SITP Seminars

Upcoming Events

Cryptographic Censorship

Date
Fri October 18th 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Lisa Yang

I will talk about 2402.03425 where we formulate and take two strides towards proving a quantum version of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture.

SITP Seminar: Stefano Antonini

Date
Fri November 15th 2024, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Stefano Antonini

Stefano Antonini will give a Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Seminar on Friday, November 15, 2024.

SITP Seminar: Liza Rozenberg

Date
Fri November 22nd 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Liza Rozenberg

Liza Rozenberg will be giving a Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Seminar on Friday, November 22, 2024.

SITP Seminar: Gabriel Cuomo

Date
Fri December 6th 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Gabriel Cuomo

Gabriel Cuomo from Princeton University will be giving a Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Seminar on Friday, December 6, 2024.

SITP Seminar: Yifan Wang

Date
Fri December 13th 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Yifan Wang

Yifan Wang of New York University will be giving a Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Seminar on Friday, December 13, 2024.

Past Events

Dynamical Edge Modes and Entanglement in Gauge Theory

Date
Fri October 11th 2024, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Adam Ball
Standard approaches to entanglement entropy assume a factorization of the Hilbert space along subregions. All QFTs have UV obstructions to this factorization, requiring regularization.

Huge Operators (in Matrix Models/N=4 SYM)

Date
Fri October 4th 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Pedro Vieira

I will talk about our last paper with Harish Murali and Vladimir Kazakov where we unveil some unexpected integrability in a gravitational sector in AdS/CFT governing some supersymmetric…

Bootstrapping mesons at large N

Date
Fri May 3rd 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Jan Albert

Describing the low-energy physics of a given confining gauge theory is in general a very difficult problem.

Three Point Amplitudes and Emergent Symmetries in Matrix Theory

Date
Fri March 15th 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Aidan Herderschee

The Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Susskind (BFSS) theory is a matrix model conjecturally dual to M-theory in eleven dimensional asymptotically flat space when the size of the matrices is taken large.

Gravity from quantum mechanics of finite matrices

Date
Fri March 8th 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Shota Komatsu

We revisit the Berenstein-Maldacena-Nastase (BMN) conjecture relating M-theory on a PP-wave background and Matrix Quantum Mechanics (MQM).

One Hundred Years After Heisenberg: Discovering the World of Simultaneous Measurements of Noncommuting Observables

Date
Fri March 1st 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Carl Caves

One hundred years after Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, the question of how to make simultaneous measurements of noncommuting observables lingers.  I will survey one hundred years of…