SITP Seminar Schedule (Sep.'14 - Aug. '15)
(The seminars are held in room 355 of Varian Physics Building)
SITP Seminar Schedule (Sep.'14 - Aug. '15)
(The seminars are held in room 355 of Varian Physics Building)
| Date | Speaker | Time (***=special time) | Title | Affiliation |
| 09/26/14 | Timothy Wiser | 4:00 P.M | Discussion of "Baryogenesis from Strong CP Violation and the QCD Axion" | Stanford |
| 10/10/14 | Various Speakers | 1-4:30pm | Bay Area Particle Theory Seminar | Located at SFSU |
| 10/13/14 | Christoph Keller | 2:00 P.M | 3d Gravity, Universality and Poincare Series | Rutgers University |
| 10/20/14 | Alexander (Sasha) Zhiboedov | 2:00 P.M | Causality Constraints on Corrections to the Graviton Three-Point Coupling | Harvard |
| 10/23/14 | Ilarion Melnikov | 2:30 P.M | Global aspects of (0,2) moduli space | Harvard |
| 10/27/14 | Aron Wall | 2:00 P.M | Quantum External Surfaces | Institute for Advanced Study |
| 10/30/14 | John Duncan | 2:30 P.M | Umbral Moonshine and Vertex Algebra | Case Western University |
| 10/31/14 | Gordan Krnjaic | 4:00 P.M | Next Generation Beam Dump Experiments to Search for Light Dark Matter | Perimeter Institute |
| 11/03/14 | Gerald Hoehn | 2:00 P.M. | Mathieu Moonshine and Symmetries of Hyperkaehler manifolds | Kansas State University |
| 11/05/14 | Tarun Grover | 2:00 P.M | Can a positive wavefunction encode extensive entanglement? | KITP |
| 11/06/14 | Ben Withers | 12:30 P.M | Checkerboard black branes and inhomogeneity in AdS/CFT | University of Southampton |
| 11/07/14 | Matthias Christandl | 12:30 P.M | Limitations on quantum key repeaters | University of Copehhagen |
| 11/11/14 | Juan Malcadena | 11:00 A.M *** |
Cosmological Collider Physics Special Location: Lane Hall (Building 200, Room 205) |
Institute for Advanced Study |
| 11/13/14 | Sergei Gukov | 12:30 P.M. | The Heterotic Proposal | Caltech |
| 11/17/14 | Eliezer Rabinovici | 2:00 P.M | Noise and Geometry | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 11/17/14 | Natalia Toro | 12:30 P.M | Spin and Long-Range Forces: The Unfinished Tale of the Last Massless Particle | Perimeter Institute |
| 11/21/14 | Bridget Bertoni | 4:00 P.M | Dark Matter-Neutrino Interactions: Implications of Solving Small Scale Structure Problems | University of Washington |
| 11/24/14 | Jonathan Maltz | 12:30 P.M. | Effective string theory simplified | Stanford |
| 11/24/14 | Sho Yaida | 2:00 P.M. | Field theory for glassy systems | Duke University |
| 12/01/14 | Liam Fitzpatrick | 2:00 P.M. | The Conformal Bootstrap at Large Central Charge | Stanford University |
| 12/04/14 | Richard Davison | 12:30 P.M. | Holographic momentum dissipation and effective theories of transport | Leiden University |
| 12/15/14 | Cliff Cheung | 2:00 P.M. | Infrared Consistency and the Weak Gravity Conjecture | Caltech |
| 01/01/15 - NEW YEAR'S DAY - NO SEMINARS | ||||
| 01/09/15 | Sumit Das | 2:30 P.M. | TBA | University of Kentucky |
| 01/12/15 | Anson Hook | 2:30 P.M. | Confronting the Strong CP Problem at the LHC | IAS |
| 01/15/15 | Andrew Waldron | 12:30 P.M. | Is Quantum Gravity a Chem - Simons Theory? | UC Davis |
| 01/19/15 - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY - NO SEMINARS | ||||
| 01/21/15 | Wati Taylor | 4:30 P.M. | An Introduction to Beginners to taming the F-theoretic Calabi-Yau Bestiary | MIT |
| 01/22/15 | Wati Taylor | 12:30 P.M. | Generic gauge and matter structure in F-theory vacua | MIT |
| 01/23/15 | Brian Feldstein | 4:00 P.M. | A New Halo-Independent Approach to Dark Matter Direct Detection Analysis | Oxford |
| 01/23/15 | Ryan Williams | 2:30 P.M. | An overview of circuit complexity | Stanford |
| 01/26/15 | Francesco D'Eramo | 2:30 P.M. | Connecting Energy Scales Probed by WIMP Searches | UC Berkeley |
| 01/29/15 | Adam Brown | 12:30 P.M. | Hot Bubbles of Nothing | Stanford |
| 01/30/15 | Ahmed Almheiri | 2:30 P.M. | Bulk Locality and Quantum Error Correction in AdS/CFT | KITP |
| 02/02/15 | Nati Seiberg | 2:30 P.M. | Generalized Global Symmetries | IAS |
| 02/05/15 | Daniel S. Fisher | 12:30 P.M. | Modeling evolutionary dynamics with sex and in complex landscapes | Stanford |
| 02/09/15 | Liam Fitzpatrick | 2:30 P.M. | Effective Field Theory and Dark Matter Direct Detection | Stanford |
| 02/12/15 | John Terning | 12:30 P.M. | Experimental Probes of Vacuum Energy | UC Davis |
| 02/16/15 - PRESIDENTS' DAY - NO SEMINARS | ||||
| 02/17/15 | Donal O'Connell | 12:30 P.M. | The BCJ Double Copy and Kerr-Schild Metrics | University of Edinburgh |
| 02/18/15 | Mario Berta | 11:00 A.M. | Entropy inequalities | Caltech |
| 02/23/15 | Gonzalo Torroba | 2:30 P.M. | Quantum phases of field theory at finite density | Centro Atomico Bariloche |
| 02/24/15 | Miranda Cheng | 12:30 P.M. | 2D Elliptic Genus and 3D Gravity | University of Amsterdam |
| 02/25/15 | Michele Levi | 4:00 P.M. | An effective field theory for gravitating spinning objects in the PN scheme | Institut D'Astrophysique De Paris |
| 02/26/15 | Mina Arvanitaki | 2:30 P.M. | The highs and lows of the QCD axion | Perimeter Institute |
| 02/27/15 | Andrew Childs | 2:30 P.M. | Friday Quantum Info - Quantum Algorithms for Simulating Quantum Mechanics | University of Maryland |
| 03/03/15 | Mustafa Amin | 12:30 P.M. | (a) Reheating after inflation (b) Primordial defects and the CMB blackbody spectrum (c) Hot Jupiters: How did they get there? | Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge |
| 03/05/15 | Tony Gherghetta | 12:30 P.M. | The Unnatural Composite Higgs | University of Minnesota |
| 03/09/15 | Prashant Saraswat | 2:30 P.M. | Natural Inflation and Quantum Gravity | JHU/Maryland |
| 03/12/15 | Andrew Strominger | 12:30 P.M. | Memory, Asymptotic Symmetries and Soft Theorems | Harvard University |
| 03/23/15 | Josef Pradler | 2:30 P.M. | Dark Photon Dark Matter and Dark Axions Dark Energy | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 03/27/16 | Steve Shenker | 2:30 P.M. | A bound on chaos | Stanford University |
| 03/30/15 | Liza Huijse | 2:30 P.M. | Large N matrices from a nonlocal spin system | Stanford University |
| 04/01/15 | Guifre Vidal | 4:00 P.M. | Multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) from an Euclidean path integral | Perimeter Institute |
| 04/02/15 | Simon Gentle | 2:30 P.M. | Entanglement entropy of Wilson loops and surfaces | UCLA |
| 04/03/15 | Sepehr Nezami | 2:30 P.M. | The holographic entropy cone | Stanford University |
| 04/08/15 | Daniel Persson | 4:30 P.M. | U-duality, instanton counting and automorphic forms on Kac-Moody groups | Chalmers University, Gothenburg |
| 04/09/15 | Mark Wise | 12:30 P.M. | Yukawa Bound States with Applications to Dark Matter | Caltech |
| 04/10/15 | Max Zimet | 2:30 P.M. | On holographic quantum error-correcting codes | Stanford University |
| 04/17/15 | Fernando Pastawski | 2:30 P.M. | Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence | Caltech |
| 04/20/15 | Michael Blake | 2:30 P.M. | Holographic Transport and the Hall Angle | Cambridge University |
| 04/23/15 | Anton Zeilinger | 12:30 P.M. | Entanglement and Information | Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology |
| 04/24/15 | Glennys Farrar | 4:00 P.M. | Particle Physics using Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray air showers, and hints for a new phenomenon | NYU |
| 04/27/15 | Eoin O'Colgain | 2:30 P.M. | 3D supergravity and wrapped branes | Stony Brook |
| 04/30/15 | Aitor Lewkowycz | 2:30 P.M. | Towards a derivation of covariant holographic entropy | Princeton |
| 05/04/15 | David Kaplan | 2:30 P.M. | A cosmological solution to the hierarchy problem | John Hopkins |
| 05/07/15 | Joan Camps | 2:30 P.M. | Refining Generalized Entropy | University of Cambridge |
| 05/11/15 | Pavel Putrov | 2:30 P.M. | (0,4) dualities | Caltech |
| 05/15/15 | Cris Moore | 2:30 P.M. | The hunt for a quantum algorithm for Graph Isomorphism | Santa Fe Institute |
| 05/18/15 | Al Shapere | 2:15 P.M. | 2D Conformal Bootstrap and 3D Gravity | University of Kentucky |
| 05/21/15 | Eric Perlmutter | 2:30 P.M. | 2D Conformal Bootstrap and 3D Gravity II: Now with Holomorphy! | Princeton University |
| 05/21/15 | Nima Lashkari | 12:15 P.M. | Relative entropy in CFT and gravity | University of British Columbia |
| 05/22/15 | Stephen Jordan | 4:00 P.M. | Computational complexity of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| 05/25/15 - MEMORIAL DAY - NO SEMINARS | ||||
| 05/26/15 | Horacio Casini | 12:30 P.M. | Entanglement entropy and gauge fields | Centro Atómico Bariloche |
| 05/28/15 | John Joseph Carrasco | 2:30 P.M. | Decoding the DNA of Gravity | Stanford University |
| 06/01/15 | Steven Gubser | 2:30 P.M. | Holographic fermions from top-down constructions | Princeton |
| 06/09/15 | Jose Latorre | 12:30 P.M. | Holography and absolute maximal entanglement | University of Barcelona |
| 06/10/15 | Jose Latorre | 4:00 P.M. | Film Showing: "That's the Story" | University of Barcelona |
| 06/11/15 | Lisa Randall | 2:30 P.M. | Double Disk Dark Matter | Harvard |
| 06/12/15 | Omar Fawzi | 2:30 P.M. | TBA | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
| 07/03/15 - INDEPENDENCE DAY - NO SEMINARS | ||||
| TBA | Vadim Kaplunovsky | TBA | Deconstructing the E0 SCFT to Resolve the Orbifold Paradox | University of Texas |
| 09/21/15 | Bob Laughlin | 2:30 P.M. | TBA | Stanford University |
SITP Seminar Schedule (Aug. 2013 - Sep. 2014)
SITP Seminar Schedule (Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2013)
SITP Seminar Schedule (Sep. 2010 - Mar. 2011)
Monday seminars: 2:30 pm
Tuesday seminars: 12:30 pm
Thursday seminars: 2:30 pm, Quantum Information: 2:30 pm, student seminars: 11am-12pm
Friday seminars: Wine and Cheese: 4:00 pm, Quantum Information Informal Talk: 2:30pm
