitudes in N=4 SYM

 Brown and KITP

Thurs, Feb 3

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

 Joseph Maciejko

 Fractional Topological Insulators

 Stanford and KITP

Tues, Feb 8

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

 Mark Srednicki

Quantum Chaos and the Riemann Hypothesis: a Progress Report

UCSB

Thurs, Feb 10

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Don Page

Agnesi Weighting for the Measure Problem of Cosmology

Alberta

Tues, Feb 15

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Eliezer Rabinovici

 AdS crunches CFT falls and Cosmological complementarity

Hebrew University

Thurs, Feb 17

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

 Hans Jockers

N=1 Mirror Symmetry and the Web of N=1 Vacua

KITP

Tues, Feb 22

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Richard Holman

Infrared Issues in de Sitter

Carnegie Mellon

Thurs, Feb 24

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Jim Isenberg

Stability of a Class of Expanding Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Field Equations

U. of Oregon

Tues, March 1

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

 Washington Taylor

Supergravity and string/F-theory vacua in 6D

MIT

Thurs, March 3

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Michael Douglas

Holographic duals from the exact RG

Simons Center

Tues, March 8

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

 Rob Myers

Holographic c-Theorems

Perimeter

Thurs, March 10

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

 Ronen Plesser

Recent Results on Perturbative Heterotic Vacua

 Duke

Tues, March 15

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Martin Sloth

Cosmological Perturbations and IR Issues in quasi de Sitter Universes

CERN

Thurs, March 17

9:30 am

Broida 3302

 Herman Verlinde

Twistors and de Sitter Holography

 Princeton

Thurs, Sept 9

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Andrew Frey

Direct and Indirect Detection of   Metastable Dark Matter

McGill

Thurs, Sept 23

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

William Rubens

 The Black Hole/Qubit correspondence

Imperial

Tues, Sept 28

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Joe Polchinski

Wilsonian and Holographic Renormalization Groups

 KITP

Thurs, Sept 30

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Arthur Lipstein

Scattering Amplitudes in Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories

Caltech

Tues, Oct 5

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Steven Avery

Fuzzballs and the D1D5 System

Ohio State/KITP

Thurs, Oct 7

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Nissan Itzhaki

Giant Rings in the CMB Sky

Tel Aviv

Tues, Oct 12

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

 Don Marolf

Falling into a Generic Black Hole

 UCSB

Thurs, Oct 14

2:00 pm

Broida 3302

Noppadol Mekareeya

Chiral Operators on Hypermultiplet Moduli Spaces

Imperial

Tues, Oct 19

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Jorge Santos

Instabilities and news phases of higher-dimensional black holes

UCSB

Thurs, Oct 21

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Tommy Levi

When Worlds Collide

British Columbia

Tues, Oct 26

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

David Kubiznak

Spinning Particles and Hidden Symmetries

Cambridge

Thurs, Oct 28

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Abhijit Gadde

From N=4 SYM to N=2 Superconformal QCD: Spin Chains and Holography

Stonybrook

Tues, Nov 2

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Leonardo Senatore

On loop effects in Cosmology

Stanford

Thurs, Nov 4

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Tao Liu

Dark Light Higgs

UCSB

Tues, Nov 9

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Carlos Tamarit

Naturalness from runaways in direct mediation

 KITP

Thurs, Nov 11

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Veterans Day

Tues, Nov 16

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

 Aron Wall

Why is the Generalized Second Law True?

Maryland

Thurs, Nov 18

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Thomas Hertog 

Eternal Inflation without Metaphysics

APC, Paris 

Tues, Nov 23

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Steve Giddings

High-energy (super)gravitational scattering and the Gravitational S-matrix

 UCSB

Thurs, Nov 25

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Thanksgiving

Tues, Nov 30

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

 Curtis Asplund

Towards Fast Thermalization: non-adiabaticity and entropy production in

QM, QFT and String Theory

 UCSB

Thurs, Dec 2 

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Ami Katz

Boston

Tues, Jan 12

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Jerome Gauntlett

Holographic Superconductivity in M-Theory 

Imperial

Thurs, Jan 14

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Theo Nieuwenhuizen

Do non-relativistic neutrinos constitute the dark matter? 

U Amsterdam

Tues, Jan 19

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Sebastian Franco

Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking, with Flavor 

KITP

Thurs, Jan 21

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Ben Freivogel

Regulating Eternal Inflation with the UV/IR connection 

Berkeley

Tues, Jan 26

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Diego Trancanelli

A supermatrix model for AdS4/CFT3 

UCSB

Thurs, Jan 28

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Mark Srednicki

Quantum Chaos and the Riemann Zeta Function 

UCSB

Tues, Feb 2

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Hans Jockers

Mirror symmetry and effective couplings for F-theory, type II and heterotic strings

KITP

Thurs, Feb 4

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Mark Wise

Violations of Rotational and/or Translational invariance during the inflationary era

Caltech

Tues, Feb 9

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

João Penedones

Scattering in AdS and CFT correlation functions

KITP

Thurs, Feb 11

3:30 pm

KITP AUDITORIUM

David Poland

Superconformal Flavor Simplified 

Harvard

Tues, Feb 16

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Gary Horowitz

Two Recent Developments in Holographic Superconductors

UCSB

Thurs, Feb 18

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Nicholas Warner

Microstate Geometries and Non-BPS Black Holes

USC

Tues, Feb 23

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Joshua Lapan

Warped AdS3 and Virasoro Resonances

KITP

Thurs, Feb 25

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Per Kraus

Metamagnetic quantum critical point in AdS/CFT

UCLA

Tues, Mar 2

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Nick Halmagyi

On the Existence of Meta-Stable Vacua in the Klebanov-Strassler Background

LPTHE - Paris

Thurs, Mar 4

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Gonzalo Torroba

Flavor, supersymmetry and Higgs physics

KITP

Fri, Apr 16

12:15pm

Broida 6th Floor Commons

Jonathan Halliwell

Decoherent Histories Analysis of Quantum Cosmological Models

Imperial

Tues, Apr 27

2:00 pm

Broida 3302

Ian Morrison

Loop effects and the IR stability of de Sitter space 

UCSB

Thurs, Apr 29

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Simeon Hellerman

A Universal Inequality in CFT and Quantum Gravity

IPMU

Tues, May 18

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Tom Banks

The Pyramid Scheme, A New Public Offering 

Rutgers/UCSC

Thurs, May 20

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Inyong Park

Open string engineering of D-brane geometry -- toward three-loop check

Kyoto

Tues, May 25

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Atsushi Higuchi

Is the Euclidean vacuum the same as the in-vacuum at the horizon for de Sitter and other spacetimes? 

York

Thurs, May 27

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Devin Walker

Distinguishing Different Types of Dark Matter at the LHC

Berkeley

Fri, May 28

11:00 am

KITP SSR

Alexander Polyakov

The Decline and Fall of the de Sitter Space 

Princeton

Tues, Jun 1

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Mina Arvanitaki

The Principle of Plenitude

Berkeley

Wed, Jun 2

12:00 pm

Broida 3302

Steve Giddings

Infrared Effects and Semiclassical Relations in Inflationary Spacetimes

UCSB

Thurs, Jun 3

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Matt Strassler

On Hidden Sectors and Other Exotica at Hadron Colliders

Rutgers

Date 

Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Wed, Sept 2

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Dan Israel

Heterotic Torsional Backgrounds, from Supergravity to CFT

IAP, Paris

Thurs, Sept 24

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Kai Wang

Probing B/L violations in the extended scalar models at the LHC

IPMU

Tues, Sept 29

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Tom Faulkner

Strange metal from holography

KITP

Thurs, Oct 1

2:00 pm

Broida 3302

Martin Ammon

Holographic (Super-)fluids in the D3/D7 model

Max-Planck, Munich

Tues, Oct 6

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

David Berenstein

Small AdS black holes from SYM

UCSB

Thurs, Oct 8

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Matthew Roberts

Zero Temperature Limit of Holographic Superconductors

UCSB

Tues, Oct 13

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Rafael Porto

The Gravitational S-Matrix

KITP

Thurs, Oct 15

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Anton Kapustin

Exact results for Wilson loops in supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories

Caltech

Tues, Oct 20

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Sakura Schafer-Nameki

GUT F-enomenology

KITP

Thurs, Oct 22

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Hai-Bo Yu

WIMPless Miracle and Hidden Charged Dark Matter

UCI

Fri, Oct 23

2:00 pm

KITP Main SR

Raman Sundrum

SUSY Splits and Then Returns

Johns Hopkins

Tues, Oct 27

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Arjun Bagchi

The non-relativistic limit of AdS/CFT

HRI, Allahabad

Wed, Oct 28

10:30 am

KITP Aud

Nathan Seiberg

Goldstinos

IAS

Thurs, Oct 29

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Murad Alim

Hints for Off-Shell Mirror Symmetry

Bonn University

Tues, Nov 3

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Jonathan Oppenheim

Black holes, Fundamental Destruction of Information and Conservation Laws

DAMTP - Cambridge

Thurs, Nov 5

2:00 pm

Broida 3302

Herman Verlinde

S-dual probes of supersymmetric gauge theory

Princeton

Tues, Nov 10

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Tim Jones

Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking and Flavour Physics

KITP/Liverpool University

Thurs, Nov 12

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Christoph Sieg

Perturbative spectra in gauge theories with gravity duals at four loops and beyond

Niels Bohr Institute

Tues, Nov 17

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Brian Wecht

New Tools for New SCFTs

IAS

Thurs, Nov 19

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Kristan Jensen

Mirror Symmetry and M2 branes

UW

Tues, Nov 24

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Thurs, Nov 26

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Thanksgiving Day 

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Tues, Dec 1

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Eva Silverstein

Towards Strange Metallic Holography

KITP/UCSB

Thurs, Dec 3

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Yasuhiro Sekino

FRW/CFT Duality: Holographic Formulation of Eternal Inflation, and its Applications

OIQP - Okayama

Tues, Dec 8

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Richard Eager

A-Maximization and Quiver Minimization

UCSB

Thurs, Dec 10

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Nima Arkani-Hamed

Dualities for Local Spacetime Physics from the Grassmannian

IAS

Tues, Dec 15

12:30 pm

KITP SSR

Paul Aspinwall

Decompactifications vs Massless D-Branes in Moduli Space Limits

Duke

Date 

Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Tue., Feb. 3

12:30 pm

KITP Auditorium

Jaemo Park

Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2-brane CFTs 

POSTECH & Stanford

Tue., Feb. 17

12:30 pm

KITP Auditorium

Don Page 

Cosmological Measures without Volume Weighting 

Alberta U.

Tue., Feb. 24

12:30 pm

KITP Auditorium

David Garfinkle 

Possible Outcomes for Classical Gravitational Singularities 

Oakland U.

Tue., Mar. 3

12:30 pm

KITP Auditorium

Graciela Gelmini

In Search of Dark Matter Particles: Have We Found Them? 

UCLA

Tue., Mar. 10

12:30 pm

KITP Auditorium

Liantao Wang 

Top Quarks and New Physics Signals at the LHC 

Princeton

Tue., Mar. 31

12:30 pm

KITP Auditorium

Peter Graham 

A Domino Theory of Flavor 

Stanford

Thu., Apr. 23

2 pm

Broida 3302

Sean Hartnoll

Landscape of Holographic Superconductors 

Harvard

Tue., Apr. 28

12:30 pm

KITP SSR

David Andriot

Twist Duality for Flux Backgrounds of Type II and Heterotic String Theory from Generalized Complex Geometry 

LPTHE, Paris

Thu., May 14

2 pm

Broida 3302

Diego Trancanelli 

't Hooft Meets Wilson: Disorder Operators, Matrix Models, and S-duality 

UCSB

Thu., May 28

2 pm

Broida 3302

Nikolay Bobev 

Supergravity Solutions for Nonrelativistic Holography 

USC & KITP

Tue., Jun. 16

12:30pm

Broida 3302

Jonathan Halliwell 

Decoherent Histories and Arrival Times 

Imperial College

Date 

Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Thu., Sep. 25

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Bartek Czech

Black Holes from Statistics 

UPenn

Tue., Sep. 30

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Aaron Amsel

Supersymmetric Multi-trace Boundary Conditions in AdS 

UCSB

Thu., Oct. 2

2:00 pm

KITP Auditorium

Jock McOrist 

Summing the Instantons in the Heterotic String 

U. of Chicago

Tue., Oct. 7

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Josh Lapan 

Computing the Massless Spectrum of Non-Kaehler Compactifications 

KITP

Thu., Oct. 9

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Per Kraus

Gravity Duals of the Quantum Hall Effect 

UCLA

Tue., Oct. 14

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Don Marolf 

Holography and Unitarity in Gravitational Physics 

UCSB

Thu., Oct. 16

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Yu Nakayama

Index for Non-relativistic Superconformal Field Theories -- from LLM to ABJM and BL 

UC Berkeley

Tue., Oct. 21

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Stefan Hollands

Higher-dimensional Black Holes 

Cardiff U.

Thu., Oct. 23

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

John Schwarz

Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories 

Caltech

Tue., Oct. 28

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Matthew Roberts

Holographic Superconductivity 

UCSB

Thu., Oct. 30

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Sakura Schaefer-Nameki

SUSY Breaking in F-theory GUTs 

Caltech

Tue., Nov. 4

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Nori Iizuka 

Matrix Quantum Mechanics for the Black Hole Information Problem 

KITP

Thu., Nov. 6

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Stanley Deser 

Cosmological Topologically Massive Theories 

Brandeis

Tue., Nov. 11

Veterans' day

Thu., Nov. 13

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Thomas Hertog

The No-boundary Measure of Eternal Inflation 

APC Paris & Solvay Inst.

Tue., Nov. 18

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Sophie de Buyl

Singularities, E10 and M-theory 

UCSB

Thu., Nov. 20

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Gonzalo Torroba 

Four-dimensional Dynamics of String Compactifications 

Rutgers & KITP

Tue., Nov. 25

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Diego Rodriguez-Gomez 

Towards M2 Branes Probing Generic Toric Singularities 

Princeton

Thu., Nov. 27

Thanksgiving

Tue., Dec. 2

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Emery Sokatchev 

Dual Superconformal Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills 

Annecy

Thu., Dec. 4

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Sandip Trivedi 

Time Dependent Cosmologies and Their CFT Duals 

TIFR & Stanford

Tue., Dec. 9

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Stephane Detournay 

3D Gravity Theories, Exact String Backgrounds, and Applications 

KITP

Thu., Dec. 11

2:00 pm

KITP SSR

Joe Polchinski 

Landscape/CFT Duality? 

KITP

Date 

Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Tue., Jul. 15

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Sebastian Franco

SUSY Breaking Mediation by D-brane Instantons

Princeton

Date 

Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Tue., Apr. 8

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

John Klauder

Affine Quantum Gravity: A Different View of a Difficult Problem

U. of Florida

Thu., Apr. 10

2 pm

KITP SSR

Pedro Vieira

Quantum Wrapped Giant Magnon

ENS Paris

Thu., Apr. 17

2 pm

KITP SSR

Jorge Casalderrey-Solana

Probing Strongly Coupled Plasmas with Heavy Quarks

UC Berkeley

Thu., Apr. 24

2 pm

KITP SSR

Brandon Carter

Progress in the Mechanics of (Superconducting) Cosmic Strings and Their (Vorton) Equilibrium States

Meudon

Thu., May 1

2 pm

KITP SSR

Gouranga C Nayak

Shift Theorem and Schwinger Mechanism in the Presence of Arbitrary Time Dependent Electric Field

Illinois

Thu., May 8

2 pm

KITP Auditorium

Sean Carroll

The Universe Is Not Ergodic

Caltech

Thu., May 15

2 pm

KITP SSR

Susan Gardner

Shedding Light on Dark Matter: How Faraday Rotation Can Limit a `Dark' Magnetic Moment

KITP & Kentuky

Thu., May 22

2 pm

KITP SSR

Borun Chowdhury

Radiation from the Non-extremal Fuzzball

Ohio State

Thu., May 29

2 pm

KITP SSR

Mark Jackson

Detecting Cosmic Superstrings

Fermilab

Tue., June 3

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Nima Arkani-Hamed

What is the Simplest QFT?

IAS

Thu., June 5

2 pm

KITP Founder's Room

Geoffrey Compère

Setting the Boundary Free in AdS/CFT : a Gravity / CFT+Gravity Correspondence

UCSB

Thu., June 12

2 pm

KITP SSR

Diana Vaman

The Space-Cone Gauge and Yang-Mills Tree and Loop-Level Recursion Relations

KITP & Virginia

Tue., June 17

12:30 pm

KITP Auditorium

David Mateos

 A Universal String Prediction for Heavy Ion Collisions

UCSB

Date 

Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Thu., Jan. 10

2 pm

KITP SSR

Mark Srednicki

High-Energy Gravitational Scattering and Black Hole Resonances

UCSB

Tue., Jan. 22

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Joe Polchinski

A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization 

KITP

Thu., Jan 24

2 pm

KITP SSR

Graham Kribs

The Supersymmetric Flavor Problem, R-symmetry, and the LHC 

U. of Oregon

Thu., Jan. 31

2 pm

KITP SSR

Don Page

Boundary Conditions for the Universe

U. of Alberta

Thu., Feb. 7

2 pm

KITP SSR

Matthew Schwartz

Effective Field Theory and Collider Physics

Johns Hopkins U.

Tue., Feb. 12

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Yuji Tachikawa

New Developments in d=4, N=2 SCFTs

IAS

Tue., Feb. 19

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Eliezer Rabinovici

Aspects of Little String Holography

Hebrew U.

Thu., Feb 21

2 pm

KITP SSR

Peter Graham

Searching for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry 

Stanford U.

Thu., Mar. 6

2 pm

KITP SSR

Anatoly Dymarsky

D-brane Inflation in String Theory

Stanford U.

Thu., Mar. 13

2 pm

KITP SSR

Kostas Skenderis

The Fuzzball Proposal for Black Holes

U. of Amsterdam

Thu., Mar. 20

2 pm

KITP SSR

João Penedones

High Energy Scattering in AdS/CFT

KITP

Date 

Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Thu., Sep. 13

2 pm

KITP Auditorium

Lara Anderson

M Theory on Singular G2 Spaces

U Oxford

Tue., Sep. 25

2 pm

KITP SSR

Ali Nayeri

Generating Inflation-Free Scale-Invariant Power Spectrum in String Gas Cosmology

KITP

Thu., Sep. 27 

2 pm

KITP SSR

John Preskill 

Black Holes as Mirrors

Caltech

Tue., Oct. 2

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

David Berenstein

Strings on Conifolds from Strong Coupling Dynamics

UCSB

Thu., Oct. 4

2 pm

KITP SSR

Clifford Johnson

External Fields and the Dynamics of Flavour in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory

USC

Tue., Oct. 9

12:30 pm

Broida 3302 

Amitabh Virmani

A Holographic Renormalizaion of Asymptotically Flat and Linear Dilaton Spacetimes

UCSB

Thu., Oct. 11

2 pm

KITP SSR

Itzhak Bars

Two-Time Physics: the Unified View from Higher Dimensional Space and Time

USC

Tue., Oct. 16

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Timo Weigand

New D-Brane Instanton Effects in Type II Orientifolds

U Penn

Thu., Oct. 18

2 pm

KITP SSR

Steve Giddings

High-Energy Scattering and Locality: Gravity and Strings

UCSB

Tue., Oct. 23

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Takuya Okuda

A Prediction for the Bubbling Geometries for Wilson Loops

KITP

Thu., Oct. 25

2 pm

KITP SSR

Eric D’Hoker

Exact Half-BPS Solutions to Type IIB Supergravity

UCLA

Tue., Oct. 30

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Sean Hartnoll

Tabletop AdS/CFT: from Black Holes to Superconductors

UCSB

Thu., Nov. 1

2 pm

KITP SSR

Andy O’Bannon

Metallic AdS/CFT

U Washington

Tue., Nov. 6

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Rafael Porto

An Effective Field Theory of Gravity for Spinning Extended Objects

UCSB

Thu., Nov. 8

2 pm

KITP SSR

Cindy Keeler

Closed String Tachyon Condensation in the E_8 Heterotic System

Berkeley

Tue., Nov. 13

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Jim Hartle

The Classical Universes of the No-Boundary Quantum State

UCSB

Wed., Nov. 14

2 pm

KITP Auditorium

Niklas Beisert

Spectral Curve for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT

Max Planck

Thu., Nov. 15

2 pm

KITP SSR

Petr Horava

Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point

Berkeley

Tue., Nov. 20

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Dam Son

Graphene in Quantum Field Theory

U Washington

Thu., Nov. 22

THANKSGIVING

Tue., Nov. 27

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Julian Sonner

Geometric Phases in String Theory

DAMTP

Thu., Nov. 29

2 pm

KITP SSR

Roni Harnik

Hierarchy without Color and the LHC

SLAC

Tue., Dec. 4

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Maria Jose Rodriguez

Higher Dimensional Black Holes

Barcelona & UCSB

Thu., Dec. 6

2 pm

KITP SSR

Diego Trancanelli

On Supersymmetric Wilson Loops

UCSB

Tue., Dec. 11

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Ari Pakman

Progress in AdS3/CFT2

Stony Brook

Thu., Dec. 13

1:30 pm

KITP Auditorium

Gabriele Veneziano

Towards an S-matrix Description of Gravitational Collapse

College de France

Date

Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Tue., April 3

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Jonathan Halliwell

Commuting Position and Momentum Operators, Exact Decoherence and Emergent Classicality

Imperial Coll., London

Thu., April 5

2 pm

KITP SSR

Aaron Amsel

Stability and Instability in Designer Gravity

UCSB

Tue., April 10

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Nori Iizuka

Attractors and Spinning Strings

KITP

Thu., April 12

2 pm

KITP SSR

David Kutasov

Symmetry Breaking from Intersecting Branes

U. of Chicago

Tue., April 17

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Sergei Gukov

Four-dimensional Kondo Problem

UCSB

Thu., April 19

No talk.

Tue., April 24

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Don Marolf

A New Picture of de Sitter Space?

UCSB

Thu., April 26

2 pm

KITP Auditorium

Lance Dixon

Is N=8 Supergravity Finite?

SLAC

Tue., May 1

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Florian Dubath

Periodic Gravitational Waves from Small Cosmic String Loops

KITP

Thu., May 3

2 pm

KITP SSR

Gary Horowitz

Toward Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole

UCSB

Tue., May 8

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Henriette Elvang

Fake Supergravity

MIT

Thu., May 10

2 pm

KITP SSR

Sumit Das

Null Singularities and Their Gauge Theory Duals

U. of Kentucky

Tue., May 15

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Per Kraus

Stringy Black Holes in 4 and 5 Dimensions

UCLA

Thu., May 17

2 pm

KITP SSR

Masaki Shigemori

Nonsupersymmetric Brane/Antibrane Configurations in Type IIA and M Theory

Caltech

Tue., May 22

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Raphael Bousso

Cosmological Vacuum Selection in the Landscape: Problems and Predictions

UC Berkeley & LBNL

Thu., May 24

No talk due to a secret meeting.

Tue., May 29

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Steve Carlip

Black Hole Thermodynamics from Euclidean Horizon Constraints

UC Davis

Thu., May 31

2 pm

KITP SSR

Luis Fernando Alday

Gluon Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling

Utrecht U. & IAS

Tue., June 5

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Kentaroh Yoshida

Higher Loop Bethe Ansatz for Open Spin Chains in AdS/CFT

KITP

Thu., June 7

2 pm

KITP SSR

Mark Scheel

Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Inspirals

Caltech

Tue., June 12

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Joe Polchinski

The Cosmic String Inverse Problem

UCSB & KITP

Thu., June 14

2 pm

KITP SSR

Ted Erler

Analytic Progress in Open String Field Theories

HRI & KITP

Date

Time

Location

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Tue., Jan. 30

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Sam Pinansky

The Phenomenology of the Minimal Quiver Standard Model

UCSB

Thu., Feb. 1

No talk due to an external committee visit.

Thu., Feb. 8

2 pm

KITP SSR

Lee Lindblom

Generalized Harmonic Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes

Caltech

Tue., Feb. 13

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Takuya Okuda

Wilson Loops, String/Brane/Geometry Transitions and Bubbling Calabi-Yau's

KITP

Thu., Feb. 15

2 pm

KITP SSR

Yutaka Ookouchi

Meta-Stable SUSY Breaking Vacua in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

Caltech

Tue., Feb. 20

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Pavel Kovtun

Quantum Critical Transport, Duality, and M-theory

KITP

Wed., Feb. 21

12:15 pm

Broida 3302

Lian-Tao Wang

The LHC Inverse Problem: Interpreting Data to Learn about Underlying Theory

Princeton U.

Wed., Feb. 28

12:15 pm

Broida 3302

David Rainwater

Breakdown of the Narrow Width Approximation

U. of Rochester

Fri., Mar. 2

12:15 pm

KITP Auditorium

Zackaria Chacko

Twin Higgs Theories

U. of Arizona

Tue., Mar. 6

12:30 pm

Broida 3302

Hideaki Kudoh

Doubly Spinning Black Rings and Beyond

UCSB

Wed., Mar. 7

12:15 pm

Broida 3302

Ian Low

Probing New Physics with the Higgs Boson at the LHC

UC Irvine

Wed., Mar. 14

12:30 pm

KITP SSR

José Edelstein

A String Dual Perspective on Quark-Gluon Plasmas of QCD-like Theories

Santiago de Compostela U. & CECS, Valdivia

Thu., Mar. 15

2 pm

KITP SSR

Joe Marsano

"Metastable" Brane-Antibrane Configurations in Type IIA and M Theory and the Large N Duality Conjecture in IIB

Caltech

Date

Time

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Sep. 28

2:00 pm

Matthew Headrick

Ricci Flow and Black Holes

Stanford University

Oct. . 19

2:00 pm

Sean Hartnoll

Phase Structure of N=4 SYM and Polyakov Loops

KITP

Nov. . 2

1:00 pm (Note time)

Sean Carroll

Beyond Dark Energy

Caltech

Nov. . 9

2:00 pm

Daniel Holz

Gravitational-Wave Standard Sirens and Cosmology

LANL/Univ. of Chicago

Nov. . 16

2:00 pm

Matthew Johnson

Bubble Nucleation and Eternal Inflation

UCSC

Nov. . 17

1:00 pm in Broida 3302

Sam Vazquez

Spin Chains and Geometry 

(Condensed Matter/String Theory Seminar)

UCSB

Nov. . 30

2:00 pm

Amitabh Virmani

Dynamics and Stability of Black Rings

UCSB