| 9/10, 2:00pm |
Geoff Penington
Berkeley |
Leading order corrections to the quantum extremal surface prescription[Video] |
| 9/3, 2:00pm |
Mark Van Raamsdonk
UBC |
Towards microscopic models of big bang cosmology[Video] |
| 8/13, 2:00pm |
Sebastian Fischetti
McGill |
Free Energy from Replica Wormholes[Video] |
| 8/6, 2:00pm |
Monica Jinwoo Kang
Caltech |
Algebras of observables for holographic theories: a GNS story[Video] |
| 7/30, 2:00pm |
Zhenbin Yang
Stanford |
Effective Entropy of Quantum Fields Coupled With Gravity[Video] |
| 7/23, 2:00pm |
Andreas Blommaert
Ghent University |
Dissecting the ensemble in JT gravity [Video] |
| 7/16, 2:00pm |
Alexandre Belin
CERN |
Random Statistics of OPE coefficients and Euclidean Wormholes[Video] |
| 7/09, 2:00pm |
Thomas Faulkner
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
The holographic map as a conditional expectation[Video] |
| 7/02, 2:00pm |
Nima Afkhami-Jeddi
Chicago |
3d Gravity from averaging 2d CFTs[Video] |
| 6/25, 2:00pm |
Gaston Giribet
UBA |
The tensionless limit of string theory on AdS3 x S^3 x S^3 X S^1[Video] |
| 6/18, 2:00pm |
Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca
UCSB |
Bulk reconstruction of metrics with a compact space asymptotically[Video] |
| 6/11, 2:00pm |
Charles Marteau
IP Paris |
New boundary conditions in JT gravity[Video] |
| 6/04, 2:00pm |
James Hartle
UCSB |
The Impact of Cosmology on Quantum Mechanics[Video] |
| 5/28, 2:00pm |
Alexey Milekhin
Princeton |
Quantum error correction and large N[Video] |
| 5/21, 2:00pm |
Steve Giddings
UCSB |
Gravity, holography, and unitarity[Video] |
| 2/04, 12:00pm |
Gabor Sarosi
CERN |
Chaos in the butterfly cone[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/12, 2:00pm |
Onkar Parrikar
U Penn |
Soft modes from Black hole microstates[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/21, 2:00pm |
Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech & Tokyo IPMU |
The High Energy Behavior of Mellin Amplitudes[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/14, 2:00pm |
John Cardy
Berkeley & Oxford |
TTbar Deformed Correlation Functions[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/07, 2:00pm |
Mudassir Moosa
Cornell |
The holographic dual of Renyi relative entropy[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/31, 2:00pm |
Silviu Pufu
Princeton |
Holographic correlators from bootstrap and supersymmetric localization[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/24, 2:00pm |
Bogdan Ganchev
Cambridge |
Weak Cosmic Censorship in Einstein-Scalar theory in flat 4D[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/17, 2:00pm |
Javier Magan
Balseiro |
Entanglement Entropy and Superselection Sectors[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/03, 2:00pm |
Geoffrey Penington
Stanford |
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox[Podcast][Video] |
| 6/05, 11:00am |
Xie Chen
Caltech |
Matrix Product Representation of Locality Preserving Unitaries[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/30, 2:00pm |
Douglas Stanford
IAS |
Diving into traversable wormholes.[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/11, 2:00pm |
Joan Camps
University College London |
Gravity duals of boundary cones[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/16, 2:00pm |
Clay Cordova
IAS |
Particle Spectra in Supersymmetric Field Theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/09, 2:00pm |
Nathan Haouzi
UC Berkeley |
Classification of surface defects from Little Strings[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/23, 12:30pm |
Thomas Dumitrescu
Harvard |
New Tools for Exploring Strongly Coupled Quantum Field Theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/16, 2:00pm |
Vladimir Rosenhaus
KITP |
The Bulk Dual of SYK: Cubic Couplings[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/09, 2:00pm |
Jason Koeller
UC Berkeley |
Geometric Constraints from Subregion Duality beyond the Classical Regime[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/02, 2:00pm |
Aitor Lewkowycz
Stanford University |
Bulk locality from modular flow[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/26, 2:00pm |
Eva Silverstein
Stanford University |
How your past catches up with you in string theory[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 01/19, 2:00pm |
Chiara Toldo
Columbia |
New goals for AdS black holes[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/01, 2:00pm |
Fernando Pastawski
Free University of Berlin |
Quantum code properties from holographic geometries[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 11/17, 2:00pm |
Kengo Maeda
Shibaura Institute of Technology |
Holographic superfluid flows with a localized repulsive potential[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/10, 2:00pm |
Philip Phillips
UIUC |
Anti-Local Boundary Actions and Anomalous Dimensions in the Gauge-Gravity Duality: Application to the Strange Metal[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/03, 2:00pm |
Saso Grozdanov
Leiden University |
Hydrodynamics and its destruction[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/27, 2:00pm |
Brandon Robinson
University of Washington |
Supersymmetric Probe Branes and Localization in AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/20, 2:00pm |
Anson Hook
Stanford |
Relaxation from Particle Production[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/13, 2:00pm |
Daniel Jafferis
Harvard |
Traversable wormholes[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/06, 2:00pm |
Tom Rudelius
Harvard University |
Strong Forms of the Weak Gravity Conjecture[Podcast][Video] |
| 9/29, 2:00pm |
Raphael Bousso
UC Berkeley |
Asymptotic Entropy Bounds and the Information Content of Soft Gravitons[Video] |
| 6/02, 2:00pm |
Donald Marolf
UCSB |
Horizon entropy and the coarse grained quantum null energy condition[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/19, 2:00pm |
Pankaj S. Joshi
Tata Inst |
Gravitational Collapse, Black Holes, and Naked Singularities: Life and Death of Massive Collapsing Stars[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/05, 2:00pm |
Leonard Susskind
Stanford |
Copenhagen vs Everett, and ER=EPR [part of SCSS][Podcast][Video] |
| 4/28, 2:00pm |
Maulik Parikh
Arizona State University |
The Dual Origins of the Null Energy Condition[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/21, 2:00pm |
Jonathan Maltz
Univ. Tokyo |
Chaos in matrix models and black hole evaporation[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/14, 2:00pm |
Thomas Faulkner
UIUC |
Shape dependence of modular energy and the averaged null energy condition[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/10, 2:00pm |
Ahmed Almheiri
Stanford |
Linearity of holographic entanglement entropy[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/03, 2:00pm |
Iosif Bena
Saclay |
Tachyonic Antibranes and the Landscape[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/25, 2:00pm |
Don Page
U. Alberta |
Naked Firewalls[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/18, 2:00pm |
Nima Lashkari
UBC |
Quantum relative entropy[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/11, 2:00pm |
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard & KITP |
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-theory[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/04, 2:00pm |
Frans Pretorius
Princeton |
Ultra-relativistic Collisions and Black Hole Formation[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/28, 2:00pm |
Chi-Ming Chang
UC Berkeley |
Bootstrapping 2D CFTs in the semiclassical limit[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/21, 2:00pm |
Mukund Rangamani
UC Davis |
The Fluid Manifesto: Emergent topological symmetries and dissipative hydrodynamics[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/14, 2:00pm |
Michael Gutperle
UCLA |
Holographic entanglement entropy for surface operators and defects[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/07, 2:00pm |
Daniel Harlow
Harvard |
Wormholes, Emergent Gauge Fields, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/17, 2:00pm |
Maximilian Attems
Barcelona |
Holographic collisions in non-conformal theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/10, 2:00pm |
Aron Wall
IAS |
Entropic focussing[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/03, 2:00pm |
Veronika Hubeny
Durham University |
Geometric constucts in AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/19, 2:00pm |
Dan Roberts
MIT |
Chaos in quantum channels[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/12, 2:00pm |
Alexandre Belin
Stanford |
Permutation Orbifolds: exploring the landscape of theories of quantum gravity in AdS_3[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/05, 2:00pm |
Andrea Puhm
UCSB |
AdS_3: the NHEK generation[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/29, 2:00pm |
Glen Evenbly
UC Irvine |
Scale transformations on the lattice with tensor networks[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/22, 2:00pm |
Ning Bao
Caltech |
The Holographic Entropy Cone[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/15, 2:00pm |
David Simmons-Duffin
IAS |
Looking for a bulk point[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/01, 2:00pm |
Per Kraus
UCLA |
Conformal blocks and holography[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/30, 2:00pm |
Nathan Seiberg
Princeton, IAS |
Generalized Global Symmetries[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 3/19, 2:00pm |
Yue Zhao
Stanford |
The Solution of (Little) Hierarchy Problem in AdS3/CFT2 Avatar[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/12, 2:00pm |
Anshuman Maharana
HRI |
Moduli, Inflation and the CMB[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/05, 2:00pm |
Michael Smolkin
UC Berkeley |
RG flow of entanglement entropy on a 3-sphere[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/26, 2:00pm |
Radu Roiban
Penn State |
On the eta-deformation of string theory in AdSn x Sn[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/19, 2:00pm |
Johanna Karouby
MIT |
Swinging fields producing particles: A general theory of self-resonance after inflation[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/12, 2:00pm |
Alexei Kitaev
Caltech |
Hidden correlations in the Hawking radiation and thermal noise[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/05, 2:00pm |
Natalia Toro
Perimeter |
Spin and Long-Range Forces: The Unfinished Tale of the Last Massless Particle[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/29, 2:00pm |
Nemanja Kaloper
UC Davis |
The End and Other Tall Tales[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/15, 2:00pm |
James Bardeen
University of Washington |
Black hole evaporation: implications of the Bousso covariant entropy bound[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/08, 2:00pm |
Don Marolf
UCSB |
A GSL for holographic field theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/04, 2:00pm |
Daniele Galloni
Durham University |
Anatomy of The Amplituhedron[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/20, 2:00pm |
Tarek Anous
MIT |
TBD[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/13, 2:00pm |
Vladimir Rosenhaus
KITP |
A perturbative calculation of entanglement entropy[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/06, 2:00pm |
Vyacheslav Lysov
Caltech |
From Soft Theorems to Asymptotic Symmetries[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/30, 2:00pm |
Anindya Dey
UT, Austin |
Mirror Symmetry, Partition Function and Gauged Linear Quivers[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/23, 2:00pm |
Lenny Susskind
Stanford |
Quantum Complexity Inside Black Holes[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/16, 2:00pm |
Eva Silverstein
Stanford |
Testing string spreading in scattering amplitudes and black hole physics[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/09, 2:00pm |
Tomonori Ugajin
KITP |
Quenches and holography[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/02, 2:00pm |
Edgar Shaghoulian
Stanford |
Recent advances in dS/CFT[Podcast][Video] |
| 6/12, 2:00pm |
Cliff Cheung
Caltech |
Exploring the Weak Gravity Conjecture[Podcast][Video] |
| 6/05, 2:00pm |
Roji Pius
Harish-Chandra Research Institute |
Off-shell string theory[Video] |
| 5/29, 2:00pm |
John Preskill
Caltech |
Measurements inside black holes[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/15, 2:00pm |
Allan Adams
MIT |
Holography and Turbulence[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/08, 2:00pm |
Aitor Lewkowycz
Princeton |
Exact results for the entanglement entropy and the energy radiated by a quark[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/03, 2:00pm |
Aki Hashimoto
UW-Madison |
Boundaries and Defects of N=4 SYM with 4 supercharges[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/25, 12:30pm |
Ramy Brustein
Ben-Gurion University |
How black holes burn: firewalls, smoke and mirrors[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/06, 2:00pm |
Maria Rodriguez
Harvard |
TBA |
| 1/16, 2:00pm |
Thomas Hertog
Leuven |
Holographic Quantum Cosmology[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/10, 12:30pm |
Xiaoliang Qi
Stanford |
Exact holographic mapping and emergent space-time geometry[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/06, 12:30pm |
Guy Gur-Ari
Weizmann |
3D Bosonization and Chern-Simons Vector Models[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/05, 2:00pm |
Wilke van der Schee
Utrecht Univ. |
Collisions in AdS and the thermalisation of heavy-ion collisions[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/03, 12:30pm |
Jay Wacker
SLAC |
The SIMP Miracle[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/26, 12:30pm |
Xi Dong
Stanford |
Holographic Entanglement Entropy for General H
igher Derivative Gravity[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/14, 2:00pm |
Yutin Huang
IAS |
A tale of manifest locality and unitarity: from positive grassmannian to gauge anomalies[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/12, 12:30pm |
Denis Klevers
UPenn |
F-theory Compactifications with Multiple U(1) Factors[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/08, 12:30pm |
Federico Bonetti
MPI Munich |
F-theory on Spin(7) manifolds: realization via M-theory and weak-coupling limit[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/05, 12:30pm |
Nabil Iqbal
KITP |
Wilson Lines and Entanglement Entropy in Higher Spin Gravity[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/31, 2:00pm |
David Kubizňák
Perimeter |
Van der Waals fluid, reentrant phase transitions, and AdS black holes[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/29, 12:30pm |
Yinbo Shi
UCSB |
Nonviolent Nonlocality - Effective Field Theory Models[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/24, 2:00pm |
Wenbin Yan
Caltech |
BPS Spectrum of Argyres-Douglas Theory via Spectral Network[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/22, 12:30pm |
Andrea Puhm
UCSB |
Non-Extremality from Metastability?[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/17, 2:00pm |
William Donnelly
U of Waterloo |
Entanglement, edge states, and gauge symmetry[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/15, 12:30pm |
Takashi Okada
KITP |
Exact Results of BMN Matrix Model and Double Scaling Limits[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/10, 2:00pm |
Ehsan Hatefi
ICTP |
Stability, Tunneling and Flux Changing de Sitter Transitions in the Large Volume String Scenario[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/08, 12:30pm |
Hao Zhang
UCSB |
Top quark as a probe of new physics[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/01, 12:30pm |
Tom Hartman
KITP |
Entanglement and Geometry in 2D CFT[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Steven Carlip
UCD |
Quantum fluctuations and the small scale structure of spacetime[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Sean Hartnoll
Stanford |
Metal-insulator Transition in Holography[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Bob Wald
Univ. of Chicago |
Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Blaise Gouteraux
Nordita |
AdS/Ricci-flat Correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme Instability[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Joshua Cooperman
UC Davis |
Renormalization of Entanglement Entropy and the Gravitational Effective Action[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Stephane Detournay
Harvard |
Warped Conformal Field Theory[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/31, 2:00 p.m. |
Stefan Leichenauer
Caltech |
Null Geodesics, Local CFT Operators, and AdS/CFT for Subregions[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Sichun Sun
Univ. of Washington |
Holographic Duals of Non-Abelian Brane Embeddings and the Rise of Non-local Masses[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Kristan Jensen
Univ. Victoria |
Anomaly-Induced Transport and Thermodynamics[Embargoed] |
| 11/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Raphael Bousso
UCB |
Is There an Alternative to Firewalls?[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Simon Gentle
Durham Univ. |
Stars, Black Holes and Superconductors[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Zvi Bern
UCLA |
UV Properties of Gauge and Gravity Theories |
| 10/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Bartosz Fornal
Caltech |
Standard Model with Compactified Spatial Dimensions[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Larry Ford, Tufts |
Probability Distributions for Quantum Stress Tensor Flucutations[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Martin Ammon
UCLA |
Properties of Cold Holographic Matter[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Andy Stergiou
UCSD |
RG Limit Cycles[Podcast][Video] |
| 8/21, 12:30 p.m. |
Simeon Hellerman
KIPMU |
Chern-Simons-Matter Theory and its Holographic Dual[Embargoed] |
| 4/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Mboyo Esole
Harvard |
The Binomial Geometry of SU(5) GUTs in F-theory[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/22, 12:30 p.m. |
Keith Olive
University of Minnesota |
A Frequentist Approach to Supersymmetric Models - post LHC2010[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Rajesh Gopakumar
HCRI |
A Large N Dual to 2d CFTs[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Ronen Plesser
Duke Univ. |
Recent Results on Perturbative Heterotic Vacua[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Michael Douglas
SUNY |
Holographic Duals From the Exact RG[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Jim Isenberg
Univ of Oregon |
Stability of a Class of Expanding Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Field Equations[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Hans Jockers
KITP |
N=1 Mirror Symmetry and the Web of N=1 Vacua[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Don Page
Univ of Alberta |
Agnesi Weighting for the Measure Problem of Cosmology[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Joseph Maciejko
Stanford |
Fractional Topological Insulators[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/27, 2:00 p.m. |
Yasunori Nomura
UC Berkeley |
More Supersymmetries or No Supersymmetry at the LHC[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Nati Seiberg
Princeton, IAS |
Symmetries and Strings in Field Theory and Gravity[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Richard Woodard
Univ. Florida |
A Quantum Gravitational Model of Inflation[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Per Kraus
UCLA |
RG Flow of Magnetic Brane Correlators[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/10, 2:30 p.m. |
Michael Forbes
UW |
Observable Dark AntiMatter: QCD Nuggets[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Ami Katz
Boston |
CFT/AdS[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Thomas Hertog
CERN |
Eternal Inflation without Metaphysics[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Tao Liu
UCSB |
Dark Light Higgs[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Abhijit Gadde
Stony Brook |
From N=4 SYM to N=2 Superconformal QCD: Spin Chains and Holography[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Thomas Levi
British Columbia |
When Worlds Collide[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Sunny Itzhaki
Tel Aviv |
Giant Rings in the CMB Sky[Podcast][Video] |
| 9/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Arthur Lipstein
Caltech |
Scattering Amplitudes in Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 9/22, 2:00 p.m. |
William Rubens
Imperial College |
The Black Hole/Qubit Correspondence[Podcast][Video] |
| 9/09, 2:00 p.m. |
Andrew Frey
McGill Univ. |
Direct and Indirect Detection of Metastable Dark Matter[Podcast][Video] |
| 8/04, 1:00 p.m. |
Erik Verlinde
UvA |
The Emergence of Gravity[Podcast][Video] |
| 6/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Matthew Strassler
Rutgers |
On Hidden Sectors and Other Exotica at Hadron Colliders[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/28, 11:00 a.m. |
Sasha Polyakov
Princeton |
The Decline and Fall of the de Sitter Space[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/27, 2:00 p.m. |
Devin Walker
Harvard Univ. |
Distinguishing Different Types of Dark Matter at the LHC[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Inyong Park
Kyoto Univ. |
Open String Engineering of D-brane Geometry -- Toward Three-Loop Check[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Tom Banks
Rutgers/UCSC |
Informal Discussion on Holographic Spacetime[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Gonzalo Torroba
UCSB |
Flavor, Supersymmetry and Higgs Physics[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Per Kraus
UCLA |
Metamagnetic Quantum Critical Point in AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Nick Warner
USC, Physics |
Microstate Geometries and Non-BPS Black Holes[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/11, 3:30 p.m. |
David Poland
Harvard University |
Superconformal Flavor Simplified[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Mark Wise
Caltech |
Violations of Rotational and/or Translational Invariance during the Inflationary Era[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Mark Srednicki
UCSB |
Quantum Chaos and the Riemann Zeta Function[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Ben Freivogel
UC Berkeley |
Regulating Eternal Inflation With the UV/IR Connection[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Theo Nieuwenhuizen
UvA |
Do Non-relativistic Neutrinos Constitute the Dark Matter?[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/15, 12:30 p.m. |
Paul Aspinwall
Duke University |
Decompactifications vs Massless D-Branes in Moduli Space Limits[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/11, 3:30 p.m. |
Nima Arkani-Hamed
IAS |
Dualities for Local Spacetime Physics from the Grassmannian - Part II[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Nima Arkani-Hamed
IAS |
Dualities for Local Spacetime Physics from the Grassmannian[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Yasuhiro Sekino
Stanford |
FRW/CFT Duality: Holographic Formulation of Eternal Inflation, and its Applications[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Kristan Jensen
University of Washington |
Mirror Symmetry and M2 branes[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Christoph Sieg
Niels Bohr Institute |
Perturbative Spectra in Gauge Theories with Gravity Duals at Four Loops and Beyond[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Murad Alim
Bonn University |
Hints for Off-Shell Mirror Symmetry[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/28, 10:30 a.m. |
Nati Seiberg
IAS |
Goldstinos[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 10/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Raman Sundrum
JHU |
SUSY Splits and Then Returns[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/22, 2:00 p.m. |
Hai-Bo Yu
UC Irvine |
WIMPless Miracle and Hidden Charged Dark Matter[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Anton Kapustin
Caltech |
Exact Results for Wilson Loops in Supersymmetric Chern-Simons-Matter Theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Matthew Roberts
UCSB |
Zero Temperature Limit of Holographic Superconductors[Podcast][Video] |
| 9/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Kai Wang
Univ. of Tokyo, IPMU |
Probing B/L Violations in the Extended Scalar Models at the LHC[Podcast][Video] |
| 9/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Dan Israel
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
Heterotic Torsional Backgrounds, from Supergravity to CFT[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/28, 12:30 p.m. |
David Andriot
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies |
Twist Duality for Flux Backgrounds of Type II and Heterotic String Theory from Generalized Complex Geometry[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/31, 12:30 p.m. |
Peter Graham
Stanford |
A Domino Theory of Flavor[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/10, 12:30 p.m. |
Lian-Tao Wang
Princeton University |
Top Quarks and New Physics Signals at the LHC[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/03, 12:30 p.m. |
Graciela Gelmini
UCLA |
In Search of Dark Matter Particles: Have We Found Them?[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/24, 12:30 p.m. |
David Garfinkle
Oakland Univ. |
Possible Outcomes for Classical Gravitational Singularities[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Video] |
| 2/17, 12:30 p.m. |
Don Page
Univ of Alberta |
Cosmological Measures without Volume Weighting[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/03, 12:30 p.m. |
Jaemo Park
POSTECH & Stanford |
Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2-brane CFTs[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Joe Polchinski, KITP
UCSB |
Landscape/CFT Duality?[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Sandip Trivedi
TIFR & Stanford |
Time Dependent Cosmologies and Their CFT Duals[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Gonzalo Torroba
Rutgers |
Four-dimensional Dynamics of String Compactifications[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Thomas Hertog
APC Paris & Solvay Inst. |
The No-boundary Measure of Eternal Inflation[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Stanley Deser
Brandeis Univ. |
Cosmological Topologically Massive Theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Sakura Schafer-Nameki
Caltech |
SUSY Breaking in F-Theory GUTs[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/23, 2:00 p.m. |
John Schwarz
Caltech |
Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/16, 2:00 p.m. |
Yu Nakayama
UC Berkeley |
Index for Non-Relativistic Superconformal Field Theories -- From LLM to ABJM and BL[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/09, 2:00pm |
Per Kraus
UCLA |
Gravity Duals of the Quantum Hall Effect[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Jock McOrist
Univ. of Chicago |
Summing the Instantons in the Heterotic String[Podcast][Video] |
| 9/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Bartek Czech
UPenn |
Black Holes from Statistics[Podcast][Video] |
|
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Schedule of Future Talks |
| 6/17, 12:30 p.m. |
David Mateos
UCSB |
A Universal String Prediction for Heavy Ion Collisions[Podcast][Video] |
| 6/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Diana Vaman
UCSB |
The Space-Cone Gauge and Yang-Mills Tree and Loop-Level Recursion Relations[Podcast][Video] |
| 6/05, 2:00 p.m. |
Geoffrey Compare
UCSB |
Setting the Boundary Free in AdS/CFT : a Gravity / CFT+Gravity Correspondence[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Mark Jackson
Fermilab |
Detecting Cosmic Superstrings[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/22, 2:00 p.m. |
Borun Chowdhury
OSU |
Radiation from the Non-extremal Fuzzball[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Susan Gardner
Univ. of Kentucky & KITP |
Shedding Light on Dark Matter: How Faraday Rotation Can Limit a 'Dark' Magnetic Moment[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Sean Carroll
Caltech |
The Universe Is Not Ergodic[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Gouranga Nayak
LANL, Theory Division |
Shift Theorem and Schwinger Mechanism in the Presence of Arbitrary Time Dependent Electric Field[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Brandon Carter
Observatoire de Meudon |
Progress in the Mechanics of (Superconducting) Cosmic Strings and Their (Vorton) Equilibrium States[Video] |
| 4/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Jorge Casalderrey-Solana
UCB |
Probing Strongly Coupled Plasmas with Heavy Quarks[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Pedro Vieira
4 Square Port Royal |
Quantum Wrapped Giant Magnon[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Joao Penedones
UCSB |
High Energy Scattering in AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 3/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Kostas Skenderis
UvA |
The Fuzzball Proposal for Black Holes[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Anatoly Dymarsky
Stanford |
D-brane Inflation in String Theory[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Peter Graham
Stanford |
Searching for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Matthew Schwartz
JHU |
Effective Field Theory and Collider Physics[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/31, 2:00 p.m. |
Don Page
Univ of Alberta |
Boundary Conditions for the Universe[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Graham Kribs
Univ. Oregon |
The Supersymmetric Flavor Problem, R-symmetry, and the LHC[Podcast][Video] |
| 1/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Mark Srednicki
UCSB |
High-Energy Gravitational Scattering and Black Hole Resonances[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/13, 1:30 p.m. |
Gabriele Veneziano
CERN |
Towards an S-matrix Description of Gravitational Collapse[Podcast][Video] |
| 12/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Diego Trancanelli
UCSB |
On Supersymmetric Wilson Loops[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 11/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Roni Harnik
SLAC |
Hierarchy without Color and the LHC[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Niklas Beisert
Princeton |
Spectral Curve for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 11/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Petr Horava
UCB |
Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Cindy Keeler
UCB |
Closed String Tachyon Condensation in the E_8 Heterotic System[Podcast][Video] |
| 11/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Andy O'Bannon
UW |
Metallic AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Eric D'Hoker
UCLA |
Exact Half-BPS Solutions to Type IIB Supergravity[Podcast][Video] |
| 10/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Steve Giddings
UCSB |
High-energy Scattering and Locality: Gravity and Strings[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 10/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Itzhak Bars
USC |
Two-Time Physics, The Unified View from Higher Dimensional Space and Time[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 10/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Clifford Johnson
USC |
External Fields and the Dynamics of Flavour in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 9/27, 2:00 p.m. |
John Preskill
Caltech |
Black Holes as Mirrors[Podcast][Video] |
| 9/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Ali Nayeri
Harvard |
Generating Inflation-Free Scale-Invariant Power Spectrum in String Gas Cosmology[Podcast][Video] |
| 9/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Lara Anderson
Univ. of Oxford |
M Theory on Singular G2 Spaces[Podcast][Video] |
| 6/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Theodore Erler
Harish Chandra Research Institute |
Analytic Progress in Open String Field Theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 6/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Mark Scheel
Caltech |
Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Inspirals[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/31, 2:00 p.m. |
Luis Fernando Alday
Utrecht U. & IAS |
Gluon Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Masaki Shigemori
Caltech |
Non-supersymmetric Brane/anti-brane Configurations in Type IIA and M-theory[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Sumit Das
University of Kentucky |
Null Singularities and their Gauge Theory Duals[Podcast][Video] |
| 5/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Gary Horowitz
UCSB |
Toward Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Lance Dixon
SLAC |
Is N=8 Supergravity Finite?[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 4/12, 2:00 p.m. |
David Kutasov
University of Chicago |
Symmetry Breaking from Intersecting Branes[Podcast][Video] |
| 4/05, 2:00 p.m. |
Aaron Amsel
UCSB |
Stability and Instability in Designer Gravity |
| 3/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Joe Marsano
Caltech |
'Metastable' brane-antibrane configurations in type IIA and M-theory and the large-N duality conjecture in IIB[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/14, 12:30 p.m. |
Jose Edelstein
USC & CECS |
A string dual perspective on quark-gluon plasmas of QCD-like theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/02, 12:15 p.m. |
Zackaria Chacko
University of Arizona |
Twin Higgs Theories[Podcast][Video] |
| 3/01, 4:00 p.m. |
Zackaria Chacko
University of Arizona |
Symmetry as a Guide to New Physics at the Weak Scale[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Yutaka Ookouchi
Caltech |
Meta-stable SUSY Breaking Vacua in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 2/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Lee Lindblom
Caltech |
Generalised Harmonic Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
| 9/15, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Ari Pakman
Hebrew University
Racah Institute of Physics |
D-Branes in N=2 Liouville and Its Mirror[Video] |
| 11/03, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Sebastian Franco
MIT |
Holographic Cascades for D-Branes on Singularities[Video] |
| 12/08, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. C. Schmid
ETH, Zurich |
Cosmological Gravitomagnetism and Mach's Principle[Video] |
| 1/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Ouyang
UCSB |
The Mysterious Pentaquark[Video] |
| 1/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andrei Mikhailov
Caltech |
Geometry of Fast Moving Strings[Slides] |
| 1/27, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Shamit Kachru
Stanford |
Predictive Landscapes?[Video] |
| 2/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Per Kraus
UCLA |
Supertubes and the 4D Black Hole[Slides][Aud] |
| 2/04, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Stephen Hawking
University of Cambridge |
Black Holes and the Information Paradox[Podcast][Video] |
| 2/10, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Nathan Seiberg
IAS, Princeton |
Minimal Flux Vacua[Slides][Video] |
| 2/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eva Silverstein
Stanford |
A New Handle on dS and on Topology Change in String Theory[Slides][Video] |
| 2/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alexander Maloney
SLAC |
A Stringy Cloak for a Classical Singularity[Video] |
| 2/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Roger Penrose
Oxford |
On Twistor-String Theory[Video] |
| 2/25, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Horatiu Nastase
Brown |
Black Hole Production, the Froissart Bound, the Soft Pomeron and the RHIC Fireball from AdS-CFT[Video] |
| 3/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Wati Taylor
MIT |
Counting Flux Vacua with Special Properties[Slides][Video] |
| 3/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Thomas Hertog
UCSB |
Holographic Cosmology[Video] |
| 3/31, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Amir Kashani-Poor
SLAC |
IIA Compactifications with FLUX[Video] |
| 4/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech |
Topological Strings and Black Holes[Slides][Video] |
| 4/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Larus Thorlacius
University of Iceland & Stanford |
Quantum Aspects of Charged Black Holes[Video] |
| 4/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Henriette Elvang
UCSB |
Black Rings in String Theory[Video] |
| 4/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Paul Aspinwall
Duke University |
M-Theory of K3 x K3[Slides][Video] |
| 5/05, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ralf Hofmann
University of Heidelberg |
SU(2)/SU(3) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics and Some Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology[Video] |
| 5/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Juerg Kaeppeli
Max Planck Institut |
Black Hole Entropy and Asymptotic Degeneracy of Dyonic N=4 String States[Video] |
| 5/19, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Henry Tye
Cornell |
Wavefunction of the Universe[Video] |
| 5/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Douglas
Rutgers |
Recent Results in Statistics of Vacua[Aud] |
| 5/27, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed
Harvard |
Black Holes and Plasma Balls in Large N Gauge Theories[Video] |
| 6/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andreas Karch
University of Washington |
Superjanus[Video] |
| 6/03, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Frans Pretorius
Caltech |
On the Simulation of Binary Black Holes in General Relativity[Video] |
| 6/09, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Raphael Bousso
Berkeley |
Cosmology, Event Horizons and the S-Matrix[Video] |
| 11/12, 10:00 a.m. |
Dr. James Sparks
Imperial College |
G-Structures, Fluxes and Calibrations in M-Theory[Video] |
| 11/25, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Yang Hui He
University Pennsylvania |
Modular Matrix Models[Video] |
| 12/05, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Stefan Hollands
University of Chicago |
PCT and Renormalization Group in Curved Spacetime[Video] |
| 12/11, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Bouwknegt
University of Adelaide |
T-Duality and Topology Change[Video] |
| 12/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sean Carroll
University of Chicago |
How Eternal Inflation Explains the Second Law of Thermodynamics[Aud][Cam] |
| 12/16, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Nicolai Reshetikhin
Berkeley |
Dimers: Recent Developments[Video] |
| 12/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Johannes Walcher
KITP |
Non-Perturbative RR Potentials in the C-1 Matrix Model[Video] |
| 1/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Amer Iqbal
Harvard |
Geometric Engineering and Elliptic Genera[Aud] |
| 1/21, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Haack
KITP |
Some Comments on KKLT[Video] |
| 1/22, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. David Kosower
SPT CEA-Saclay |
Peeking at all Orders in N=4 SUSY[Slides][Video] |
| 1/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Leonardo Rastelli
Princeton |
Open/Closed Duality in Topological Matrix Models[Video] |
| 2/05, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Nathan Seiberg
IAS |
Minimal String Theory[Slides][Video] |
| 2/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Nick Warner
USC |
SUSY Breaking by Fluxes and Dielectric Brane Distributions[Video] |
| 2/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Simon Ross
Durham |
Quotients of AdS_{p+1} x S^q[Video] |
| 2/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Samir Mathur
Ohio State |
Where are the States of a Black Hole?[Slides][Video] |
| 3/03, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Sergei Gukov
Harvard |
Modern Superstring Phenomenology: Flux Compactifications and the Moduli Problem[Video] |
| 3/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. John McGreevy
Princeton |
Supercritical Duals for Unstable Branes[Video] |
| 4/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Mohammad Sheikh-Jabbari
Stanford |
Giant Hedge-Hogs and Spikes on Giant Gravitons[Video] |
| 4/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Brook Williams
UCSB |
Nongeometric Heterotic String Theories[Video] |
| 4/15, 12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Katrin Becker
Utah |
Fluxes Torsion and the Ground State of String Theory[Video] |
| 4/22, 3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Arkady Tseytlin
Ohio & Imperial |
Spinning Strings, Spin Chains and AdS/CFT[Video] |
| 4/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Chris Herzog
KITP |
Chaos and KS[Video] |
| 5/06, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Stephen Hsu
University Oregon |
Holography, Entropy and Extra Dimensions[Video] |
| 5/13, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Christos Kokorelis
INP, NCSR |
The Standard Model from Intersecting D-Brane Models[Aud] |
| 5/20, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Simeon Hellerman
IAS |
An S-Duality Between Critical and Non-Critical String Theories[Video] |
| 5/27, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Mike Douglas
Rutgers |
Constructing and Counting IIb String Vacua[Slides][Video] |
| 6/03, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Iosif Bena
UCLA |
Three Charge Supertubes and Black Hole Hair[Video] |
| 9/24, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Anastasia Volovich
KITP |
Superstring Interactions in a Plane Wave Background[Video] |
| 10/01, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Joe Polchinski
KITP |
Quantum Hall Effect on R4 |
| 10/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eliezer Rabinovici
Jerusalem |
Big Bang, Big Crunch, and Beyond[Video] |
| 10/08, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Allan Adams
Stanford |
Decapitating Tadpoles with a Non-Local String |
| 10/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andrew Frey
UCSB |
BPS Strings in 3-Forms[Video] |
| 10/15, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Joan Simon
Weizmann Institute |
Null-Branes and Time Dependence in String Theory |
| 10/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Kengo Maeda
UCSB |
Colliding Kaluza-Klein Bubbles[Video] |
| 10/22, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Andreas Karch
Washington |
TBA |
| 10/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. David Garfinkle
Oakland |
Numerical Simulations of Singularities[Slides][Video] |
| 10/29, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Christopher Herzog
KITP |
The Hydrodynamics of M-Theory |
| 10/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Oliver DeWolfe
KITP |
Matrix Models, Topological Strings, and Supersymmetric Gauge Theory: An Introduction to the work of Dijkgraaf and Vafa |
| 10/31, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jorge Pullin
Louisiana State |
Consistent Discrete Quantum Gravity on the Lattice[Video] |
| 11/05, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Thomas Hertog
UCSB |
The Origin of Inflation |
| 11/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Schulz
Caltech |
New SUSY String Compactifications from Twisted Tori[Slides][Video] |
| 11/12, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Eanna Flanagan
Cornell |
Quantum Inequalities in Curved Spacetime |
| 11/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sanjaye Ramgoolam
Brown |
Higher Dimensional Fuzzy Spheres and Hidden Geometries in Matrix Theories[Video] |
| 12/03, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. David Berenstein
IAS |
Quantum Moduli Spaces from Matrix Models |
| 12/05, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Brook Williams
UCSB |
Geometric Constructions of Nongeometric String Theories[Video] |
| 1/09, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Harvey Reall
Queen Mary College, London |
Black Holes, Time Machines and Supersymmetry[Video] |
| 1/14, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Gutperle
UCLA & Stanford |
TBA |
| 1/21, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Radu Roiban
UCSB |
Matrix Models with Flavor |
| 1/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Christian Romelsberger
USC |
Unoriented Strings, Loop Equations, and N=1 Superpotentials from Matrix Models[Video] |
| 2/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Nadav Drukker
Weizmann |
Different Actions for the Vacuum of String Field Theory[Video] |
| 2/11, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
KITP & IHES |
Small Instantons, Little Strings, and 1/N |
| 2/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jaume Gomis
Caltech |
Gauge Theory Description of String Interactions in a PP-Wave[Video] |
| 2/18, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Hong Liu
Rutgers |
Closed String Creation from Rolling Tachyon |
| 2/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Tohru Eguchi
Tokyo |
Supercoset CFT's for String Theories on Non-Compact Special Holonomy Manifolds[Video] |
| 2/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Kristin Schleich
(UBC)
Dr. Don Witt
(UBC) |
Topological Censorship[Video] |
| 2/27, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Edna Cheung
Caltech |
Strings in Gravimagnetic Fields |
| 3/04, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Gary Horowitz
UCSB |
Supersymmetric Compactifications Can be Unstable |
| 3/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Anton Kapustin
Caltech |
D-Branes in Landau-Ginzburg Models[Aud] |
| 3/11, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech |
The C-Deformation and Non-Planar Diagrams in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories |
| 3/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Mina Aganagic
Harvard |
Matrix Models, Mirror Symmetry, and Chern-Simons Theory[Video] |
| 4/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andreas Brandhuber
Caltech |
Chiral Rings and Superpotentials[Video] |
| 5/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eric Braaten
Ohio |
An Infrared Renormalization Group Limit Cycle in QCD[Video] |
| 5/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Mark van Raamsdonk
UBC & Stanford |
Stringy Thermodynamics in Weakly Coupled Yang-Mills Theory[Video] |
| 5/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Gautam Mandal
Tata Institute |
String Theory on AdS 5xS5 at Small Radius[Video] |
| 5/22, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andrei Starinets
Washington |
Finite-Temperature AdS/CFT[Video] |
| 5/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Brian Wecht
UCSD |
The Exact Superconformal R-symmetry Maximizes a[Video] |
| 6/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Cumrun Vafa
Harvard and Caltech |
TBA[Video] |
| 9/25, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Alex Buchel
ITP |
Singularities and Thermal Phase Transitions in Gauge/Gravity Duals--I[Slides][Video] |
| 9/27, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alex Buchel
ITP |
Singularities and Thermal Phase Transitions in Gauge/Gravity Duals--II[Slides] |
| 10/02, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Joe Polchinski
ITP |
Hard Scattering in Gauge/Gravity Duality[Video] |
| 10/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Richard Corrado
CIT-USC |
An N=2 Supersymmetric Membrane Flow |
| 10/09, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Iosif Bena
UC Santa Barbara |
The Polarization of F1 Strings into D2 Branes: Aut Caesar aut Nihil[Slides][Video] |
| 10/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Yutaka Matsuo
Tokyo |
Noncommutative Soliton in Open String Field Theory |
| 10/16, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Radu Roiban
UC Santa Barbara |
Graded Topological D-Branes and Graded Chern-Simons Theories[Video] |
| 10/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Mukund Rangamani
Princeton |
Hot Little Strings: A Supergravity Perspective |
| 10/23, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Johannes Walcher
ITP |
CFT and G2 Holonomy[Slides][Video] |
| 10/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Christian Roemelsberger
CIT-USC |
Intersection Numbers, Tadpoles and Anomalies |
| 10/30, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Justin David
UC Santa Barbara |
Fermions in Bosonic String Theories[Video] |
| 11/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jaume Gomis
Caltech |
String Duals for Wrapped Branes |
| 11/06, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Neil Turok
Cambridge |
From Big Crunch to Big Bang[Video] |
| 11/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Gutperle
Harvard |
Fluxbranes in String Theory |
| 11/13, 12:30 p.m. |
Bo Feng
MIT |
Toric Duality and Seiberg Duality[Slides][Video] |
| 11/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Anastasia Volovich
Harvard |
Noncommutative Solitons on Kahler Manifolds |
| 11/20, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Oliver DeWolfe
ITP |
Holography and Defect Conformal Field Theories[Slides][Video] |
| 11/27, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Ajit Srivastava
Institute for Physics, Bhubaneswar and UCSB |
Measuring Cosmic Defect Correlations in Liquid Crystals[Slides][Video] |
| 11/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. John McGreevy
Stanford |
Linear Sigma Models for Open Strings |
| 12/04, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Justin Khoury
Princeton |
The Ekpyrotic Universe[Slides][Aud] |
| 12/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Kirill Krasnov
UCSB |
Lambda < 0 Quantum Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions (as a string theory) |
| 12/11, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Raphael Bousso
ITP |
Conformal Vacua and Entropy of de Sitter Space[Video] |
| 12/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Frederik Denef
Columbia |
Quantum Quivers and Hole Halos |
| 2/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Christopher Herzog
Princeton |
The Conifold and Beyond[Aud] |
| 2/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Kengo Maeda
UC Santa Barbara |
Inhomogeneous Near-extremal Black Branes |
| 2/12, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Roberto Emparan
CERN |
The End of Black Hole Uniqueness[Video] |
| 2/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Albion Lawrence
SLAC |
Signatures of Short Distance Physics in the Cosmic Microwave Background[Slides][Video] |
| 2/19, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Andrew Frey
UC Santa Barbara, Physics |
Physics of N=3 Warped Compactifications[Video] |
| 2/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. David Lowe
Brown University |
Black Hole Entropy and Spacetime from Matrix Quantum Mechanics[Video] |
| 3/05, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Horatiu Nastase
IAS |
Strings and Matrices in Flat Space and pp Waves from Supersymmetric Gauge Theories[Slides][Video] |
| 3/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eliezer Rabinovici
Jerusalem |
TBA[Video] |
| 3/12, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Mark van Raamsdonk
Stanford |
Open Dielectric Branes[Slides][Video] |
| 3/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Lenny Susskind
Stanford |
TBA[Video] |
| 3/19, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Andrei Mikhailov
ITP |
Notes on Higher Spin Symmetries[Slides][Video] |
| 3/21, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Simeon Hellerman
Stanford |
The Undiscover'd Country: String Theories without Geometry[Video] |
| 4/02, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Barak Kol
IAS |
On Exactly Marginal Deformations of 4d N=4 and AdS5 * S5[Video] |
| 4/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alex Maloney
Harvard |
Aspects of Quantum Gravity in de Sitter Space[Video] |
| 4/09, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Joerg Teschner
Freie Universitat Berlin |
Branes in the Euclidean AdS_3[Slides][Aud] |
| 4/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Petr Horava
Berkeley |
Ekpyrosis by Remote Control in Heterotic M-Theory |
| 4/16, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Gary Horowitz
UC Santa Barbara |
Time Dependent Backgrounds for String Theory[Video] |
| 4/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Per Berglund
CIT-USC |
Matter from G2 Manifolds[Video] |
| 4/23, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Mariana Grana
UC Santa Barbara |
D3-Action in a Supergravity Background: The Fermionic Story[Video] |
| 4/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Raphael Bousso
ITP |
Holographic Domains of Anti-de Sitter Space[Video] |
| 4/30, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Misha Vasiliev
Lebedev Physical Institute |
Higher Spin Gauge Theories and Symplectic Symmetries[Video] |
| 5/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Nathan Seiberg
IAS |
Strings in a Time Dependent Orbifold[Video] |
| 5/07, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. George Savvidy
National Research Center Demokritos, Athens |
Conformal Invariant Strings with Extrinsic Curvature Action[Aud] |
| 5/09, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Emil Mottola
ITP & Los Alamos |
Gravitational Condensate Stars: An Alternative to Black Holes[Slides][Video] |
| 5/14, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Mark Srednicki
UCSB |
On the Observability of Information Radiated from a Black Hole[Video] |
| 5/16, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Leonardo Rastelli
Princeton University |
The Projector Equation in Open String Field Theory[Video] |
| 5/21, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Joe Polchinski
UC Santa Barbara |
Deep Inelastic Scattering and the Growth of Strings[Video] |
| 5/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Dam Son
ITP & Washington |
From AdS/CFT Correspondence to Hydrodynamics[Video] |
| 6/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Dan Freedman
MIT |
PP-String Interactions from Perturbative Gauge Theory[Video] |
| 6/27, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. James Liu
Michigan |
Massive gravity and the AdS/AdS Braneworld[Video] |
| 8/31, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eduardo Fradkin
ITP & University Illinois |
Urbana Quantum Hall Physics for String Theorists[Slides][Aud] |
| 9/12, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Joe Polchinski
ITP |
Supergravity Duals for N=1 Gauge Theories[Aud] |
| 9/19, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Justin David
UCSB |
Tachyon Condensation in the DO/D4-System[Aud] |
| 9/21, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Neil Turok
Cambridge University |
Cosmological Instantons[Aud] |
| 9/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Shinji Hirano
ITP |
Giant Gravitons in AdS and their Field Theory Dual |
| 9/26, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Veronika Hubeny
UCSB |
CFT Description of Small Objects in AdS[Aud] |
| 9/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
Princeton |
Stable and Unstable Solitons of Noncommutative Yang-Mills Theory |
| 10/3, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Kirill Krasnov
University California, Santa Barbara |
3D AdS Gravity and Liouville Theory |
| 10/5, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Hiroshi Ooguri
Caltech |
Non-Relativistic Closed String Theory |
| 10/10, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Soo-Jong Rey
SNU |
Open Wilson Line, S-Duality and UV-IR Holography in Noncommutative Gauge Theory |
| 10/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. John Baez
University of California, Riverside |
n-Categorical Physics |
| 10/17, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Sebastian de Haro
Utrecht |
Reconstructing the Bulk in AdS/CFT Correspondence and High-Energy Scattering[Aud] |
| 10/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Per Kraus
University Chicago |
Tachyon Condensation in Noncommutative Gauge Theory |
| 10/24, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Raphael Bousso
ITP |
Positive Vacuum Energy and the N-bound[Slides][Aud] |
| 10/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ann Nelson
University of Washington |
The 28 Parameters of the Standard Model and the 152 Parameters of the MSSM:Windows to the Planck Scale? |
| 10/31, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Koji Hashimoto
ITP & Kyoto University |
Nonlinear Monopoles[Aud] |
| 11/07, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Steve Giddings
UCSB |
Effective Theories and Black Hole Production in Warped Compactifications[Slides][Video] |
| 11/14, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Oliver DeWolfe
ITP |
Anatomy of Two Holographic Renormalization Group Flows[Slides][Video] |
| 11/16, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Steven Carlip
University of California, San Diego |
Boundary Conditions and Black Hole Entropy in Two Dimensions |
| 11/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sergey Gukov
Caltech & Princeton |
Warped Compactifications on Calabi-Yau Four-Folds[Aud] |
| 11/22, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jaydeep Majumder
Mehta Research Institute |
Marginal Deformation and Creation of Codimension >2 Solitons on Brane-Antibrane Pair[Aud] |
| 11/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andrei Mikhailov
ITP |
Giant Gravitons from Holomorphic Surfaces[Aud] |
| 11/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sergey Cherkis
University of California, Los Angeles |
Periodic Monopoles in String Theory |
| 12/5, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Nadav Drukker
USC |
Conformal Anomaly of Wilson Loops, or What is the Difference between a Circle and a Line?[Slides][Video] |
| 12/7, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alex Buchel
ITP |
Finite Temperature Resolution of the Klebanov-Tseytlin Singularity |
| 12/12, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Andreas Brandhuber
CERN |
Correlators in the Coulomb Branch of N=4 SYM[Video] |
| 12/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Emanuel Diaconescu
IAS, Princeton |
Topological Aspects of M Theory |
| 1/18, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Herman Verlinde
Princeton |
Holography, RG, and Gravity |
| 1/20, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Ashok Sen
Tata Institute |
World Volume Action for Non-BPS branes |
| 1/28, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Douglas
Rutgers |
D-branes on a Noncompact Calabi-Yau[Aud] |
| 2/15, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Nadav Drukker
ITP |
Green-Schwarz String in AdS5 x S5: Semiclassical Partition Function[Slides] |
| 2/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Petr Horava
Caltech |
End-of-the-World Annihilation in M-Theory and String Theory |
| 2/29, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Jan de Boer
University of Utrecht |
TBA |
| 3/2, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Steve Gubser
Princeton |
Curvature Singularities: The Good, the Bad, and the Naked |
| 3/7, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Veronika Hubeny
UCSB |
Quasinormal Modes of AdS Black Holes and the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium |
| 3/9, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eva Silverstein
Stanford |
TBA |
| 3/14, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Daniel Holz
ITP |
Probing Dark Matter from Lensing of High-Redshift Supernovae[Slides] |
| 4/4, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Yuri Shirman
Princeton |
Localizing Gravity on Smooth Branes[Aud] |
| 4/6, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Shiraz Minwalla
Harvard |
TBA |
| 4/11, 12:45 p.m. |
Dr. Aki Hashimoto
ITP |
The Really Interesting Aspects of Non-Commutative Geometry[Slides] |
| 4/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Willy Fischler
University Texas, Austin |
The Interplay of Theta and T |
| 4/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Rajesh Gopakumar
Harvard |
Non-Commutative Solitons |
| 4/27, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Vipul Periwal
Princeton Univ |
Schwinger-Dyson, Wheeler-DeWitt, Yang-Baxter, et al.[Slides] |
| 5/16, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Gary Horowitz
UCSB |
Self Tuning in an Outgoing Brane Wave Model[Slides][Aud] |
| 5/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Washington Taylor
MIT |
Getting to the Bottom of the Open Bosonic String Tachyon |
| 5/23, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Nissan Itzhaki
UCSB |
Sphalerons, Merons and Unstable Branes in AdS[Aud] |
| 5/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Igor Klebanov
Princeton |
TBA |
| 6/8, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. David Gross
ITP |
TBA |
| 9/24 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andrew Chamblin
Cambridge University |
The NUTs and Bolts of AdS Holography |
| 9/29 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. Amanda Peet
ITP |
IR/UV in AdS/CFT |
| 10/1 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Gary Horowitz
UCSB |
Using Gauge Theories to Describe Black Holes |
| 10/6 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Patrick Brady
ITP, UCSB |
Ripples in Spacetime: Gravitational Wave Astronomy and What It Might Tell Us |
| 10/13 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Veronika Hubeny
UCSB |
Overcharging a Black Hole and Cosmic Censorship |
| 10/15 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jan De Boer
LBL |
Supergravity and Strings on AdS_3 |
| 10/20 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Joe Polchinski
ITP, UCSB |
Matrix Theory and Maldacena Conjecture |
| 10/22 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Oren Bergman
Harvard |
String Junctions: Review and Applications |
| 10/27 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Per Berglund
ITP, UCSB |
Heterotic/F-Theory Duality |
| 10/29 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Raphael Bousso
Stanford |
The Proliferation of de Sitter Space |
| 11/3 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Vipul Periwal
Princeton |
Collective Coordinates from a First-Quantized Perspective |
| 11/5 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Tony Gherghetta
Univ of Michigan |
Lowering the GUT Scale with Extra Dimensions |
| 11/10 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Albion Lawrence
Harvard
Lyman Lab |
Holography and Local Probes |
| 11/12 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Gary Shiu
Cornell |
Low Scale Superstrings |
| 11/17 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Tristan Hubsch
ITP & Howard U |
Warning: a (2,2)-Supersymmetric Epidemic![Slides] |
| 11/19 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ram Brustein
CERN |
Models of String Cosmology |
| 11/24 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Nissan Itzhaki
UCSB |
Dilatonic D-branes and Field Theory |
| 12/1 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Simon Ross
UCSB |
AdS/CFT: Phase Transitions in the Microcanonical Ensemble |
| 12/3 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eric D'Hoker
UCLA |
Correlation Functions in the AdS/CFT Correspondence |
