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KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Joint Tuesday/Thursday Theory Seminars

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Fall 2025

11/20, 2:00pm Jan Boruch
Univ. of Warsaw		 Multicentered black hole saddles for supersymmetric indices[Video][CC]
11/13, 2:00pm Yoav Zigdon
University of Cambridge		 Ensemble Averages of Fuzzballs[Video][CC]
11/06, 2:00pm Vincent Chen
UCSB		 Observers seeing gravitational Hilbert spaces: abstract sources for an abstract path integral[Video][CC]
10/30, 2:00pm Alexey Milekhin
Caltech		 Observable and computable entanglement in time[Video][CC]
10/23, 2:00pm Hiroki Kawai
UCSB		 Integrability and Conformal Blocks for Gukov-Witten Surface Defects in N=4 SYM[Video][CC]
10/16, 2:00pm Thomas Hartman
Cornell		 Triangulating Quantum Gravity in AdS3[Video][CC]
10/09, 2:00pm Madhur Mehta
UCSB 		Extremely Compact Objects and their potential Observational Signatures[Video][CC]
10/02, 2:00pm Sam Leutheusser
KITP		 Volume as an index of a subalgebra[Video][CC]

Spring 2025

5/29, 1:00pm Jiuci Xu
UC Santa Barbara		 Quantum Symmetry and Geometry from Chords in DSSYK[Video][CC]
5/15, 1:00pm Joao Rodrigues
IST Lisbon		 Exact solutions of matrix models and string theories[Video][CC]

Winter 2025

3/13, 3:30pm Lara Anderson
Virginia Tech.		 Machine Learning for Calabi-Yau and SU(3) Structure Metrics[Video][CC]

Fall 2024

11/26, 12:30pm Hamza Ahmed
Northeastern U. 		Heterotic little string theories, their dualities, and generalized symmetries[Video]
11/21, 2:00pm Sean Colin-Ellerin
Berkeley		 Generalized entropy of gravitational fluctuations[Video][CC]
11/14, 2:00pm Yuri Lensky
Google		 Applications of gauge theory to quantum processors[Video][CC]
11/07, 2:00pm Yiming Chen
Stanford		 Chaos and Fortuity of Holographic BPS states[Video][CC]
10/31, 2:00pm Emma Albertini
Imperial College London		 Towards a uniqueness theorem for static black holes in Kaluza-Klein theory with small circle size [Video][CC]
10/24, 2:00pm Alexandre Homrich
KITP		 Multi-Twist Trajectories, Light Ray Wave Functions and the Missing Zeroes[Video][CC]
10/17, 2:00pm Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci
Washington U.		 Spin-statistics for black hole microstates[Video][CC]
10/10, 2:00pm Xiaoyi Liu
UCSB		 Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity[Video][CC]
10/03, 2:00pm Pietro Benetti Genolini
Geneva U.		 Equivariant localization for AdS/CFT[Video]
9/26, 2:00pm Jacob McNamara
Caltech		 The Structure of Gravitational Hidden Sectors[Video]

Spring 2024

6/06, 2:00pm Kristan Jensen
Victoria Univ.		 Non-perturbative de Sitter JT gravity[Video]
5/30, 2:00pm Steve Giddings
UC Santa Barbara		 Gravitational wave probes of quantum black holes[Video]
5/28, 12:00pm Andreas Blommaert
SISSA		 Dangerous interiors at exponentially late times[Video]
5/23, 2:00pm Molly Kaplan
UC Santa Barbara		 Limitations of the QFT approximation in Global de Sitter: How Useful is a Quantum Observer?[Video]
5/16, 2:00pm Clifford V. Johnson
UC Santa Barbara		 Multicritical Matrix Model Miracles[Video]
5/09, 2:00pm Masamichi Miyaji
Nagoya Univ.		 Codimension-Zero Observables at Late Time[Video]
5/02, 2:00pm Jiuci Xu
UCSB		 Von Neumann algebras in Double-Scaled SYK [Video]
4/23, 12:30pm Lorenz Eberhardt
UvA		 One-Loop String Amplitudes revisited[Video]

Fall 2023

12/07, 2:00pm Raphael Bousso
UC Berkeley		 Holograms In Our World[Video]
11/30, 2:00pm Gautam Satishchandran
Princeton		 Generalized Black Hole Entropy is von Neumann Entropy[Video][CC]
11/16, 2:00pm Shunyu Yao
Stanford		 Scramblon loops[Video]
11/09, 2:00pm Philipp Hohn
OIST		 Quantum frames, subsystems and gravity[Video]
11/02, 2:00pm Rodrigo Andrade E Silva
University of Maryland		 Quantization of causal diamonds in 2+1 dimensional gravity[Video]
10/26, 2:00pm Felipe Rosso
UBC		 A Solvable Toy Model of Flat Space Quantum Gravity[Video]
10/19, 2:00pm Maciej Kolanowski
UCSB		 Singular extremal black holes and how to find them[Video]
10/12, 2:00pm Dan Stefan Eniceicu
Stanford		 Recent non-perturbative results in unitary matrix integrals[Video][CC]
9/28, 2:00pm Daniel Carney
LBNL		 Comments on graviton detection[Video]

Spring 2023

6/08, 2:00pm Sean McBride
UCSB		 Holographic Tensor Networks with Bulk Gauge Symmetries[Video][CC]
6/06, 12:30pm Thomas Baumgarte
Bowdoin College		 Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse [Video]
6/01, 2:00pm Kathryn Zurek
Caltech		 From Shockwaves to Gravitational Memory: New Approaches in Flat Space Holography[Video][CC]
5/30, 2:00pm Leonard Susskind
Stanford		 Why I think DSSYK is a model for de Sitter space (and why you should think so too)[Video]
5/25, 2:00pm Robert Wald
U Chicago		 Black Holes Decohere Quantum Superpositions[Video]
5/24, 2:00pm Edward Witten
IAS		 Algebras of Observables in the Presence of Gravity[Video]
5/11, 2:00pm Leonard Susskind
Stanford		 A Paradox and its Resolution Illustrate Principles of de sitter Holography[Video]
5/04, 2:00pm Hong Liu
MIT		 Emergence of space and time in holography[Video]
4/27, 2:00pm Gary Horowitz
UCSB		 Extremal Black Hole Surprises[Video]
4/20, 2:00pm Elliot Gesteau
Caltech		 Large N von Neumann algebras and the renormalization of Newton's constant[Video][CC]
4/13, 2:00pm Vijay Balasubramanian
U Penn		 Microscopic origin of the entropy of black holes in general relativity[Video]
4/06, 2:00pm Juan Maldacena
IAS		 Scaling similarities and quasinormal modes of D0 black hole solutions[Video]
3/09, 2:00pm Eanna Flanagan
Cornell		 An order-unity correction to Hawking radiation and soft hair[Video][CC]

Fall 2022

12/01, 2:00pm Andreas Blommaert
SISSA		 Lorentzian wormholes (the powers of time)[Video]
11/17, 2:00pm Henry Lin
Stanford		 The bulk Hilbert space of double scaled SYK[Video]
11/15, 12:30pm Monica Kang
Caltech		 Counting States with Global Symmetry[Video]
11/10, 2:00pm Wayne Weng
UCSB		 Deformations of JT gravity and matrix models[Video]
10/27, 2:00pm Pau Figueras
Queen Mary		 The Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings revisited[Video]
10/20, 2:00pm Giuseppe Di Giulio
Universitat Wurzburg		 Towards Explicit Discrete Holography: Aperiodic Spin Chains from Hyperbolic Tilings[Video][CC]
10/13, 2:00pm Stefano Antonini
Maryland		 Cosmology from the vacuum[Video][CC]
10/06, 2:00pm Jonathan Oppenheim
UC London		 Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity[Video][CC]
09/22, 2:00pm Xiaoliang Qi
Stanford		 A general construction of bulk dynamics from boundary generalized free fields[Video]

Spring 2022

05/26, 2:00pm Henry Maxfield
Stanford		 The Hilbert space of quantum gravity with replica wormholes[Video]
05/19, 10:00am Jorge Santos
Cambridge		 A bumpy IR: novel fixed points for four-dimensional holographic theories[Video]
05/12, 2:00pm Luca Iliesiu
Stanford		 Gravity factorized: α states, null states, and the quantum mechanics of a 2D black hole[Video]
05/03, 1:30pm Aron Wall
Cambridge		 Holographic Cauchy Slices[Video]
04/28, 2:00pm Scott Collier
Princeton		 Semiclassical 3D gravity as an average of large-c CFT[Video]
04/14, 2:00pm Fedor Popov
NYU		 De Sitter and Eternity[Video]
04/07, 2:00pm Julio Parra-Martinez
Caltech		 Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity[Video]

Winter 2022

03/17, 2:00pm Alex Belin
CERN		 Bootstrapping Quantum Extremal Surface[Video]
03/10, 2:00pm Sam Leutheusser
MIT		 Emergent Times in Holographic Duality[Video]
02/24, 2:00pm Marija Tomasevic
Ecole Polytechnique		 Black tsunamis, naked singularities[Video]
02/10, 2:00pm Finn Larsen
Michigan		 The Attractor Mechanism in Gauged Supergravity[Video]
02/01, 2:00pm Anindya Banerjee
Rutgers		 Comments on summing over Bordisms in TQFT[Video]
02/01, 1:30pm Maciej Kolanowski
University of Warsaw		 (Non-)uniqueness of extremal black holes[Video]
01/27, 2:00pm Lampros Lamprou
UBC		 Falling inside holographic black holes[Video]
01/20, 2:00pm Jerzy Lewandowski
University of Warsaw		 Horizon equations[Video]
01/06, 2:00pm Edward Witten
IAS		 Gravity and the Crossed Product[Video]

Fall 2021

12/02, 2:00pm Ven Chandrasekaran
IAS		 Gravitational phase space and black hole entropy[Video]
11/30, 1:30pm Josephine Suh
KITP		 Quantum gravity from probability[Video]
11/23, 1:30pm Sean McBride
KITP		 Replica Wormholes and Holographic Entanglement Negativity[Video]
11/18, 2:00pm James Sully
UBC		 Looking for Bulk Branes[Video]
11/16, 2:00pm Grant Remmen
KITP		 Causality, Unitarity, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture[Video]
11/09, 1:30pm Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca
UCSB		 A No-Replica Trick for the Free Energy[Video]
11/04, 2:00pm Nathan Benjamin
Caltech		 Harmonic analysis of 2d CFT partition functions[Video]
11/02, 1:30pm Amirhossein Tajdini
UCSB		 Fluctuation entropy of Hawking radiation[Video]
10/28, 2:00pm Mark Mezei
Stony Brook		 The volume of the black hole interior at late times[Video]
10/26, 1:30pm Mykhaylo Usatyuk
UC Berkeley		 Microstructure in matrix elements[Video]
10/21, 2:00pm Adam Levine
IAS		 Imaging the quantum extremal surface[Video]
10/19, 1:30pm Yiming Chen
Princeton		 Aspects of the black hole/string transition[Video]
10/14, 2:00pm Tom Rudelius
UC Berkeley		 Consequences of No Global Symmetries in Quantum Gravity[Video]
10/07, 1:30pm Phil Saad
IAS		 Comments on wormholes and factorization[Video]
09/30, 2:00pm Zhenbin Yang
Stanford		 Subleading Weingartens[Video]
09/28, 1:30pm Ying Zhao
KITP		 Six-point functions and collisions in the black hole interior[Video]

Summer 2021

09/02, 2:00pm Adel Rahman
Stanford		 Quantization of Gravity in a Schwarzschild Background[Video]
08/19, 2:00pm Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam
Stanford		 Finding Pythons in Unexpected Places[Video]
08/05, 2:00pm Simon Caron-Huot
McGill		 Gravity: the force from the ultraviolet[Video]
07/22, 2:00pm Xiao-Liang Qi
Stanford		 Entanglement island, miracle operators and the firewall[Video]
07/08, 2:00pm Onkar Parrikar
Stanford		 Quantum error correction in the black hole interior[Video]
06/17, 2:00pm Joaquin Turiaci
UCSB		 The factorization puzzle in supergravity[Video]

Spring 2021

06/03, 2:00pm Zvi Bern
UCLA		 Gravitation EFT Islands, Low-Spin Dominance, and the Four-Graviton Amplitude[Video]
05/27, 2:00pm Netta Engelhardt
MIT		 Weak Cosmic Censorship in Holography[Video]
05/20, 2:00pm Vladimir Rosenhaus
CUNY		 Chaotic scattering in quantum field theory and string theory[Video]
05/13, 2:00pm Eduardo Teste Lino
UCSB		 Mutual information superadditivity and unitarity bounds[Video]
05/06, 2:00pm Jordan Cotler
Harvard		 Black hole microstate statistics from Euclidean wormholes[Video]
04/29, 2:00pm Mikahil Solon
UCLA		 Binary Black Holes and Scattering Amplitudes[Video]
04/22, 2:00pm Simeon Hellerman
Tokyo U., IPMU		 Quantum Information Theory of The Gravitational Anomaly[Video]
04/15, 2:00pm Douglas Stanford
Stanford		 Wormholes Without Averaging[Video]
04/08, 2:00pm David Simmons-Duffin
Caltech		 Sharp Boundaries for the Swampland[Video]

Winter 2021

03/11, 2:00pm Monica Kang
Caltech		 The infinite HaPPY code and the bulk reconstruction[Video]
03/04, 2:00pm Wolfgang Wieland
 Null infinity from quasi-local phase space[Video]
02/25, 2:00pm Alejandro Cabo-Bizet
King's College London		 1/16 BPS black holes in 4d N=4 SYM[Video]
02/18, 2:00pm Sabrina Pasterski
Princeton		 How Soft Hair Dissolves the Firewall[Video]
02/11, 2:00pm Hong Liu
MIT		 Entanglement entropies of equilibrated pure states in quantum many-body systems and replica wormholes[Video]
01/28, 2:00pm Juan Maldacena
IAS		 Proper time to the black hole singularity from thermal one point functions.[Video]
01/21, 2:00pm Daniel Harlow
Stanford		 Global symmetry, Euclidean gravity, and the black hole information problem[Video]
01/14, 2:00pm Jorrit Kruthoff
Stanford		 Classical aspects of black hole interiors[Video]
01/07, 2:00pm Alexey Milekhin
UCSB		 Coupled SYK models without Schwartzian dominance[Video]

Fall 2020

12/10, 2:00 p.m. Kartik Prabhu
UCSB		 Symmetries & charges at null boundaries[Video]
12/03, 2:00 p.m. Brian Swingle
Brandeis		 Hydrodynamics and the Spectral Form Factor[Video]
12/01, 1:30 p.m. Josephine Suh
KITP		 Deconstruction of a two-dimensional theory of gravity[Video]
11/19, 2:00 p.m. Gautam Satishchandran
UChicago		 Infrared Divergences, Memory and Asymptotic States in Quantum Gravity[Video]
11/17, 1:30 p.m. Grant Remmen
KITP		 Entanglement and Symmetry in the Double Copy[Video]
11/12, 2:00 p.m. Raphael Bousso
UC Berkeley		 Island Finder[Video]
11/05, 2:00 p.m. Craig Lawrie
UPenn		 Compactifications of 6D N=(1,0) SCFTs on T^2 and Class S[Video]
10/29, 2:00 p.m. Horacio Casini
Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atómico Bariloche		 Entropic order parameters for symmetries in QFT[Video]
10/27, 1:30 p.m. Pratik Rath
UCSB		 The Page curve for Reflected Entropy[Video]
10/22, 2:00 p.m. Lorenz Eberhardt
IAS		 Partition functions of the tensionless string[Video]
10/15, 2:00 p.m. Clifford Johnson
USC		 Non-perturbative studies of JT gravity and supergravity[Video]
10/8, 2:00pm Sandipan Kundu
Johns Hopkins		 Closed strings and weak gravity condition from higher-spin causality [Video]
10/6, 1:30pm Amirhossein Tajdini
UCSB		 Replica wormholes for an evaporating black hole [Video]
10/1, 2:00pm Jie-qiang Wu
UCSB		 Peierls bracket and gravitational dressing in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity[Video]

July 2019 - September 2020

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]

July 2018 - June 2019

6/06, 2:00pm Murat Kologlu
Caltech		 Light-ray operators, a stringy equivalence principle, and collider physics[Podcast][Video]
5/30, 2:00pm Mark Mezei
SCGP		 Hydrodynamics of Entanglement[Podcast][Video]
5/23, 2:00pm Steven Gubser
Princeton		 Non-local non-linear sigma models[Podcast][Video]
5/09, 2:00pm Eric Perlmutter
Caltech		 TBA[Podcast][Video]
5/02, 2:00pm Raphael Bousso
UCB		 From Black Hole Coarse-Graining to Minimum Energy States in QFT[Podcast][Video]
4/25, 2:00pm Matthew Headrick
Brandeis		 TBA[Podcast][Video]
4/18, 2:00pm Eugenio Bianchi
Penn State		 Black hole entropy and gravitational wave observations[Podcast][Video]
3/21, 2:00pm Alexandru Lupsasca
Harvard		 Polarization whorls from M87 at the Event Horizon Telescope[Podcast][Video]
3/14, 2:00pm Ning Bao
Berkeley		 Distilling tensor networks for AdS/CFT[Podcast][Video]
2/28, 2:00pm Thomas Hartman
Cornell		 Dynamical constraints on RG flows and cosmology[Podcast][Video]
1/31, 2:00pm Eva Silverstein
Stanford		 dS/dS, EE and TTbar[Podcast][Video]
1/17, 2:00pm Geoffrey Lovelace
CSUF		 Numerical relativity in the era of gravitational-wave observations[Podcast][Video]
11/15, 2:00pm Chris Akers
UC Berkeley		 Holographic Renyi entropy in quantum error-correction[Podcast][Video]
10/30, 12:30pm Gary Horowitz
UCSB		 Cosmic Censorship in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime[Podcast][Video]

July 2017 - June 2018

5/31, 2:00pm Samuel Gralla
Univ. of Arizona		 Horizon Instability of Extremal Black Holes[Podcast][Video]
4/26, 2:00pm Sung-Sik Lee
Perimeter		 TBD[Podcast][Video]
4/19, 2:00pm Arvin Shahbazi Moghaddam
UC Berkeley		 Energy is Entanglement[Podcast][Video]
2/15, 2:00pm Cumrun Vafa
Harvard		 6d Theories on Curves[Podcast][Video]
2/08, 2:00pm Makoto Natsuume
KEK		 Holographic Lifshitz superconductors: analytic solution[Podcast][Video]
2/01, 2:00pm Juan Maldacena
IAS		 Making a wormhole: Understanding Global AdS2[Slides][Podcast][Video]
10/26, 2:00pm Shira Chapman
Perimeter Inst.		 Complexity in holography and QFT[Podcast][Video]

July 2016 - June 2017

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]

July 2015 - June 2016

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]

July 2014 - June 2015

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]

July 2013 - June 2014

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]

July 2012 - June 2013

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]

July 2011 - June 2012

6/07, 10:30 a.m. Vijay Kumar
KITP		 Calabi-Yau Manifolds from 2D Gauge Theories[Podcast][Video]
5/31, 2:00 p.m. K. Narayan
CMI		 Aspects of Lifshitz Scaling in String Theory[Slides][Podcast][Video]
3/01, 10:30 a.m. Ibrahima Bah
Univ. Michigan		 4D N=1 SCFT's from M5 Branes[Podcast][Video]
1/26, 2:00 p.m. Igor Klebanov
Princeton		 Testing the F-theorem[Slides][Podcast][Video]
12/08, 2:00 p.m. Adam Brown
Princeton		 On "Nothing"[Podcast][Video]
10/27, 2:00 p.m. Ilarion Melnikov
Duke University		 N=2 Heterotic Flux Vacua in the Context of Type II/Heterotic Duality[Podcast][Video]

July 2010 - June 2011

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]

September 2009 - June 2010

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]

September 2008 - June 2009

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]

September 2007 - June 2008

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]

September 2006 - June 2007

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]

September 2005 - June 2006

2/16, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Natalia Saulina
Harvard		 Bound States of BPS D-Banes and Topological Strings[Podcast][Video]
3/15, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Yoshifume Hyakutake
KITP		 Higher Derivative Corrections in M-Theory[Slides][Podcast][Video]
4/13, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Pavel Kovtun
KITP		 How Can AdS/CFT Be Useful for Heavy Ion Physics?[Slides][Podcast][Video]
4/27, 1:00 p.m. Dr. Jack Gunion
UC Davis		 Why We Should Believe in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model[Podcast][Video]
5/04, 1:00 p.m. Dr. Taizan Watari
LBL		 Dimension-4 Proton Decay and Underlying Gauge Symmetry[Slides][Podcast][Video]
5/18, 1:00 p.m. Dr. Peter Svrček
Stanford		 Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Campactifications[Slides][Podcast][Video]
5/25, 1:00 p.m. Dr. Fabio Scardigli
CENTRA		 A Quantum-like Description of the Planetary Systems[Podcast][Video]
6/01, 1:00 p.m. Dr. David Mateos
UCSB		 The Flavorful Gauge/Gravity Correspondence[Podcast][Video]
6/08, 1:00 p.m. Mr. Anshuman Maharana
UCSB, Physics		 Dilaton Dynamics in Type IIB Flux Vacua[Podcast][Video]

September 2005 - June 2006

9/29, 12:00 p.m. Dr. Oliver Rosten
School of Physics & Astronomy
Univ Southampton, UK		 A Generalised, Manifestly Gauge Invariant ERG for SU(N) Yang-Mills[Slides][Podcast][Video]

September 2004 - June 2005

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]

September 2003 - June 2004

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]

September 2002 - June 2003

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]

September 2001 - June 2002

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]

August 2000 - June 2001

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

August 1999 - June 2000

9/30, 10:30 a.m. Dr. Malcom Perry
Cambridge University		 The M-theory 9-brane
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

August 1998 - June 1999

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
2/16 12:00 Noon Dr. Matthew Strassler
Inst for Advanced Study		 Reflections on Mirror Symmetry: New Results in Super QED-3
2/18 2:00 p.m. Dr. Lisa Randall
MIT & Princeton		 Supersymmetry Breaking and Extra Dimensions
2/22 2:00 p.m. Dr. Washington Taylor IV
MIT		 Interactions, Supercurrents and Backgrounds in Matrix Theory
3/10 3:30 p.m. Dr. Andrew Strominger
Harvard		 Holography and Coset Spaces
3/11 2:00 p.m. Dr. Alexander Kusenko
UCLA		 SUSY, Q-balls: Theory and Cosmology
3/15 2:00 p.m. Dr. Clifford Johnson
University of Kentucky		 Catastrophic Holography[Aud]
3/18 2:00 p.m. Dr. Steven Gubser
ITP & Harvard		 Renormalization group flows in AdS/CFT
3/22 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nikita Nekrassov
ITP & Harvard		 A Few Problems in Gauge Theory/Gravity Correspondence
3/25 2:00 p.m. Dr. Steve Giddings
UCSB		 The Boundary S-matrix and the AdS/CFT Dictionary
4/1 2:00 p.m. Dr. Finn Larsen
ITP & Fermi Institute		 The Spacetime Conformal Field Theory of Black Holes
4/8 2:00 p.m. Dr. Joseph Minahan
IAS		 Asymptotic Freedom and Confinement from Type O String Theory[Slides]
4/12 2:00 p.m. Dr. Oliver deWolfe
KITP & MIT		 Symmetries of (p,q) 7-branes and Field Theories in Four and Five Dimensions
4/15 2:00 p.m. Dr. Shinji Hirano
ITP, UCSB		 Tachyon Condensation and Graviton Production in Matrix Theory[Slides]
4/22 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nadav Drukker
ITP, UCSB		 Wilson Loops and Minimal Surfaces[Slides][Aud]
4/29 2:00 p.m. Dr. Amanda Peet
ITP, UCSB		 When Can Brane Intersectins be Localized? Some Supergravity No-hair Results and Their Field Theory Duals
5/6 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nikita Nekrassov
ITP & Harvard		 Singularities, RG Flows and Mirror Symmetry[Slides]
5/10 2:00 p.m. Dr. Peter Mayr
CERN		 Nonperturbative N=1 Strings from Geometric Singularities[Slides]
5/13 2:00 p.m. Dr. Bernard De Wit
ITP & ITP
Univ. of Utrecht		 Deviations from the Area Law and N=2 Supersymmetric Black Holes[Slides]
5/24 2:00 p.m. Dr. Andrew Chamblin
Cambridge Univ		 Search for a Realistic M-theory Cosmology[Slides][Aud]
6/3 2:00 p.m. Dr. Per Berglund
UCSB, ITP		 The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Spectrum Generating Algebras
6/10 2:00 p.m. Dr. Arkady Tseytlin
Imperial College		 Supersymmetric F^4 Operator and AdS/CFT Correspondence[Slides]
6/28 2:00 p.m. Dr. Raphael Bousso
Stanford		 The Holographic Principle for General Space-times[Slides][Aud]

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