High Energy Theory Seminar – Fall 2020
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: 2:00 p.m. (14:00 Central Time)
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 21 | Everyone. | Organizational Meeting |
| Aug 28 | No seminar. |
– |
| Sep 04 | No seminar. | – |
| Sep 11 | Casey Cartwright (UA) | Holographic Renormalization – Notes |
| Sep 18 | Markus Garbiso (UA) |
Symmetries & Spinning Fluids – Notes
|
| Sep 25 | No seminar. |
– |
| Oct 02 | Karl Landsteiner (IFT Madrid, Spain) |
PT quantum mechanics and holography – Slides |
| Oct 09 | No seminar. | – |
| Oct 16 | Victor Baules (UA) |
An effective f(R) gravity model describing inflation, dark energy, and axion dark matter – Notes |
| Oct 23 | Rachalis Maharucksit (UA) | General solution to the U(1) and U(1) x U(1) anomaly equations – Notes |
| Oct 30 | Chuang Xu (UA) | An Introduction To IKKT Matrix Model – Notes |
| Nov 06 | Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut) |
Decoding the Path Integral: Resurgent Asymptotics and Extreme QFT – Abstract – Slides |
| Nov 13 | Yann Mambrini (CNRS/Saclay Paris, France) |
Hot Universe and Dark Matter – Abstract – Slides |
| Nov 20 | Taoli Liu (UA) | Spinor and Twistor Basics – Slides |
| Nov 27 | No seminar. | Thanksgiving |
| Dec 04 | Tadashi Takayanagi (Kyoto, Japan) |
TBA – Abstract |
| Dec 11 | Everyone | Discussion (review of Fall 2020 / planning Spring 2021) |
| Dec 18 | No seminar. | – |
Previous HEP Theory Seminars
| Semester | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2020
Spring 2020 |
In progress. | |
| 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 | |