Semester Topic: Conformal Field Theory
In selected weeks, we will have formal seminar talks by external speakers. All other talks in the HEP seminar are held by students for students. Clearly, faculty members will also participate. The format is informal. The talks are 45 minutes long, plus a generous amount of discussion time.
Location: 338 Gallalee Hall
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Some references:
Joshua Qualls’ lecture notes
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.04074.pdf]
DiFrancesco/Mathieu/Senechal – Conformal Field Theory
[https://www.amazon.com/Conformal-Theory-Graduate-Contemporary-Physics/dp/1461274753]
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 18 | Jorge Fernandes Pendas (IFT UAM/CSIC Madrid) | Anomalous transport out of equilibrium – Abstract |
| Jan 25 | Markus Garbiso (UA) | Introduction and Motivation |
| Feb 01 | Rachalis Maharucksit (UA) |
CFT in more than 2 dimensions |
| Feb 08 | Chuang Xu (UA) |
CFT in 2 dimensions
|
| Feb 15 | Casey Cartwright (UA) | CFT in 2 dimensions – continued – Notes |
| Feb 22 | Taoli Liu (UA) | CFT on the Torus – Notes |
| Mar 01 | Masato Arai (Yamagata University) |
Vacua and walls of mass-deformed Kähler nonlinear sigma models Sp(N)/U(N) – Abstract |
| Mar 08 | Victor Baules (UA) | Simple Examples of CFTs |
| Mar 15 | — | Spring Break |
| Mar 22 | Roshan Koirala (UA) | Conformal Bootstrap |
| Mar 29 | Desmond Villalba (UA) | Conformal Bootstrap & Applications |
| Apr 05 | Richard Eager (IPMU Tokyo) | Hidden exceptional symmetry in the pure spinor superstring (Honors Day) |
| Apr 12 | — | No seminar. |
| Apr 19 | Prof. Dr. Shinsuke Kawai (Sungkyunkwan U., Korea) | Dynamical systems in Gauss-Bonnet gravity |
| Apr 26 | Everyone | Discussion: Evaluation of this term / Plan for next term |
Previous HEP Theory Seminars
| Semester | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2018 | Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory | |
| Spring 2018 | Quantum field theory in curved spacetime | |
| Fall 2017 | Supersymmetry | |
| Spring 2017 | Synergy – different views on the same topic | |
| Fall 2016 | Limitations of quantum field theory | |