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2024-25 SITP Seminar Schedule
SITP Monday Colloquia
Date | Speaker | Location | Time | Title | Affiliation |
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09/23/24 | Manki Kim | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | String perturbation theory of Klebanov-Strassler throat |
Stanford University |
09/30/24 | Luca Ciambelli | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Quantizing Null Hypersurfaces |
Perimeter Institute |
10/07/24 | Nathan Seiberg | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Anomalous Continuous Translations |
Institute for Advanced Study |
10/14/24 | Ross Dempsey | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | 2D Gauge Theories on the Hamiltonian Lattice |
Princeton University |
10/21/24 | Minjae Cho | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | A (non-)worldsheet description of string backgrounds |
University of Chicago |
10/28/24 | Elliott Gesteau | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Wormhole Renormalization: a gauge group for topology change |
California Institute of Technology |
11/04/24 | Klaas Parmentier | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Quantum spin systems with emergent de Sitter quasinormal modes |
Columbia University |
11/11/24 | Jeongwan Haah | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Topology of quantum cellular automata: how to measure the difference between Hamiltonians and time evolutions |
Stanford University |
11/18/24 | Sahand Seifnashri | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Applications of generalized symmetries in gauge theories |
Institute for Advanced Study |
11/25/24 | Jacob Leedom | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Open Strings & Heterotic Instantons |
Central European Institute of Cosmology |
12/02/24 | Marios Galanis | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise |
Perimeter Institute |
Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars
Date | Speaker | Location | Time | Title | Affiliation |
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09/13/24 | Anupam Ray | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Decoding the Mystery of Dark Matter with Celestial Objects |
University of California, Berkeley and University of Minnesota |
10/04/24 | Huangyu Xiao | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Dark Matter Substructure as a Window to Fundamental Physics |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
10/11/24 | Cara Giovanetti | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: New Physics and New Tools |
New York University |
10/25/24 | Aurora Ireland | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Observable CMB Tensor Modes from Cosmological Phase Transitions |
Stanford University |
11/01/24 | Maximilian Ruhdorfer | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | The physics potential of forward muons at a muon collider |
Stanford University |
12/13/24 | Katherine Fraser | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Flavorful Probes of New Physics |
University of California, Berkeley |
SITP Seminars and Meetings
Date | Speaker | Location | Time | Title | Affiliation |
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10/04/24 | Pedro Vieira | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Huge Operators (in Matrix Models/N=4 SYM) |
Perimeter Institute |
10/11/24 | Adam Ball | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Dynamical Edge Modes and Entanglement in Gauge Theory |
Perimeter Institute |
10/18/24 | Lisa Yang | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Cryptographic Censorship |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
11/08/24 | Zixia Wei | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Crosscap, Holography and de Sitter Gravity |
Harvard University |
11/15/24 | Stefano Antonini | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Do holographic CFT states have unique semiclassical bulk duals? |
University of California, Berkeley |
11/22/24 | Liza Rozenberg | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | 3d gravity as a random ensemble |
Harvard University |
12/06/24 | Gabriel Cuomo | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | The EFT of Large Spin Mesons |
Princeton University |
12/13/24 | Yifan Wang | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | SITP Seminar: Yifan Wang |
New York University |
Past SITP Seminar Schedules
2023-24
SITP Monday Colloquia
Date | Speaker | Location | Time | Title | Affiliation | Edit |
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09/25/23 | Manki Kim | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Towards string loop corrections in Calabi-Yau orientifold compactifications | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | edit |
10/09/23 | Sho Yaida | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Effective Theory of Deep Neural Networks | Meta | edit |
10/16/23 | Herman Verlinde | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Double scaled SYK and de Sitter holography | Princeton University | edit |
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 | edit |
10/30/23 | Nima Lashkari | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity | Purdue University | edit |
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 | edit |
11/13/23 | Gabriele di Ubaldo | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | AdS_3/RMT_2 Duality | Institut de physique théorique | edit |
11/20/23 | Eugenia Colafranceschi | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | A trace inequality for Euclidean gravitational path integrals | University of California, Santa Barbara | edit |
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 | edit |
12/04/23 | Yin Chen He | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFTs | Perimeter Institute | edit |
01/22/24 | Sandip Trivedi | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | Matrix Entanglement and Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai | edit |
01/29/24 | Chi-Ming Chang | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | BPS states in the large N limit | Tsinghua University | edit |
03/11/24 | Henrik Wilming | Varian 355, via Zoom | 2:00 PM | Embezzling entanglement from quantum fields | Leibniz University Hannover | edit |
06/03/24 | Asher Berlin | Varian 355 | 2:00 PM | New Signals of High-Frequency Gravitational Waves | Fermilab | edit |
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Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars
Date | Speaker | Location | Time | Title | Affiliation | Edit |
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09/22/23 | Dawid Brzeminski | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Dynamical equilibration of dark matter and baryon energy densities | University of Maryland | edit |
09/29/23 | Andrew Long | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Making massive spin-2 particles from gravity during inflation | Rice University | edit |
10/06/23 | Will DeRocco | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Searching for gravitational waves below a nanohertz | University of California, Santa Cruz | edit |
10/20/23 | Reuven Balkin | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Probing light scalars with dense stars | University of California, Santa Cruz | edit |
10/27/23 | Erwin Tanin | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Forging Antihelium in a Dark Matter Crucible | Stanford University | edit |
11/03/23 | Tanner Trickle | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Searching for High Frequency Gravitational Waves with Phonons | Fermilab | edit |
11/17/23 | Zach Bogorad | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Constraints on Long-Range Interactions of Dark Matter | Stanford University | edit |
12/15/23 | Sarah Geller | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Planck Constraints and GWs from Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter | University of California, Santa Cruz | edit |
01/12/24 | Inbar Savoray | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Learning New Physics from Data – a Symmetrized Approach | UC Berkeley | edit |
01/19/24 | Harikrishnan Ramani | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Exothermic Detection for SUSY inspired Dark Matter models | University of Delaware and Stanford University | edit |
01/26/24 | Mustafa Amin | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | A lower bound on the mass of dark matter | Rice University | edit |
02/02/24 | Marios Galanis | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Probing AGN physics and the Hubble constant with intensity interferometry | Perimeter Institute | edit |
02/09/24 | Aurora Ireland | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Supermassive primordial black holes from inflation | University of Chicago | edit |
02/16/24 | Simon Knapen | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | The Sound of Dark Matter | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab | edit |
02/23/24 | Manoj Kaplinghat | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Gravothermal collapse in dark matter halos | University of California, Irvine | edit |
03/01/24 | Alessandro Podo | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | S-matrix positivity without Lorentz invariance | Columbia University | edit |
03/08/24 | Melissa Diamond | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Producing Dark Compact Structure Before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis | Queen's University | edit |
03/22/24 | Giacomo Marocco | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Optomechanical searches for dark nuclear decays | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab | edit |
04/05/24 | Hengameh Bagherian | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Constraining Interacting Dark Radiation with Lyman-α | Harvard University | edit |
04/12/24 | Gustavo Marques-Tavares | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Interacting dark sector and cosmological tensions | University of Utah | edit |
04/26/24 | Alexander Kusenko | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Primordial black holes as dark matter | UCLA and Kavli IPMU | edit |
05/03/24 | Gordan Krnjaic | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Reviving MeV-GeV Indirect Detection with Inelastic Dark Matter | Fermilab and University of Chicago | edit |
05/10/24 | Zhiquan Sun | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | The quality/cosmology tension for a post-inflationary QCD axion | MIT | edit |
05/17/24 | Hongwan Liu | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Fast and Differentiable Big Bang Nucleosynthesis | Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago & Fermilab | edit |
05/24/24 | Nathaniel Craig | Varian 312 | 3:00 PM | Internal Supersymmetry and the Hierarchy Problem | University of California Santa Barbara | edit |
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SITP Seminars and Meetings
Date | Speaker | Location | Time | Title | Affiliation | Edit |
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10/19/23 | Richard Nally | Varian 206 | 2:00 PM | Evidence for KKLT de Sitter Vacua | Cornell University | edit |
10/20/23 | Rifath Khan | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Cauchy Slice Holography and the Semiclassical Approximation | Stanford University | edit |
10/27/23 | Tamara Kohler | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Supersymmetry in quantum complexity: clique homology is QMA_1-hard | Stanford University | edit |
11/03/23 | Jinzhao Wang | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | What exactly does Bekenstein bound? | Stanford University | edit |
11/10/23 | Shunyu Yao | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Scramblon interactions | Stanford University | edit |
11/17/23 | Renato Renner | Zoom | 1:30 PM | Commuting Operations Factorise | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) | edit |
11/30/23 | Erez Urbach | Varian 206 | 1:30 PM | The black hole/string transition in anti de Sitter space | Weizmann Institute of Science | edit |
12/01/23 | Scott Collier | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | The Virasoro Minimal String | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | edit |
12/07/23 | Scott Collier | Varian 355 | 11:00 AM | 3d quantum gravity and Virasoro TQFT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | edit |
12/07/23 | Tom Hartman | Varian 355 | 1:00 PM | Averaged null energy and the renormalization group | Cornell University | edit |
12/08/23 | Yikun Jiang | Varian 355 | 11:00 AM | Hartle-Hawking state, factorization and tensor network in 3d gravity | Northeastern University | edit |
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 | edit |
01/12/24 | Shiraz Minwalla | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | New Entropy formulae from Grey Galaxies and Revolving black holes in AdS | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) | edit |
01/26/24 | Adel Ashraf Rahman | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | The Many Temperatures of de Sitter Space | Stanford University | edit |
02/02/24 | Sungyeon Yang | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Boundary dual for the dS_3 static patch with local bulk matter | Stanford University | edit |
02/09/24 | Emil Martinec | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | BTZ black holes – a worldsheet perspective | University of Chicago | edit |
02/16/24 | Matthew Dodelson | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Black hole bulk-cone singularities | CERN | edit |
02/23/24 | Rajesh Gopakumar | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Beyond Free Fields in AdS_3/CFT_2: Integrability in the Symmetric Product Orbifold | ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru | edit |
03/01/24 | Carl Caves | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | One Hundred Years After Heisenberg: Discovering the World of Simultaneous Measurements of Noncommuting Observables | University of New Mexico | edit |
03/08/24 | Shota Komatsu | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Gravity from quantum mechanics of finite matrices | CERN | edit |
03/15/24 | Aidan Herderschee | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Three Point Amplitudes and Emergent Symmetries in Matrix Theory | Institute for Advanced Study | edit |
05/03/24 | Jan Albert | Varian 355 | 1:30 PM | Bootstrapping mesons at large N | Stony Brook University | edit |
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Weekly Group Meetings
Day | Group | Location | time |
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Thursday | SITP Student Journal Club Meeting | Varian 355 / Zoom | 5:30 PM |
Friday | Quantum Information Group Meeting | Varian 355 / Zoom | 10:30 AM |
2022-23
SITP Monday Colloquia
DATE | SPEAKER | LOCATION | TIME | TITLE | AFFILIATION |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |