SITP Seminar Schedule (Aug.'12
- Aug. '13)
(The seminars are held in room
355 of Varian Physics Building)
SITP Seminar Schedule (Aug.'12
- Aug. '13)
(The seminars are held in room
355 of Varian Physics Building)
| Date | Speaker | Time | Title | Affiliation |
| 08/07/12 | Sebastian Fischetti | 2pm | "Flowing Funnels: Using Gravity to Study Heat Transport in CFTs" | UCSB |
| 08/30/12 | Simeon Hellerman | 12:30pm | "Chern-Simons-matter Theory and its Holographic Dual" | Perimeter Institute, Canada |
| 09/03/12 | Labor Day | No Talk | ||
| 09/11/12 | Veronika Hubeny | 3pm | "Causal constructions and probing the bulk in AdS/CFT" | Durham University, UK |
| 09/11/12 | Mukund Rangamani | 4pm | "Fluid/gravity overview and
connections to the membrane paradigm" |
Durham University, UK |
| 9/14/12 | Lukas Witkowski | 3:30pm | "A story of de- and re-coupling: superpotential de-sequestering in string models" | Oxford, UK |
| 09/17/12 | Joe Polchinski | 2pm | "Black holes: complementarity or firewalls?" | UCSB |
| 9/24/12 | Aneesh Manohar | 2pm | "Double Parton Scattering" |
UCSD |
| 9/27/12 | Jonathan Maltz | 12:30pm | "Gauge invariant computable quantities in timelike liouville theory" | SITP |
| 10/01/12 | Mark Van Raamsdonk | 2pm | "Gravity and Entanglement" | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| 10/04/12 | Jorge Santos | 12:30pm | "Playing with Holographic Lattices'' | UCSB |
| 10/05/12 | Mark J. Hogan | 4pm | "Plasma Wakefield Acceleration" |
SLAC |
| 10/08/12 | Mark Wyman | 2pm | "Inflation from Magnetic Drift" | University of Chicago |
| 10/15/12 | Kyle Cranmer | 2pm | "Discovery! How we did it and what we know so far" | NYU |
| 10/19/12 | Bartosz Fornal | 4pm | "Standard model with compactified spatial dimensions" | Caltech |
| 10/22/12 | Doug Finkbeiner | 2pm | "The Galactic center 130 GeV line: WIMP or artifact? | Harvard University |
| 10/25/12 | Omid Saremi | 12:30pm | "Disordered AdS/CFT, localization and Random matrix Theory" | UC Berkeley |
| 10/26/12 | Gilly Elor | 4pm | "Bubble Baryogenesis" | UC Berkeley |
| 10/29/12 | Cliff Cheung | 2pm | "Prospects and Blind Spots for Neutralino
Dark Matter" |
Caltech |
| 11/01/12 | Aristomenis Donos | 12:30pm | "Spatial modulation in AdS/CFT" | Imperial College, UK |
| 11/02/12 | Eric Bergshoeff | 2pm | "A short review of New Massive Gravity'' | University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| 11/05/12 | Unsal Mithat | 2pm | "Resurgence, transseries, and towards a
continuum definition of QFT" |
SFSU |
| 11/09/12 | Lampros Lamprou | 4pm | "Can SUSY explain a 130 GeV Fermi signal?" | SITP |
| 11/12/12 | Tom Abel | 2:30pm | "Following Dark Matter into Phase Space" | KIPAC |
| 11/15/12 | Andy O'Bannon | 12:30pm | "A Holographic Model of the Kondo Effect" | University of Cambridge, UK |
| 11/19/12 | Thanksgiving Recess | 2pm | No Talk | |
| 11/26/12 | Asimina Arvanitaki | 2pm | "Mini Split" | SITP |
| 11/29/12 | Koushik Balasubramanian | 12:30pm | "Gravity duals of cyclic RG flows" | MIT |
| 11/30/12 | Daniel McKinsey | 4pm | "Concept for a Light Dark Matter Detector
Using Superfluid He-4"? |
Yale |
| 12/03/12 | Miranda C.N. Cheng | 2pm | "Umbral Moonshine" | IMJ, U. of Paris, France |
| 12/06/12 | Sheer El-Showk | 12:30pm | "New Skins for an Old Ceremony (The Conformal Bootstrap and the Ising Model)" | CEA-Saclay Paris, France |
| 12/07/12 | Yannis K Semertzidis | 4pm | “Storage Ring Proton EDM experiment with
a sensitivity of 10^-29 e-cm. Exploring axion dark matter with it?”
|
BNL |
| 12/10/12 | Surjeet Rajendran | 2pm | "Solid State Axion Dark Matter Detection" | SITP |
| 12/13/12 | Josh Lapan | 12:30pm | "2D Gauge Theories and Gromov-Witten Invariants" | McGill University |
| 12/14/12 | Andrei Linde | 4pm | "Strong moduli stabilization, cosmology and split supersymmetry" | SITP |
| 01/10/13 | Csaba Csaki | 12:30pm | ''Higgslike dilatons" | Cornell |
| 01/11/13 | Jeff Fortin | 4pm | "Field Theoretic Methods in Strongly-coupled Models of GGM | CERN |
| 01/14/13 | Matthew Reece | 2pm | "Do Higgs Decays and Fermi-LAT Data Hint at New Charged Particles?" | Harvard |
| 01/18/13 | Jess Riedel | 4pm | "Direct Detection of Classically Undetectable Dark Matter Through Quantum Decoherence" | IBM T. J. Watson Research Center |
| 01/21/13 | MLK Holiday (No Talk) | |||
| 01/23/13 | Rob Myers | 4pm | "On the Architecture of Spacetime Geometry" | Perimeter Institute, Canada |
| 01/24/13 | Itay Yavin | 12:30pm | "Recent developments in the search for Dark Matter" | McMaster University |
| 01/28/13 | Andras Vasy | 2pm | "Waves on curved backgrounds and the relationship between Riemannian and Lorentzian coformally compact problems (asymptotically hyperbolic and de Sitter)'' | Stanford Math Dept. |
| 01/28/13 | Beate Heineman | 4pm | "Searches for New Physics in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector" | UC Berkeley/LBL |
| 01/30/13 | Daniel Harlow | 11am | "Quantum computation vs. firewalls" | Princeton University |
| 02/01/13 | Andrew McLeod | 4pm | "Axion Detection using Dish Antennae" | SITP |
| 02/04/13 | Andrew Hamilton | 2pm | "Illusory horizons, thermodynamics, and holography inside black holes" | University of Colorado |
| 02/11/13 | Alessandro Strumia | 2pm | "The Higgs weighs 125 GeV. Now what?" | UNIPI, Italy |
| 02/14/13 | Maissam Barkeshl | 12:30pm | "Genons, twist defects, and projective non-Abelian statistics" | Stanford Physics Dept. |
| 02/18/13 | Blaise Gouteraux (President Holiday) | 2pm | "Zero-temperature holographic phases with (un)broken U(1) symmetry" | NORDITA, Sweden |
| 02/21/13 | Edgar Shaghoulian | 12:30pm | "Gravity waves from cosmic bubble collisions" | SITP |
| 02/25/13 | Mitsutoshi Fujita | 2pm | "Dualities through the orbifold equivalence in Chern-Simons-matter theories'' | University of Washington |
| 02/28/13 | Ofer Aharony | 12:30pm | "Large N Chern-Simons-matter theories and three dimensional bosonization" | Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) |
| 03/04/13 | Radu Roiban | 2pm | "(Super)correlation functions of local operators and generalized unitarity" | Penn State University |
| 03/07/13 | Markus Luty | 12:30pm | "Renormalization of Entanglement Entropy" | UC Davis |
| 03/11/13 | Zohar Komargodski | 2pm | ''The Effective Theory of Flux Tubes'' | IAS |
| 03/14/13 | Zackaria Chacko | 12:30pm | "Effective theory of a Light dilaton" | UMD |
| 03/15/13 | Lee Lindblom | 1:30pm | "Solving the Relativistic Inverse Stellar Structure Problem" | Caltech |
| 03/18/13 | Koji Hashimoto | 2pm | "Atomic nuclei and Matrix theory" | Osaka University, Japan |
| 03/21/13 |
Tony Gherghetta |
12:30pm | "The Higgs and Naturalness" | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 03/25/13 | Leonardo Rastelli | 2pm | "The power of crossing symmetry: non-perturbative results in four-dimensional superconformal field theories" | Stony Brook University, NY |
| 03/28/13 | Anatoly Dymarsky | 12:30pm | "Comments on the four-point function of the stress-energy tensors in a conformal field theory" | Cambridge, UK |
| 04/01/13 | Hitoshi Murayama | 2pm | "What's wrong with Goldstone?" | UC Berkeley |
| 04/04/13 | Ashvin Vishwanath | 12:30pm | "Emergent Supersymmetry in Topological Superconductors" | UC Berkeley |
| 04/08/13 | Juan Garcia-Bellido | 2pm | "What Planck satellite could tell us about inflation" | Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Spain |
| 04/15/13 | Sergei Dubovsky | 2pm | "Looking for new physics on the worldsheet of the QCD flux tube" | NYU |
| 04/18/13 | Gerald Dunne | 12:30pm | "Resurgent Analysis of Asymptotically Free QFTs: the CPN Model" | University of Connecticut |
| 05/02/13 | Rafael Porto | 12:30pm | "The dark (chocolate) universe: from the big bang to black holes" | IAS |
| 05/06/13 | Josef Pradler | 2pm | "Dark Photons in Cosmology, Astrophysics and Experiment" | Perimeter Institute, Canada |
| 05/09/13 | Shmuel Nussinov | 12:30pm | "From pions to Higgs and back: The unbearable lightness of the 125 GeV 0^+ "Composite Higgs" in vectorial gauge theories" | Tel Aviv University |
| 05/13/13 | Andy Haas | 2pm | "Searches for Mini-Split SUSY at the LHC" |
NYU |
| 05/16/13 | Natalia Toro | 12:30pm | "(Why) Is Helicity Lorentz-Invariant?" | Perimeter Institute, Canada |
| 05/20/13 | Anton Kapustin | 2pm | "Is Quantum Mechanics Exact?" | Caltech |
| 05/27/13 | Memorial Holiday (No Talk) | |||
| 05/30/13 | Dan Freedman | 12:30pm | "The Holographic Dual of F-Maximization" | MIT |
| 06/03/13 | ? | 2pm | ? | ? |
| 09/02/13 | Labor Day Holiday (No Talk) | |||
| 09/16/13 | Pierre Sikivie | 2pm | ? | University of Florida |