Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Areas and entropies in BFSS/gravity duality

Tarek Anous (Amsterdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

CANCELLED

João Penedones (EPFL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Sphere correlation functions and Verma modules

Tadashi Okazaki (Perimeter).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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 Fields and Strings Seminars

Defining a Local Renormalisation Group

João Melo (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Nonlinear Langevin dynamics via holography

Bidisha Chakrabarty (ICTS-TIFR Bangalore).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Higher form symmetries and superfluids

Diego Hofman (Amsterdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Holographic Cosmology and Negative Probability

Aron Wall (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

CANCELLED

Yvonne Geyer (IAS).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Malcolm Perry (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Chris Blair (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Shai Chester (Weizmann).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Localization of the action in AdS/CFT

Pietro Genolini (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

CANCELLED

Christopher Beem (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Witten, Cardy, and the Holonomy Saddle

Piljin Yi (KIAS).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

(A)dS_2

Dionysios Anninos (KCL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

David Turton (Southampton).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Domain Walls in Super-QCD

Francesco Benini (SISSA).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Graphene and Boundary Conformal Field Theory

Chris Herzog (KCL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Bootstrapping BMS (UNUSUAL DATE)

Arjun Bagchi (IIT Kanpur).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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 Fields and Strings Seminars

Quantum Conformal Gravity

Philip Mannheim (Connecticut).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

A new twist on toroidal string compactifications

Mariana Graña (IPhT).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

The classical double copy

Christopher White (QMUL).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Holographic duals of 3d S-fold theories

Benjamin Assel (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

AdS3 at the String Scale

Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Effective Field Theory and Quantum Hall Physics

Matthew Roberts (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Simon Ross (Durham).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

A New Type of Duality?

Alec Barns-Graham (Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Constructing Scattering Amplitudes from their Singular Structure

Dave Dunbar (Swansea).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Topological AdS/CFT

James Sparks (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

A slice of vacua

Santiago Cabrera (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Topology, Semimetals and Gapless Phases

Siddharth Parameswaran (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Generalized confomal structure, chaos and SYK

Marika Taylor (Southampton).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

The S-matrix strikes back

Miguel Paulos (CNRS).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Aspects of Berry phase in QFT

Vasileios Niarchos - Durham.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Paul Townsend - DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Supersymmetry and CPT anomaly

Paul K. Townsend.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

The infrared physics of bad theories

Stefano Cremonesi - Durham.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Generations: Three prints, in colour

Cohl Furey - DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

A metric and geometry for heterotic moduli

Jock McOrist - Surrey.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

T-duality, Gerbes and Double Field Theory

George Papadopoulos, KCL.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Twistors for anti-de Sitter physics

Alex Arvanitakis, DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Modular properties of amplitudes in string theory

Michael B. Green.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Hugh Osborn - DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Automorphic String Amplitudes

Henrik Gustafsson -- Chalmers.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Non-Relativistic Scale Anomalies and Geometry

Igal Arav.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Asymptotically safe quantum gravity and matter

Astrid Eichhorn.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

The S-matrix bootstrap revisited

Balt Van Rees -- Durham.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

New knotted solutions of Maxwell's equations

Cobi Sonnenschein.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Black holes in F-theory

Stefan Vandoren.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Universal Diffusion and the Butterfly Effect

Mike Blake, DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

AdS4 black holes and 3d gauge theories

Alberto Zaffaroni.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Invariance under reflecting temperature to negative values

David McGady -- Copenhagen.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Single Valued Elliptic Multizetas and String Theory

Pierre Vanhove, IHES.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Soft Hair on Black Holes

Malcolm Perry.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Chaos in quantum channels

Dan Roberts, MIT.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Higher spins from Nambu-Chern-Simons theory

Alex Arvanitakis.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

A panoramic view of infrared singularities

Chris White, Glasgow.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Incoherent transport in clean quantum critical metals

Blaise Goutéraux.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Loops in exceptional field theory

Guillaume Bossard, CPHT Polytechnique..

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Anomalies and Conformal Manifolds

Stefan Theisen.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Boundaries, Modules and Symplectic Duality

Mathew Bullimore - Oxford.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Special geometry, dimensional reduction and black hole solutions.

Owen Vaughan.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Disordered Quantum Criticality and Thermal Conductivities

David Ramirez - Stanford.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Resurgence of the cusp anomalous dimension

Daniele Dorigoni (DESY).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Agense Bissi (Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Trace anomaly on the conformal manifold

Andreas Stergiou (Yale).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Topological Strings from quantum mechanics

Alba Grassi (Geneva).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Functions and numbers in quantum field theory

Oliver Schnetz (Erlangen).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

F-theory on singular spaces

Raffaele Savelli, IPhT Saclay.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Wall-crossing, easy and smooth

Boris Pioline, CERN and LPTHE.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Conformal Manifolds

Hugh Osborn, DAMTP.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Bootstrapping SCFTs with four supercharges

Dalimil Mazac, Perimeter Institute.

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Euclidean quantum supergravity

David Tong (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

New black holes in five dimensions

James Lucietti (Edinburgh).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Exact results in supersymmetric gauge theories

Nima Doroud (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Exceptional Field Theory

Henning Samtleben (ENS Lyon).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Exotic Branes and 3D Supergravity

Daniel Mayerson (Amsterdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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 Fields and Strings Seminars

Quantum gravity and exact holography

Joao Gomes (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

The geometry of supersymmetric partition functions

Guido Festuccia (NBI).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Brane deformations in supergravity

Vasilis Niarchos (University of Crete).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Holographic Quantum Quench and Critical Points

Sumit Das (UKY).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

BPS Quivers and N=2 superconformal theories

Simone Giacomelli (ULB).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

On entanglement in higher spin theories

Eric Perlmutter (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Black hole thermodynamics revisited

Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Entanglement and Geometry in 2d CFT

Tom Hartman (IAS) .

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

The superconformal bootstrap

Balt Van Rees (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Higher-order singletons and partially massless fields

Xavier Bekaert (Tours).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

3d quivers gauge theories and integrability

Peter Koroteev (Perimeter Institute).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Superselection Sectors in AdS/CFT

Aron Wall (UCSB).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Minimal Model Holography

UNUSUAL DATE

Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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 Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Holography without translational symmetry

David Vegh (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Dynamical simulations of holographic matrix models

Curtis Asplund (Leuven).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Holomorphic blocks in 3 dimensions

Sara Pasquetti (University of Surrey).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Stars, black holes and superconductors

Simon Gentle (Durham U.).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Probing higher spin black holes

Eric Perlmutter (DAMTP, U. Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Scale without Conformal Invariance

Jean-Francois Fortin (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

The ABCDEFG of Instantons

Jaewon Song (Caltech).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Time Evolution of Entanglement Entropy

Matthew Roberts (New York University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

The Harmony of Superstring Disk Amplitudes

Oliver Schlotterer (MPI, Munich).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

TBA

Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Moduli Stabilisation for Chiral Global Models

Michele Cicoli (ICTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Spinning Conformal Correlators and Blocks

Slava Rychkov (Ecole Normale Superieure).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Fluid/gravity at finite "r"

Daniel Brattan (Durham University).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Aspects of Holographic Fermions

Joao Laia (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Geometry of double field theory

Olaf Hohm (MIT, Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Invariants, symmetries and divergences

Paul Howe (King's College London).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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 Fields and Strings Seminars

Quantum Riemann surfaces

Tudor Dimofte (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Amplitudes using pure spinors

Jonas Bjornsson (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Fluxes, geometries and non-geometries

Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Magnetic bags and black holes

Stefano Bolognesi (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Inching towards strange metallic holography

David Tong (University of Cambridge).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Holographic flavor transport

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

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Spiky Strings and Spin Chains

Manuel Losi (DAMTP).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Holographic Superconductors

Julian Sonner (Imperial).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Twistor Methods for Scattering Amplitudes

David Skinner (University of Oxford).

Potter Room (first floor, Pav. B).

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

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