Seminars take place on Wednesdays 13:00, unless otherwise noted. Each seminar starts with a student session 13:00-13:20.
05 October 2022: Felix Haehl (Southampton)
Quantum Chaos and Effective Field Theory
12 October 2022: Harry Goodhew (Cambridge)
Cutting Cosmological Correlators
19 October 2022: Praxitelis Ntokos (Edinburgh)
Black hole superpotential as a unifying entropy function and BPS thermodynamics
26 October 2022: Mark Mezei (Oxford U.)
Semiclassics for Large Quantum Numbers
01 November 2022: Jianrong Li (Vienna U.) [UNUSUAL DAY, TIME, PLACE: TUESDAY 12:00, B54/7C]
Quantum affine algebras and Grassmannian cluster algebras
02 November 2022: Andrea Puhm (Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT)
Celestial holography on non-trivial backgrounds
09 November 2022: Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam U.) [POSTPONED]
16 November 2022: Pavel Kovtun (Victoria U.)
Relativistic dissipation: from hydrodynamics to effective field theory
22 November 2022: Yossi Nir (Weizmann Inst.) [UNUSUAL DAY, TIME, PLACE: TUESDAY 12:00, B54/5A]
The jewels in the crown of the LHC
23 November 2022: Hadleigh Frost (Oxford U.)
Braid matrices and \alpha' expansions
30 November 2022: Lionel Mason (Oxford U.)
Twistors and Lw_{1+infinity} symmetries in celestial formulations of 4d gravity
07 December 2022: Blaise Gouteraux (Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT), TBC
Emergent higher-form symmetries in holographic matter
14 December 2022: No seminar
Winter Break
01 February 2023: Marija Tomasevic (Ecole Polytechnique)
Holographic duals to evaporating black holes
08 February 2023: Akash Jain (Amsterdam) [UNUSUAL DAY: FRIDAY]
Higher-form symmetries and topological phase transitions
08 February 2023: Itamar Yaakov (Southampton)
Supersymmetric gauge theory, defects, and TQFT
15 February 2023: Pascal Anastasopoulos (Uni Wien)
Anomalous and axial Z' contributions to g-2
17 February 2023: Kedar Kolekar (IIT Kanpur) [UNUSUAL DAY: FRIDAY]
Carrollian origins of Bjorken flow
23 February 2023: Christoph Uhlemann (Oxford) [UNUSUAL DAY: THURSDAY]
Double holography and Page curves in Type IIB
28 February 2023: Adam Bzowski (Warsaw) [UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME: TUESDAY 12:00]
Wormholes, geons, and the illusion of the tensor product
01 March 2023: Alejandra Castro (Cambridge)
Designing Gravitational Theories via Symmetric Product Orbifolds
02 March 2023: Paul McFadden (Newcastle) [UNUSUAL DAY: THURSDAY]
Shift operators from the simplex representation in momentum-space CFT
08 March 2023: Hynek Paul (IPHT, Saclay)
Integrated Correlators in N=4 SYM at Large Charge
15 March 2023: Gustav Holzegel (Imperial)
Dynamics and Unique Continuation in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes
22 March 2023: Sean Hartnoll (Cambridge U.)
Entanglement and Emergent Space from Large Matrices
Easter Break
26 April 2023: No talk due to Euro Strings 2023
03 May 2023: Silvia Nagy (Durham)
Self-dual gravity and color/kinematics duality in AdS4
9 May 2023: Federico Capone (Jena) [UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]
Phase Space Renormalization and Finite BMS charges in Six Dimensions
10 May 2023: Manus Visser (Cambridge)
Partition function for a volume of space
17 May 2023: Dominik Neuenfeld (Amsterdam)
Comments on the Causal Structure of Double Holography
Exam Period