Overview – Spring 2022
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: Zoom Link upon request / distributed internally
Time: 14:00 (Central Standard Time)
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 28 | – | – |
| Feb 11 | Everyone | Organizational meeting |
| Feb 18 | Casey Cartwright (UA) | External fields in holography, near and far from equilibrium |
| Feb 25 | Puja Das (UA) | Yukawa coupling unification in non-supersymmetric SO(10) models with an intermediate scale |
| Mar 04 | Rachalis Maharucksit (UA) |
Three fermion generations under SU(3) x U(1) from complex octonions algebra
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| Mar 11 | Victor Baules (UA) | Models with dynamically generated weak and dark matter scales |
| Mar 18 | Spring break. | – |
| Mar 25 | Chuang Xu (UA) | 2D Liouville Field Theory Review |
| Apr 01 | – | – |
| Apr 08 | Taoli Liu (UA) | Z’ portal dark matter in the minimal B-L model |
| Apr 15 | Prof. Dr. Thomas Hartman (Cornell) |
Higher topologies in quantum gravity 
– Abstract |
| Apr 22 | – | – |
| Apr 29 | Marco Knipfer (UA) | Nonlocality |
| May 06 | Prof. Dr. Robert Wald (Chicago) |
Quantum Superpositions of Massive Bodies and Gravitationally Mediated Entanglement
– Abstract |
Previous HEP Theory Seminars
| Semester | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |