Fall 2024 Physics Seminar

The Physics Seminar will take place Wednesdays at 2:00pm in SCGP 313 unless otherwise noted below.

DATETITLESPEAKERABSTRACT
9/4/24Exploring thermal CFTs from a bootstrap perspectiveAlessio MisciosciaAbstract
9/18/24The Fate of Topological Operators in GravityThomas WaddletonAbstract
9/25/24S-matrix positivity without Lorentz invariance: a case studyIoanna KourkoulouAbstract
10/2/24Solvable matrix model and Riemann-Hopf fluid dynamics for 1/2BPS structure constants of N=4 SYMVladimir 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 GravityJorge SantosAbstract
10/9/24Theory of metastable states in many-body quantum systemsAndrew Lucas
10/16/24The complex Liouville stringScott CollierAbstract
10/30/24Universal thermalization dynamics in (1+1)d QFTsLuca DelacretazAbstract
11/6/24Double scaled SYK correlators from N=2 supersymmetric gauge theoryHerman Verlinde
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11/13/24Shota Komatsu
12/4/24
 

1/29/25
2/5/25Anton Kapustin
2/12/25Dam T. Son
2/19/25Silviu Pufu