Theory Seminar
Except where otherwise noted, the seminars are held on Tuesdays at 2p.m. in Abelson 307 (directions to Abelson). The length of the talk depends on the mode of presentation: 60 minutes for a computer talk, and 80 minutes for a blackboard talk.
Fall 2011
September 6
Jianyang He (Brandeis)
Holographic condensed matter theory
September 20
Brian Wecht (Harvard and Queen Mary)
Quantum Field Theory Without Lagrangians
September 27
11:00am
Takemichi Okui (Florida State)
Viable gravity mediation
October 11
Horatiu Nastase (Instituto de Fisica Teorica, UNESP, Brazil)
Advances in maximally supersymmetric scattering amplitudes
Lecture 1: "Perturbative N=4 SYM and N=8 supergravity amplitudes
October 18
Ronen Plesser (Duke University)
Geometry of perturbative heterotic vacua
October 19 (Wednesday)
11:00am
Horatiu Nastase (Instituto de Fisica Teorica, UNESP, Brazil)
Advances in maximally supersymmetric scattering amplitudes
Lecture 2: "AdS/CFT and applications"
November 1
11:00am
Dr. Andrew Zayakin (LMU-Garching)
Exact one-loop strong coupling results for string spectrum in AdS4 x CP3 versus the all-loop Bethe Ansatz
November 8
11:00am (note that the seminar will meet in Abelson 333 today)
Dr. Ben Freivogel (MIT)
Completely Stable Oscillations in Conformal Field Theories
November 29
11:00am
Amit Sever (Perimeter)
TBA
Spring 2012
January 17
Zvi Bern (UCLA)
Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory
January 24
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis)
Axion monodromy
January 31
Marco Aldi (Brandeis)
Quantum sigma-model and twisted T-duality
February 7
Jacob Bourjaily (Harvard)
Quantum Field Theory and the Analytic S-Matrix, Redux
February 14
Brian Shuve (Harvard)
A WIMPy Baryogenesis Miracle
February 21
No seminar. Midterm recess.
February 28
Per Berglund (UNH)
Global Embeddings for Branes at Toric Singularities
March 6
Matt Roberts (NYU)
Entanglement entropy after a local quench: A holographic story
March 13
Massimo Porrati (NYU)
Surprises with Interacting High Spin Particles
March 20
Matthew Headrick (Brandeis)
Properties of entropy in holographic theories
March 27
Jonathan Heckman (IAS)
4D Gravity as a Twistor Matrix Model
April 3
Shamit Kachru (Stanford)
New Horizons in Holography
April 10
No seminar. Passover and spring recess.
April 17
Matt Reece (Harvard)
Supersymmetry, Naturalness, and the LHC: Where Do We Stand
April 26 at 3pm (Thursday)
Abelson 229 (note change of room)
Sam McCandlish (Brandeis)
Bending and Breaking Time Contours: A World Line Approach to Quantum Field Theory
May 1
No seminar. Brandeis Friday.
Archive of Past Theory Seminars