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SITP Colloquia

Upcoming Events

Date
Mon April 21st 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Zimo Sun

In this talk, I will discuss the phase of the Euclidean gravity path integral in the presence of a positive cosmological constant.

Date
Mon April 28th 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Varian
Speaker
Kelian Haring

In this talk, I will explore the physical mechanisms responsible for generating the graviton pole in twice-subtracted dispersion relations.

Past Events

Date
Mon April 14th 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Jakob Moritz

In this talk I will explain recent and ongoing progress in the construction of de Sitter cosmologies using Calabi-Yau flux compactifications of type IIB string theory.

Date
Mon April 7th 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Fedor Popov

High temperatures are typically thought to increase disorder. 

Date
Mon March 31st 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Ian Moult

The study of detector operators, most notably energy flux correlators, has recently emerged at the intersection of experiment, phenomenology, and formal theory.

Date
Mon March 24th 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Yihui Quek

Could quantum many-body physics look different to a computationally-bounded observer?

Date
Mon March 10th 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Beatrix Mühlmann

I will introduce a new 2d gravity/matrix integral duality.

Date
Mon February 10th 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Sean Colin-Ellerin

Quantum corrections to holographic entanglement entropy are well-understood for ordinary quantum matter in a classical gravitational background.