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Southampton String Theory Postgraduate seminars: 2015-2016

Seminars take place in Semester 1 on Tuesdays 14:00-15:00 in Building 54, Room 8031 (8C) and in Semester 2 on Tuesdays 09:30-10:30 in Building 54, Room 10031 (10C), unless otherwise noted.


13 October 2015: Gavin Hartnett

Complexity equals action (arXiv:1509.07876)


20 October 2015: Andrew O'Bannon

A 4D-2D equivalence for large-N YM theory (arXiv:1507.08666)


27 October 2015: William Woodhead

A bound on chaos (arXiv:1503.01409)


3 November 2015: String Theory seminar

Rethinking fundamental interactions: From asymptotic freedom to asymptotic safety in QFT


10 November 2015: Francesco Aprile

Anomalies, conformal manifolds, and spheres (arXiv:1509.08511)


17 November 2015: Marco Caldarelli

BMS invariance and the membrane paradigm (arXiv:1508.06577)


24 November 2015: Ariana Christodoulou

Conformal QED_d, F-Theorem and the ε expansion (arXiv:1508.06354)


1 December 2015: Stanislav Schmidt

Looking for a bulk point (arXiv:1509.03612)


8 December 2015: William Clemens

A precision test of AdS/CFT with flavor (arXiv:1509.00013)



Christmas Break



Exam Period



26 January 2016: Da-Wei Pang

Relative entropy equals bulk relative entropy (arXiv:1512.06431)


2 February 2016: No seminar


9 February 2016: Masanori Hanada (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Japan)

Chaos in matrix models and black hole evaporation (arXiv:1602.01473)


16 February 2016: No seminar


23 February 2016: Marika Taylor

Vacua of the gravitational field (arXiv:1601.04958)


1 March 2016: James Drummond [CANCELLED/POSTPONED]

A natural language for AdS/CFT correlators (arXiv:1107.1499)


8 March 2016: Ariana Christodoulou

Holographic construction of excited CFT states (arXiv:1602.02039)


15 March 2016: Tim Morris

Background independent exact renormalization group for conformally reduced gravity (arXiv:1502.07396)



Easter Break



12 April 2016: Nick Evans

Holographic NJL interactions (arXiv:1601.02824)


19 April 2016: Oscar Dias

Superradiant instabilities of asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes (arXiv:1512.02644)


26 April 2016: Kostas Skenderis

Negative branes, supergroups and the signature of spacetime (arXiv:1603.05665)



Organiser

Marco Caldarelli < m.m.caldarelli@soton.ac.uk >

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