Overview – Spring 2023
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 15 minutes of discussion time.
Location: GL310
Time: 15:30 (Central Time)
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 13 | Everyone | Organizational meeting |
| Jan 20 | – | No seminar |
| Jan 27 | Prof. Dr. David Poland (Yale University) |
Bootstrapping the CFT Landscape – Video Recording
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| Feb 03 | Prof. Dr. Raman Sundrum (University of Maryland) | Cosmology and Unification – Abstract – Video Recording
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| Feb 10 | Chuang Xu (UA) | Noncommutative space in quantum theory – Notes |
| Feb 17 | Puja Das (UA) |
Triplet doublet splitting, Proton stability and an extra dimension – Notes
|
| Feb 24 | Taoli Liu (UA) | De Sitter and Anti-De Sitter Spaces – Notes |
| Mar 03 | – | No seminar |
| Mar 10 | Prof. Dr. Makoto Natsuume (KEK, Tsukuba) | Holographic Meissner effect – Abstract – Slides
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| Mar 17 | Spring Break | No seminar |
| Mar 24 | Victor Baules (UA) | Feynman integrals from Linear Algebra – Notes |
| Mar 31 | Prof. Dr. Nobuchika Okada (UA) | Phenomenological aspects of classically conformal extension of the Standard Model – Slides |
| Apr 07 | Honors Day | No seminar |
| Apr 14 | ||
| Apr 21 | Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Itoyama (Osaka Metropolitan University) | D-term triggered dynamical supersymmetry breaking |
| Apr 28 | Prof. Dr. Mark Srednicki (UCSB) | Quantum Chaos and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics – Abstract – Video Recording
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Previous HEP Theory Seminars
| Semester | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2022
Spring 2022 |
Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings | |
| Fall 2021
Spring 2021 |
Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings | |
| Fall 2020
Spring 2020 |
Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings | |
| Fall 2019
Spring 2019 |
Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts | |
| Fall 2018
Spring 2018 |
Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory | |
| Fall 2017
Spring 2017 |
Supersymmetry | |
| Fall 2016 | Limitations of quantum field theory | |