Seminars take place on Wednesdays 13:00, unless otherwise noted.
26 September 2023: Ioannis Papadimitriou (Athens) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]
Algebraically special solutions and accelerating black hole thermodynamics
04 October 2023: Prateksh Dhivakar (IIT Kanpur)
AdS Witten diagrams to Carrollian correlators
10 October 2023: David Vegh (Queen Mary) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]
The 't Hooft equation as a quantum spectral curve
11 October 2023: Sravan Kumar (Portsmouth)
18 October 2023: No seminar - STAG Public Lecture
25 October 2023: Dong-Gang Wang (Cambridge)
On the IR divergences in de Sitter: from trees to loops and back
01 November 2023: Ioannis Matthaiakakis (Southampton)
Quantum Complexity as Hydrodynamics
08 November 2023: No seminar (Physics Department job talks)
15 November 2023: Masanori Hanada (QMUL)
Color Confinement and Random Matrices
22 November 2023: Antony Speranza (U. Illinois)
Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity
29 November 2023: Karapet Mkrtchyan (Imperial)
Democratic Lagrangians and where they come from
05 December 2023: Junggi Yoon (APCTP, Pohang) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]
Gravitational edge mode for 2D gravity
06 December 2023: Monica Kang (Caltech)
Emergent N=4 supersymmetry from N=1
13 December 2023: Pratik Roy (U. Witwatersrand)
Quantum thermodynamics from holographic quenches
Winter Break
31 January 2024: Nicolas Kovensky (Saclay)
Ascending the attractor flow in the D1-D5 system
07 February 2024: Oscar Dias (Southampton)
New SYM phases at finite chemical potential
14 February 2024: No string seminar [SHEP seminar - Jonathan Oppenheim]
21 February 2024: Kajal Singh (Liverpool) [UNUSUAL LOCATION: 05/2011]
Finding G_2 Higgs Branch of 4D rank 1 SCFTs
28 February 2024: Vaios Ziogas (Bristol)
U(1) quasi-hydrodynamics: Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory and holography
06 March 2024: Yoav Zigdon (Cambridge)
Rotating Horowitz-Polchinski Solutions
13 March 2024: Seyed Morteza Hosseini (Imperial)
Gravitational Blocks and Matrix Models
20 March 2024: Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Institute)
The double scaled SYK model: quantum chaos and non-commutative spacetime
Easter Break
24 April 2024: Shota Komatsu (CERN)
Non-Invertible Symmetries, Anomalies and Scattering Amplitudes
01 May 2024: Fridrik Freyr Gautason (Southampton)
S-folds and their conformal manifolds
08 May 2024: Julius Julius (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst.)
15 May 2024: Balt van Rees (École polytechnique)