Theory Seminar
Except where otherwise noted, the seminars are held on Tuesdays at 11:00am 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.
Spring 2013
Jan. 15
Matthew Headrick (Brandeis)
Bose-Fermi duality and entanglement entropies
Jan. 22
Jianyang He (Brandeis)
Holographic entanglement entropy and strong subadditivity
Jan. 29 (2:30pm)
Misha Smolkin (Perimeter)
Black hole entropy vs entanglement entropy revisited
Feb. 5
Daniel Harlow (Princeton)
Quantum Computation vs. Firewalls
Feb. 12
Joe Minahan (Uppsala)
N^3 behavior from 5-dimensional super Yang-Mills
March 4 (Monday)
Alejandra Castro (Harvard)
Curiosities and Coincidences in Black Hole Physics
March 5
Silviu Pufu (MIT)
The F-theorem and monopole operators in 3d CFTs
March 6 (Wednesday)
Andrew Waldron (UC Davis) Note room change: Abelson 333
Acausality of Massive Gravity
March 12
Daniel Friedan (Rutgers)
Geometry of the 2-d renormalization group
March 19
Chris White (Glasgow)
BCJ Duality, the double copy and the soft limit
April 9
César Agón (Brandeis)
On the Beaming of Gluonic Fields at Strong Coupling
April 16
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis)
Holography and Renormalization
April 23 (1:00pm, instead of 11am)
Emanuel Katz (Boston University)
A New Theory of Anyons