The Physics Seminar will take place Wednesdays at 2:00pm in SCGP 313 unless otherwise noted below.
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER | ABSTRACT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/4/24 | Exploring thermal CFTs from a bootstrap perspective | Alessio Miscioscia | Abstract |
| 9/18/24 | The Fate of Topological Operators in Gravity | Thomas Waddleton | Abstract |
| 9/25/24 | S-matrix positivity without Lorentz invariance: a case study | Ioanna Kourkoulou | Abstract |
| 10/2/24 | Solvable matrix model and Riemann-Hopf fluid dynamics for 1/2BPS structure constants of N=4 SYM | Vladimir Kazakov | |
| 10/3/24 at 10:00am *Note special day and time. This lecture will be presented via ZOOM* | New Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity | Jorge Santos | Abstract |
| 10/9/24 | Theory of metastable states in many-body quantum systems | Andrew Lucas | |
| 10/16/24 | The complex Liouville string | Scott Collier | Abstract |
| 10/30/24 | Universal thermalization dynamics in (1+1)d QFTs | Luca Delacretaz | Abstract |
| 11/6/24 | Double scaled SYK correlators from N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory | Herman Verlinde | |
| 11/13/24 | Shota Komatsu | ||
| 1/29/25 | No Talk | ||
| 2/5/25 This lecture will be presented via ZOOM and streamed in room 313* | Topological invariants of quantum lattice systems and ’t Hooft anomalies | Anton Kapustin | Abstract |
2/12/25 | Lorentz-covariant description of relativistic guiding-center motion | Dam T. Son | Abstract |
| 2/19/25 | Adjoint QCD_2 on the Hamiltonian lattice and in the continuum | Silviu Pufu | Abstract |
| 2/26/25 | Exploring Confinement in Anti-de Sitter Space | Lorenzo Di Pietro | Abstract |
| 3/5/25 | The EFT of Large Spin Mesons | Gabriel Cuomo | Abstract |
| 3/12/25 | Aspects of Symmetry and Locality in Celestial Holography | Monica Pate | Abstract |
| 3/25/25* Note Tuesday lecture at 1:00pm | Entanglement Bootstrap as a perspective on quantum field theory | John McGreevy | Abstract |
| 4/3/25* Note Thursday lecture | Lessons from the Seiberg-Witten axion | Csaba Csaki | Abstract |
| 4/9/25 | Chiral boson at the edge of lattice Chern-Simons theory | Theo Jacobson | Abstract |
| 4/16/25 | Hidden Structures in Scattering | Clifford Cheung | Abstract |
| 4/23/25 | Fun with Superconducting Vortices | Thomas Dumitrescu | Abstract |
| 4/30/25 | Anyon scattering | Umang Mehta | |
| 5/7/25 | On the norm of the Hartle-Hawking state in dS3 gravity | Kristan Jensen | Abstract |
| 5/14/25 | |||