2023-24 SITP Seminar Schedule

SITP Monday Colloquia

Date	Speaker	Location	Time	Title Sort descending	Affiliation
11/27/23	Natalia Toro	Varian 355	2:00 PM	A New Spin on Long-Range Interactions: Continuous Spin Particles and Predictions for their Interactions	Perimeter Institute
11/20/23	Eugenia Colafranceschi	Varian 355	2:00 PM	A trace inequality for Euclidean gravitational path integrals	University of California, Santa Barbara
11/13/23	Gabriele di Ubaldo	Varian 355	2:00 PM	AdS_3/RMT_2 Duality	Institut de physique théorique
10/30/23	Nima Lashkari	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity	Purdue University
10/23/23	Daniel Roberts	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Deep Learning from the Perspective of a Physicist	Sequoia Capital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10/16/23	Herman Verlinde	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Double scaled SYK and de Sitter holography	Princeton University
10/09/23	Sho Yaida	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Effective Theory of Deep Neural Networks	Meta
12/04/23	Yin Chen He	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFTs	Perimeter Institute
09/25/23	Manki Kim	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Towards string loop corrections in Calabi-Yau orientifold compactifications	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11/06/23	Xi Dong	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Type I von Neumann algebras from bulk path integrals: Understanding RT without invoking AdS/CFT	University of California, Santa Barbara

Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars

Date	Speaker	Location	Time	Title Sort descending	Affiliation
11/17/23	Zach Bogorad	Varian 312	3:00 PM	Constraints on Long-Range Interactions of Dark Matter	Stanford University
09/22/23	Dawid Brzeminski	Varian 312	3:00 PM	Dynamical equilibration of dark matter and baryon energy densities	University of Maryland
10/27/23	Erwin Tanin	Varian 312	3:00 PM	Forging Antihelium in a Dark Matter Crucible	Stanford University
09/29/23	Andrew Long	Varian 312	3:00 PM	Making massive spin-2 particles from gravity during inflation	Rice University
10/20/23	Reuven Balkin	Varian 312	3:00 PM	Probing light scalars with dense stars	University of California, Santa Cruz
10/06/23	Will DeRocco	Varian 312	3:00 PM	Searching for gravitational waves below a nanohertz	University of California, Santa Cruz
11/03/23	Tanner Trickle	Varian 312	3:00 PM	Searching for High Frequency Gravitational Waves with Phonons	Fermilab

SITP Seminars and Meetings

Date	Speaker	Location	Time	Title Sort descending	Affiliation
12/07/23	Scott Collier	Varian 355	11:00 AM	3d quantum gravity and Virasoro TQFT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12/07/23	Tom Hartman	Varian 355	1:00 PM	Averaged null energy and the renormalization group	Cornell University
10/20/23	Rifath Khan	Varian 355	1:30 PM	Cauchy Slice Holography and the Semiclassical Approximation	Stanford University
11/17/23	Renato Renner	Zoom	1:30 PM	Commuting Operations Factorise	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich)
10/19/23	Richard Nally	Varian 206	2:00 PM	Evidence for KKLT de Sitter Vacua	Cornell University
12/08/23	Yikun Jiang	Varian 355	11:00 AM	Hartle-Hawking state, factorization and tensor network in 3d gravity	Northeastern University
12/08/23	Wan Zhen Chua	Varian 355	1:30 PM	Microcanonical states in higher dimensions, and WdW wavefunction & observables in 3d gravity.	Cornell University
11/10/23	Shunyu Yao	Varian 355	1:30 PM	Scramblon interactions	Stanford University
12/15/23	Carl Caves	Varian 355	1:30 PM	SITP Seminar: Carl Caves	University of New Mexico
10/27/23	Tamara Kohler	Varian 355	1:30 PM	Supersymmetry in quantum complexity: clique homology is QMA_1-hard	Stanford University
11/30/23	Erez Urbach	Varian 206	1:30 PM	The black hole/string transition in anti de Sitter space	Weizmann Institute of Science
12/01/23	Scott Collier	Varian 355	1:30 PM	The Virasoro Minimal String	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11/03/23	Jinzhao Wang	Varian 355	1:30 PM	What exactly does Bekenstein bound?	Stanford University

Weekly Group Meetings

Day	Group	Location	time
Thursday	SITP Student Journal Club Meeting	Varian 355 / Zoom	5:30 PM
Friday	Quantum Information Group Meeting	Varian 355 / Zoom	10:30 AM

Past SITP Seminar Schedules

2022-23

SITP Monday Colloquia

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION	TIME	TITLE	AFFILIATION
09/19/22	Jorrit Kruthoff	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Singularity Musings	Institute for Advanced Study
10/31/22	Matthew Dodelson	Zoom	10:00 AM	Orbits, scars, and supersymmetric instantons	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
11/07/22	Gabriel Wong	Varian 355	2:00 PM	3d gravity and gravitational entanglement entropy	Harvard
11/14/22	Atakan Hilmi Firat	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Characterizing 4-string contact interaction using machine learning	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
11/28/22	Ohad Mamroud	Varian 355	2:00 PM	The Supersymmetric Index and its Holographic Interpretation	Weizmann
12/12/22	Nemanja Kaloper	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Quantum-Mechanical Mechanism for Reducing the Cosmological Constant	UC Davis
12/12/22	Javier Magán	Varian 355	3:30 PM	A tale of two hungarians: tridiagonalizing random matrices	Bariloche
01/23/23	Nathan Benjamin	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Scalar Modular Bootstrap and Zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function	Caltech
02/13/23	Joaquin Turiaci	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Random Matrix Universality for Black Holes in Supergravity	Institute for Advanced Study

Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION	TIME	TITLE	AFFILIATION
11/04/22	Philip Mansfield	PAB 102/103	3:00 PM	Is JWST Already Probing Fundamental Physics With Ancient Galaxies?	Stanford
11/11/22	Soubhik Kumar	PAB 102/103	3:00 PM	Heavy Axions across Frontiers: Searches at X-ray/Gamma-ray Telescopes and Beam Dump Facilities	Berkeley
11/18/22	Oren Slone	Varian 355	1:30 PM	A Path to Detecting Self-Interacting Dark Matter using Astrophysical Sub-StructureRecording	New York University
12/02/22	Erwin Tanin	PAB 102/103	3:00 PM	Dark Solar Wind	Johns Hopkins

Weekly Group Meetings

DAY	GROUP	LOCATION	TIME
Thursday	SITP Student Journal Club Meeting	Varian 355 / Zoom	5:30 P.M.
Friday	Quantum Information Group Meeting	Varian 355 / Zoom	10:30 A.M.

SITP Seminars and Meetings

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION	TIME	TITLE	AFFILIATION
09/16/22	Jonathan Oppenheim	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity	University College London

2021-22

SITP Monday Colloquia

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION	TIME	TITLE	AFFILIATION
09/20/21	Oliver Philcox	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Large Scale Structure Beyond the 2-Point Function	Princeton University
10/04/21	Ana-Maria Raclariu	Zoom	2:00 PM	Progress in Celestial Holography Recording \| Slides	Perimeter Institute
10/11/21	Ofer Aharony	Zoom	11:00 AM	Towards an explicit theory of quantum gravity Recording	Weizmann
10/18/21	Liam McAllister	Zoom	2:00 PM	Small Cosmological Constants in String Theory Recording	Cornell
10/25/21	Wendy Freedman	Zoom	2:00 PM	The Hubble Tension: Is There Evidence for New Physics?	University of Chicago
11/01/21	Donal O'Connell	Zoom	11:00 AM	The double copy from Coulomb to Kerr Recording \| Slides	University of Edinburgh
11/08/21	Alexander Zhiboedev	Zoom	2:00 PM	Probing relativistic jelly with light-ray operators	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
11/15/21	Gian Giudice	Zoom	2:00 PM	Self-Organised Localisation Recording	CERN
11/29/21	Madalena Lemos	Zoom	2:00 PM	Bootstrapping strongly coupled super-conformal field theories	Durham
12/06/21	Dalimil Mazac	Zoom	2:00 PM	Automorphic Spectra and the Conformal Bootstrap	IAS
12/13/21	Aram Harrow	Zoom	11:00 AM	Phase transitions in the complexity of simulating random shallow quantum circuits	MIT
01/31/22	Gino Isidori	Zoom	11:00 AM	Flavour Physics: Old problems and recent hopes Recording	University of Zürich
02/28/22	Finn Larsen	Varian 355 and Zoom	2:00 PM	Thermodynamics of Supersymmetric Black Holes Recording	University of Michigan
03/07/22	John Imbrie	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Many-Body Localization and its Discontents Recording	University of Virginia
03/14/22	Jan De Boer	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Quantum gravity and statistical physics Recording	University of Amsterdam
03/28/22	Marco Cirelli	Zoom	10:00 AM	Dark Matter Indirect Searches as of 2022 Recording	LPTHE Paris
04/11/22	Dam Thanh Son	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Bosonization of Fermi Surfaces and Coadjoint Orbits Recording	University of Chicago
05/02/22	Daniel Green	Varian 355	2:00 PM	A dS EFT Recording	University of California, San Diego
05/09/22	Maya Fishbach	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Astrophysics and Cosmology with Black Hole Mergers Recording	Northwestern University
05/23/22	Natalie Paquette	Varian 355	2:00 PM	New thoughts on old gauge amplitudes Recording	University of Washington
06/06/22		Varian 355	2:00 PM	JT gravity with propagating matter, and the ETH as a matrix model Recording	Harvard University
09/19/22	Jorrit Kruthoff	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Singularity Musings	Institute for Advanced Study

Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION	TIME	TITLE	AFFILIATION
09/03/21	Harikrishnan Ramani	Varian 355	4:00 PM	Detection of terrestrial 'millicharges' - part 2	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
09/17/21	Liam McAllister	Zoom	2:00 PM	PQ Axiverse Recording	Cornell
10/22/21	Anirban Das	Varian 355	3:30 PM	'Direct Detection' of Dark Asteroids	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
10/29/21	Alex Fieguth	Varian 355	3:30 PM	Probing non-Newtonian gravity with optically levitated force sensors	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
11/05/21	Simona Murgia	Varian 355	3:30 PM	Gamma-ray observations of the Galactic center and Andromeda: dark matter implications	UC Irvine
11/19/21	Itay Bloch	Varian 355	3:30 PM	The NASDUCK collaboration: using quantum magnetometers to look for ultralight dark matter	Tel Aviv
12/03/21	Davide Racco	Zoom	2:00 PM	Utilizing the causal spectrum of gravitational waves	SITP
12/10/21	Alexander Millar	Zoom and Varian 355	3:30 PM	Dark photon limits: a cookbook	U Stockholm
02/04/22	Ben Garber	Varian 355	3:30 PM	Atom Interferometry for Fundamental Physics	Stanford University
02/11/22	Steffen Hagstotz	Zoom	10:00 AM	Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts	LMU Munich
02/18/22	Wolfgang Altmannshofer	Varian 355	3:30 PM	Hints for New Physics in B Decays	UC Santa Cruz
02/25/22	Christina Gao	PAB 102/103 and Zoom	3:30 PM	Searching for Dark Particles with Light (and Quantum Technologies)	Fermilab
03/04/22	Nadav Outmezguine	PAB 102/103 and Zoom	3:30 PM	The Universal Evolution of SIDM Halos	UC Berkeley
03/18/22	Nicolas Fernandez	PAB 102/103	3:30 PM	Freeze-in, glaciation, and UV sensitivity from light mediators	UIUC
04/08/22	Rebecca Leane	PAB 102/103	3:30 PM	Floating Dark Matter in Celestial Bodies	SLAC
04/22/22	Zach Bogorad	PAB 102/103 and Zoom	3:30 PM	Ultralight Millicharged Dark Matter via Misalignment	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
05/06/22	Patrick Stengel	PAB 102/103 and Zoom	3:30 PM	Neutrino point source searches for dark matter spikes	Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
05/20/22	Annika Peter	Varian 355 and Zoom	3:30 PM	Count your halos	Ohio State University
05/27/22	Benjamin Safdi	Varian 355 and Zoom	3:30 PM	The axion mass	UC Berkeley/LBNL
10/07/22	Philip Mansfield	PAB 102/103	3:00 PM	Is JWST Already Probing Fundamental Physics With Ancient Galaxies?	KIPAC

SITP Seminars and Meetings

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION	TIME	TITLE	AFFILIATION
10/14/21	Shangnan Zhou	Varian 355	10:00 AM	New Era of Quantum Information and Machine Learning Recording	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
10/28/21	Masanori Hanada	Zoom	10:00 AM	Confinement/deconfinement transition in the D0-brane matrix model -- A signature of M-theory?	University of Surrey
04/14/22	Igor Klebanov	Varian 312	3:30 PM	O(N), Sp(2M), and OSp(1\|2M) Models	Princeton University
04/22/22	Nicole Yunger Halpern	Varian 355	2:00 PM	Resource theory of quantum uncomplexity	QuICS / National Institute of Standards and Technology / University of Maryland

2020-21

2020-21 Weekly Group Meetings

Day	Group	Location	Time
Wednesday	TTbar Group Meeting	Varian 355	1:30 P.M.
Thursday	SITP Student Journal Club Meeting	Varian 355	5:30 P.M.
Friday	Quantum Information Group Meeting	Varian 355	10:30 A.M.

2020-21 Virtual Seminars

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/08/20	Alexey Milekhin	2:00 P.M.	Quantum error correction and large N (Recording)	University of California, Santa Barbara
10/01/20	Suvrat Raju	8:00 P.M.	Holography of information from semiclassical gravity (Recording)	International center for Theoretical Sciences
10/05/20	Leonardo Senatore	2:00 P.M.	A de-Sitter no-hair theorem for spacetimes with isometry group forming two-dimensional orbits (Recording)	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
10/12/20	Netta Engelhardt	2:00 P.M.	Free Energy from Replica Wormholes (Recording)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10/15/20	Sam McDermott	2:00 P.M.	New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
10/19/20	Lorenz Eberhardt	2:00 P.M.	Partition functions of the tensionless string (Recording)	Institute for Advanced Study
10/22/20	Stephen Taylor	2:00 P.M.	New results from the Pulsar Timing Array hunt for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (Recording)	Vanderbilt University
10/26/20	Petr Hořava	2:00 P.M.	Large N Expansion and String Theory Out of Equilibrium (Recording)	University of California, Berkeley
10/29/20	Ken Van Tilburg	2:00 P.M.	Stellar Basins of Gravitationally Bound Particles (Recording)	New York University
11/02/20	Vijay Balasubramanian	2:00 P.M.	Knitting wormholes by entanglement in supergravity (Recording)	University of Pennsylvania
11/12/20	Harikrishnan Ramani	2:00 P.M.	What lies above the direct detection ceiling?	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
11/12/20	Gabriel Wong	4:00 P.M.	Entanglement entropy and edge modes in topological string theory (Recording)	Fudan University
11/16/20	Sung-Sik Lee	2:00 P.M.	A model of quantum gravity with emergent spacetime (Recording)	McMaster University
11/19/20	Tongyan Lin	2:00 P.M.	Directly detecting sub-GeV dark matter with crystal targets	University of California, San Diego
11/30/20	Alejandra Castro	2:00 P.M.	The Spectrum of Near-Extremal Rotating Black Hole (Recording)	University of Amsterdam
12/03/20	Ofri Telem	2:00 P.M.	Axion Strings are Superconducting	University of California, Berkeley
12/07/20	David Huse	2:00 P.M.	Many-body-localization to thermalization phase transition	Princeton University
12/10/20	Anson Hook	2:00 P.M.	Fun with cosmic strings : A CMB Millikan experiment and colliders in the sky	University of Maryland
12/10/20	Rajesh Gopakumar	7:00 P.M.	From Symmetric Product CFTs to AdS_3 (Recording)	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
12/17/20	Rebecca Leane	2:00 P.M.	A Story of the Galactic Center Excess	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
01/25/21	Emil Martinec	2:00 P.M.	In Pursuit of the Hirsute: Finding Fuzz Around Black Holes (Recording)	University of Chicago
01/28/21	Daniel Egaña-Ugrinovic	2:00 P.M.	Sources of Low-Energy Events in Low-Threshold Dark Matter Detectors (Recording)	Perimeter Institute
02/01/21	Slava Rychkov	11:00 A.M.	Replicas and RG: case study of Random Field Ising Model (Recording \| Slides)	Université Paris-Saclay
02/04/21	Prateek Agrawal	12:00 P.M.	Topological Gravity as the Early Phase of our Universe (Recording)	University of Oxford
02/08/21	Jorge Kurchan	2:00 P.M.	An unexpected bridge between Black Holes and glasses (Recording)	École normale supérieure
02/11/21	Isabel Garcia-Garcia	12:00 P.M.	P not PQ (Recording)	Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
02/18/21	Hongwan Liu	2:00 P.M.	Dark photons and the cosmic radiation background (Recording)	New York University
02/25/21	Nathaniel Craig	2:00 P.M.	LHC Quo Vadis (Recording)	University of California, Santa Barbara
03/01/21	Renato Renner	2:00 P.M.	A thought experiment to test the range of validity of quantum theory (Recording)	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich
03/04/21	Matthew Mccullough	2:00 P.M.	Dispersing New Physics (Recording)	University of Cambridge
03/08/21	Joao Penedones	11:00 A.M.	Bootstrapping Effective Field Theories: pions and supergravitons (Recording)	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
03/11/21	Olivier Simon	11:00 A.M.	Black Hole Superradiance of Self-Interacting Scalar Fields (Recording)	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
03/15/21	Matias Zaldarriaga	2:00 P.M.	GW astrophysics with LIGO/VIRGO data (Recording \| Slides)	Institute for Advanced Study
03/18/21	Mariangela Lisanti	2:00 P.M.	Prospects for Axion Detection with the Princeton Comagnetometer Experiment (Recording)	Princeton University
03/29/21	Azadeh Maleknejad	2:00 P.M.	Is Our Universe the Remnant of Chiral Anomaly in Inflation? (Recording \| Slides)	CERN
04/01/21	Jose Bernal	12:30 P.M.	Hidden Symmetry of Vanishing Love (Recording)	New York University
04/01/21	Jose Bernal	2:00 P.M.	The trouble with H0 (and beyond) (Recording)	Johns Hopkins University
04/05/21	Jared Kaplan	2:00 P.M.	Scaling Laws in Machine Learning and GPT-3	Johns Hopkins University
04/09/21	Diego Redigolo	2:00 P.M.	Ripples in Spacetime from broken SUSY (Recording)	CERN
04/12/21	Sameer Murthy	11:00 A.M.	Black hole microstates from matrices, and phases of super Yang-Mills theory (Recording)	King's College London
04/16/21	Nancy Aggarwal	2:00 P.M.	Gravitational waves at frequencies > 10 kHz (Recording)	Northwestern University
04/19/21	Lance Dixon	2:00 P.M.	Discussion on muon g-2	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<
04/23/21	Zhengkang Zhang	12:30 P.M.	Effective Field Theory of Dark Matter Direct Detection With Collective Excitations (Recording)	California Institute of Technology
04/26/21	Jorge Santos	10:00 A.M.	AdS Euclidean Wormholes (Recording)	University of Cambridge
04/29/21	Hazel Mak	12:30 P.M.	Construction of 1D, N = 4 Supersymmetric SYK-Type Vertices (Recording)	Brown University
04/30/21	Zhen Liu	11:30 A.M.	LHC opportunities in long-lived signatures from hidden sectors (Recording)	University of Minnesota
05/03/21	Yu-tin Huang	4:00 P.M.	IR constraints on UV physics: Bounds from the EFThedron (Recording)	National Taiwan University
05/07/21	David Curtin	12:30 P.M.	A no-lose theorem for discovering the new physics of (g-2) (Recording)	University of Toronto
05/10/21	Junwu Huang	2:00 P.M.	Showers at the cosmological collider	Perimeter Institute
05/14/21	Evan McDonough	12:30 P.M.	Catastrophic Production of Slow Gravitinos (Recording)	University of Chicago
05/17/21	Veronika Hubeny	2:00 P.M.	Holographic Entropy Cone from Marginal Independence (Recording)	University of California, Davis
05/21/21	Julian Muñoz	12:30 P.M.	21-cm cosmology in 2021	Harvard University
05/24/21	Nina Holden	10:00 A.M.	Liouville quantum gravity in probability theory (Recording)	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
05/28/21	Patrick Huber	12:30 P.M.	Passive low-energy nuclear recoil detection with color centers (Recording)	Virginia Tech
06/03/21	Micha Berkooz	10:30 A.M.	Multi-trace correlators in the SYK model and Non-geometric wormholes (Recording)	Weizmann Institute of Science
06/11/21	Saarik Kalia	2:00 P.M.	The Earth as a transducer for dark-photon dark-matter detection (Recording)	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
06/18/21	David Cyncynates	2:00 P.M.	Axiverse Dark Matter	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics

2019-20

2019-20 SITP Weekly Group Meetings

Day	Group	Location	Time
Wednesday	TTbar Group Meeting	Varian 355	1:30 P.M.
Thursday	SITP Student Journal Club Meeting	Varian 355	5:30 P.M.
Friday	Quantum Information Group Meeting	Varian 355	10:30 A.M.

2019-20 Virtual Seminars

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
03/23/20 (Monday)	Brandon Rayhaun	2:00 P.M.	Conformal field theories with exceptional symmetry (Recording)	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
03/30/20 (Monday)	Gustavo J. Turiaci	2:00 P.M.	Statistical mechanics of near extremal black holes (Recording)	University of California, Santa Barbara
04/06/20 (Monday)	John McGreevy	2:00 P.M.	Towards a 3d Ising model with a weakly-coupled string theory dual (Recording)	University of California, San Diego
04/13/20 (Monday)	Herman Verlinde	2:00 P.M.	On the Entropy of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge (Recording)	Princeton University
04/20/20 (Monday)	Pengfei Zhang	2:00 P.M.	Replica wormhole and information retrieval in the SYK model coupled to Majorana chains (Recording)	California Institute of Technology
04/23/20 (Thursday)	Robert Lasenby	3:00 P.M.	Long range dark matter self-interactions and plasma instabilities	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
04/27/20 (Monday)	Nathan Seiberg	2:00 P.M.	Continuum Quantum Field Theories for Fractons (Recording)	Institute for Advanced Study
05/04/20 (Monday)	Hong Liu	2:00 P.M.	Void formation in operator growth, quantum chaos and black hole evaporation (Recording)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
05/07/20 (Thursday)	Sjoert Van Velzen	3:00 P.M.	Stellar tidal disruption events: new tools for black hole astrophysics	New York University
05/11/20 (Monday)	Po-shen Hsin	2:00 P.M.	Berry phase in quantum field theory (Slides)	California Institute of Technology
05/18/20 (Monday)	Tom Hartman	2:00 P.M.	Sphere packing, 3d gravity, and the bootstrap (Recording)	Cornell University
06/01/20 (Monday)	Riccardo Rattazzi	2:00 P.M.	Multilegs, Superfluids and Semiclassics (Recording \| Slides)	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
06/04/20 (Thursday)	David Reis and Sebastian Meuren	3:00 P.M.	Studies of strong-field QED in laser-ultrarelativistic-electron-beam collisions	Stanford PULSE Institute / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
06/08/20 (Monday)	Kristan Jansen	2:00 P.M.	Wormholes in AdS3 gravity and random matrix theory (Recording)	San Francisco State University
06/15/20 (Monday)	Finn Larsen	2:00 P.M.	Microscopic Entropy of AdS Black Holes (Recording \| Slides}	University of Michigan
06/22/20 (Monday)	Sean Hartnoll	2:00 P.M.	Classical aspects of the black hole interior (Recording)	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
06/25/20 (Thursday)	Victor Gorbenko	3:00 P.M.	RG Flows and Hierarchy Problem	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
07/13/20 (Monday)	Shinsei Ryu	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement negativity and reflected entropy after quantum quench in 2d CFTs (Recording)	University of Chicago
07/23/20 (Thursday)	Ben Safdi	2:00 P.M.	Novel stellar probes of axion and axion dark matter	University of Michigan
07/27/20 (Monday)	Hirosi Ooguri	2:00 P.M.	Stringy Tidal Effects Near Black Hole Photon Spheres (Recording)	California Institute of Technology
08/03/20 (Monday)	Kevin Costello	2:00 P.M.	Integrable field theories from four-dimensional gauge theory (Recording)	Perimeter Institute
08/10/20 (Monday)	Juan Maldacena	2:00 P.M.	Bra-ket wormholes in gravitationally prepared states (Recording)	Institute for Advanced Study
08/13/20 (Thursday)	Victor Godet	11:00 A.M.	New boundary conditions for JT gravity (Recording)	University of Amsterdam
08/31/20 (Monday)	Eva Silverstein	2:00 P.M.	The positive potential of negative curvature (Recording)	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics

2019-20 Monday Colloquia

Date	Speaker	Location	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/30/19	Gautam Satishchandran	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	The Memory Effect, Asymptotic Symmetries and Infrared Divergences in Classical and Quantum Gravity	University of Chicago
10/07/19	Nathan Benjamin	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Lightcone modular bootstrap and pure gravity	Princeton University
10/14/19	Steven Giddings	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Quantum information and its localization in quantum gravity	University of California, Santa Barbara
10/21/19	Kaloian Lozanov	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	The equation of state after inflation	Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
10/28/19	Zohar Komargodski	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	2+1 Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory	Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University
11/11/19	Gabriel Wong	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement and extended conformal field theory	Fudan University
11/18/19	Alexander Millar	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Searching for axion dark matter with tuneable plasma haloscopes	Stockholm University
11/25/19	Eliot Hijano	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Constructing flat holography using AdS/CFT	Princeton University
01/27/20	Guy Gur-Ari	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Large N expansion for wide neural networks	Google X
02/03/20	Lloyd Knox	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	The Hubble Hunter’s Guide	University of California, Davis
02/10/20	Giovanni Villadoro	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	More axions from strings	International Centre for Theoretical Physics
03/02/20	Ning Bao	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	hypergraphs and entanglement entropies	University of California, Berkeley

2019-20 Thursday Seminars

Date	Speaker	Location	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/26/19	Avia Raviv	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Supersymmetric Lifshitz Field Theories	Tel-Aviv University
10/10/19	Javier Magán	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Entanglement entropy and superselection sectors	Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atómico de Bariloche
10/24/19	Sungwoo Hong	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Conformal Freeze in	Cornell University
10/31/19	David McGady	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Finite temperatures and modular forms	Niels Bohr Institute
11/07/19	Bogdan Ganchev	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Weak Cosmic Censorship in Einstein-Scalar theory in flat 4D	Cambridge University
11/14/19	Alex Jahn	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Fermionic Gaussian states and holography	Free University of Berlin
12/05/19	Evangelos Sfakianakis	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Preheating on Curved Field-Space Manifolds	National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef \| Leiden University
12/12/19	Yi Wang	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Inflation as a Cosmological Collider	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
01/09/20	Abhiram Kidambi	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	1/4 BPS black hole degeneracies from 1/2 BPS black hole degeneracies: An exact formula for black hole polar degeneracies	Vienna University of Technology
01/30/20	Alexander Vikman	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Go Global	Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
02/03/20	Paul Romatschke	Varian 355:	12:30 P.M.	Pure CFT Thermodynamics and Fractional Degrees of Freedom	University of Colorado, Boulder
02/20/20	Atish Dabholkar	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Three Avatars of Mock Modularity	International Centre for Theoretical Physics
02/27/20	Alexandre Belin	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	New holographic CFTs: finding the needle in the haystack	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)yes

2019-20 Other Seminars

Date	Speaker	Location	Time	Title	Affiliation
08/09/19 (Friday)	Miguel Escudero	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Very Light and Weakly Coupled Neutrinophilic Bosons and the Hubble Tension	King's College London
08/26/19 (Monday)	Vasudev Shyam	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	TTbar deformation and diffeomorphism invariance	Perimeter Institute
11/01/19 (Friday)	Kim Bergaus	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Thermal Friction in Early Cosmology	Johns Hopkins University
11/08/19 (Friday)	James Unwin	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Tweaking the Dark Matter Abundance with Cosmology	University of Illinois, Chicago
11/15/19 (Friday)	Horng Sheng Chia	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Gravitational Collider Physics	University of Amsterdam
12/06/19 (Wednesday)	Sukhi Singh	Varian 355	11:00 A.M.	Scale and Translation invariant Tensor Networks	Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
12/06/19 (Wednesday)	Sukhi Singh	Varian 355	11:00 A.M.	Scale and Translation invariant Tensor Networks	Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
12/16/19 (Tuesday)	Yijian Zou	Varian 312	11:00 A.M.	Interacting cMERA -- a non-perturbative approach to QFTs	Perimeter Institute
01/10/20 (Friday)	Akshay Ghalsasi	Varian 312	4:00 PM.	Superradiance and the Spins of Black Holes from LIGO and X-ray binaries	University of California, Santa Cruz
01/17/20 (Friday)	Markus Luty	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Blowing in the Dark Matter Wind	University of California, Davis
02/07/20 (Friday)	Ofri Telem	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Self Destructing Atomic DM	University of California, Berkeley
02/14/20 (Friday)	Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic	Varian 312	3:00 P.M.	New physics in the Higgs sector	Perimeter Institute
02/21/20 (Friday)	Anirudh Prabhu	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Optical Properties of Dense Axion Configurations	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics

2018-19

2018-19 MONDAY COLLOQUIA

Date	Speaker	Location	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/24/18	Eric Braaten	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Axion Stars	Ohio State University
10/01/18	Tom Rudelius	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	The Landscape of Swampland Conjectures	Institute for Advanced Study \| Princeton University
10/08/18	Senthil Todadri	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Topology, quantum criticality, and duality	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10/15/18	Gonzalo Torroba	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement and irreversibility on the light-cone	Centro Atómico Bariloche \| Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
10/22/18	Steven Kivelson	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	The Electron-Phonon Problem	Stanford University
10/29/18	Felix Haehl	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Fine-grained quantum chaos and effective field theory of scrambling in CFTs	University of British Columbia
11/05/18	Gary Horowitz	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Cosmic Censorship in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime	University of California, Santa Barbara
11/12/18	András Vasy	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	The stability of Kerr-de Sitter space and global analysis	Stanford University
11/26/18	Ken Van Tilburg	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Halometry from Astrometry	Institute for Advanced Study \| New York University
12/03/18	Greg Moore	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Finding The Golay Code In A K3 Sigma-Model	Rutgers University
12/10/18	Albion Lawrence	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement and coarse-grained quantum dynamics	Brandeis University
01/07/19	Surjeet Rajendran	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Firewalls in General Relativity	University of California, Berkeley
01/14/19	Srinivas Raghu	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Statistical physics of electrons in a half-filled lowest Landau level	Stanford University
02/04/19	Sidney Redner	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Fate of Kinetic Ising and Potts Models	Santa Fe Institute
02/11/19	David Simmons-Duffin	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Light-rays and Lorentzian singularities in CFTs	California Institute of Technology
02/25/19	Mustafa Amin	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Gravitational Aspects of Solitons in Cosmology	Rice University
03/04/19	Veronika Hubeny	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Holographic Entropy Arrangement	University of California, Davis
03/11/19	Hayden Lee	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Bootstrapping Inflationary Correlators	Harvard University
03/18/19	Burak Şahinoğlu	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Quantum Error-Detection at Low Energies	California Institute of Technology
04/08/19	Grant Remmen	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Holographic Area Laws and Outer Entropy	University of California, Berkeley
04/15/19	Uros Seljak	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	In search of optimal big data analysis: from cosmology to machine learning	University of California, Berkeley
04/22/19	Thomas Dumitrescu	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Fun with Large-N QCD in Three Dimensions	University of California, Los Angeles
04/29/19	Laura Fredrickson	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Asymptotic Geometry of the Hitchin moduli space	Stanford University
05/06/19	Lampros Lamprou	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement as a connection for holographic spacetimes	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
05/13/19	Temple He	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension	University of California, Davis
05/20/19	Netta Engelhardt	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	On the Road to Cosmic Censorship: the Penrose Inequality in AdS/CFT	Princeton University
06/03/19	Brian Swingle	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	A Sparse Model of Quantum Holography	University of Maryland
06/10/19	John Cardy	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	The TTbar Deformation of 2d Quantum Field Theory	University of California, Berkeley

2018-19 THURSDAY SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Location	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/27/18	Thomas Vidick	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	A Cryptographic Test of Quantumness and Certifiable Randomness from a Single Quantum Device	California Institute of Technology
10/04/18	Vladimir Narovlansky	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	The renormalization group of quenched disorder	Weizmann Institute
10/11/18	Leonid Pryadko	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Overview of quantum LDPC codes	University of California, Riverside
10/18/18	Anne Broadbent	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Quantum Unclonability	University of Ottawa
10/25/18	Bernardo Zan	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Walking, Weak first-order transitions, and Complex CFTs	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
11/01/18	Chen Sun	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Particle Phenomenology in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy	Brown University
11/08/18	Juan Maldacena	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Traversable Wormholes	Institute for Advanced Study
11/15/18	Gabriel Wong	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Entanglement Branes, Modular Flow, and Extended TQFT	Fudan University
11/29/18	Chen-Te Ma	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Randomness and Chaos	Cape Town University \| South China Normal University
12/06/18	Louise Anderson	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Localisation, 3d quiver gauge theories and quantum phase transitions	Stanford University
12/13/18	Wenzhe Yang	Varian 355	2:00 P.M.	Pure Motives	Stanford University
12/20/18	Pranjal Nayak	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Symmetries of Amplitudes in N=2 Chern-Simons Matter theory	University of Kentucky
01/17/19	Guido d'Amico	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Neutrino flavour as a test of the explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae	Stanford University
01/24/19	Avishay Tal	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Oracle Separation of BQP and the Polynomial Hierarchy	Stanford University
01/31/19	Sergei Gukov	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Topology of the space of Quantum Field Theories	California Institute of Technology
02/07/19	Edgar Shaghoulian	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Quantum mechanics in the ultraviolet	Cornell University
02/14/19	Stephen Shenker	Varian 355	12:30 P.M	Black holes, random matrices, baby universes, and D-branes	Stanford University
03/14/19	Amr Ahmadain	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Weyl Anomalies in (1+1)-Lifshitz Effective Action from (2+1)-Schrodinger-invariant Horava-Lifshitz Chern-Simons Action	University of Virginia
03/28/19	Elias Kiritsis	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Holographic RG flows, on flat and curved manifolds and F-theorems	Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot
04/04/19	Arnav Tripathy	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	K3 metrics from little string theory	Harvard University
04/11/19	David Bermans	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	An Overview of Double and Exceptional Field Theory	Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot
05/30/19	Indranil Halder	Varian 355	12:30 P.M.	Matter Chern-Simons Theories in a Background Magnetic Field	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

2018-19 OTHER SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Location	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/21/18 (Friday)	Robert Lasenby	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Using coherence to look for dark matter	Stanford University
10/03/18 (Wednesday)	Philip Mannheim	Varian 355	11:00 A.M.	Quantum Conformal Gravity	University of Connecticut
10/19/18 (Friday)	Dorota Grabowska	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Detecting Dark Blobs	University of California, Berkeley
10/26/18 (Friday)	Katelin Schutz	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Cosmological signatures of sub-MeV dark matter freeze-in	University of California, Berkeley
10/29/18 (Monday)	Rajesh Gopakumar	Varian 312	11:00 A.M.	On the Polyakov-Mellin bootstrap	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
10/30/18 (Tuesday)	George Korpas	Varian 312	3:00 P.M.	Topological gauge fields and modular forms: Walking in between physics and mathematics	Trinity College London
11/02/18 (Friday)	Ryan Janish	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	White Dwarfs as Dark Matter Detectors	University of California, Berkeley
11/09/19 (Friday)	Nayara Fonseca	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Higgs, Relaxion, and Dark Matter	Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
11/16/18 (Friday)	Nicholas Rodd	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	A Likelihood Framework for Axion Direct Detection	University of California, Berkeley
11/29/18 (Thursday)	Robert Laughlin	Hewlett 200	4:30 P.M.	The Brayton Battery	Stanford University
11/30/18 (Friday)	Junwu Huang	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Nonlethal searches for bubbles in our universe	Perimeter Institute
12/07/18 (Friday)	Michael Dine	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Global Strings and the Axion Dark Matter Density	Stanford University
01/15/19 (Tuesday)	Leonardo Senatore	Hewlett 201	4:30 P.M.	Field Theory, Geometry and Data in Cosmology	Stanford University
01/25/19 (Friday)	Vijay Narayan	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Axion production and detection with superconducting RF cavities	University of California, Berkeley
02/01/19 (Friday)	Zhengkang Zhang	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Dark photon dark matter produced by axion oscillations	University of California, Berkeley
02/08/19 (Friday)	Davide Racco	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Cosmological signatures of the SM Higgs instability: Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves	Perimeter Institute
02/12/19 (Tuesday)	Bruno Scheihing Hitschfeld	Varian 312	2:00 P.M.	Reconstructing the Inflationary Landscape with Cosmological Data	Universidad de Chile
02/15/19 (Friday)	Benoit Collins	Varian 312	10:30 A.M.	Equivariance and application to entanglement detection	Kyoto University
03/01/19 (Friday)	Harikrishnan Ramani	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Pulsar Timing Probes of Primordial Black Holes and Subhalos	University of California, Berkeley
04/05/19 (Friday)	Michael Fedderke	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Axion Dark Matter Detection with CMB Polarization	Stanford University
04/09/19 (Tuesday)	Veronika Hubeny	Hewlett 201	4:30 P.M.	Black Holes, Holography, and Entanglement	University of California, Davis
04/12/19 (Friday)	Sebastian Baum	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Paleo Detectors - Digging for Dark Matter	University of Stockholm \| Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics
04/26/19 (Friday)	Ethan Nadler	Varian 312	4:00 P.M.	Milky Way Satellites: Probes of Dark Matter Microphysics	Stanford University
05/17/19 (Friday)	Tudor Tiron	Varian 312	4:30 P.M.	Ultralight scalar clouds in binaries	Stanford University
08/09/19 (Friday)	Miguel Escudero	Varian 312	4:30 P.M.	Very Light and Weakly Coupled Neutrinophilic Bosons and the Hubble Tension	King's College London
08/26/19 (Friday)	Vasudev Shyam	Varian 312	4:30 P.M.	TBA	Perimeter Institute

2017-18

2017-2018 MONDAY COLLOQUIA

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/11/17	Edi Halyo	2:00 P.M.	The Holographic Entanglement Entropy of Schwarzschild Black Holes	Stanford University
09/25/17	Shamit Kachru	2:00 P.M.	Black holes, BPS jumping, and special loci	Stanford University
10/02/17	Dan Freed	2:00 P.M.	Phases of matter and topology	Stanford University
10/09/17	Emanuel Katz	2:00 P.M.	QFT: A New Hope	Boston University
10/16/17	Diego Hofman	2:00 P.M.	Generalized global symmetries: formal aspects, holography and hydrodynamics	University of Amsterdam
10/23/17	Sri Raghu	2:00 P.M.	Two-dimensional conductors with interactions and disorder from particle-vortex duality	Stanford University
10/30/17	Phil Bull	2:00 P.M.	Tests of gravity at the cosmic horizon scale	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory \| California Institute of Technology
11/06/17	Eva Silverstein	2:00 P.M.	New information in the wavefunction of primordial perturbations	Stanford University
11/13/17	Tarun Grover	2:00 P.M.	Chaotic Eigenstates and their Universal Renyi Entropy	University of California San Diego
11/27/17	Andreas Carch	2:00 P.M.	A string theory embedding of 3d Bosonization	University of Washington
12/11/17	Valentin Khoze	2:00 P.M.	Higgsplosion	Durham University
01/22/18	Leonardo Rastelli	2:00 P.M.	Superconformal field theories and vertex algebras	C.N. Yang Insitute for Theoretical Physics
02/05/18	Edward Marti	2:00 P.M.	A three-dimensional optical lattice clock: precision at the 19th digit	Princeton University
02/12/18	Peter Graham	2:00 P.M.	Fine-Tuning, Vorticity, and Singularities	Stanford University
02/26/18	Louis Lehner	2:00 P.M.	Gravitational Waves: Promises, realities and puzzles	Perimeter Instiutte
03/05/18	Steven Gubser	2:00 P.M.	p-adic AdS/CFT	Princeton University
03/12/18	Leonardo Senatore	2:00 P.M.	Field Theory, Geometry and Data in Cosmology	Stanford University
03/19/18	Masaki Yamada	2:00 P.M.	Inflation in random Gaussian landscapes	Tufts University
04/02/18	Harvey Reall	2:00 P.M.	Superluminality and Predictability	University of Cambridge
04/16/18	Vedika Khemani	2:00 P.M.	Driven Phases of Many-Body Quantum Matter	Harvard University
04/23/18	Tadashi Takayanagi	2:00 P.M.	Holographic Entanglement of Purification	Kyoto University
04/30/18	Steve Giddings	2:00 P.M.	Quantum gravitational subsystems, information transfer, and black hole evolution	University of California, Santa Barbara
05/07/18	Sean Hartnoll	2:00 P.M.	Quantum mechanical bounds on transport from first principles	Stanford University
05/14/18	Ben Reichardt	2:00 P.M.	Testing physics with small quantum computers	University of Southern California
05/21/18	Daniel Holz	2:00 P.M.	LIGO, gravitational waves, and general relativity	University of Chicago

2017-2018 THURSDAY SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
10/26/17	Eduardo Teste	12:30 P.M.	Entropic A theorem and the Markov property of the vacuum	Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atomico Bariloche
11/09/17	Paolo Creminelli	12:30 P.M.	Dark Energy after GW170817	International Centre for Theoretical Physics
11/16/17	Adam Solomon	12:30 P.M.	Aspects of field theory with higher derivatives	University of Pennsylvania
12/14/17	Jonathan BenTov	12:30 P.M.	Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes	California Institute of Technology
01/11/18	Silviu Pufu	12:30 P.M.	Topological sectors, supersymmetric localization, and holography	Princeton University
01/18/18	Kristan Jensen	12:30 P.M.	A zoo of 3d bosonization dualities	San Francisco State University
01/25/18	Grant Remmen	12:30 P.M.	Proof of the Weak Gravity Conjecture from Black Hole Entropy	University of California, Berkeley
02/01/18	Natalie Paquette	12:30 P.M.	Dual Boundary Conditions in 3d SCFT's	California Institute of Technology
02/08/18	Daniel Jafferis	12:30 P.M.	A very simple theory of gravity	Harvard University
03/08/18	Joel Franklin	12:30 P.M.	The (weak) Gravitational Field of a Dirac Monopole	Reed College
03/15/18	Yasuhiro Sekino	12:30 P.M.	Vacuum fluctuations in an ancestor vacuum: A possible dark energy candidate	Takushoku University
03/22/18	Alexander Westphal	12:30 P.M.	Pole N-flation	Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
03/29/18	Netta Engelhardt	12:30 P.M.	TBA	Princeton University
04/05/18	Philippe Faist	12:30 P.M.	Approximate quantum error correction with covariant codes	California Institute of Technology
04/12/18	Vincenzo Scopelliti	12:30 P.M.	(Quantum) Chaos and hydrodynamics in holography and weakly coupled field theories	Leiden University
04/19/18	Masamichi Miyaji	12:30 P.M.	AdS from Tensor Networks: Surface/state and Optimization	Kyoto University
04/26/18	Adam Bouland	12:30 P.M.	Quantum Supremacy and the Complexity of Random Circuit Sampling	University of California, Berkeley
05/03/18	Chinmay Nirkhe	12:30 P.M.	Approximate low-weight check codes and circuit lower bounds for noisy ground states	University of California, Berkeley
05/10/18	Victor V. Albert	12:30 P.M.	Filling cavities to prevent decay: bosonic quantum error correction	California Institute of Technology
05/17/18	Divyanshu Murli	1:00 P.M.	Absence of U(1) Anomalous Superamplitudes in N≥5 Supergravities	Stanford University
05/24/18	Aninda Sinha	12:30 P.M.	The epsilon expansion using Mellin bootstrap	Indian Institute of Science
05/31/18	Napat Poovuttikul	12:30 P.M.	Generalised Global Symmetry, Plasma, Elasticity and Holography	University of Iceland
06/07/18	Felix Leditzky	12:30 P.M.	Dephrasure channel and superadditivity of coherent information	University of Colorado Boulder
06/14/18	Kiyoharu Kawana	12:30 P.M.	Amplification of gravitational motion by weak measurement	High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
07/19/18	David Kaplan	12:30 P.M.	Relaxing the Cosmological Constant	Johns Hopkins University

2017-2018 OTHER SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/11/17 (Monday)	Daniel Freedman	4:00 P.M.	Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering—Theory 1974, Experiment 2017	Stanford University
09/29/17 (Friday)	Ryosuke Sato	4:00 P.M.	Secondary astrophysical production of anti-deuteron and anti-Helium3 cosmic ray	Weizmann Institute of Science
10/13/17 (Friday)	Sebastian Ellis	4:00 P.M.	Instability of Lightest Visible Superpartner Points to Hidden Sector Dark Matter	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
10/20/17 (Friday)	Shira Chapman	1:00 P.M.	Complexity in holography and QFT	Perimeter Institute
10/27/17 (Friday)	Xun Gao	10:30 A.M.	Efficient simulation of noisy quantum circuits	Tsinghua University
10/27/17 (Friday)	Gustavo J. Turiaci	1:00 P.M.	Aspects of the Schwarzian Theory	Princeton University
10/27/17 (Friday)	Michael Fedderke	4:00 P.M.	Relaxation of the Composite Higgs Little Hierarchy	Stanford University \| University of California, Berkeley
10/30/17 (Monday)	Alexander Dolgov	4:00 P.M.	Massive primordial black holes	Novosibirsk State University
11/03/17 (Friday)	Jeff Dror	4:00 P.M.	New constraints on light vectors coupled to non-conserved currents	University of California, Berkeley
11/10/17 (Friday)	Onur Hostel	4:00 P.M.	Atomic spin squeezing - concepts and experiments	Stanford University
11/17/17 (Friday)	Yu-Dai Tsai	12:00 P.M.	Respect the ELDER: New Thermal Target for Dark Matter Direct Detection	Cornell University
11/17/17 (Friday)	Masha Baryakhtar	4:00 P.M.	Looking for axions and dark photons in photonic crystals	Perimeter Institute
12/01/17 (Friday)	Robert Lasenby	4:00 P.M.	Searching for weakly-coupled particles: from stars to the lab	Perimeter Institute
12/08/17 (Friday)	Anson Hook	4:00 P.M.	Probing axions with neutron star inspirals and other stellar processes	Stanford University
01/19/18 (Friday)	Adam Brown	4:30 P.M.	Hyperinflation	Stanford University
01/26/18 (Friday)	Raffaele D'Agnolo	4:30 P.M.	Neural Networks for New Physics Searches	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
02/02/18 (Friday)	Keisuke Harigaya	4:30 P.M.	QCD axion dark matter with a small decay constant	University of California, Berkeley
02/16/18 (Friday)	Daniel Holz	4:30 P.M.	Some things LIGO has taught us about gravity	University of Chicago \| Stanford University
02/23/18 (Friday)	Ken Van Tilburg	4:30 P.M.	Halometry from astrometry	New York University \| Institute for Advanced Study
03/09/18 (Friday)	David Cyncynates	4:30 P.M.	Exploring Periodic Magnetized Slabs as Axion Detector	Stanford University
04/13/18 (Friday)	Olivier Simon	4:30 P.M.	Rotating Black Holes are Probes for Ultra-Light Scalars	Stanford University
04/24/18 (Tuesday)	Yingfei Gu	12:30 P.M.	Comments on warped CFTs and the complex SYK model	Harvard University
06/12/18 (Tuesday)	Kunihito Uzawa	12:30 P.M.	No-Go theorems for ekpyrosis from ten-dimensional supergravity	Kwansei Gakuin University
06/15/18 (Friday)	Marios Galanis	4:30 P.M.	TBA	Stanford University
07/27/18 (Friday)	Asher Berlin	4:00 P.M.	Physics at 21 cm	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

2016-17

2016-17 MONDAY COLLOQUIA

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
10/03/16	Markus Luty	2:00 P.M.	Scale Anomalies and Physical States in Conformal Field Theory	University of California Davis
10/17/16	John Cardy	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement Hamiltonians in Conformal Field Theories	University of California Berkeley
10/24/16	Andreas Karch	2:00 P.M.	Dualities in Quantum Hall Physics	University of Washington
11/07/16	Surya Ganguli	2:00 P.M.	The statistical physics of deep learning: on the beneficial roles of dynamic criticality, random landscapes, and the reversal of time	Stanford University
11/14/16	Andrew Neitzke	2:00 P.M.	Defects in Quantum Field Theory	University of Texas Austin
11/21/16	THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO COLLOQUIUM
12/05/16	Sergei Gukov	2:00 P.M.	RG Flows and Dynamical Systems	California Institute of Technology
12/19/16	HOLIDAY BREAK - NO COLLOQUIA
12/26/16
01/02/2017
01/09/17	Ira Rothstein	2:00 P.M.	Formal and Phenomenological Aspects of Gravity Wave Predictions from Analytic Calculations	Carnegie Mellon University
01/16/17	MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY - NO COLLOQUIUM
01/23/17	Sergei Dubovsky	2:00 P.M.	Yang-MIlls glueballs as closed bosonic strings	University of California Davis / New York University / Perimeter Institute
01/30/17	Hong Liu	2:00 P.M.	The second law of thermodynamics from unitarity and symmetry	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
02/06/17	Sean Carroll	2:00 P.M.	Extracting the Universe from the Wave Function	California Institute of Technology
02/13/17	Nathan Seiberg	2:00 P.M.	Duality in 2+1 dimensions	Institute for Advanced Study
02/20/17	PRESIDENT'S DAY - NO COLLOQUIUM
02/27/17	Edgar Shaghoulian	2:00 P.M.	Modular invariance and the Eguchi-Kawai mechanism in holographic CFTs	University of California Santa Barbara
03/06/17	Erik Verlinde	2:00 P.M.	From Emergent Gravity to Dark Energy and Dark Matter	University of Amsterdam
03/13/17	Will Donnelly	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement branes in a two-dimensional string theory	University of California Santa Barbara
04/03/17	Andrew Strominger	2:00 P.M.	Virasoro Symmetry of 4D Quantum Gravity	Harvard University
04/10/17	Mariangela Lisanti	2:00 P.M.	The Search for Extragalactic Dark Matter	Princeton University
05/15/17	Anthony Anguirre	2:00 P.M.	Some ups and downs of entropy	University of California Santa Cruz
05/22/17	Daniel Fisher	2:00 P.M.	Evolution and ecology in high dimensions	Stanford University

2016-17 THURSDAY SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/22/16	Nicole Yunger Halpern	12:30 P.M.	Bridging disciplines to comprehend chaos: Fluctuation theorem for the out-of-time-ordered correlator	California Institute of Technology
10/06/16	Matt Walters	12:30 P.M.	Studying IR Dynamics with Conformal Truncation	Boston University
10/13/16	Jared Kaplan	12:30 P.M.	On Information Loss in AdS_3/CFT_2	Johns Hopkins University
10/20/16	Andrey Gromov	12:30 P.M.	Geometric response of quantum Hall states	University of Chicago
10/27/16	Kurt Hinterbichler	12:30 P.M.	Partially Massless Higher-Spin Gauge Theory	Case Western Reserve University
11/03/16	Callum Quigley	12:30 P.M.	Second quantized MSW strings on K3 fibrations	University of Toronto
11/10/16	Tom Faulkner	12:30 P.M.	Constraining QFTs with shape dependence of entanglement	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11/17/16	Dan Roberts	12:30 P.M.	Chaos and complexity by design	Institute for Advanced Study
11/17/16	Guifre Vidal	3:30 P.M.	Tensor networks and conformal field theory on the lattice	Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics
11/24/16	THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO SEMINAR
12/01/16	Dalimil Mazac	12:30 P.M.	Analytic Bounds from Conformal Bootstrap	Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics
12/08/16	Tom Hartman	12:30 P.M.	Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling	Cornell University
12/15/16	Alexander Monin	12:30 P.M.	Semiclassics, Goldstone Bosons and CFT data	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
12/22/16	HOLIDAY BREAK - NO SEMINARS
12/27/16
01/02/2017
01/12/17	Liam Fitzpatrick	12:30 P.M.	On Non-perturbative Effects and Information Loss in AdS3/CFT2	Boston University
01/19/17	Jonathan Maltz	12:30 P.M.	de Sitter Harmonies: Cosmological Spacetimes as Resonances	University of California Berkeley / Stanford University
03/02/17	Rachel Rosen	12:30 P.M.	Non-Singular Black Holes in Massive Gravity	Columbia University
03/09/17	Isaac Kim	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement renormalization, quantum error correction, and emergent lightcone	IBM
03/30/17	Andrei Khmelnitsky	12:30 P.M.	Relaxing the Cosmological Constant, Proof of Concept	International Centre for Theoretical Physics
04/06/17	Alex Belin	12:30 P.M.	Siegel Modular Forms and Black Hole Entropy	University of Amsterdam
05/18/17	Michael Geracie	12:30 P.M.	Galilean Geometry in Condensed Matter Systems	University of California San Diego

2016-17 THURSDAY SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/22/16	Nicole Yunger Halpern	12:30 P.M.	Bridging disciplines to comprehend chaos: Fluctuation theorem for the out-of-time-ordered correlator	California Institute of Technology
10/06/16	Matt Walters	12:30 P.M.	Studying IR Dynamics with Conformal Truncation	Boston University
10/13/16	Jared Kaplan	12:30 P.M.	On Information Loss in AdS_3/CFT_2	Johns Hopkins University
10/20/16	Andrey Gromov	12:30 P.M.	Geometric response of quantum Hall states	University of Chicago
10/27/16	Kurt Hinterbichler	12:30 P.M.	Partially Massless Higher-Spin Gauge Theory	Case Western Reserve University
11/03/16	Callum Quigley	12:30 P.M.	Second quantized MSW strings on K3 fibrations	University of Toronto
11/10/16	Tom Faulkner	12:30 P.M.	Constraining QFTs with shape dependence of entanglement	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11/17/16	Dan Roberts	12:30 P.M.	Chaos and complexity by design	Institute for Advanced Study
11/17/16	Guifre Vidal	3:30 P.M.	Tensor networks and conformal field theory on the lattice	Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics
11/24/16	THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO SEMINAR
12/01/16	Dalimil Mazac	12:30 P.M.	Analytic Bounds from Conformal Bootstrap	Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics
12/08/16	Tom Hartman	12:30 P.M.	Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling	Cornell University
12/15/16	Alexander Monin	12:30 P.M.	Semiclassics, Goldstone Bosons and CFT data	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
12/22/16	HOLIDAY BREAK - NO SEMINARS
12/27/16
01/02/2017
01/12/17	Liam Fitzpatrick	12:30 P.M.	On Non-perturbative Effects and Information Loss in AdS3/CFT2	Boston University
01/19/17	Jonathan Maltz	12:30 P.M.	de Sitter Harmonies: Cosmological Spacetimes as Resonances	University of California Berkeley / Stanford University
03/02/17	Rachel Rosen	12:30 P.M.	Non-Singular Black Holes in Massive Gravity	Columbia University
03/09/17	Isaac Kim	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement renormalization, quantum error correction, and emergent lightcone	IBM
03/30/17	Andrei Khmelnitsky	12:30 P.M.	Relaxing the Cosmological Constant, Proof of Concept	International Centre for Theoretical Physics
04/06/17	Alex Belin	12:30 P.M.	Siegel Modular Forms and Black Hole Entropy	University of Amsterdam
05/18/17	Michael Geracie	12:30 P.M.	Galilean Geometry in Condensed Matter Systems	University of California San Diego

2016-17 OTHER SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
10/04/16 (Tuesday)	Henrik Gustafsson	4:15 P.M.	Einstein series attached to small automorphic representations	Chalmers
10/05/16 (Wednesday)	Tom Rudelius	12:30 P.M.	Strong Forms of the Weak Gravity Conjecture	Harvard University
10/05/16 (Wednesday)	Henrik Gustafsson	2:00 P.M.	Automorphic String Amplitudes	Chalmers
10/11/16 (Tuesday)	Ehud Altman	11:00 A.M.	Beyond the SYK model: a solvable model showing a dynamical quantum phase transitions from fast to slow scrambling	University of California Berkeley
10/14/16 (Friday)	Iris Cong	10:30 A.M.	Topological quantum computation with gapped boundaries	University of California Los Angeles
10/21/16 (Friday)	Adam Scherlis	4:00 P.M.	Dark Matter from Relaxions	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
10/28/16 (Friday)	Jack Kearney	4:00 P.M.	Natural Mistakes	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
11/04/16 (Friday)	Francesca Day	4:00 P.M.	X-ray Anomalies and Fluorescent Dark Matter	University of Oxford
11/09/16 (Wednesday)	Nathan Benjamin	11:00 A.M.	Emergent spacetime through indices	Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
12/02/16 (Friday)	Asher Berlin	4:00 P.M.	Cosmologies of Hidden Sector Dark Matter	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
12/09/16 (Friday)	Mehrdad Mirbabayi	4:00 P.M.	Productive interactions: heavy particles, gravitational waves and non-Gaussianity	Stanford University
01/10/17 (Tuesday)	Cécilia Lancien	2:00 P.M.	Weak multiplicativity/additivity in quantum information theory - The possible role of de Finetti reductions and entanglement measure theory	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
01/13/17 (Friday)	Jeroen Zuiddam	10:30 A.M.	Creating networks of entangled pairs: tensor surgery and the laser method	Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Amsterdam
01/20/17 (Friday)	Hendrik Vogel	4:00 P.M.	Extragalactic photon-ALP conversion at CTA energies	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
02/03/17 (Friday)	Thomas Melia	4:00 P.M.	"Magnetic bubble chambers" for sub-GeV dark matter direct detection	University of California Berkeley
02/21/17 (Tuesday)	Emil Mottola	2:00 P.M.	Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Gravity: Scalar Gravitational Waves, Dark Energy & Condensate Stars	Los Alamos National Laboratory
03/03/17 (Friday)	Joseph Landsberg	10:30 A.M.	Symmetry versus Optimality	Texas A&M University
08/09/17 (Wednesday)	Jared Kaplan	2:00 P.M.	The Information Paradox in AdS3 and Exact Bulk Reconstruction	Johns Hopkins University

2015-16

2015-16 MONDAY COLLOQUIA

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/21/15	Bob Laughlin	2:00 P.M.	The meter stick of life	Stanford University
09/28/15	Kristan Jensen	2:00 P.M.	Monotonicity and entanglement in boundary quantum field theory	YITP, Stony Brook
10/05/15	Ted Jacobson	2:00 P.M.	Black Hole Entropy, Entanglement, and the Einstein Equation	Univ. Maryland & KITP
10/12/15	David Simmons-Duffin	2:00 P.M.	Looking for a bulk point	IAS
10/19/15	Mukund Rangamani	2:00 P.M.	Brownian branes, emergent symmetries, and hydrodynamics	Durham University
10/26/15	Andy Lucas	2:00 P.M.	Hydrodynamic transport in holography and in clean graphene	Harvard University
11/02/15	Jesse Thaler	2:00 P.M.	Minimal supersymmetric slow-roll inflation	MIT
11/09/15	Cliff Burgess	2:00 P.M.	Self-Tuning Under the Microscope	Mc.Master U & Perimeter Institute
11/16/15	Eliezer Rabinovici	2:00 P.M.	Remarks on Holography space time singularities and extremal volumes	Hebrew University
11/23/15	THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO COLLOQUIUM
12/07/15	Andrew Tolley	2:00 P.M.	Progress in Massive Gravity	Case Western
12/14/15	Matthew Kleban	2:00 P.M.	Cosmic Inflation and Fine Tuning	NYU
12/21/15	HOLIDAY BREAK - NO COLLOQUIA
12/28/15
01/04/16	Raphael Flauger	2:00 P.M.	Planck, BICEP, and the Early Universe	University of Texas at Austin
01/11/16	Clay Cordova	2:00 P.M.	Quantum Field Theory and the Renormalization Group in Six-Dimensions	IAS
01/18/16	MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY - NO COLLOQUIUM
01/25/16	Ben Safdi	2:00 P.M.	Seeing through the haze: searching for dark-matter annihilation in the presence of astrophysical point sources	MIT
02/01/16	Xi Dong	2:00 P.M.	Entanglement, Gravity, and Quantum Error Correction	IAS
02/08/16	Daniel Harlow	2:00 P.M.	Gauge Fields and Quantum Gravity	Princeton
02/15/16	PRESIDENT'S DAY - NO COLLOQUIUM
02/22/16	Brian Swingle	2:00 P.M.	Measuring Quantum Information Scrambling	Stanford
03/07/16	Douglas Stanford	2:00 P.M.	The SYK model and AdS_2/CFT_1	IAS
04/18/2016	David Tong	2:00 P.M.	Quantum Hall Matrix Models	DAMTP, Cambridge
04/25/2016	Mithat Unsal	2:00 P.M.	Decoding path integrals: Resurgence and Picard-Lefschetz theory	North Carolina State University
5/9/2016	Juan Garcia-Bellido	2:00 P.M.	Using gravitational wave astronomy to measure the mass distribution of primordial black holes as the dominant dark matter component	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
5/16/2016	Mina Aganagic	2:00 P.M.	Math, Physics and Duality	Berkeley
6/6/2016	Gary Horowitz	2:00 P.M.	Recovering the spacetime metric from a holographic dual	UCSB
6/13/2016	Cumrun Vafa	2:00 P.M.	6 Dimensional Conformal Theories	Harvard University

2015-16 THURSDAY SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
09/24/15	Matthew Dodelson	2:30 P.M.	Longitudinal string spreading and horizon physics	Stanford University
10/01/15	Alexandre Belin	12:30 P.M.	Permutation Orbifolds: exploring the landscape of theories of quantum gravity in AdS_3	Stanford University
10/08/15	Vadim Kaplunovsky	12:30 P.M.	Deconstructing the E0 5D SCFT to resolve the orbifold paradox	University of Texas
10/15/15	Glen Evenbly	12:30 P.M.	Local scale transformations with tensor network renormalization	UC Irvine
10/22/15	Mark Mezei	12:30 P.M.	Spread of entanglement and causality	Princeton University
10/29/15	Tokiro Numasawa	12:30 P.M.	cMERA as surface/state correspondence in AdS/CFT	YITP, Kyoto
11/05/15	Tarek Anous	12:30 P.M.	Emergent SL(2,R) in Quenched Quiver Quantum Mechanics	MIT
11/12/15	Mehrdad Mirbabayi	12:30 P.M.	Equivalence Principle and the Baryon Acoustic Peak	IAS
11/19/15	Sachin Jain	12:30 P.M.	Causality Constraints in Conformal Field theory	Cornell
11/25/15	THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO SEMINAR
12/03/15	Bogdan Stoica	12:30 P.M.	A Holographic Formula for Relative Entropy	Caltech
12/10/15	Tommi Tenkanen	12:30 P.M.	Higgs portal dark matter and cosmic inflation	Helsinki
12/15/15	HOLIDAY BREAK - NO SEMINARS
12/22/15
12/29/15
01/14/2016	Victor Gorbenko	12:30 P.M.	QCD Strings and Integrability in Pure Yang-Mills	SITP
01/21/2016	Sam McCandlish	12:30 P.M.	Seeing into the Bulk with Integral Geometry	SITP
01/21/2016	Yu-Hsiang Lin	4:00 P.M.	What initial condition of inflation would suppress the large-scale CMB spectrum?	National Taiwan University
01/28/2016	Adam Brown	12:30 P.M.	Schwinger pair production at nonzero temperatures or in compact directions	SITP
02/04/2016	Chi-Ming Chang	12:30 P.M.	Bootstrapping 2D CFTS in the semiclassical limit	UC Berkeley
02/11/2016	Yonatan Kahn	12:30 P.M.	A Broadband Approach to Axion Dark Matter Detection	Princeton
02/18/2016	Don Page	12:30 P.M.	Naked Firewalls	University of Alberta
02/25/1016	Ning Bao	12:30 P.M.	Grover Search and the No-Signaling Principle	Caltech
03/03/2016	Ahmed Almheiri	12:30 P.M.	Linearity of Holographic Entanglement Entropy	SITP
03/10/2016	Natalie Paquette	12:30 P.M.	Umbral Moonshine in Landau-Ginzburg Orbifolds	SITP
03/17/2016	Volkher Scholz	12:30 P.M.	Matrix product approximations to conformal field theories	Ghent University
03/24/2016	Benoit Collins	1:00 P.M.	Applications of the Haagerup's inequality and strong convergence of random matrices to quantum information theory	Kyoto University and University of Ottawa
04/07/2016	Jonathan Maltz	12:30 P.M.	Chaos in Matrix Models and Black Hole Evaporation	Berkeley
04/14/2016	Jon Yard	12:30 P.M.	Compiling qubit circuits	Microsoft Research
04/21/2016	David Marsh	12:30 P.M.	Genericity and universality in the string theory landscape	DAMTP, Cambridge
04/28/2016	Erik Tonni	12:30 P.M.	Some geometrical aspects of entanglement in CFT & Holography	International School for Advanced Studies
05/05/2016	Michal Heller	12:30 P.M.	Holography for Entanglement and Causal Diamonds	Perimeter Institute
05/12/2016	Moritz Muenchmeyer	12:30 P.M.	Searching for oscillations and massive particles with CMB data and futuristic 21cm experiments	IAP
05/19/2016	Vladimir Rosenhaus	12:30 P.M.	Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model: the two-point function	KITP

2015-16 OTHER SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Time	Title	Affiliation
08/26/15	Aram Harrow	2:30 P.M.	Sample optimal tomography of quantum states	MIT
10/02/15	Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic	4:30 P.M.	Nelson Barr-ogenesis	Rutgers
10/06/15	James Scargill	2:30 P.M. (tentative)	An anisotropic universe due to dimension-changing vacuum decay	Oxford
10/13/15	Marco Raveri	1:30 P.M.	The Effective Field Theory approach to gravitation on cosmological scales	SISSA
10/16/15	Jeremy Mardon	4:00 P.M.	A (Nearly) Weaker-Than-Gravity Bound on Dark Matter Electromagnetism	SITP
10/23/15	Nikita Blinov	4:00 P.M.	Electroweak Phase Transition Beyond the Standard Model	SLAC
10/30/15	Bridget Bertoni	4:00 P.M.	Searching for Dark Matter Subhalos Using Fermi LAT Data	SITP
11/06/15	Michael Walter & Xiao-Liang Qi	2:00 P.M.	Random Tensor Networks	SITP
11/06/15	Sunghoon Jung	4:00 P.M.	Overlooked Higgs physics: pure resonance dips	SLAC
11/13/15	Anson Hook	4:00 P.M.	NNaturalness	SITP
11/19/15	Gustavo Marques-Tavares	4:00 P.M.	Non-abelian dark matter and large scale structure	SITP
11/23/15 to 11/27/15	THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO SEMINARS
12/04/15	Brian Shuve	4:00 P.M.	Low-Energy Signs of New Physics at High-Energy Colliders	SITP / SLAC
12/11/15	Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo	4:00 P.M.	Light Dark Matter from Boltzmann Tails	IAS
12/14/15 to 01/01/16	HOLIDAY BREAK - NO SEMINARS
2/17/2016 (Wednesday)	Eric Perlmutter	2:00 P.M.	Bounding the Space of Holographic CFTs with Chaos	Princeton
2/19/2016	Peter Graham	4:00 P.M.	An informal discussion of resonant atom interferometry for gravitational wave detection	SITP
2/26/2016	Solomon Endlich	4:00 P.M.	Effective field theory techniques for the inspiral problem	SITP
3/2/2016 (Wednesday)	Marc Geiller	2:30 P.M.	Quantum gravity and extended topological quantum field theories	Perimeter Institute
3/4/2016	Tom Abel	4:00 P.M.	Insights on black hole formation from 3D simulations	Stanford
3/25/2016	Leonardo Senatore	4:00 P.M.	Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Cosmology	Stanford
4/27/2016 (Wednesday)	Ethan Dyer	3:00 P.M.	Small black holes in near extremal gravity	Stanford
5/4/2016 (Wednesday)	Beni Yoshida	4:30 P.M.	Complexity by design	Perimeter Institute
5/9/2016 (Monday)	Dam Thanh Son	4:15 P.M.	A higher-spin theory of neutral excitations of quantum Hall fluids	University of Chicago
5/17/2016 (Tuesday)	Huangjun Zhu	3:15 P.M.	Multiqubit Clifford groups are unitary 3-designs	Perimeter Institute
5/19/2016 (Thursday)	Kiel Howe	4:00 P.M.	Composite Higgs Models and the 750 GeV Resonance	SITP
5/24/2016 (Tuesday)	Macarena Lagos	2:00 P.M.	Parametrizing general linear cosmological perturbations	Oxford University
5/27/2016	Mae Teo	4:00 P.M.	Black hole superradiance with vector bosons	SITP
6/3/2016	TJ Wilkason	4:00 P.M.	Experimental Searches for Ultralight Spin-Coupled Dark Matter	Stanford