A Celestial Dual for MHV Amplitudes

Walker Melton, Harvard.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

(3+1)d igSPTs and obstructions to confinement

Christian Copetti, Oxford.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Multi-trace operators in CFTs

Agnese Bissi, ICTP.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 31 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

An infrared on-shell action in asymptotically flat spacetimes

Ana-Maria Raclariu, Kings College London.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Averaged null energy and the renormalisation group

Gregoire Mathys, EPFL.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 17 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Integrability and generalised Chern-Simons theories

Lewis Cole, Swansea.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 10 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

The gravitational S-matrix and dispersion relations

Alexander Zhiboedov, CERN.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 03 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Perturbative String Duals for 2D CFTs

Volker Schomerus, DESY.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 13 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

New Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity

Jorge Santos, University of Cambridge.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 06 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quantum groups as global symmetries in the continuum

Bernardo Zan, University of Cambridge.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 30 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Gradient Properties of RG Flows

Andy Stergiou, King's College London.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 23 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fivebrane Stars

Emil Martinec, University of Chicago.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 16 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Bootstrapping meson scattering at large N

Johan Henriksson, IPhT Saclay.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

BMN matrix model revisited

Shota Komatsu, CERN.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 09 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Decoupling limits in String and M-theory, U-dualities and non-Lorentzian geometries

Niels Obers, Nordita and Niels Bohr Institute.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 02 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Watse Sybesma, University of Cambridge.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 25 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Heavy States in 3d Gravity and 2d CFT

David Grabovsky, UCSB.

MR13.

Friday 15 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

Monica Guica (IPhT, Saclay).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

A state-operator correspondence for nonlocal operators

Stathis Vitouladitis (Amsterdam).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Non-invertible symmetries, anomalies and scattering amplitudes

Lucía Córdova (CERN).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Alex Belin (Milano Bicocca).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Gabriel Wong (Oxford).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

TBA

Bob Knighton (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

BPS Fivebrane Stars

Yoav Zigdon (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Defect two-point functions in 6d (2,0) theories

Xinan Zhou (Beijing, KITPC).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Nat Levine (LPENS, Paris).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

How Non-local is Quantum Gravity? (CANCELLED)

Alexandre Belin (U. Milano-Bicocca).

CMS MR2.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 10:30-11:30

On the exotic string landscape

Houri Christina Tarazi, U. Chicago.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Series & Gauge Fields in de Sitter spacetimes

Alan Rios Fukelman, King's College London.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Anomalies and bordism groups of non-supersymmetric strings

Miguel Montero, Madrid IFT.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Monopoles, duality, and deconfined quantum criticality

Shai Chester, Imperial College London.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Double copy in mini twistor space

Mariana Carillo Gonzalez (Imperial College London).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

The correspondence between rotating black holes and fundamental strings

Andrea Puhm (U Amsterdam).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Wilson loops: the old, the new and the unstable

Mark Mezei (Oxford U).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Logarithmic Corrections to the Entropy of AdS Black Holes

Leo Pando Zayas (Michigan U).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 28 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

An entropy current and the second law of Black hole mechanics in higher derivative theories of gravity

Prateksh Dhivakar (IIT, Kanpur).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 21 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

Holographic description of code CFTs

Anatoly Dymarsky (U Kentucky).

CMS MR9.

Friday 16 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

TBA

Pranjal Nayak, CERN.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Cosmological Bootstrap

Enrico Pajer, DAMTP.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Winding condensates in string theory on AdS

Indranil Halder, Harvard.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

The timelike tube theorem

Alexander Strohmaier, University of Leeds.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 12:30-13:30

Hot Fractons

Akash Jain, University of Amsterdam.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Light-ray operators and higher-twist Regge trajectories in conformal field theory

Petr Kravchuk, King's College London.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Hilbert space of de Sitter quantum gravity

Victor Godet, TIFR.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Branes and symmetries for N=3 SCFTs

Iñaki Garcia-Etxebarria, Durham.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 23 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Deformations of symmetric product orbifolds

Luis Apolo, Amsterdam.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Shapes of non-Gaussianity in warm inflation

Mehrdad Mirbabayi, ICTP, Trieste.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

EFT thinking applied to 2d gravity

Tarek Anous, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Emergent Area Laws from Entangled Matrices

Alex Frenkel, Stanford.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Microscopic origin of the entropy of black holes in general relativity

Albion Lawrence, Brandeis U.

Via Zoom.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Holographic complexity beyond proposals

Michal Heller, Ghent U.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

New Phases of N=4 SYM

Prahar Mitra, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Keeping matter in the loop in de Sitter quantum gravity

Jackson Fliss, DAMTP.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Imposter partition functions

Rohit Kalloor, Weizmann.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Gravity as a gapless phase & biform symmetries.

Diego Hofman.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Comments on Continuous Generalized Global Symmetries

Luigi Tizzano.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Bounds on quantum evolution complexity via lattice cryptography

Marine De Clerck, DAMTP.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Bootstrapping the a-anomaly in 4d QFTs

Joao Penedones.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

TARGET SPACE ENTANGLEMENT, FINITENESS AND HOLOGRAPHY

Sumit Das, Kentucky.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Black Hole Entropy from Quantum Mechanics

Rishi Mouland, DAMTP.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Line Operator Quantum Numbers and Anomalies

T. Daniel Brennan (Chicago).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cauchy Slice Holography

Goncalo Araujo-Regado (DAMTP).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Susskind and Uglum Revisited

Amr Ahmadain.

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 02 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Combining local and extended operator algebras: 4d N = 2 vertex algebras and semi-topological descent

Mitch Weaver (Cincinnati).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

Samuel Leutheusser (MIT).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

3D gravity as an averaged large-c CFT

Thomas Hartman (Cornell).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Rigorous bounds on Einstein--Maxwell theory and the Black Hole Weak Gravity Conjecture

Johan Henriksson (Pisa).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Boundary Description of Microstates of the Non-Supersymmetric Two-Dimensional Black Hole

Ronak M Soni (DAMTP).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 12:30-13:30

Gravitational Regge bounds (CANCELLED)

Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Entanglement in the quantum Hall matrix model

Sean Hartnoll (DAMTP).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Mean string field theory

Nabil Iqbal (Durham).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

What is the iε for the S-matrix?

Sebastian Mizera (IAS).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Supersymmetry and trace formulas

Chagha Choi (Stony Brook).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Sphere path integrals and cosmological horizons

Dionysios Anninos (King's College London).

Potter Room, DAMTP.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

On fixed points and phase transitions in five dimensions

Francesco Mignosa (SISSA).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

The Lattice-Continuum Correspondence for Abelian Chern-Simons Theories

Djordje Radicevic (Brandeis).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Fractons and D-branes

Shamit Kachru (Stanford).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:30-15:30

Three Avatars of Mock Modularity

Atish Dabholkar (ICTP).

Potter room/Zoom.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Information Theory of the Gravitational Anomaly

Masataka Watanabe (Weizmann).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Bulk geometry from colors

Masanori Hanada (Surrey).

Potter room/Zoom.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

The onset of quantum chaos in disordered systems

Adar Sharon (Weizmann).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Magnetic scattering: pairwise little group and pairwise helicity

Csaba Csaki, Cornell.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Five-Dimensional Path Integrals for Six-Dimensional SCFTs

Rishi Mouland (DAMTP).

Potter room/Zoom.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology from confinement

Mark Van Raamsdonk.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 17:00-18:00

TBA

Shu-Heng Shao (IAS).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:15-15:15

Decomposition: 2d theories with 1-form symmetries

Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 10 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Defects and Anomalies in Quantum Field Theories

Yifan Wang (Harvard).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 03 June 2021, 14:30-15:30

Symmetric Product Orbifolds & Holography

Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

TBA

Zohar Komargodski (Simons).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:30-15:30

How Quantum Gravity Avoids Generalized Global Symmetries

Irene Valenzuela (Harvard).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Global Anomalies on the Hilbert Space

Jaume Gomis (Perimeter).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 06 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Gravity from Averaging CFTs

Alexander Maloney (McGill).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Anomalies in gravitational charge algebras of null boundaries and black hole entropy

Antony Speranza (Perimeter).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Wormholes and Islands in Cosmology

Victor Gorbenko (Stanford).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

Bootstrapping the space of Effective Field Theories

João Penedones (EPFL).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 25 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

The Supersymmetric Index and its Holographic Interpretation

Ohad Mamroud (Weizmann).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Non-invertible symmetry and string tensions beyond N-ality

Yuya Tanizaki (Kyoto).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

A CFT distance conjecture

Leonardo Rastelli (Stonybrook).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Modular Forms as three-manifolds invariants

Miranda Cheng (Amsterdam).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 28 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Information Transfer with a Gravitating Bath

Andreas Karch (Texas, Austin).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 17:00-18:00

Postponed - TBA

Miranda Cheng (Amsterdam).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wilsonian RG in Fermionic Models

Slava Rychkov (IHES, ENS).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Berry phase in quantum field theory

Po-Shen Hsin (Caltech).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:00-18:00

A geometric viewpoint on supersymmetric AdS solutions, black holes and their dual SCFTs

Dario Martelli (Torino).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Flips, dualities and symmetry enhancements

Chiung Hwang (DAMTP).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Abelian gauge theories, spin-systems, anomalies and lattice

Tin Sulejmanpasic (Durham).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Integrable Kondo line defect, 4D Chern Simons, and ODE/IM correspondence

Jingxiang Wu (Perimeter).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Charting the Landscape of 3d CFTs

David Poland (Caltech/Yale).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

Covariant phase space with boundaries

Daniel Harlow (MIT).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Koszul Duality in Field Theory & Holography

Natalie Paquette (Caltech).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 28 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

The Holomorphic Modular Bootstrap for 2d Conformal Field Theories

Sunil Mukhi (IISER Pune).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Instantons in five-dimensional O(N) vector models

Silviu Pufu (Princeton).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Symmetry Breaking and Swampland Conjectures

Clay Córdova (Chicago).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Integrable Kondo problems and 4d CS theory

Davide Gaiotto (Perimeter).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Areas and entropies in BFSS/gravity duality

Tarek Anous (Amsterdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED

João Penedones (EPFL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

The polarized scattering equations and super-amplitudes for gauge, gravity and brane theories in 6, 10 and 11d

Lionel Mason (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Strong coupling and the Goldstone Equivalence theorem for massive higher spins

David Stefanyszyn (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Sphere correlation functions and Verma modules

Tadashi Okazaki (Perimeter).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Gluing gravitational blocks for AdS black holes

Alberto Zaffaroni (Milano-Bicocca/INFN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Rademacher Expansions and the Spectrum of 2d CFT

Luis Fernando Alday (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Quantum invariants of knots and modularity

Professor Don Zagier,.

MR9 (Pavillion B).

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Defining a Local Renormalisation Group

João Melo (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Reflections and sum-rules for CFTs and modular forms

David McGady (Niels Bohr, Copenhagen).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Nonlinear Langevin dynamics via holography

Bidisha Chakrabarty (ICTS-TIFR Bangalore).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Supersymmetry, Ricci Flat Manifolds and the String Landscape

Bobby Acharya (ICTP/KCL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

A resurgent transseries for N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma

Ines Aniceto (Southampton).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Higher form symmetries and superfluids

Diego Hofman (Amsterdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Holographic entanglement and quantum gravity in finite regions

William Donnelly (Perimeter).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Holographic Cosmology and Negative Probability

Aron Wall (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Conformal Bootstrap and Continuous Phase Transitions in 3D *Unusual Venue*

Andy Stergiou (Los Alamos).

Note: MR5.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED

Yvonne Geyer (IAS).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Malcolm Perry (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 06 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Chris Blair (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Shai Chester (Weizmann).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Extremization for Supersymmetric AdS_3 and AdS_2 Solutions

Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

VOAs and Superconformal Field Theory in Four Dimensions

Chris Beem (Oxford).

MR11.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Localization of the action in AdS/CFT

Pietro Genolini (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED

Christopher Beem (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Pure Glue in 6d and SQCD in 4d

Shlomo Razamat (Technion).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:20-14:20

Witten, Cardy, and the Holonomy Saddle

Piljin Yi (KIAS).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

(A)dS_2

Dionysios Anninos (KCL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Discrete quotients of 3d N=4 Coulomb branches via the monopole formula

Marcus Sperling (Vienna).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

General Classes of Near Horizon Extremal Binary Black Hole Geometries

Maria Rodriguez (AEI Potsdam/Utah).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

David Turton (Southampton).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Aspects of 5d SCFTs and their gauge theory phases

Michele Del-Zotto (Durham).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

String-brane interactions in the Regge limit

Giuseppe D'Appollonio (Cagliari/INFN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Universal dynamics of entanglement and quantum operators from random unitary circuits

Adam Nahum (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Domain Walls in Super-QCD

Francesco Benini (SISSA).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

A superconformal bootstrap approach to the "simplest" Argyres-Douglas theory

Madalena Lemos (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

An Étude on 3d N=2 Conformal Manifolds

Nikolay Bobev (KU Leuven).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

On the phase diagram of SU(N) x SU(N) gauge theory with a bifundamental fermion

Avner Karasik (Weizmann).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

What spatial geometry does the (2+1)-d QFT vacuum prefer?

Toby Wiseman (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Graphene and Boundary Conformal Field Theory

Chris Herzog (KCL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Resurgence and exact results in supersymmetric gauge theories

Masazumi Honda (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Getting to the bottom of Noether's theorem

John Baez (University of California, Riverside).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Bootstrapping BMS (UNUSUAL DATE)

Arjun Bagchi (IIT Kanpur).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Non-geometric Calabi-Yau Backgrounds in String Theory

Chris Hull (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Conformal Gravity

Philip Mannheim (Connecticut).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

A new twist on toroidal string compactifications

Mariana Graña (IPhT).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

The Polyakov Bootstrap (UNUSUAL DATE & LOCATION)

Aninda Sinha (IISC).

MR11, B1.39.

Monday 21 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dynamics of 2+1d Quantum Field Theories

Nathan Seiberg (IAS, Princeton).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

The classical double copy

Christopher White (QMUL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Holographic duals of 3d S-fold theories

Benjamin Assel (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Non-planar Scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory

Amit Sever (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dual Space-time of the SYK Model

Sumit Das (University of Kentucky).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

AdS3 at the String Scale

Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Deconstructing the BPS sector of (2,0) and Little String Theories

Costis Papageorgakis (QMUL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

3d N=2 gauge theories on Seifert manifolds (or: how to localise on the Poincaré sphere)

Cyril Closset (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Non-Abelian T-duality in AdS/CFT: the CFT side

Yolanda Lozano (Oviedo).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:45-12:45

Effective Field Theory and Quantum Hall Physics

Matthew Roberts (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Simon Ross (Durham).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

A New Type of Duality?

Alec Barns-Graham (Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Constructing Scattering Amplitudes from their Singular Structure

Dave Dunbar (Swansea).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Topological AdS/CFT

James Sparks (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

An integrable Lorentz-breaking deformation of 2d CFTs

Monica Guica (CEA Saclay/Uppsala/Nordita).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

3d N=2 dualities with monopoles

Sara Pasquetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca & INFN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Scattering on plane waves and the double copy

Tim Adamo (Imperial) .

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

A slice of vacua

Santiago Cabrera (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Topology, Semimetals and Gapless Phases

Siddharth Parameswaran (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Phase transitions in 3d Chern-Simons-matter theories

Louise Anderson (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Generalized confomal structure, chaos and SYK

Marika Taylor (Southampton).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

The S-matrix strikes back

Miguel Paulos (CNRS).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Towards a string field theory for supergravity

Ron Reid-Edwards - Hull.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Aspects of Berry phase in QFT

Vasileios Niarchos - Durham.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Paul Townsend - DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Emergent structure from spin models on cubic graphs ensembles

Mike Peardon.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 25 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Supersymmetry and CPT anomaly

Paul K. Townsend.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Exceptional field theory and half-maximal consistent truncations

Emanuel Malek - Munich.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

The infrared physics of bad theories

Stefano Cremonesi - Durham.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Squashed toric sigma-models and mock modular forms

Sameer Murthy - KCL.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

BPS states in the Minahan-Nemeschansky E6 theory

Lotte Hollands - Heriot Watt.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Symmetries from wall crossing in K3 string theories

Roberto Volpato - Padua.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Generations: Three prints, in colour

Cohl Furey - DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

A metric and geometry for heterotic moduli

Jock McOrist - Surrey.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States: Matrix Models and More

Carl Turner - DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

T-duality, Gerbes and Double Field Theory

George Papadopoulos, KCL.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

M5 branes and 2d (0,2) theories

Sakura Schafer-Nameki - Oxford.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 09 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory

Ricardo Monteiro - CERN.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Twistors for anti-de Sitter physics

Alex Arvanitakis, DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Renormalization of phi^4 theory at six loops

Erik Panzer - Oxford.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Modular properties of amplitudes in string theory

Michael B. Green.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

On the null origin of the ambitwistor string

Eduardo Casali - Oxford.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Hugh Osborn - DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Automorphic String Amplitudes

Henrik Gustafsson -- Chalmers.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Non-Relativistic Scale Anomalies and Geometry

Igal Arav.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

N=2 super Yang-Mills and the Geometry of Magnetic Monopoles

Andy Royston, Texas A&M.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Asymptotically safe quantum gravity and matter

Astrid Eichhorn.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 13 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

The S-matrix bootstrap revisited

Balt Van Rees -- Durham.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 06 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

New knotted solutions of Maxwell's equations

Cobi Sonnenschein.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 29 September 2016, 13:00-14:00

The amplituhedron for tree-level scattering amplitudes in N=4 sYM

Livia Ferro.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 09 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Conformal Manifolds in Four Dimensions and Chiral Algebras

Matthew Buican (QMUL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 02 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

The Nekrasov-Shatashvili Limit of the 5D Superconformal Index

Costis Papageorgakis.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Super String Field Theory Revisited

Ivo Sachs - Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 19 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Black holes in F-theory

Stefan Vandoren.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exploring the BTZ bulk with boundary conformal blocks

Monica Guică, Nordita.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Universal Diffusion and the Butterfly Effect

Mike Blake, DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

AdS4 black holes and 3d gauge theories

Alberto Zaffaroni.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

From maximal to minimal supersymmetry in string loop amplitudes

Marcus Berg, Karlstad University, Sweden.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Invariance under reflecting temperature to negative values

David McGady -- Copenhagen.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Single Valued Elliptic Multizetas and String Theory

Pierre Vanhove, IHES.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 25 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Soft Hair on Black Holes

Malcolm Perry.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 18 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Chaos in quantum channels

Dan Roberts, MIT.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 11 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

On the high energy scattering and absorption of strings by D-branes

Giuseppe D'Appollonio - University of Cagliari.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Higher spins from Nambu-Chern-Simons theory

Alex Arvanitakis.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 28 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

A Table Top View of E8xE8 Heterotic Strings

Neil Lambert, KCL.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 21 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

A panoramic view of infrared singularities

Chris White, Glasgow.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Incoherent transport in clean quantum critical metals

Blaise Goutéraux.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Negativities, entanglement structures of qubit systems and holography

Massimiliano Rota - Durham.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 03 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Loops in exceptional field theory

Guillaume Bossard, CPHT Polytechnique..

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Anomalies and Conformal Manifolds

Stefan Theisen.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 19 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Boundaries, Modules and Symplectic Duality

Mathew Bullimore - Oxford.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Beyond unitarity: new on-shell representations for loop amplitudes

Simon Caron-Huot.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Constraints on holographic CFTs living on static but generally curved spacetimes

Toby Wiseman - Imperial.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 29 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Special geometry, dimensional reduction and black hole solutions.

Owen Vaughan.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Disordered Quantum Criticality and Thermal Conductivities

David Ramirez - Stanford.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Emergent symmetries in large N gauge theories

Aleksey Cherman (Minnesota).

MR9, Pav. B.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Ellipticity and modularity in integrable systems, and N=1*

Jan Troost (ENS).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Resurgence of the cusp anomalous dimension

Daniele Dorigoni (DESY).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Agense Bissi (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 21 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Partition function on Hopf surfaces and supersymmetric Casimir energy

Benjamin Assel (KCL) .

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Trace anomaly on the conformal manifold

Andreas Stergiou (Yale).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Topological Strings from quantum mechanics

Alba Grassi (Geneva).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 30 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Perturbative gravity and gauge theory at null infinity

Eduardo Casali (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Functions and numbers in quantum field theory

Oliver Schnetz (Erlangen).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

F-theory on singular spaces

Raffaele Savelli, IPhT Saclay.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wall-crossing, easy and smooth

Boris Pioline, CERN and LPTHE.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Dualities and deformations in 4d gauged supergravities

Gianluca Inverso, NIKHEF Amsterdam.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Conformal Manifolds

Hugh Osborn, DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 12 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Monopole correlations in holographically flavored liquids

Nabil Iqbal, University of Amsterdam .

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Integrability and the Conformal Field Theory of the Higgs branch

Bogdan Stefanski, City University London.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bootstrapping SCFTs with four supercharges

Dalimil Mazac, Perimeter Institute.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 22 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Extremal chiral ring states in AdS/CFT are described by free fermions

David Berenstein, UCSB.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Holographic aspects of gravity in four and three dimensions

Glenn Barnich (ULB).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

A universal correction to higher spin entanglement entropy

Michael Ferlaino (Swansea).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Euclidean quantum supergravity

David Tong (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 20 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

New black holes in five dimensions

James Lucietti (Edinburgh).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Surface Defects and Dualities in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

Heng-Yu Chen (NTU).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 06 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Exact results in supersymmetric gauge theories

Nima Doroud (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Exceptional Field Theory

Henning Samtleben (ENS Lyon).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Integrable deformations of AdS3 x S3 x M4 strings

Ben Hoare (Humboldt).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 16 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Exotic Branes and 3D Supergravity

Daniel Mayerson (Amsterdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 09 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

The local RG equation and chiral anomalies

Boaz Keren-Zur (EPFL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Wednesday 30 July 2014, 11:30-12:30

Gravity as a diffeomorphism invariant SU(2) gauge theory

Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 26 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Unification of type II theories in extended field theory

UNUSUAL DAY

Emanuel Malek (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Quantum gravity and exact holography

Joao Gomes (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 19 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Warped Conformal Field Theory and Non-AdS holography

UNUSUAL TIME

Diego Hofman (UVA).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 12 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Correlation functions and amplitudes in N=4 SYM

Paul Heslop (Durham).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

The geometry of supersymmetric partition functions

Guido Festuccia (NBI).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 29 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Hyperkahler Sigma Model and Field Theory on Gibbons-Hawking Spaces

Anindya Dey (U Texas).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 22 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Conformal Partial Waves, the building blocks of the Conformal Bootstrap

Hugh Osborn (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

The superconformal index of the (2,0) theory with defects

Mathew Bullimore (Perimeter).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Resurgent Analysis in Quantum Theories: Perturbative Theory and Beyond

Ines Aniceto (Lisbon, IST Maths).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 01 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Brane deformations in supergravity

Vasilis Niarchos (University of Crete).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 24 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Holographic Quantum Quench and Critical Points

Sumit Das (UKY).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 20 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

BPS Quivers and N=2 superconformal theories

Simone Giacomelli (ULB).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

On entanglement in higher spin theories

Eric Perlmutter (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Black hole thermodynamics revisited

Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Superstring amplitudes with pure spinor cohomology methods

Speaker to be confirmed.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Dimensional reductions of D=11 supergravity and generalised geometry

Hadi Godazgar (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 13 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Kac-Moody Fourier modes and BPS instantons in string theory

Axel Kleinschmidt (AEI).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Color-kinematics duality in Yang-Mills theory from string amplitudes

Oliver Schlotterer (AEI).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

q-deforming AdS_5 x S^5 superstrings

Benoit Vicedo (University of Hertfordshire).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

A holomorphic anomaly in the elliptic genus

Sameer Murthy (King's College - London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 28 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Entanglement and Geometry in 2d CFT

Tom Hartman (IAS) .

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 21 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

The superconformal bootstrap

Balt Van Rees (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Higher-order singletons and partially massless fields

Xavier Bekaert (Tours).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

On Scale and Conformal Invariance in Four Dimensions

Anatoly Dymarsky (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 31 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Collisions in AdS and the thermalisation of heavy-ion collisions

Wilke van der Schee (Utrecht University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 24 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

3D Bosonization and Chern-Simons Vector Models

Guy Gur-Ari (Weizmann).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

From conformal to Einstein gravity on twistor space

Tim Adamo (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 10 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Resurgence at work in the principal chiral model

Aleksey Cherman (FTPI).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 03 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

3d quivers gauge theories and integrability

Peter Koroteev (Perimeter Institute).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 02 July 2013, 13:00-14:00

Superselection Sectors in AdS/CFT

Aron Wall (UCSB).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 13 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Minimal Model Holography

UNUSUAL DATE

Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Some aspects of high energy scattering and integrability

Romuald Janik (Jagiellonian University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Black Holes, Localization, and Mock Modular Forms.

Atish Dabholkar (Jussieu).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 30 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

An infalling observer and the black hole information paradox in AdS/CFT

Kyriakos Papadodimas (University of Groningen).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

On the non-linear deformations of high-spin gauge symmetries

Massimo Taronna (Max Planck).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 16 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Dynamical twisting and the pure spinor formalism

UNUSUAL DATE

Nathan Berkovits (Univ. Estadual Paulista) .

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Unification of Type IIA and IIB Supergravities

Jeong-Hyuck Park (DAMTP/Sogang University, Seoul) .

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 02 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

String theory amplitudes and UV behavior of half maximal supergravity

Piotr Tourkine (CEA Saclay).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 25 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Landau levels and incompressible states in dense holographic matter

Gordon Semenoff (British Columbia).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 11 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Holography without translational symmetry

David Vegh (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Harmonic R-matrices for Scattering Amplitudes and Spectral Regularization

Jan Plefka (Humboldt).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

New transport properties of holographic superfluids

UNUSUAL DATE AND TIME

Daniel Fernandez (University of Barcelona).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Landau Levels and Holography

UNUSUAL ROOM

Mike Blake (DAMTP).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Polylogarithms in tree-level open string calculations

Johannes Broedel (ETH Zurich).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Higher spin symmetry and its breaking in CFTs

UNUSUAL DATE

Alexander Zhiboedov (Princeton).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Supersymmetric Field Theories on Three-Manifolds and Applications

Cyril Closset (Weizmann Institute).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Dynamical simulations of holographic matrix models

Curtis Asplund (Leuven).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 31 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

On the physical meaning and consequences of the loop IR divergences in global dS

Emil Akhmedov (ITEP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 24 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Holomorphic blocks in 3 dimensions

Sara Pasquetti (University of Surrey).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Unitarity and fuzzball complementarity: Alice fuzzes but may not even know it!

Borun Chowdhury (Amsterdam U.).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 29 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Stars, black holes and superconductors

Simon Gentle (Durham U.).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 22 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Probing higher spin black holes

Eric Perlmutter (DAMTP, U. Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

New Skins for an Old Ceremony: The Conformal Bootstrap and the Ising Model

Sheer El-Showk (Saclay) .

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Partition function of N=(2,2) gauge theories on S^2 and vortices

Stefano Cremonesi (Imperial College, London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 01 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

SCAPEZILLA: the backreaction of antibranes in flux compactifications

Iosif Bena (Saclay).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 25 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Quarkonium dissociation by anisotropy in a strongly coupled CFT

Mariano Chernicoff (DAMTP, U. Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 18 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Scale without Conformal Invariance

Jean-Francois Fortin (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 11 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

The ABCDEFG of Instantons

Jaewon Song (Caltech).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Recent developments in conformal bootstrap

Note the unusual time

Alessandro Vichi (Berkeley).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Wednesday 03 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

One-Loop Renormalization and the S-matrix

David Mcgady (Princeton University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 31 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Time Evolution of Entanglement Entropy

Matthew Roberts (New York University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 26 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Harmony of Superstring Disk Amplitudes

Oliver Schlotterer (MPI, Munich).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 22 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

TBA

Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Moduli Stabilisation for Chiral Global Models

Michele Cicoli (ICTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 19 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Bosonic Excitations in Holographic Quantum Liquids

Richard Davidson (University of Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

Spinning Conformal Correlators and Blocks

Slava Rychkov (Ecole Normale Superieure).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

k-String Tension from Eguchi-Kawai Reduction

Daniele Dorigoni (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 01 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

Holography of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton theories and applications to Condensed Matter Systems

Blaise Gouteraux (Universite Paris 7).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 24 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

On the Taxonomy of Holographic Fermi/Non-Fermi Liquids

Norihiro Iizuka (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Holographic three-point functions for short operators

Joseph Minahan (Uppsala University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 10 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Matrix models, duality and spontaneous SUSY breaking in 3D QFT

Vasilis Niarchos (University of Crete).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 03 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Fluid/gravity at finite "r"

Daniel Brattan (Durham University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 27 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Instantons from Branes and Higgs Vacua in N=1 Theories

Anatoly Dymarsky (IAS).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Monday 24 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Aspects of Holographic Fermions

Joao Laia (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 20 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

On Renormalization Group Flows in Four Dimensions

Zohar Komargodski (IAS & Weizmann Institute of Science).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 13 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Holographic Fermi Surfaces: The view from the top down

Julian Sonner (University of Cambridge & Imperial College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 06 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Some speculations on the cosmological constant paradox

Anthony Zee (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 18 August 2011, 13:00-14:00

Differential geometry for string theory, beyond Riemann

Imtak Jeon (Sogang University, Seoul).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 14:15-15:15

N^3 and junctions in 6-dimensional (2,0) theories

Kimyeong Lee (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Holography of mass-deformed M2-branes

Seok Kim (Seoul National University, Seoul).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 16 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

The complete n-point superstring disk amplitude in pure spinor superspace

Carlos Mafra (Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 09 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Lessons from holography: the shear viscosity bound and UV/IR decoupling

Sera Cremonini (University of Cambridge and Texas A-M University, College Station).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 02 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Anomaly-induced charges from Skyrme model

Takaaki Ishii (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 26 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Holographic hydrodynamics on non-conformal field theories

Giuseppe Policastro (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 19 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Holographic phase space: c-functions and black holes as renormalization group flows

Miguel Paulos (LPTHE, Paris).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 12 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Describing M5-branes using loop spaces

Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Physical properties of p-wave holographic superconductors

Johanna Erdmenger (Werner Heisenberg Institute, Munich).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 24 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Framed BPS states, moduli dynamics, and wall-crossing

Sungjay Lee (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Geometry of double field theory

Olaf Hohm (MIT, Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 10 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

The F-ate of GUTs

Sakura Schaefer-Nameki (King's College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 03 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

The classical integrable structure of AdS/CFT

Benoit Vicedo (DESY, Hamburg).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 24 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Mesons as open strings in holographic QCD

Shigeki Sugimoto (IPMU, University of Tokyo).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 17 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

String theory and the Velo-Zwanziger problem

Rakibur Rahman (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 10 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Effective holographic theories for low-temperature condensed matter systems

Elias Kiritsis (University of Crete and APC, Paris).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 03 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Dense matter at strong coupling and hedgehog black holes

Prem Kumar (Swansea University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 27 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Invariants, symmetries and divergences

Paul Howe (King's College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 20 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Travelling front of the decaying brane

Debashis Ghosal (Jawaharlal Nehru University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 16 December 2010, 13:00-14:00

Fermionic T-duality from a spacetime perspective

Hadi Godazgar (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 09 December 2010, 13:00-14:00

Elliptic hypergeometric integrals, superconformal indices and duality

Viacheslav Spiridonov (LTP JINR, Dubna).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 02 December 2010, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Riemann surfaces

Tudor Dimofte (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 25 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Generalized geometry and M-theory

David Berman (Queen Mary, University of London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 18 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

From weak to strong coupling in ABJM theory

Marcos Marino (Geneva University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 11 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Double field theory and the geometry of duality

Chris Hull (Imperial College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Mesons in the (Dymarsky-)Kuperstein-Sonnenschein holographic models

Matthias Ihl (Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 28 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

The classical geometry of quantum integrability

Nikita Nekrasov (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 21 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Scaling and integrability from AdS5 x S5

Riccardo Ricci (Imperial College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

From correlation functions to Wilson loops and amplitudes

Burkhard Eden (Durham University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Supersymmetry, localization and quantum entropy function

Ipsita Mandal (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 10 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

Black hole microstate counting and its macroscopic counterpart

Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Tuesday 08 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Amplitudes using pure spinors

Jonas Bjornsson (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 03 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

Heterotic moduli space via linear sigma models

Ilarion Melnikov (Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

SUSY gauge theories and quantum many body systems

Samson Shatashvili (Trinity College, Dublin and IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 20 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

N=8 and N=6 superspace constraints for three-dimensional gauge theories

Robert Wimmer (Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 13 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Fluxes, geometries and non-geometries

Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 06 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Pohlmeyer reduction for AdS5 x S5 superstring

Arkady Tseytlin (Imperial College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 29 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Phenomenology of D-branes at toric singularities

Sven Krippendorf (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 22 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

3d N=2 CFTs with chiral flavours from M2-branes at toric CY4 singularities

Stefano Cremonesi (Tel-Aviv University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 18 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Connections between dualities of string theory and the ultraviolet properties of maximal supergravity

Michael Green (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 11 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Brane tilings, M2-branes and Chern-Simons theories

Noppadol Mekareeya (Imperial College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Viscosity and conductivity in general theories of gravity

Miguel Paulos (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 25 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Magnetic bags and black holes

Stefano Bolognesi (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 18 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Towards exact quantum entropy of black holes

Atish Dabholkar (LPTHE, Paris).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 11 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Gradient formula for the beta function of 2d quantum field theory

Anatoly Konechny (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

T-duality invariant string theory at the quantum level

Daniel Thompson (Queen Mary, University of London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 28 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Inching towards strange metallic holography

David Tong (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 21 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Surprising symmetry of scattering amplitudes in gauge theories

Gregory Korchemsky (CEA Saclay).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Holographic flavor transport

Andrew O'Bannon (Max Planck Institute, Munich).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Wednesday 09 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Probing strongly coupled gauge theories with AdS/CFT: The violation of the shear viscosity to entropy bound

Sera Cremonini (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 03 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Structure of gauge and gravity amplitudes in string and field theory

Pierre Vanhove (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette and CEA/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 26 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Twisted tori and flux backgrounds of type II and heterotic string theory

David Andriot (LPTHE, Paris).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 19 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wilson loops: From pseudo-holomorphic surfaces to 2d Yang-Mills

Riccardo Ricci (Imperial College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 12 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Transport in QGP and non-critical holography

Umut Gursoy (University of Utrecht).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 05 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Dynamical vacuum selection in string theory

Jock McOrist (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 29 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Making contact with supersymmetric AdS5 solutions

Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 22 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Universal phenomena in strongly coupled gauge theories and gravity

Ayan Mukhopadyhay (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 15 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Gauge threshold corrections for local string models

Joseph Conlon (University of Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 08 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Spiky Strings and Spin Chains

Manuel Losi (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 11 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Supersymmetry Breaking in Local String/F-theory models

Sven Krippendorf (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 04 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Holographic Superconductors

Julian Sonner (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 28 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

SU(N) flux tubes as Nambu-Goto strings

Andreas Athenodorou (University of Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 21 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Integrability for the full planar spectrum of AdS/CFT

Pedro Vieira (Max Planck Institute, Potsdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 14 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Twistor Methods for Scattering Amplitudes

David Skinner (University of Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 07 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

The Kerr/CFT correspondence

Monica Guica (LPTHE, University Pierre et Marie Curie).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 30 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Simplifications of unordered amplitudes in gravity and QED

Niels Emil Jannik Bjerrum-Bohr (Niels Bohr Institute).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

Thursday 23 April 2009, 13:00-14:00