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


Archive of Past Theory Seminars