Upcoming Events

November
30
Date
Thursday, November 30, 2023. 1:30pm
Location
Varian 206
Speaker:
Erez Urbach

String stars, or Horowitz-Polchinski solutions, are string theory saddles with normalizable condensates of thermal-winding strings.

December
1
Date
Friday, December 1, 2023. 1:30pm
Location
Varian 355
Speaker:
Scott Collier

I will introduce a critical string theory in two dimensions and explain that this theory, viewed as two-dimensional quantum gravity on the worldsheet, admits an equivalent holographic description…

December
4
Date
Monday, December 4, 2023. 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location
Varian 355
Speaker:
Yin Chen He

Conformal Field Theory (CFT) represents a class of quantum field theories that has profound applications across various physics domains, from critical phenomena in statistical mechanics to quantum…

December
7
Date
Thursday, December 7, 2023. 11:00am
Location
Varian 355
Speaker:
Scott Collier

I will discuss the quantization of one of the simplest theories of gravity, three-dimensional Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant.

December
7
Date
Thursday, December 7, 2023. 1:00pm
Location
Varian 355
Speaker:
Tom Hartman

The averaged null energy operator is known to be closely tied to causality, quantum information, and the Regge limit of correlation functions in CFT.