Seminars take place online on Wednesdays 13:00, unless otherwise noted. Each seminar starts with a student session 13:00-13:15.
07 October 2020: Pedro Vieira (Perimeter) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 15:00]
Multipoint bootstrap. Integrability and the Snowflake
14 October 2020: Bidisha Chakrabarty (Southampton)
Out of time ordered effective dynamics of a quartic oscillator
21 October 2020: Mritunjay Verma (Southampton)
Open Closed Superstring Field Theory
28 October 2020: Horacio Casini (Bariloche)
Entropic order parameters for symmetries in QFT
04 November 2020: Stefano Cremonesi (Durham)
3d N=4 gauge theories: vacua, low energy physics and correlators
11 November 2020: Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich)
18 November 2020: Alice Bernamonti (Florence)
25 November 2020: Bogdan Stefanski (City)
Chern-Simons Origin of Superstring Integrability
02 December 2020: Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins)
09 December 2020: Rishi Mouland (King's College)
Exotic 5d Correlators and 6d CFTs
Winter Break
20 January 2021: Xinan Zhou (Princeton) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 15:00]
Holographic correlators and emergent Parisi-Sourlas supersymmetry
27 January 2021: Aleksey Cherman (Minnesota) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 15:00]
Higgs-confinement phase transitions with fundamental representation matter
03 February 2021: Clément Berthiere (Peking University) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 15:00]
Entanglement in quantum Lifshitz theories
10 February 2021: Guilherme Pimentel (Amsterdam)
Decoding and bootstrapping cosmological fluctuations
16 February 2021: Ofer Aharony (Weizmann) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]
A derivation of AdS/CFT for vector models
23 February 2021: Alok Laddha (Chennai) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]
The Infra-red triangles of Gravity
24 February 2021: David Meltzer (Caltech) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 15:00]
Unitarity and Dispersion in AdS/CFT Momentum Space
03 March 2021: No seminar (Workshop: A (Hubble) Tension Headache)
10 March 2021: Mario Martone (Stony Brook) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 15:00]
Geometric constraints on the space of 4d theories
16 March 2021: Gary Shiu (Wisconsin) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME: TUESDAY 15:00]
Quantum Gravity and the Swampland
17 March 2021: Charlotte Sleight (Durham)
A Mellin-Barnes Approach to Scattering in de Sitter Space
Spring Break
21 April 2021: Clay Cordova (Chicago) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 15:00]
Line Defect Quantum Numbers and Anomalies
28 April 2021: Ivano Basile (Mons)
On string vacua without supersymmetry
05 May 2021: Jim Gates (Brown) [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME: 15:00]
A New Hope To Resolve Foundational Problems of SUSY Representation Theory
12 May 2021: Stephan Stieberger (MPP Munich)
Celestial Amplitudes and Asymptotic Symmetries
25 May 2021: Renann Lipinski Jusinskas (Prague) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]
L-infinity algebra in gauge theories with matter
David Turton d.j.turton@soton.ac.uk