SITP Colloquia
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For string backgrounds with known exact worldsheet theory descriptions, ordinary string perturbation theory can be employed to study their observables such as string spectrum and scattering.
Should we include a sum over wormhole topologies in the path integral of quantum gravity?
Klaas Parmentier will give the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Monday Colloquium on November 4, 2024.
Jeongwan Haah will be giving the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Monday Colloquium on November 11, 2024.
Sahand Seifnashri from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton will be giving the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Monday Colloquium on November 18, 2024.
Non-perturbative effects in string theory, such as D-branes, play an essential role in our current understanding of both quantum gravity and string-based models of the universe.
In this talk I will do three things. First, I will outline the conditions under which the interaction rate of inelastic processes with a system consisting of N targets scales as N^2.
Past Events
Lately there has been renewed interest in two-dimensional gauge theories, stemming from their applicability as toy models of QCD along with rapidly advancing techniques for simulating them both…
We will discuss a large class of non-relativistic continuum field theories where the Euclidean symmetry of the classical theory is violated in the quantum theory by an Adler-Bell-Jackiw-like…
In this talk, we first present a detailed analysis of theclassical geometry of generic null hypersurfaces.
Klebanov-Strassler solution is a supergravity background that features an exponential hierarchy of scales.
There is strong motivation to extend the observable frequency range of gravitational waves beyond the Hz - kHz regime already probed by LIGO and Virgo.
Embezzlement refers to the counterintuitive possibility of extracting entangled quantum states from a reference state of an auxiliary system (the "embezzler") via local quantum operations while…