High Energy and Gravity Seminars
- The seminars are normally held at 12:30 pm on Tuesdays in Broida 3302 and at 2 pm on Thursdays in the KITP Simons Amphitheater.
- Talks at KITP are recorded. The video and slides are available online from the KITP web page.
- To the KITP Talks Schedule.
- To the Department of Mathematics Colloquia, Conferences, Seminars & Events.
Fall 2024
Organizers: Hong Zhe (Vincent) Chen, Maciej Kolanowski, and Mykhaylo Usatyuk
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, Sep 26 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Jacob McNamara | The Structure of Gravitational Hidden Sectors | Caltech |
| Tuesday, Oct 1 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Victor Rodriguez | The complex Liouville string | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 3 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Pietro Benetti Genolini | Equivariant localization for AdS/CFT | Geneva U. |
| Tuesday, Oct 8 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Adam Ball | Dynamical Edge Modes and Entanglement in Gauge Theory | Perimeter |
| Thursday, Oct 10 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Xiaoyi Liu | Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity | UCSB |
| Tuesday, Oct 15 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Krishan Saraswat | Constraints from Entanglement Wedge Nesting in Doubly Holographic Models | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 17 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci | Spin-statistics for black hole microstates | Washington U. |
| Tuesday, Oct 22 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Chintan Patel | Charged Superradiance in AdS5 x S5 black holes | TIFR |
| Thursday, Oct 24 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Alexandre Homrich | Multi-Twist Trajectories, Light Ray Wave Functions and the Missing Zeroes | KITP |
| Tuesday, Oct 29 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann | 6D Discrete Gauge Anomalies, their Cancellation and Interplay | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 31 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Emma Albertini | Towards a uniqueness theorem for static black holes in Kaluza-Klein theory with small circle size | Imperial Coll., London |
| Tuesday, Nov 5 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Bruno Scheihing Hitschfeld | Dynamics of a heavy quark in strongly coupled N=4 SYM plasma | KITP |
| Thursday, Nov 7 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Yiming Chen | Chaos and Fortuity of Holographic BPS states | Stanford |
| Tuesday, Nov 12 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Jesse Held | The Hilbert space of de Sitter JT gravity | UCSB |
| Thursday, Nov 14 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Yuri Lensky | ||
| Tuesday, Nov 19 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | David Grabovsky | UCSB | |
| Thursday, Nov 21 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Sean Colin-Ellerin | Generalized entropy of gravitational fluctuations | Berkeley |
| Tuesday, Nov 26 |
12:30 pm | Zoom | Hamza Ahmed | Northeastern U. | |
| Tuesday, Dec 3 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Henry Leung | UCSB | |
| Thursday, Dec 5 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Lara Anderson | Virginia Tech. |
Summer 2024
Organizers: Hong Zhe (Vincent) Chen and Maciej Kolanowski
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Monday, July 22 |
1:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Ahmed Almheiri | TTbar and the black hole interior | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Friday, August 9 |
12 pm | Broida 3302 | Upamanyu Moitra | Entanglement in String Theory | ICTP |
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Spring 2024
Organizers: Hong Zhe (Vincent) Chen and Maciej Kolanowski
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tuesday, April 23 |
12:30 pm | Online | Lorenz Eberhardt | One-Loop String Amplitudes revisited | UvA |
| Tuesday, April 30 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Adam Solomon | Love and Symmetry | McMaster University |
| Thursday, May 2 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Jiuci Xu | Von Neumann algebras in Double-Scaled SYK | UCSB |
| Tuesday, May 7 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Cynthia Yan | How the Hilbert space of two-sided black holes factorises | Stanford |
| Thursday, May 9 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Masamichi Miyaji | Codimension-Zero Observables at Late Time | YITP, Kyoto University |
| Tuesday, May 14 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Mykhaylo Usatyuk | Closed universes in two dimensional gravity | UCSB |
| Thursday, May 16 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Clifford Johnson | Multicritical Matrix Model Miracles | UCSB |
| Tuesday, May 21 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Hong Zhe (Vincent) Chen | Disentanglement as a strong cosmic censor | UCSB |
| Thursday, May 23 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Molly Kaplan | Limitations of the QFT approximation in Global de Sitter: How Useful is a Quantum Observer? | UCSB |
| Tuesday, May 28 |
12:30 pm | Online | Andreas Blommaert | Firewalls at exponentially late times | SISSA |
| Thursday, May 30 |
2 pm | Kavli Auditorium | Steven Giddings | Gravitational wave probes of quantum black holes | UCSB |
| Tuesday, June 4 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Muldrow Etheredge | A Distance Conjecture for Branes | UMass Amherst |
| Thursday, June 6 |
2 pm | Online | Kristan Jensen | Non-perturbative de Sitter JT gravity | University of Victoria |
Fall 2023
Organizers: Eugenia Colafranceschi and Kwinten Fransen
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, Sep 28 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Daniel Carney | Comments on graviton detection | LBNL |
| Tuesday, Oct 3 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Benjamin Sung | Frozen singularities and the string landscape | UCSB |
| Friday, Oct 6 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Geoff Penington | Algebras and states in JT and super-JT gravity | UC Berkeley |
| Tuesday, Oct 10 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Brian Henning | Towards a Nonperturbative Construction of the S-Matrix | KITP |
| Thursday, Oct 12 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Dan Stefan Eniceicu | Recent non-perturbative results in unitary matrix integrals | Stanford |
| Tuesday, Oct 17 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Henry Lin | A symmetry algebra in double-scaled SYK | Stanford |
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Thursday, |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Maciej Kolanowski | Singular extremal black holes and how to find them | UCSB |
| Tuesday, Oct 24 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Hong Zhe (Vincent) Chen | Asymptotic entanglement and celestial holography | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 26 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Felipe Rosso | A Solvable Toy Model of Flat Space Quantum Gravity | University of British Columbia |
| Tuesday, Oct 31 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Mykhaylo Usatyuk | The evaporation of near-extremal black holes | UCSB |
| Thursday, Nov 2 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Rodrigo Andrade E Silva | Quantization of causal diamonds in 2+1 dimensional gravity | University of Maryland |
| Tuesday, Nov 7 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 |
Xiaoyi Liu |
Stability of saddles and choices of contour in the Euclidean path integral for linearized gravity: Dependence on the DeWitt Parameter | UCSB |
| Thursday, Nov 9 |
2 pm | Online | Philipp Höhn | Quantum frames, subsystems and gravity | OIST |
| Tuesday, Nov 14 | 12:30 pm | Online | Ayngaran Thavanesan | Holographic Cosmology at Finite Time | Cambridge |
| Thursday, Nov 16 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Shunyu Yao | Scramblon loops | Stanford |
| Tuesday, Nov 21 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Gabriele Di Ubaldo | AdS3/RMT2 Duality | IPhT Saclay |
| Tuesday, Nov 28 |
12:30 pm | Online | Jan de Boer | The Statistical Interpretation of Semi-Classical Gravity | UvA |
| Thursday, Nov 30 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Gautam Satishchandran | Generalized Black Hole Entropy is von Neumann Entropy | Princeton |
| Tuesday, Dec 5 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Henry Leung | Boundary signature of singularity in the presence of a shock wae | UCSB |
| Thursday, Dec 7 |
2 pm | Simons Amphitheater | Raphael Bousso | Holograms In Our World | UC Berkeley |
Spring 2023
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, Mar 9 |
2 pm | Kavli Auditorium | Eanna Flanagan | An order-unity correction to Hawking radiation and soft hair | Cornell |
| Tuesday, Apr 4 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Anthony Thompson | Chaos and pole skipping in simply spinning plasma | Bristol |
| Thursday, Apr 6 |
2 pm | Zoom | Juan Maldacena | Scaling similarities and quasinormal modes of D0 black hole solutions | IAS |
| Tuesday, Apr 11 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Alexey Milekhin | Measurement-induced phase transition in teleportation and wormholes | UCSB |
| Thursday, Apr 13 |
2 pm | Zoom | Vijay Balasubramanian | Microscopic origin of the entropy of black holes in general relativity. | U Penn |
| Thursday, Apr 20 |
2 pm | Kavli Auditorium | Elliot Gesteau | Large N von Neumann algebras and the renormalization of Newton's constant | Caltech |
| Tuesday, Apr 25 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Suzanne Bintanja | A toolbox for holographic CFTs | Amsterdam |
| Thursday, Apr 27 |
2 pm | Kavli Auditorium | Gary Horowitz | Extremal Black Hole Surprises | UCSB |
| Tuesday, May 2 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Adolfo Holguin | 1/2 BPS Structure Constants, Giants Gravitons, and Random Matrices | UCSB |
| Thursday, May 4 |
2 pm | Zoom | Hong Liu | Emergence of space and time in holography | MIT |
| Tuesday, May 9 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Chris Waddell | Possible hints of decreasing dark energy from supernova data | UBC |
| Thursday, May 11 |
2 pm | Zoom | Leonard Susskind | A Paradox and it’s Resolution Illustrate Principles of de sitter Holography | Stanford |
| Tuesday, May 16 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Zhencheng Wang | Algebras of boundary observables from the gravitational path integral | UCSB |
| Tuesday, May 23 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | David Grabovsky | Heavy States in 3D Gravity and 2D CFT | UCSB |
| Wednesday, May 24 |
2 pm | Zoom | Edward Witten | Algebras of Observables in the Presence of Gravity | IAS |
| Thursday, May 25 |
2 pm | Kavli Auditorium | Robert Wald | Black Holes Decohere Quantum Superpositions | U Chicago |
| Tuesday, May 30 |
12:30 pm | Zoom | Leonard Susskind | Why I think DSSYK is a model for de Sitter space (and why you should think so too). | Stanford |
| Thursday, Jun 1 |
2 pm | Kavli Auditorium | Kathryn Zurek | From Shockwaves to Gravitational Memory: New Approaches in Flat Space Holography | Caltech |
| Tuesday, Jun 6 |
12:30 pm | Zoom | Thomas Baumgarte | Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse | Bowdoin College |
| Thursday, Jun 8 |
2 pm | Kavli Auditorium | Sean McBride | Holographic Tensor Networks with Bulk Gauge Symmetries | UCSB |
Fall 2022
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tuesday, Sep 20 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Aalok Misra | (G)Structured M-Theory Dual of Thermal QCD-Like Theories at Intermediate Coupling: Differential Geometry, Flavor Memory and Page Curves - (``Almost") First ``Contact'' | IIT Roorkee |
| Thursday, Sep 22 |
2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Xiaoliang Qi | A general construction of bulk dynamics from boundary generalized free fields | Stanford |
| Tuesday, Sep 27 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Batoul Banihashemi | Quasilocal thermodynamics of cosmological horizons | Maryland |
| Tuesday, Oct 4 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Kwinten Fransen | Exploring black holes with gravitational waves | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 6 |
2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Jonathan Oppenheim | Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity | UC London |
| Tuesday, Oct 11 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Eugenia Colafranceschi | Quantum gravity entanglement graphs as tensor networks: holographic properties and horizon-like regions from volume correlations | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 13 |
2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Stefano Antonini | Cosmology from the vacuum | Maryland |
| Tuesday, Oct 18 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Asmund Folkestad | The Penrose Inequality as a Constraint on Low Energy Quantum Gravity (and teasers on far from equilibrium speed limits) | MIT and KITP |
| Thursday, Oct 20 |
2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Giuseppe Di Giulio | Towards Explicit Discrete Holography: Aperiodic Spin Chains from Hyperbolic Tilings | Universitat Wurzburg |
| Tuesday, Oct 25 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Diandian Wang | Pole-skipping as a new probe of quantum chaos and its connection to the OTOC, quasinormal modes and shockwaves in holography | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 27 |
2:00 pm | Zoom | Pau Figueras | The Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings revisited | Queen Mary |
| Tuesday, Nov 1 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Zhencheng Wang | Null states and time evolution in a toy model of black holes | UCSB |
| Thursday, Nov 3 |
2:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Albert Law | Horizon Scattering, Partition Functions, and Edge Modes | Harvard |
| Tuesday, Nov 8 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Geoff Penington | Type II von Neumann algebras and quantum gravity | Berkeley and IAS |
| Thursday, Nov 10 |
2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Wayne Weng | Deformations of JT gravity and matrix models | UCSB |
| Tuesday, Nov 15 |
12:30 pm | Zoom | Monica Kang | Counting States with Global Symmetry | Caltech |
| Thursday, Nov 17 |
2:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Henry Lin | The bulk Hilbert space of double scaled SYK | Stanford |
| Thursday, Dec 1 |
2:00 pm | Zoom | Andreas Blommaert | SISSA |
Spring 2022
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, Apr 7 |
2 pm | KITP Auditorium | Julio Parra-Martinez | Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity | Caltech |
| Thursday, Apr 14 |
2 pm | Zoom | Fedor Popov | De Sitter and Eternity | NYU |
| Thursday, Apr 28 |
2 pm | KITP Auditorium | Scott Collier | Semiclassical 3D gravity as an average of large-c CFT | Princeton |
| Tuesday, May 3 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Aron Wall | Holographic Cauchy Slices | Cambridge |
| Tuesday, May 10 |
1:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Grant Remmen | UV-Complete Gravity Amplitudes and the Triple Product | KITP |
| Thursday, May 12 |
2 pm | KITP Auditorium | Luca Iliesiu | Gravity factorized - Alpha-states, null-states and the quantum mechanical dual of canonical JT gravity | Stanford |
| Thursday, May 19 |
10 am (Note changed time) | Zoom | Jorge Santos | A bumpy IR: novel fixed points for four-dimensional holographic theories | Cambridge |
| Thursday, May 26 |
2 pm | KITP Auditorium | Henry Maxfield | The Hilbert space of quantum gravity with replica wormholes | Stanford |
| Thursday, Jun 2 |
2:40 pm (Note changed time) | Zoom | Veronika Hubeny | The Holographic Entropy Cone from Marginal Independence | UC Davis |
Winter 2022
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, Jan 6 |
2 pm | Zoom | Edward Witten | Gravity and the Crossed Product | IAS |
| Thursday, Jan 20 |
2 pm | Zoom | Jerzy Lewandowski | Horizon equations | University of Warsaw |
| Thursday, Jan 27 |
2 pm | Zoom | Lampros Lamprou | Falling inside holographic black holes |
UBC |
| Tuesday, Feb 1 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Maciej Kolanowski | (Non-)uniqueness of extremal black holes |
University of Warsaw |
| Thursday, Feb 3 |
2 pm | Zoom | Anindya Banerjee | Comments on summing over Bordisms in TQFT |
Rutgers |
| Thursday, Feb 10 |
2 pm | Zoom | Finn Larsen | The Attractor Mechanism in Gauged Supergravity |
Michigan |
| Thursday, Feb 24 |
2 pm | Zoom | Marija Tomasevic | Black Tsunamis, Naked Singularities |
Ecole Polytechnique |
| Thursday, Mar 10 |
2 pm | Zoom | Sam Leutheusser | Emergent Times in Holographic Duality |
MIT |
| Thursday, Mar 17 |
2 pm | Zoom | Alex Belin | Bootstrapping Quantum Extremal Surfaces |
CERN |
Fall 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tuesday, Sept 28 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Ying Zhao | Six point-functions and collisions in the black hole interior | KITP |
| Thursday, Sept 30 |
2 pm | Zoom | Zhenbin Yang | Subleading Weingartens | Stanford |
| Thursday, Oct 7 |
2 pm | Zoom | Phil Saad | Comments on wormholes and factorization | IAS |
| Thursday, Oct 14 |
2 pm | Zoom | Tom Rudelius | Consequences of No Global Symmetries in Quantum Gravity | Berkeley |
| Tuesday, Oct 19 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Yiming Chen | Aspects of the black hole/string transition | Princeton |
| Thursday, Oct 21 |
2 pm | Zoom | Adam Levine | Imaging the quantum extremal surface |
IAS |
| Tuesday, Oct 26 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Mykhaylo Usatyuk | Microstructure in matrix elements |
UC Berkeley |
| Thursday, Oct 28 |
2 pm | Zoom | Mark Mezei | The volume of the black hole interior at late times | Stony Brook |
| Tuesday, Nov 2 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Amirhossein Tajdini | Fluctuation entropy of Hawking radiation | UCSB |
| Thursday, Nov 4 |
2 pm | Zoom | Nathan Benjamin | Harmonic analysis of 2d CFT partition functions | Caltech |
| Tuesday, Nov 9 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca | A No-Replica Trick for the Free Energy | UCSB |
| Tuesday, Nov 16 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Grant Remmen | Causality, Unitarity, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture | KITP |
| Thursday, Nov 18 |
2 pm | Zoom | James Sully | Looking for Bulk Branes |
UBC |
| Tuesday, Nov 23 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Sean Mcbride | Replica Wormholes and Holographic Entanglement Negativity | KITP |
| Tuesday, Nov 30 |
1:30 pm | Zoom | Josephine Suh | Quantum gravity from probability | KITP |
| Thursday, Dec 2 |
2 pm | Zoom | Ven Chandrasekaran | Gravitational phase space and black hole entropy |
IAS |
Summer 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, June 17 |
2pm | Zoom | Joaquin Turiaci | The factorization puzzle in supergravity | UCSB |
| Thursday, July 8 |
2pm | Zoom | Onkar Parrikar | Quantum error correction in the black hole interior | Stanford |
| Thursday, July 22 |
2pm | Zoom | Xiaoliang Qi | Entanglement island, miracle operators and the firewall | Stanford |
| Thursday, Aug 5 |
2pm | Zoom | Simon Caron-Huot | Gravity: the force from the ultraviolet | McGill |
| Thursday, Aug 19 |
2pm | Zoom | Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam | Finding Pythons in Unexpected Places | Stanford |
| Thursday, Sept 2 |
2pm | Zoom | Adel Rahman | Quantization of Gravity in a Schwarzschild Background | Stanford |
Spring 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, April 08 | 2pm | Zoom | David Simmons-Duffin | Sharp Boundaries for the Swampland | Caltech |
| Thursday, April 15 | 2pm | Zoom | Douglas Stanford | Wormholes without averaging | Stanford |
| Thursday, April 22 | 2pm | Zoom | Simeon Hellerman | Quantum Information Theory of the Gravitational Anomaly | Tokyo U., IPMU |
| Thursday, April 29 | 2pm | Zoom | Mikhail Solon | Binary Black Holes and Scattering Amplitudes | UCLA |
| Thursday, May 6 | 2pm | Zoom | Jordan Cotler | Black hole microstate statistics from Euclidean wormholes | Harvard |
| Thursday, May 13 | 2pm | Zoom | Eduardo Teste Lino | Mutual information superadditivity and unitarity bounds | UCSB |
| Thursday, May 20 | 2pm | Zoom | Vladimir Rosenhaus | Chaotic scattering in quantum field theory and string theory | CUNY |
| Thursday, May 27 | 2pm | Zoom | Netta Engelhardt | Weak Cosmic Censorship in Holography | MIT |
| Thursday, June 3 | 2pm | Zoom | Zvi Bern | Gravitation EFT Islands, Low-Spin Dominance, and the Four-Graviton Amplitude | UCLA |
Winter 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, Jan 07 | 2pm | Zoom | Alexey Milekhin | Coupled SYK models without Schwartzian dominance | UCSB |
| Thursday, Jan 14 | 2pm | Zoom | Jorrit Kruthoff | Classical aspects of black hole interiors | Stanford |
| Thursday, Jan 21 | 2pm | Zoom | Daniel Harlow | Global Symmetry, Euclidean Gravity, and the Black hole information problem. | MIT |
| Thursday, Jan 28 | 2pm | Zoom | Juan Maldacena | Proper time to the black hole singularity from thermal one point functions. | IAS |
| Thursday, Feb 11 | 2pm | Zoom | Hong Liu | Entanglement entropies of equilibrated pure states in quantum many-body systems and replica wormholes | MIT |
| Thursday, Feb 18 | 2pm | Zoom | Sabrina Pasterski | HPS meets AMPS: How Soft Hair Dissolves the Firewall | Princeton Center for Theoretical Science |
| Thursday, Feb 25 | 2pm | Zoom | Alejandro Cabo-Bizet | 1/16 BPS black holes in AdS5 from 4d SU(N) N=4 SYM | King's College London |
| Thursday, Mar 4 | 2pm | Zoom | Wolfgang Wieland | Null infinity from quasi-local phase space | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information |
| Thursday, Mar 11 | 2pm | Zoom | Monica Kang | Caltech |
Fall 2020
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, Oct 1 | 2pm | Zoom | Jie-qiang Wu | Peierls bracket and gravitational dressing in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity | UCSB |
| Tuesday, Oct 6 | 1:30pm | Zoom | Amirhossein Tajdini | Replica wormholes for an evaporating black hole | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 8 | 2pm | Zoom | Sandipan Kundu | Closed strings and weak gravity condition from higher-spin causality | Johns Hopkins |
| Thursday, Oct 15 | 2pm | Zoom | Clifford V. Johnson | Non-perturbative studies of JT gravity and supergravity | USC |
| Thursday, Oct 22 | 2pm | Zoom | Lorenz Eberhardt | Partition functions of the tensionless string | IAS |
| Tuesday, Oct 27 | 1:30pm | Zoom | Pratik Rath | The Page curve for Reflected Entropy | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 29 | 2pm | Zoom | Horacio Casini | Entropic order parameters for symmetries in QFT | Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atómico Bariloche |
| Thursday, Nov 05 | 2pm | Zoom | Criag Lawrie | Compactifications of 6D N=(1,0) SCFTs on T^2 and Class S | UPenn |
| Thursday, Nov 12 | 2pm | Zoom | Raphael Bousso | Island Finder | UC Berkeley |
| Tuesday, Nov 17 | 1:30pm | Zoom | Grant Remmen | Entanglement and Symmetry in the Double Copy | KITP, UCSB |
| Thursday, Nov 19 | 2pm | Zoom | Gautam Satishchandran | Infrared Divergences, Memory and Asymptotic States in Quantum Gravity | UChicago |
| Tuesday, Dec 01 | 1:30pm | Zoom | Josephine Suh | Deconstruction of a two-dimensional theory of gravity | KITP, UCSB |
| Thursday, Dec 03 | 2pm | Zoom | Brian Swingle | Hydrodynamics and the Spectral Form Factor | Brandeis |
| Thursday, Dec 10 | 2pm | Zoom | Kartik Prabhu | Symmetries and charges at null boundaries | UCSB |
Summer 2020
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, July 2 | 2pm | Zoom | Nima Afkhami-Jeddi | 3d Gravity from averaging 2d CFTs | Chicago |
| Thursday, July 9 | 2pm | Zoom | Thomas Faulkner | The holographic map as a conditional expectation | Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Thursday, July 16 | 2pm | Zoom | Alexandre Belin | Random Statistics of OPE coefficients and Euclidean Wormholes | CERN |
| Thursday, July 23 | 2pm | Zoom | Andreas Blommaert | Dissecting the ensemble in JT gravity | Gent University |
| Thursday, July 30 | 2pm | Zoom | Zhenbin Yang | Effective Entropy of Quantum Fields Coupled With Gravity | Stanford |
| Thursday, Aug 6 | 2pm | Zoom | Monica Kang | Algebras of observables for holographic theories: a GNS story | Caltech |
| Thursday, Aug 13 | 2pm | Zoom | Sebastian Fischetti | Free Energy from Replica Wormholes | McGill |
| Thursday, Sep 3 | 2pm | Zoom | Mark Van Raamsdonk | Towards microscopic models of big bang cosmology | UBC |
| Thursday, Sep 10 | 2pm | Zoom | Geoff Penington | Leading order corrections to the quantum extremal surface prescription | Berkeley |
Spring 2020
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, May 21 | 2pm | Zoom | Steve Giddings | Gravity, holography, and unitarity |
UCSB |
| Thursday, May 28 | 2pm | Zoom | Alexey Milekhin | Quantum error correction and large N |
Princeton |
| Thursday, June 4 | 2pm | Zoom | James Hartle | The Impact of Cosmology on Quantum Mechanics |
UCSB |
| Thursday, June 11 | 2pm | Zoom | Charles Marteau | New boundary conditions in JT gravity |
IP Paris |
| Thursday, June 18 | 2pm | Zoom | Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca | Bulk reconstruction of metrics with a compact space asymptotically |
UCSB |
| Thursday, June 25 | 2pm | Zoom | Gaston Giribet | The tensionless limit of string theory on AdS3 x S^3 x S^3 X S^1 | UBA |
Winter 2020
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tuesday, February 4 | 12pm | KITP Auditorium | Gabor Sarosi | Chaos in the butterfly cone | CERN |
Fall 2019
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tuesday, Oct 1 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Steve Giddings | Gravitational dressing: soft charges, holography, and the quantum structure of gravity | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 3 | 2 pm | KITP Auditorium | Geoffrey Penington | Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox | Stanford |
| Tuesday, Oct 8 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Grant Remmen | Extremal Black Holes and EFTs | Berkeley |
| Tuesday, Oct 15 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Brianna Grado-White | Strong Subadditivity for Holography with a Cutoff | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 17 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Javier Magan | Entanglement Entropy and Superselection Sectors | Balseiro |
| Tuesday, Oct 22 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | David Berenstein | Localized States in Global AdS in an Instant | UCSB |
| Thursday, Oct 24 | 2 pm | KITP Auditorium | Bogdan Ganchev | Weak Cosmic Censorship in Einstein-Scalar theory in flat 4D | Cambridge |
| Tuesday, Oct 29 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Haoyu Sun | Ising CFT on higher genus surfaces and its gravity dual | Berkeley & KITP |
| Thursday, Oct 31 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Silviu Pufu | Holographic correlators from bootstrap and supersymmetric localization | Princeton |
| Tuesday, Nov 5 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Gary Horowitz | Corner Conditions and Traversable Wormholes | UCSB |
| Thursday, Nov 7 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Mudassir Moosa | The holographic dual of Renyi relative entropy | Cornell |
| Tuesday, Nov 12 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Phil Saad | Late time correlation functions, baby universes, and ETH in JT gravity | Stanford |
| Thursday, Nov 14 | 2 pm | KITP Auditorium | John Cardy | TTbar Deformed Correlation Functions | Berkeley & Oxford |
| Tuesday, Nov 19 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Josephine Suh | Dynamics of black holes in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity | Caltech |
| Thursday, Nov 21 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Hirosi Ooguri | Caltech & Tokyo IPMU | |
| Tuesday, Nov 26 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Xi Dong | Holographic Negativity | UCSB |
| Thursday, Dec 12 | 2 pm | KITP MSR | Onkar Parrikar | Soft modes from black hole microstates | Stanford |
Summer 2019
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Wednesday, Aug 21 | 3 pm | Broida 3302 | Federico Leo Redi | HEP-HEX seminar: SHiP experiment - status of the detector and challenges | EPFL |
Spring 2019
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tuesday, Apr 2 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Victor Gorbenko | On QFT in dS | IAS |
| Tuesday, Apr 16 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Ahmed Almheiri | Evaporating Eternal Black Holes | IAS |
| Thursday, Apr 18 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Eugenio Bianchi | Black hole entropy and gravitational wave observations | Penn State |
| Tuesday, Apr 23 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | G. Joaquin Turiaci | Two dimensional Nearly de Sitter gravity | UCSB |
| Thursday, Apr 25 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Matthew Headrick | Bit threads and holographic monogamy | Brandeis |
| Thursday, May 2 | 2:00 pm | KITP Auditoirum | Raphael Bousso | From Black Hole Coarse-Graining to Minimum Energy States in QFT | Berkeley |
| Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Achilleas Porfyriadis | The connection problem for AdS2 | UCSB |
| Thursday, May 9 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Eric Perlmutter | Growing Extra Dimensions in AdS/CFT | Caltech |
| Tuesday, May 14 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Guifre Vidal | Tensor networks, geometry and AdS/CFT | Perimeter |
| Tuesday, May 21 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Max Rota | The holographic marginal independence problem | UCSB |
| Thursday, May 23 | 2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Steven Gubser | Non-local non-linear sigma models | Princeton |
| Thursday, May 30 | 2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Mark Mezei | Hydrodynamics of Entanglement | Stony Brook |
| Tuesday, June 4 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Don Marolf | The Universal form of Gravitational Entanglement | UCSB |
| Thursday, June 6 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Murat Kologlu | Light-ray operators, a stringy equivalence principle, and collider physics | Caltech |
Winter 2019
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tuesday, Jan 15 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Netta Engelhardt | Bulk Constraints from Subregion Causality | Princeton |
| Thursday, Jan 17 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Geoffrey Lovelace | Numerical relativity in the era of gravitational-wave observations | CSUF |
| Tuesday, Jan 22 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Eduardo Testé | On the structure of the relativistic vacuum, known results and clues for new results | UCSB |
| Thursday, Jan 31 | 2:00 pm | KITP MSR | Eva Silverstein | dS/dS, T\bar T, and EE | Stanford |
| Thursday, Feb 28 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Thomas Hartman | Dynamical constraints on RG flows and cosmology | Cornell |
| Tuesday, Mar 12 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Mark Srednicki | ETH, EE, OTOC | UCSB |
| Thursday, Mar 14 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Ning Bao | Distilling tensor networks for AdS/CFT | Berkeley |
| Thursday, Mar 21 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Alexandru Lupsasca | Polarization Whorls from M87 at the Event Horizon Telescope | Harvard |
Fall 2018
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tuesday, Oct 9 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Henry Maxfield | The analytic bootstrap in 2D CFT, the Virasoro fusion kernel, and AdS3 gravity | UCSB |
| Wednesday, Oct 10 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Jay Hubisz | HEP-HEX Seminar: Self-Organized Higgs Criticality | Syracuse |
| Tuesday, Oct 16 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Huajia Wang |
Probing beyond ETH at large c |
KITP |
| Tuesday, Oct 23 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | G. Joaquin Turiaci |
Expanding the Wormhole in SYK |
UCSB |
| Tuesday, Oct 30 | 12:30 pm | KITP AUD | Gary Horowitz | UCSB | |
| Wednesday, Oct 31 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Ben Lillard | HEP-HEX Seminar: A High Quality Composite Axion | UC Irvine |
| Tuesday, Nov 6 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Marco Gorghetto | HEP-HEX Seminar: Axions from Strings: the Attractive Solution | SISSA/ICTP |
| Thursday, Nov 15 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Chris Akers | Holographic Renyi entropy in quantum error-correction | UC Berkeley |
| Tuesday, Nov 27 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | David Berenstein | Typicality and geometry | UCSB |
| Wednesday, Nov 28 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Tim Cohen | HEP-HEX Seminar: Hunting for Heavy Winos | U. Oregon |
| Tuesday, Dec 4 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Isabel Garcia Garcia | Discrete Gauge Symmetries, Naturalness, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture | KITP |
| Wednesday, Dec 5 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Lina Necib | HEP-HEX Seminar: Dark Matter in Disequilibrium and Implications for Direct Detection | Caltech |
Spring 2018
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thursday, April 19 | 2:00 pm | KITP MSR | Arvin Shahbazi Moghaddam | Energy is Entanglement | UC Berkeley |
| Tuesday, April 24 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Steve Giddings | Quantum gravitational subsystems and black hole evolution | UCSB |
| Thursday, April 26 | 2:00 pm | KITP MSR | Sung-Sik Lee | Emergent gravity from relatively local Hamiltonians | Perimeter |
| Tuesday, May 15 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Eric Mefford | TBD | UCSB |
| Tuesday, May 22 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Max Rota | Natural information quantities from holographic entropy | UCSB |
| Thursday, May 24 | 2:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Xiao-Liang Qi | Eternal traversable wormhole in two dimensions | Stanford |
| Tuesday, May 29 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Sean Weinberg | Classical Entropy and the Entanglement Wedge | UCSB |
| Thursday, May 31 | 2:00 pm | KITP MSR | Samuel Gralla | Horizon Instability of Extremal Black Holes | University of Arizona |
| Tuesday, June 5 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Brian Willett | Localization on Seifert manifolds and the higher dimensional A-twist | KITP |
Winter 2018
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tue, Jan 23 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Edgar Shaghoulian | Parity in two-dimensional conformal field theory | Cornell |
| Thu, Feb 1 | 2:00 pm | KITP MSR | Juan Maldacena | Making a wormhole | IAS |
| Tue, Feb 6 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Thomas Hertog | Boundary Conditions in Cosmology and at Black Holes | KU Leuven |
| Wed, Feb 7 | 1:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Aaron Manalaysay | HEP-HEX Seminar: The hunt for dark matter in a post-WIMP world | UC Davis |
| Thu, Feb 8 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Makoto Natsuume | Holographic Lifshitz superconductors: analytic solution | KEK Tsukuba |
| Thu, Feb 15 | 2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Cumrun Vafa | 6d Theories on Curves | Harvard |
| Tue, Feb 20 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Achilleas Porfyriadis | Critical emission from a high-spin black hole | UCSB |
| Wed, Feb 21 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Prashant Saraswat | HEP-HEX Seminar: Hierarchy, Criticality and Vacuum Energy | Caltech |
| Fri, Feb 23 | 2:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Xiao Luo | HEP-HEX Seminar: Precision Neutrino physics in MicroBooNE and beyond | Yale |
| Wed, Feb 28 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Seyda Ipek | HEP-HEX Seminar: Neutrino Masses from a Pseudo-Dirac Bino | Fermilab |
Fall 2017
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Wed, Sep 27 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Robert Lasenby | HEP-HEX Seminar: Astrophysical searches for weakly-coupled particles: from black holes to red giants | Perimeter Institute |
| Tue, Oct 3 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Pawel Caputa | AdS from Optimization of Path Integrals in CFTs | YITP Kyoto |
| Wed, Oct 4 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Angelo Monteux | HEP-HEX Seminar: Digging deeper for New Physics at the LHC | UC Irvine |
| Wed, Oct 11 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Lina Necib | HEP-HEX Seminar: Empirical Determination of the Dark Matter Velocity Distribution | Caltech |
| Tue, Oct 17 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Felix Haehl | Out-of-time-order dynamics: formalism and applications | UBC |
| Thu, Oct 26 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Shira Chapman | Complexity in holography and QFT | Perimeter Institute |
| Tue, Oct 31 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Eduardo Teste | Entropic A theorem and the Markov property of the vacuum | Centro Atomico Bariloche |
| Wed, Nov 1 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Mikhail Solon |
HEP-HEX Seminar: Quark Reggeization from Effective Field Theory |
Caltech |
| Tue, Nov 7 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Alexandra Miller | Code Subspaces for LLM Geometries | UCSB |
| Tue, Nov 21 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Valentina Forini | Worldsheet superstring on the lattice | Humboldt U., Berlin |
| Tue, Dec 5 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Chiara Toldo | Supersymmetric Bolt solutions and their free energy via susy localization | KITP |
Spring 2017
We expect to have fewer seminars this term because of the KITP program Scattering Amplitudes and Beyond.
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tues, Apr 4 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Henry Maxfield | A conformal block Farey tail | McGill University |
| Wed, Apr 12 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Stefania Gori | HEP-HEX Seminar: Flavor perspective on heavy Higgs searches | University of Cincinnati |
| Wed, Apr 19 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Simon Knapen | HEP-HEX Seminar: Fishing for new physics at the LHC | LBNL |
| Wed, Apr 26 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Isabel Garcia-Garcia | HEP-HEX Seminar: The String Soundscape at Gravitational Wave Detectors | University of Oxford |
| Tues, May 2 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Netta Engelhardt |
Locality from Holography |
Princeton |
| Tues, May 9 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Ronen Plesser | Mirror symmetry in abelian GLSMs and discriminants | Duke University |
| Thurs, May 11 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR |
Joan Camps |
Gravity duals of boundary cones |
University College London |
| Tues, May 16 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Marc Geiller | TQFTs and quantum gravity vacua | Perimeter Institute |
| Wed, May 17 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Felix Kling | HEP-HEX Seminar: How to optimize Higgs Measurements using MadMax and Information Geometry | UC Irvine |
| Wed, May 24 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Andrew Larkoski | HEP-HEX Seminar: How much information is in a jet? | Reed College |
Winter 2017
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Tues, Jan 10 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Daniel Harlow | Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory and Gravity | Harvard University |
| Thur, Jan 12 | 2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | |||
| Tues, Jan 17 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, Jan 19 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Chiara Toldo | New goals for AdS black holes | Columbia University |
| Tues, Jan 24 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Max Rota | The nature of correlations in holographic states | UCSB |
| Thur, Jan 26 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Eva Silverstein | How your past catches up with you in string theory | Stanford University |
| Tues, Jan 31 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, Feb 2 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Aitor Lewkowycz | Bulk locality from modular flow | Stanford University |
| Tues, Feb 7 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Wed, Feb 8 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Scott Thomas | HEP-HEX seminar: Predictive and Testable Theory of All Required and Measurable CP Violation | Rutgers University |
| Thur, Feb 9 | 2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Jason Koeller | Geometric Constraints from Subregion Duality beyond the Classical Regime | UC Berkeley |
| Tues, Feb 14 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Cumrun Vafa | Calabi-Yau n-folds and order n-1 dualities | Harvard |
| Thur, Feb 16 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Vladimir Rosenhaus | The Bulk Dual of SYK: Cubic Couplings | UCSB |
| Tues, Feb 21 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, Feb 23 | 12:30 pm | KITP SSR | Thomas Dumitrescu | New Tools for Exploring Strongly Coupled Quantum Field Theories | Harvard |
| Tues, Feb 28 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Steve Giddings | Nonviolent unitarization: postulates (and a problem in quantum information theory) to soft quantum structure of black holes | UCSB |
| Thur, Mar 2 | 12:30 pm | MRL 2053 | Xi Dong | New Perspectives on Holographic Entanglement | IAS |
| Tues, Mar 7 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Cesar Agón | Divergences in Open Quantum Systems | Brandeis |
| Wed, Mar 8 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Sophie Renner | HEP-HEX Seminar: Flavour in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory | JGU Mainz |
| Thur, Mar 9 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Nathan Haouzi | Classification of surface defects from Little Strings | UC Berkeley |
| Tues, Mar 14 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Aron Wall | Why the Energy Density is Positive | IAS |
| Thur, Mar 16 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Clay Cordova |
Particle Spectra in Supersymmetric Field Theories |
IAS |
| Tues, Mar 21 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Simeon Hellerman |
Quantum Information Theory of the Gravitational Anomaly |
IPMU |
Fall 2016
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Thur, Sep 29 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Raphael Bousso | Asymptotic Entropy Bounds and the Information Content of Soft Gravitons | UC Berkeley |
| Tues, Oct 4 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, Oct 6 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Tom Rudelius | Strong Forms of the Weak Gravity Conjecture | Harvard University |
| Tues, Oct 11 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Achilleas Porfyriadis | Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy from Kerr/CFT | UCSB |
| Thur, Oct 13 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Daniel Jafferis | Harvard University | |
| Tues, Oct 18 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Sean Weinberg | Holographic Screens and an Entanglement Entropy Analogue for General Spacetimes | UCSB |
| Thur, Oct 20 | 2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Anson Hook | Relaxation from Particle Production (Note different venue) | Stanford |
| Tues, Oct 25 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | David Berenstein | Superposition induced topology changes in quantum gravity | UCSB |
| Thur, Oct 27 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Brandon Robinson |
Supersymmetric Probe Branes and Localization in AdS/CFT |
University of Washington |
| Tues, Nov 1 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Milind Shyani | Universality of Sparse d>2 Conformal Field Theory at Large N | UCSB |
| Thur, Nov 3 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Sašo Grozdanov |
Hydrodynamics and its destruction |
Leiden University |
| Tues, Nov 8 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Callum Quigley |
Second quantized MSW strings on K3 fibrations |
University of Toronto |
| Thur, Nov 10 | 2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Philip Phillips | Anti-Local Boundary Actions and Anomalous Dimensions in the Gauge-Gravity Duality: Application to the Strange Metal (Note different venue.) | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Tues, Nov 15 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Jerome Gauntlett | Black Holes and Thermoelectric Transport | Imperial College London |
| Thur, Nov 17 | 2:00 pm | KITP Auditorium | Kengo Maeda | Holographic superfluid flows with a localized repulsive potential (Note different venue.) | Shibaura Institute of Technology |
| Tues, Nov 22 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Dave Sutherland | Quantum field theory of a perfect fluid | UCSB |
| Thur, Nov 24 |
Thanksgiving |
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| Tues, Nov 29 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Edgar Shaghoulian | Emergent gravity from Eguchi-Kawai reduction | UCSB |
| Thur, Dec 1 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Fernando Pastawski | Quantum code properties from holographic geometries | Free University of Berlin |
Spring 2016
| Tues, Mar 29 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Natalie Paquette | Umbral Moonshine and String Theory on K3 | Stanford |
| Thur, Mar 31 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | |||
| Tues, Apr 5 | 12:30pm | MRL 2048 | Lampros Lamprou | A Stereoscopic Look into the Bulk | Stanford |
| Thur, Apr 7 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | |||
| Tues, Apr 12 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, Apr 14 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR |
Thomas Faulkner |
Shape dependence of modular energy and the averaged null energy condition | Illinois |
| Tues, Apr 19 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, Apr 21 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Jonathan Maltz | Chaos in matrix models and black hole evaporation | UC Berkeley |
| Tues, Apr 26 | 12:30p, | Broida 3302 | Mario Martone | Expanding the landscape of N=2 Super-conformal field theories | University of Cincinnati |
| Thur, Apr 28 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Maulik Parikh | The First and Second Laws of Gravity | Arizona State University |
| Tues, May 3 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, May 5 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Leonard Susskind | Copenhagen vs Everett, and ER=EPR [part of SCSS] | Stanford |
| Tues, May 10 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Jared Kaplan | On Information Loss in AdS_3/CFT_2 | Johns Hopkins |
| Thur, May 12 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | |||
| Tues, May 17 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, May 19 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Pankaj Joshi | Gravitational collapse, black holes and naked singularities | TIFR |
| Tues, May 24 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, May 26 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | |||
| Tues, May 31 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, June 2 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Don Marolf | Horizon entropy and the coarse grained quantum null energy condition | UCSB |
| Tues, June 7 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | |||
| Thur, June 9 | 2:00 pm | KITP SSR |
Winter 2016
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Thur, Jan 7 |
2:00 pm | KITP MSR | Daniel Harlow | Wormholes, Emergent Gauge Fields, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture | Harvard |
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Tues, Jan 12 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Vladimir Rosenhaus | The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model | UCSB |
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Thur, Jan 14 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Michael Gutperle | Holographic entanglement entropy for surface operators and defects | UCLA |
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Tues, Jan 19 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Igor Khavkine | Local and gauge-invariant observables in gravity | Trento |
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Thur, Jan 21 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Mukund Rangamani | The Fluid Manifesto: Emergent topological symmetries and dissipative hydrodynamics | UC Davis |
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Tues, Jan 26 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Tomonori Ugajin | Relative entropy in 2d CFTs | UCSB |
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Thur, Jan 28 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR |
Chi-Ming Chang |
Bootstrapping 2D CFTs in the Semiclassical Limit | UC Berkeley |
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Tues, Feb 2 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Tudor Dimofte | 3d gauge theory and the finite AGT correspondence | IAS |
| Wed, Feb 3 | 3:00 pm | Broida 3302 | Pau Figueras | The endpoint of black ring instabilities and the weak cosmic censorship of conjecture | DAMTP |
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Thur, Feb 4 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Frans Pretorius | Ultra-relativistic collisions and black hole formation | Princeton |
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Thur, Feb 11 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Cumrun Vafa | Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-theory | Harvard |
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Tues, Feb 16 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Mark Van Raamsdonk | Gravitational positive energy theorems from quantum information constraints | UBC |
| Wed, Feb 17 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Daniel Whiteson | HEP-HEX Seminar: Cosmic Rays in Your Pocket / Deep Learning for the LHC | UCI |
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Thur, Feb 18 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Nima Lashkari | Gravity dual of relative entropy | MIT |
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Tues, Feb 23 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | William Donnelly | Local subsystems in gauge theory and gravity | UCSB |
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Thur, Feb 25 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Don Page | Naked Firewalls | U.Alberta |
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Tues, Mar 1 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Massimiliano Rota | Qubit entanglement structures: lessons for holography | Durham |
| Wed, Mar 2 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Nathaniel Craig | HEP-HEX Seminar: Much Ado About Diphotons | UCSB |
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Thur, Mar 3 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Iosif Bena | Tachyonic Antibranes and the Landscape | Saclay |
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| Wed, Mar 9 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Sophie Renner | HEP-HEX Seminar: "New physics in semileptonic B decays?" | Cambridge |
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Thur, Mar 10 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Ahmed Almheiri | Linearity of holographic entanglement entropy | Stanford |
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Tues, Mar 15 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Jim Hartle | The Quantum Origin of Classical Spacetime | UCSB |
| Wed, Mar 16 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Dave Sutherland | HEP-HEX Seminar: "Properties of the dimension 6 operators of the Standard Model" | Cambridge |
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Fall 2015
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Tues, Sep 29 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Eric Mintun | Combing gravitational hair in 2+1 dimensions | UCSB |
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Wed, Sep 30 |
3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Flip Tanedo | HEP-HEX Seminar: Dark Photons from the Center of the Earth | UCI |
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Thur, Oct 1 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | Per Kraus | Conformal blocks and holography | UCLA |
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Tues, Oct 6 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Andrei Barvinsky | Cosmological initial conditions: new type of hill-top inflation from the CFT driven cosmology | Lebedev |
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Wed, Oct 7 |
3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Daniel Egana | HEP-HEX Seminar: The low energy theories of the Higgs sector | Rutgers |
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Thur, Oct 8 |
3:30pm | Broida 3302 | Netta Engelhardt |
A no transmission principle in holography |
UCSB |
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Tues, Oct 13 |
12:30pm |
Broida 3302 |
Gábor Sárosi |
Warped Weyl fermion partition functions | UCSB |
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Thur, Oct 15 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | David Simmons-Duffin | Looking for a bulk point | IAS |
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Tues, Oct 20 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Edgar Shaghoulian | CFT modular forms and black hole entropy | UCSB |
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Thur, Oct 22 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Ning Bao | The Holographic Entropy Cone | Caltech |
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Tues, Oct 27 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Aleksey Cherman | Emergent symmetries and 4D-2D relations for confining large N gauge theories | Washington |
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Thur, Oct 29 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Glen Evenbly | Scale transformations on the lattice with tensor networks | UC Irvine |
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Tues, Nov 3 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Brian Willett | 2d dualities from 3d dualities | KITP |
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Thur, Nov 5 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Andrea Puhm | AdS_3: the NHEK generation | UCSB |
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Tues, Nov 10 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Achilleas Porfyriadis | Kerr/CFT in the sky | Harvard |
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Thur, Nov 12 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Alexandre Belin | Permutation Orbifolds: exploring the landscape of theories of quantum gravity in AdS_3 | Stanford |
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Tues, Nov 17 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | David Berenstein | Universal Quantum constraints on the butterfly effect | UCSB |
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Wed, Nov 18 |
11:00am | Broida 3302 | Felix Yu | HEP-HEX Special Seminar: The Coannihilation Codex | Mainz |
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Wed, Nov 18 |
3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Antonio Boveia | HEP-HEX Seminar | CERN |
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Thur, Nov 19 |
2:00 pm | KITP Aud | Dan Roberts | Chaos in quantum channels | MIT |
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Tues, Nov 24 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Marco Fazzi | Supersymmetric AdS_5 solutions of massive IIA | Brussels |
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Tues, Dec 1 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | David Morrison | Little string theories via F-theory | UCSB |
| Wed, Dec 2 | 3:30pm | Broida 3302 | Yue Zhang | HEP-HEX Seminar: Particle Physics Probes of Cosmic Baryon Origin and Dark Matter | Caltech |
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Thur, Dec 3 |
2:00 pm
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KITP SSR | Veronika Hubeny | Geometric constructs in AdS/CFT | UC Davis |
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Tues, Dec 8 |
12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Gabriel Wong | Entanglement in string theory and two dimensional Yang Mills | Virginia |
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Thur, Dec 10 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Aron Wall | Entropic focussing | IAS |
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Thur, Dec 17 |
2:00 pm | KITP SSR | Maximilian Attems | Holographic collisions in non-conformal theories | Barcelona |
| Thur, April 30 | 2:00pm | KITP Auditorium | Nathan Seiberg | Generalized Global Symmetries | IAS |
Winter 2015
| Tues, Jan 6 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Jim Halverson | KITP | |
| Thur, Jan 8 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Don Marolf |
A GSL for holographic field theories |
UCSB |
| Tues, Jan 13 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 |
Hirosi Ooguri |
Entanglement, CFT Bootstrap, and Black Holes |
Caltech |
| Wed, Jan 14 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Benjamin LaRoque | HEP-HEX seminar: First results from the Project 8 experiment | UCSB |
| Thur, Jan 15 |
2:00pm |
KITP SSR | James Bardeen | Black hole evaporation: implications of the Bousso covariant entropy bound | U. Washington |
| Tues, Jan 20 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 |
Joe Polchinski |
Brane and anti-brane dynamics | KITP |
| Wed, Jan 21 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Hao Zhang | HEP-HEX seminar: Measuring Di-Higgs Physics via the tthh channel | UCSB |
| Thur, Jan 22 |
2:00pm |
KITP SSR | Xi Dong | Bulk Locality and Quantum Error Correction in AdS/CFT | Stanford |
| Tues, Jan 27 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Mark Srednicki | Some pedestrian remarks on entanglement entropy | UCSB |
| Thur, Jan 29 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Nemanja Kaloper | The End and Other Tall Tales |
UC Davis |
| Tues, Feb 3 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Gary Horowitz | Hovering Black Holes from Charged Defects | UCSB |
| Wed, Feb 4 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Francesco D'Eramo | HEP-HEX seminar: Connecting Energy Scales Probed by WIMP Searches | UC Berkeley |
| Thur, Feb 5 | 11:00am | Broida 3302 | Philip Schuster | HEP-HEX special seminar: Accelerating our Understanding of Dark Matter | Perimeter |
| Thur, Feb 5 | 2:00pm |
KITP AUDITORIUM |
Natalia Toro | Spin and Long-Range Forces: The Unfinished Tale of the Last Massless Particle | Perimeter |
| Tues, Feb 10 | 12:30 | Broida 3302 | Ted Jacobson |
Plasma without plasma: the beauty and |
U Maryland |
| Wed, Feb 11 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Scott Thomas | HEP-HEX seminar: Electroweak scale physics at the electroweak scale | Rutgers |
| Thur, Feb 12 |
2:00pm |
KITP SSR | Alexei Kitaev | Hidden correlations in the Hawking radiation and thermal noise | Caltech |
| Tues, Feb 17 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Josephine Suh | The Gravity Duals of Modular Hamiltonians | MIT |
| Thur, Feb 19 |
2:00pm |
KITP SSR | Johanna Karouby |
Swinging fields producing particles: |
MIT |
| Tues, Feb 24 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Matthew Fisher | Breakdown of thermalization in non-integrable quantum systems | KITP |
| Wed, Feb 25 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Kyle Cranmer | HEP-HEX Seminar: Decoupling theory uncertainties from measurements | NYU |
| Thur, Feb 26 | 2:00pm | KITP AUDITORIUM (1403) | Radu Roiban | On the eta-deformation of string theory in AdS_n x S^n | Penn State |
| Tues, Mar 3 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Matthew Dodelson | Drama from Strings | Stanford |
| Thur, Mar 5 |
2:00pm |
KITP SSR | Michael Smolkin |
RG flow of entanglement entropy on a 3-sphere
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UC Berkeley |
| Thur, Mar 12 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Anshuman Maharana | Moduli, Inflation and the CMB | HRI |
| Thur, Mar 19 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Yue Zhao | The Solution of (Little) Hierarchy Problem in AdS3/CFT2 Avatar | Stanford |
Fall 2014
| Thur, Sep 11 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Netta Engelhardt | Holographic Entanglement Entropy from Quantum Extremal Surfaces |
UCSB |
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Thur, Oct 2 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | Edgar Shaghoulian | Recent advances in dS/CFT | UCSB |
| Tues, Oct 7 |
12:30pm |
Broida 3302 | Eric Mintun |
S-Duality for Intersecting D3-Branes |
UCSB |
|
Thurs, Oct 9 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | Tomonori Ugajin | Quenches and holography | KITP |
| Tues, Oct 14 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | David Morrison |
What is F-theory? |
UCSB |
| Thur, Oct 16 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Eva Silverstein |
Testing string spreading in scattering amplitudes and black hole physics |
Stanford |
| Tues, Oct 21 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Will Kelly | Bulk Causality from Boundary Coarse-Graining? |
UCSB |
| Thur, Oct 23 | 2:00pm | KITP AUDITORIUM (1403) | Lenny Susskind | Quantum Complexity Inside Black Holes |
Stanford |
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Tues, Oct 28 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Sebastian Fischetti | Incompleteness of HRT | UCSB |
| Wed, Oct 29 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Nathaniel Craig | HEP- HEX seminar: New Solutions to the (Little) Hierarchy Problem | UCSB |
| Thur, Oct 30 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Anindya Dey | Mirror Symmetry, Partition Function and Gauged Linear Quivers | UT, Austin |
| Tues, Nov 4 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | William Donnelly | Entanglement entropy of the electromagnetic field | UCSB |
| Thur, Nov 6 | 2:00pm | KITP AUDITORIUM (1403) | Vyacheslav Lysov | From Soft Theorems to Asymptotic Symmetries | Caltech |
| Wed, Nov 12 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Patrick Draper | HEP-HEX seminar: Instantons in three flavor QCD | UCSB |
| Thur, Nov 13 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Vladimir Rosenhaus | A perturbative calculation of entanglement entropy | KITP |
| Tues, Nov 18 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Gavin Hartnett | A No BH Theorem | UCSB |
| Thur, Nov 20 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Tarek Anous | AdS_2 and the emergence of SL(2,R) in quiver quantum mechanics | MIT |
| Tues, Nov 25 | 12;30PM | Broida 3302 | Jonathan Maltz |
Deconfinement transition as black hole formation by the condensation of QCD strings
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IPMU |
| Tues, Nov 25 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Jack Gunion |
HEP-HEX seminar: Beyond the Standard Model Higgs Note new date and time |
UC Davis |
| Tues, Dec 2 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Francisco Rojas | New soft graviton theorems and the scattering equations | KITP |
| Wed, Dec 3 | 3:00pm | Broida 3302 | Brian Shuve |
HEP-HEX seminar: Shining Light on New Physics with Improved Dijet Resonance Identification |
Perimeter |
| Thur, Dec 4 | 2:00pm | KITP AUDITORIUM (1403) | Daniele Galloni | Anatomy of the amplituhedron | Durham |
Spring 2014
| Thur, Apr 3 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Aki Hashimoto | Boundaries and Defects of N=4 SYM with 4 supercharges |
U. Wisconsin |
|
Tues,Apr 8
Thur,Apr 17
Tues,Apr 22
|
12:30pm
1:00pm
12:30pm
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Broida 3302
Broida 3302
Broida 3302
|
Gary Horowitz
Jorge Santos
Lee Lindblom
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Holographic Signatures of Cosmological Singularities Let Horizons Flop
Solving Einstein's Equation Numerically on Manifolds with Arbitrary Spatial Topologies |
UCSB
Stanford
CalTech
|
| Tue Apr 29 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Tom Hartman |
Mutual Information Loss |
KITP |
| Tue, May 6 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Aron Wall |
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UCSB |
| Thur, May 8 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Aitor Lewkowycz |
Exact results for the entanglement entropy and the energy radiated by a quark |
Princeton |
| Tues, May 13 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Nabil Iqbal |
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KITP |
| Thur, May 15 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Allan Adams | Holography and Turbulence |
MIT |
| Thur, May 29 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | John Preskill | Measurements inside black holes |
CalTech |
|
Tues, June 3 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Ahmed Almheiri |
Holography and Backreaction in Two Dimensions |
UCSB |
| Thur, Jun 5 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Roji Pius |
Off-shell string theory |
Harish-Chandra Research Institute |
| Tues Jun 10 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Cenke Xu | Interacting Topological Superconductors and possible Origin of 16n Chiral Fermions in the Standard Model |
UCSB |
| Thur, Jun 12 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Cliff Cheung | Exploring the Weak Gravity Conjecture |
CalTech |
Winter 2014
|
Thu, Jan 16 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | Thomas Hertog | Holographic Quantum Cosmology | Leuven |
|
Wed, Feb 5 |
12:15pm | Broida 3302 | Jay Wacker | High Multiplicity Signals of New Physics | SLAC |
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Thur, Feb 6 |
2:00pm | Broida 3302 | Maria Rodriguez | Scattering Coefficients from Monodromies |
Harvard |
|
Tue, Feb 25 |
12:30pm | KITP Auditorium | Ramy Brustein | How black holes burn: firewalls, smoke, and mirrors. | Ben-Gurion University |
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Wed, Mar 5 |
12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Nathaniel Craig | New Signs of Naturalness | Rutgers |
Fall 2013
|
Tue, Oct 1 |
12:30pm |
KITP Aud. |
Tom Hartman | Entanglement and Geometry in 2D CFT | KITP |
|
Thur, Oct 3 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | TBD | TBD | TBD |
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Tue, Oct 8 |
12:30pm | KITP SSR | Hao Zhang | Top quark as a probe of new physics | UCSB |
|
Thur, Oct 10 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | Ehsan Hatefi |
Stability, Tunneling and Flux Changing de Sitter Transitions in the Large Volume String Scenario
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TBD |
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Tue, Oct 15 |
12:30pm | KITP SSR | Takashi Okada | Exact Results of BMN Matrix Model and Double Scaling Limits | KITP |
|
Thur, Oct 17 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | William Donnelly | Entanglement, edge states, and gauge symmetry |
U of Waterloo |
|
Tue, Oct 22 |
12:30pm | KITP SSR | Andrea Puhm | Non-extremality from Metastability? | UCSB |
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Thur, Oct 24 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | Wenbin Yan | BPS spectrum of Argyres-Douglas theory via spectral network | Caltech |
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Tue, Oct 29 |
12:30pm | KITP SSR | Yinbo Shi | Nonviolent Nonlocality - Effective Field Theory Models | UCSB |
|
Thur, Oct 31 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | David Kubiznak | Van der Waals fluid, reentrant phase transitions, and AdS black holes | Perimeter |
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Tue, Nov 5 |
12:30pm | KITP SSR | Nabil Iqbal | Wilson Lines and Entanglement Entropy in Higher Spin Gravity | KITP |
|
Thur, Nov 7 |
2:00pm | Broida 3302 | Raghu Rangarajan | Reheating of the Universe, Gravitinos and Leptogenesis | PRL |
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Fri, Nov 8 |
12:30pm | KITP SSR | Federico Bonetti | F-theory on Spin(7) manifolds: realization via M-theory and weak-coupling limit | MPI Munich |
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Tue, Nov 12 |
12:30pm | KITP Auditorium | Denis Klevers | F-theory Compactifications with Multiple U(1) Factors | UPenn |
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Thur, Nov 14 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | Yutin Huang | A tale of manifest locality and unitarity: from positive grassmannian to gauge anomalies | IAS |
|
Tue, Nov 19 |
12:30pm | KITP Auditorium | TBD | TBD | TBD |
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Thur, Nov 21 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Tue, Nov 26 |
12:30pm |
KITP Auditorium | Xi Dong | Holographic Entanglement Entropy for General Higher Derivative Gravity | Stanford |
|
Thur, Nov 28 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving |
| Tue, Dec 3 |
12:30pm |
KITP Auditorium | Jay Wacker |
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SLAC |
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Thur, Dec 5 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | Wilke van der Schee | Collisions in AdS and the thermalisation of heavy-ion collisions | Utrecht University |
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Fri, Dec 6 |
12:30pm | KITP Auditorium | Guy Gur-Ari | 3D Bosonization and Chern-Simons Vector Models | weizmann |
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Tue, Dec 10 |
12:30pm | KITP Auditorium | Xiaoliang Qi | Exact holographic mapping and emergent space-time geometry | Stanford |
|
Tue, Dec 17 |
12:30pm | KITP | TBD | TBD | TBD |
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Thur, Dec 19 |
2:00pm | KITP SSR | TBD | TBD | TBD |
(Click here for the Google calendar version of the schedule.)
Spring 2013
| Tue, May 7 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Horacio Casini |
Special Seminar Physical entanglement entropy: relative entropy and mutual information |
Centro Atomico Bariloche |
Winter 2013
| Tue, Jan 22nd | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Steve Giddings | Quantum Information transfer from black holes: Violent vs. Nonviolent Nonlocality | UCSB |
| Thu, Jan 24th | 2:00pm | Broida 3302 | Sichun Sun | Holographic duals of Non-Abelian brane embeddings and the rise of non-local masses | Washington/KITP |
| Tue, Jan 29th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Cheng Peng | Dualities from higher-spin supergravity | Michigan/KITP |
| Thu, Jan 31st | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Stefan Leichenauer | Null Geodesics, Local CFT Operators, and AdS/CFT for Subregions | Caltech |
| Tue, Feb 5th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Don Page | Time Dependence of Hawking Radiation Entropy | Alberta |
| Thu, Feb 7th | 3:00pm | KITP Auditorium | Stephane Detournay |
Warped Conformal Field Theory Note different time and venue |
Harvard |
| Tue, Feb 12th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Fang Chen | A UV complete model of Large N Thermal QCD | KITP |
| Thu, Feb 14th | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Joshua Cooperman | Renormalization of Entanglement Entropy and the Gravitational Effective Action | UC Davis |
| Tue, Feb 19th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Douglas Stanford | On memory in exponentially expanding spaces | Stanford/KITP |
| Thu, Feb 21 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Blaise Gouteraux | AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme instability | Nordita |
| Tue, Feb 26th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Eric Dzienkowski | Matrix Models and Thermalization | UCSB |
| Thu, Feb 28th | 2:00pm | KITP Auditorium | Robert Wald |
Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes Note different venue |
Chicago |
| Tue, Mar 5th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | David Berenstein | Collective coordinates for CFT objects | UCSB |
| Thu, Mar 7th | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Sean Hartnoll | Metal-insulator transition in holography | Stanford |
| Tue, Mar 12th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Emanuel Diaconescu | From I to J in two dimensional quiver gauge theories | Rutgers |
| Thu, Mar 14th | 2:00pm | KITP Auditorium | Steven Carlip |
Quantum fluctuations and the small scale structure of spacetime Note different venue |
UC Davis |
Fall 2012
| Tue, Oct 2 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | David R. Morrison | Two-sphere partition functions and Gromov-Witten invariants | UCSB |
| Thu, Oct 4 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Andy Stergiou | RG Limit Cycles | UCSD |
| Tue, Oct 9 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Jim Halverson | Stringy Hidden Sectors and Instanton Prefactors in F-theory | KITP |
| Thu, Oct 11 | 2:00pm | KITP Auditorium | Martin Ammon |
Properties of cold holographic matter * Note change of venue * |
UCLA |
| Tue, Oct 16th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Sebastian Fischetti | Flowing Funnels: Using Gravity to Study Heat Transport in CFTs | UCSB |
| Thu, Oct 18th | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Larry Ford | Probability Distributions for Quantum Stress Tensor Flucutations | Tufts |
| Tue, Oct 23rd | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Tarun Grover | Emergent Supersymmetry and Boundary Criticality in Topological Insulators and Superconductors | KITP |
| Thu, Oct 25th | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Bartosz Fornal | Standard model with compactified spatial dimensions | Caltech |
| Tue, Oct 30th | 12:30 | Broida 3302 | Masazumi Honda | Numerical studies of the ABJM theory for arbitrary N at arbitrary coupling constant | KEK |
| Thu, Nov 1st | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Zvi Bern | UV properties of gauge and gravity theories | UCLA |
| Tue, Nov 6th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Gary Horowitz | Transport in Holographic Lattices | UCSB |
| Thu, Nov 8th | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Simon Gentle | Stars, black holes and superconductors | Durham Univ. |
| Thu, Nov 15th | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Raphael Bousso | Is There an Alternative to Firewalls? | Berkeley |
| Tue, Nov 20th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Benson Way | Confinement/Deconfinement in Asymptotically Lifshitz Spacetimes | UCSB |
| Thu, Nov 22 | Thanksgiving (no seminar) | ||||
| Tue, Nov 27 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Jaume Gomis | Exact Results in D = 2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Applications | Perimeter |
| Thu, Nov 29 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Abhijit Gadde | Index of 2d theories and Surface operators | Caltech |
| Tue, Dec 4 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Aron Wall | Superselection sectors in AdS/CFT! | |
| Thu, Dec 6th | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Kristan Jensen | Anomaly-Induced Transport and Thermodynamics | Victoria |
| Tue, Dec 18th | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Andrea Puhm | Fire/fuzz ball/wall | CEA Saclay |
Spring 2012
| Thu, May 31 | 2:00pm | KITP SSR | Narayan Krishnan | Aspects of Lifshitz Scaling in String Theory | Chennai Mathematical Institute |
| Tue, Jun 5 | 12:30pm | Broida 3302 | Joe Polchinski | Scale and Conformal Invariance in D=4 | KITP |
| Thu, Jun 7 | 10:30am | KITP AUD | Vijay Kumar |
Calabi-Yau Manifolds from 2D Gauge Theories ** Note change of time and venue ** |
KITP |
Winter 2012
|
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 |
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SEMINAR CANCELED |
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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 |
Fall 2011
|
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 |
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|
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, |
12:30pm |
Broida 3302 |
Diana Nacir |
Dissipative effects in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation |
Universidad de Buenos Aires |
|
Tue, |
2:00pm |
KITP SSR |
Adam Brown |
On Nothing |
Princeton |
Past:
Spring 2011
|
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 |
Past:
Winter 2011
|
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 |
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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 |
Fall 2010
|
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 |
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Tues, Oct 12 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Don Marolf |
Falling into a Generic Black Hole |
UCSB |
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Thurs, Oct 14 |
2:00 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Noppadol Mekareeya |
Chiral Operators on Hypermultiplet Moduli Spaces |
Imperial |
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Tues, Oct 19 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Jorge Santos |
Instabilities and news phases of higher-dimensional black holes |
UCSB |
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Thurs, Oct 21 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Tommy Levi |
When Worlds Collide |
British Columbia |
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Tues, Oct 26 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
David Kubiznak |
Spinning Particles and Hidden Symmetries |
Cambridge |
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Thurs, Oct 28 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Abhijit Gadde |
From N=4 SYM to N=2 Superconformal QCD: Spin Chains and Holography |
Stonybrook |
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Tues, Nov 2 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Leonardo Senatore |
On loop effects in Cosmology |
Stanford |
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Thurs, Nov 4 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Tao Liu |
Dark Light Higgs |
UCSB |
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Tues, Nov 9 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Carlos Tamarit |
Naturalness from runaways in direct mediation |
KITP |
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Thurs, Nov 11 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Veterans Day |
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Tues, Nov 16 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Aron Wall |
Why is the Generalized Second Law True? |
Maryland |
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Thurs, Nov 18 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Thomas Hertog |
Eternal Inflation without Metaphysics |
APC, Paris |
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Tues, Nov 23 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Steve Giddings |
High-energy (super)gravitational scattering and the Gravitational S-matrix |
UCSB |
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Thurs, Nov 25 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Thanksgiving |
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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 |
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Thurs, Dec 2 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Ami Katz |
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Boston |
Winter/Spring 2010
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Tues, Jan 12 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Jerome Gauntlett |
Holographic Superconductivity in M-Theory |
Imperial |
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Thurs, Jan 14 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Theo Nieuwenhuizen |
Do non-relativistic neutrinos constitute the dark matter? |
U Amsterdam |
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Tues, Jan 19 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Sebastian Franco |
Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking, with Flavor |
KITP |
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Thurs, Jan 21 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Ben Freivogel |
Regulating Eternal Inflation with the UV/IR connection |
Berkeley |
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Tues, Jan 26 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Diego Trancanelli |
A supermatrix model for AdS4/CFT3 |
UCSB |
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Thurs, Jan 28 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Mark Srednicki |
Quantum Chaos and the Riemann Zeta Function |
UCSB |
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Tues, Feb 2 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Hans Jockers |
Mirror symmetry and effective couplings for F-theory, type II and heterotic strings |
KITP |
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Thurs, Feb 4 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Mark Wise |
Violations of Rotational and/or Translational invariance during the inflationary era |
Caltech |
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Tues, Feb 9 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
João Penedones |
Scattering in AdS and CFT correlation functions |
KITP |
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Thurs, Feb 11 |
3:30 pm |
KITP AUDITORIUM |
David Poland |
Superconformal Flavor Simplified |
Harvard |
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Tues, Feb 16 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Gary Horowitz |
Two Recent Developments in Holographic Superconductors |
UCSB |
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Thurs, Feb 18 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Nicholas Warner |
Microstate Geometries and Non-BPS Black Holes |
USC |
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Tues, Feb 23 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Joshua Lapan |
Warped AdS3 and Virasoro Resonances |
KITP |
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Thurs, Feb 25 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Per Kraus |
Metamagnetic quantum critical point in AdS/CFT |
UCLA |
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Tues, Mar 2 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Nick Halmagyi |
On the Existence of Meta-Stable Vacua in the Klebanov-Strassler Background |
LPTHE - Paris |
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Thurs, Mar 4 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Gonzalo Torroba |
Flavor, supersymmetry and Higgs physics |
KITP |
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Fri, Apr 16 |
12:15pm |
Broida 6th Floor Commons |
Jonathan Halliwell |
Decoherent Histories Analysis of Quantum Cosmological Models |
Imperial |
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Tues, Apr 27 |
2:00 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Ian Morrison |
Loop effects and the IR stability of de Sitter space |
UCSB |
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Thurs, Apr 29 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Simeon Hellerman |
A Universal Inequality in CFT and Quantum Gravity |
IPMU |
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Tues, May 18 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Tom Banks |
The Pyramid Scheme, A New Public Offering |
Rutgers/UCSC |
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Thurs, May 20 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Inyong Park |
Open string engineering of D-brane geometry -- toward three-loop check |
Kyoto |
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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 |
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Thurs, May 27 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Devin Walker |
Distinguishing Different Types of Dark Matter at the LHC |
Berkeley |
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Fri, May 28 |
11:00 am |
KITP SSR |
Alexander Polyakov |
The Decline and Fall of the de Sitter Space |
Princeton |
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Tues, Jun 1 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Mina Arvanitaki |
The Principle of Plenitude |
Berkeley |
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Wed, Jun 2 |
12:00 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Steve Giddings |
Infrared Effects and Semiclassical Relations in Inflationary Spacetimes |
UCSB |
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Thurs, Jun 3 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Matt Strassler |
On Hidden Sectors and Other Exotica at Hadron Colliders |
Rutgers |
Fall 2009
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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Wed, Sept 2 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Dan Israel |
Heterotic Torsional Backgrounds, from Supergravity to CFT |
IAP, Paris |
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Thurs, Sept 24 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Kai Wang |
Probing B/L violations in the extended scalar models at the LHC |
IPMU |
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Tues, Sept 29 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Tom Faulkner |
Strange metal from holography |
KITP |
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Thurs, Oct 1 |
2:00 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Martin Ammon |
Holographic (Super-)fluids in the D3/D7 model |
Max-Planck, Munich |
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Tues, Oct 6 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
David Berenstein |
Small AdS black holes from SYM |
UCSB |
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Thurs, Oct 8 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Matthew Roberts |
Zero Temperature Limit of Holographic Superconductors |
UCSB |
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Tues, Oct 13 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Rafael Porto |
The Gravitational S-Matrix |
KITP |
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Thurs, Oct 15 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Anton Kapustin |
Exact results for Wilson loops in supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories |
Caltech |
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Tues, Oct 20 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Sakura Schafer-Nameki |
GUT F-enomenology |
KITP |
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Thurs, Oct 22 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Hai-Bo Yu |
WIMPless Miracle and Hidden Charged Dark Matter |
UCI |
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Fri, Oct 23 |
2:00 pm |
KITP Main SR |
Raman Sundrum |
SUSY Splits and Then Returns |
Johns Hopkins |
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Tues, Oct 27 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Arjun Bagchi |
The non-relativistic limit of AdS/CFT |
HRI, Allahabad |
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Wed, Oct 28 |
10:30 am |
KITP Aud |
Nathan Seiberg |
Goldstinos |
IAS |
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Thurs, Oct 29 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Murad Alim |
Hints for Off-Shell Mirror Symmetry |
Bonn University |
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Tues, Nov 3 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Jonathan Oppenheim |
Black holes, Fundamental Destruction of Information and Conservation Laws |
DAMTP - Cambridge |
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Thurs, Nov 5 |
2:00 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Herman Verlinde |
S-dual probes of supersymmetric gauge theory |
Princeton |
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Tues, Nov 10 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Tim Jones |
Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking and Flavour Physics |
KITP/Liverpool University |
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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 |
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Tues, Nov 17 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Brian Wecht |
New Tools for New SCFTs |
IAS |
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Thurs, Nov 19 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Kristan Jensen |
Mirror Symmetry and M2 branes |
UW |
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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 |
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Thurs, Dec 3 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Yasuhiro Sekino |
FRW/CFT Duality: Holographic Formulation of Eternal Inflation, and its Applications |
OIQP - Okayama |
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Tues, Dec 8 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Richard Eager |
A-Maximization and Quiver Minimization |
UCSB |
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Thurs, Dec 10 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Nima Arkani-Hamed |
Dualities for Local Spacetime Physics from the Grassmannian |
IAS |
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Tues, Dec 15 |
12:30 pm |
KITP SSR |
Paul Aspinwall |
Decompactifications vs Massless D-Branes in Moduli Space Limits |
Duke |
Winter/Spring 2009
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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Tue., Feb. 3 |
12:30 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Jaemo Park |
Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2-brane CFTs |
POSTECH & Stanford |
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Tue., Feb. 17 |
12:30 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Don Page |
Cosmological Measures without Volume Weighting |
Alberta U. |
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Tue., Feb. 24 |
12:30 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
David Garfinkle |
Possible Outcomes for Classical Gravitational Singularities |
Oakland U. |
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Tue., Mar. 3 |
12:30 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Graciela Gelmini |
In Search of Dark Matter Particles: Have We Found Them? |
UCLA |
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Tue., Mar. 10 |
12:30 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Liantao Wang |
Top Quarks and New Physics Signals at the LHC |
Princeton |
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Tue., Mar. 31 |
12:30 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Peter Graham |
A Domino Theory of Flavor |
Stanford |
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Thu., Apr. 23 |
2 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Sean Hartnoll |
Landscape of Holographic Superconductors |
Harvard |
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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 |
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Thu., May 14 |
2 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Diego Trancanelli |
't Hooft Meets Wilson: Disorder Operators, Matrix Models, and S-duality |
UCSB |
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Thu., May 28 |
2 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Nikolay Bobev |
Supergravity Solutions for Nonrelativistic Holography |
USC & KITP |
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Tue., Jun. 16 |
12:30pm |
Broida 3302 |
Jonathan Halliwell |
Decoherent Histories and Arrival Times |
Imperial College |
Fall 2008
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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Thu., Sep. 25 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Bartek Czech |
Black Holes from Statistics |
UPenn |
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Tue., Sep. 30 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Aaron Amsel |
Supersymmetric Multi-trace Boundary Conditions in AdS |
UCSB |
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Thu., Oct. 2 |
2:00 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Jock McOrist |
Summing the Instantons in the Heterotic String |
U. of Chicago |
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Tue., Oct. 7 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Josh Lapan |
Computing the Massless Spectrum of Non-Kaehler Compactifications |
KITP |
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Thu., Oct. 9 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Per Kraus |
Gravity Duals of the Quantum Hall Effect |
UCLA |
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Tue., Oct. 14 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Don Marolf |
Holography and Unitarity in Gravitational Physics |
UCSB |
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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 |
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Tue., Oct. 21 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Stefan Hollands |
Higher-dimensional Black Holes |
Cardiff U. |
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Thu., Oct. 23 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
John Schwarz |
Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories |
Caltech |
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Tue., Oct. 28 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Matthew Roberts |
Holographic Superconductivity |
UCSB |
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Thu., Oct. 30 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Sakura Schaefer-Nameki |
SUSY Breaking in F-theory GUTs |
Caltech |
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Tue., Nov. 4 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Nori Iizuka |
Matrix Quantum Mechanics for the Black Hole Information Problem |
KITP |
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Thu., Nov. 6 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Stanley Deser |
Cosmological Topologically Massive Theories |
Brandeis |
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Tue., Nov. 11 |
Veterans' day |
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Thu., Nov. 13 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Thomas Hertog |
The No-boundary Measure of Eternal Inflation |
APC Paris & Solvay Inst. |
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Tue., Nov. 18 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Sophie de Buyl |
Singularities, E10 and M-theory |
UCSB |
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Thu., Nov. 20 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Gonzalo Torroba |
Four-dimensional Dynamics of String Compactifications |
Rutgers & KITP |
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Tue., Nov. 25 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Diego Rodriguez-Gomez |
Towards M2 Branes Probing Generic Toric Singularities |
Princeton |
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Thu., Nov. 27 |
Thanksgiving |
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Tue., Dec. 2 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Emery Sokatchev |
Dual Superconformal Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills |
Annecy |
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Thu., Dec. 4 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Sandip Trivedi |
Time Dependent Cosmologies and Their CFT Duals |
TIFR & Stanford |
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Tue., Dec. 9 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Stephane Detournay |
3D Gravity Theories, Exact String Backgrounds, and Applications |
KITP |
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Thu., Dec. 11 |
2:00 pm |
KITP SSR |
Joe Polchinski |
Landscape/CFT Duality? |
KITP |
Summer 2008
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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Tue., Jul. 15 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Sebastian Franco |
SUSY Breaking Mediation by D-brane Instantons |
Princeton |
Spring 2008
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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Tue., Apr. 8 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
John Klauder |
Affine Quantum Gravity: A Different View of a Difficult Problem |
U. of Florida |
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Thu., Apr. 10 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Pedro Vieira |
Quantum Wrapped Giant Magnon |
ENS Paris |
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Thu., Apr. 17 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Jorge Casalderrey-Solana |
Probing Strongly Coupled Plasmas with Heavy Quarks |
UC Berkeley |
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Thu., Apr. 24 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Brandon Carter |
Progress in the Mechanics of (Superconducting) Cosmic Strings and Their (Vorton) Equilibrium States |
Meudon |
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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 |
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Thu., May 8 |
2 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Sean Carroll |
The Universe Is Not Ergodic |
Caltech |
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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 |
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Thu., May 22 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Borun Chowdhury |
Radiation from the Non-extremal Fuzzball |
Ohio State |
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Thu., May 29 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Mark Jackson |
Detecting Cosmic Superstrings |
Fermilab |
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Tue., June 3 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Nima Arkani-Hamed |
What is the Simplest QFT? |
IAS |
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Thu., June 5 |
2 pm |
KITP Founder's Room |
Geoffrey Compère |
Setting the Boundary Free in AdS/CFT : a Gravity / CFT+Gravity Correspondence |
UCSB |
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Thu., June 12 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Diana Vaman |
The Space-Cone Gauge and Yang-Mills Tree and Loop-Level Recursion Relations |
KITP & Virginia |
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Tue., June 17 |
12:30 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
David Mateos |
A Universal String Prediction for Heavy Ion Collisions |
UCSB |
Winter 2008
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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Thu., Jan. 10 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Mark Srednicki |
High-Energy Gravitational Scattering and Black Hole Resonances |
UCSB |
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Tue., Jan. 22 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Joe Polchinski |
A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization |
KITP |
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Thu., Jan 24 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Graham Kribs |
The Supersymmetric Flavor Problem, R-symmetry, and the LHC |
U. of Oregon |
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Thu., Jan. 31 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Don Page |
Boundary Conditions for the Universe |
U. of Alberta |
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Thu., Feb. 7 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Matthew Schwartz |
Effective Field Theory and Collider Physics |
Johns Hopkins U. |
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Tue., Feb. 12 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Yuji Tachikawa |
New Developments in d=4, N=2 SCFTs |
IAS |
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Tue., Feb. 19 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Eliezer Rabinovici |
Aspects of Little String Holography |
Hebrew U. |
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Thu., Feb 21 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Peter Graham |
Searching for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry |
Stanford U. |
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Thu., Mar. 6 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Anatoly Dymarsky |
D-brane Inflation in String Theory |
Stanford U. |
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Thu., Mar. 13 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Kostas Skenderis |
The Fuzzball Proposal for Black Holes |
U. of Amsterdam |
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Thu., Mar. 20 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
João Penedones |
High Energy Scattering in AdS/CFT |
KITP |
Fall 2007
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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Thu., Sep. 13 |
2 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Lara Anderson |
M Theory on Singular G2 Spaces |
U Oxford |
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Tue., Sep. 25 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Ali Nayeri |
Generating Inflation-Free Scale-Invariant Power Spectrum in String Gas Cosmology |
KITP |
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Thu., Sep. 27 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
John Preskill |
Black Holes as Mirrors |
Caltech |
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Tue., Oct. 2 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
David Berenstein |
Strings on Conifolds from Strong Coupling Dynamics |
UCSB |
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Thu., Oct. 4 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Clifford Johnson |
External Fields and the Dynamics of Flavour in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory |
USC |
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Tue., Oct. 9 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Amitabh Virmani |
A Holographic Renormalizaion of Asymptotically Flat and Linear Dilaton Spacetimes |
UCSB |
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Thu., Oct. 11 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Itzhak Bars |
Two-Time Physics: the Unified View from Higher Dimensional Space and Time |
USC |
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Tue., Oct. 16 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Timo Weigand |
New D-Brane Instanton Effects in Type II Orientifolds |
U Penn |
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Thu., Oct. 18 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Steve Giddings |
High-Energy Scattering and Locality: Gravity and Strings |
UCSB |
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Tue., Oct. 23 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Takuya Okuda |
A Prediction for the Bubbling Geometries for Wilson Loops |
KITP |
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Thu., Oct. 25 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Eric D’Hoker |
Exact Half-BPS Solutions to Type IIB Supergravity |
UCLA |
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Tue., Oct. 30 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Sean Hartnoll |
Tabletop AdS/CFT: from Black Holes to Superconductors |
UCSB |
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Thu., Nov. 1 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Andy O’Bannon |
Metallic AdS/CFT |
U Washington |
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Tue., Nov. 6 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Rafael Porto |
An Effective Field Theory of Gravity for Spinning Extended Objects |
UCSB |
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Thu., Nov. 8 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Cindy Keeler |
Closed String Tachyon Condensation in the E_8 Heterotic System |
Berkeley |
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Tue., Nov. 13 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Jim Hartle |
The Classical Universes of the No-Boundary Quantum State |
UCSB |
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Wed., Nov. 14 |
2 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Niklas Beisert |
Spectral Curve for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT |
Max Planck |
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Thu., Nov. 15 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Petr Horava |
Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point |
Berkeley |
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Tue., Nov. 20 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Dam Son |
Graphene in Quantum Field Theory |
U Washington |
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Thu., Nov. 22 |
THANKSGIVING |
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Tue., Nov. 27 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Julian Sonner |
Geometric Phases in String Theory |
DAMTP |
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Thu., Nov. 29 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Roni Harnik |
Hierarchy without Color and the LHC |
SLAC |
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Tue., Dec. 4 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Maria Jose Rodriguez |
Higher Dimensional Black Holes |
Barcelona & UCSB |
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Thu., Dec. 6 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Diego Trancanelli |
On Supersymmetric Wilson Loops |
UCSB |
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Tue., Dec. 11 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Ari Pakman |
Progress in AdS3/CFT2 |
Stony Brook |
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Thu., Dec. 13 |
1:30 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Gabriele Veneziano |
Towards an S-matrix Description of Gravitational Collapse |
College de France |
Spring 2007
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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Tue., April 3 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Jonathan Halliwell |
Commuting Position and Momentum Operators, Exact Decoherence and Emergent Classicality |
Imperial Coll., London |
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Thu., April 5 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Aaron Amsel |
Stability and Instability in Designer Gravity |
UCSB |
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Tue., April 10 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Nori Iizuka |
Attractors and Spinning Strings |
KITP |
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Thu., April 12 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
David Kutasov |
Symmetry Breaking from Intersecting Branes |
U. of Chicago |
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Tue., April 17 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Sergei Gukov |
Four-dimensional Kondo Problem |
UCSB |
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Thu., April 19 |
No talk. |
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Tue., April 24 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Don Marolf |
A New Picture of de Sitter Space? |
UCSB |
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Thu., April 26 |
2 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Lance Dixon |
Is N=8 Supergravity Finite? |
SLAC |
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Tue., May 1 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Florian Dubath |
Periodic Gravitational Waves from Small Cosmic String Loops |
KITP |
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Thu., May 3 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Gary Horowitz |
Toward Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole |
UCSB |
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Tue., May 8 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Henriette Elvang |
Fake Supergravity |
MIT |
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Thu., May 10 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Sumit Das |
Null Singularities and Their Gauge Theory Duals |
U. of Kentucky |
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Tue., May 15 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Per Kraus |
Stringy Black Holes in 4 and 5 Dimensions |
UCLA |
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Thu., May 17 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Masaki Shigemori |
Nonsupersymmetric Brane/Antibrane Configurations in Type IIA and M Theory |
Caltech |
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Tue., May 22 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Raphael Bousso |
Cosmological Vacuum Selection in the Landscape: Problems and Predictions |
UC Berkeley & LBNL |
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Thu., May 24 |
No talk due to a secret meeting. |
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Tue., May 29 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Steve Carlip |
Black Hole Thermodynamics from Euclidean Horizon Constraints |
UC Davis |
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Thu., May 31 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Luis Fernando Alday |
Gluon Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling |
Utrecht U. & IAS |
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Tue., June 5 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Kentaroh Yoshida |
Higher Loop Bethe Ansatz for Open Spin Chains in AdS/CFT |
KITP |
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Thu., June 7 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Mark Scheel |
Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Inspirals |
Caltech |
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Tue., June 12 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Joe Polchinski |
The Cosmic String Inverse Problem |
UCSB & KITP |
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Thu., June 14 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Ted Erler |
Analytic Progress in Open String Field Theories |
HRI & KITP |
Winter 2007
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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Tue., Jan. 30 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Sam Pinansky |
The Phenomenology of the Minimal Quiver Standard Model |
UCSB |
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Thu., Feb. 1 |
No talk due to an external committee visit. |
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Thu., Feb. 8 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Lee Lindblom |
Generalized Harmonic Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes |
Caltech |
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Tue., Feb. 13 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Takuya Okuda |
Wilson Loops, String/Brane/Geometry Transitions and Bubbling Calabi-Yau's |
KITP |
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Thu., Feb. 15 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Yutaka Ookouchi |
Meta-Stable SUSY Breaking Vacua in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories |
Caltech |
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Tue., Feb. 20 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Pavel Kovtun |
Quantum Critical Transport, Duality, and M-theory |
KITP |
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Wed., Feb. 21 |
12:15 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Lian-Tao Wang |
The LHC Inverse Problem: Interpreting Data to Learn about Underlying Theory |
Princeton U. |
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Wed., Feb. 28 |
12:15 pm |
Broida 3302 |
David Rainwater |
U. of Rochester |
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Fri., Mar. 2 |
12:15 pm |
KITP Auditorium |
Zackaria Chacko |
U. of Arizona |
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Tue., Mar. 6 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Hideaki Kudoh |
Doubly Spinning Black Rings and Beyond |
UCSB |
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Wed., Mar. 7 |
12:15 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Ian Low |
UC Irvine |
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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 |
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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 |
Fall 2006
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Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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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 |
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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 |
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Nov. . 30 |
2:00 pm |
Amitabh Virmani |
Dynamics and Stability of Black Rings |
UCSB |