Past Events

Date
Friday, December 15, 2023. 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Speaker:
Sarah Geller

In my talk,  I will present recent work on the formation of primordial black hole dark matter and the resultant gravitational wave signal, drawing from recent results of …

Date
Friday, December 8, 2023. 1:30pm
Speaker:
Wan Zhen Chua

In this talk, I will first describe on obtaining a microcanonical thermofield double state at fixed energy and angular momentum from the gravitational path integral.

Date
Friday, December 8, 2023. 11:00am
Speaker:
Yikun Jiang

In this talk, I will first describe work on 3d quantum gravity with two asymptotically AdS regions, in particular, using its relation with coupled Alekseev-Shatashvili theories and…

Date
Thursday, December 7, 2023. 1:00pm
Speaker:
Tom Hartman

The averaged null energy operator is known to be closely tied to causality, quantum information, and the Regge limit of correlation functions in CFT.

Date
Thursday, December 7, 2023. 11:00am
Speaker:
Scott Collier

I will discuss the quantization of one of the simplest theories of gravity, three-dimensional Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant.