Theoretical Physics Seminar

Overview – Fall 2023

In selected weeks, we will have formal seminar talks by external speakers. All other talks in the theory seminar are held by students for students. Clearly, faculty members will also participate. The format is informal. The talks are 30 minutes long, two talks per session (one by a HEP student, the other by a CMT student), plus 15 minutes of discussion time.

Location: GL329
Time: Thursdays at 16:30 (Central Time)

Schedule

Date Speaker Topic
Sep 8 Everyone Organizational meeting
Sep 14  –  No seminar
Sep 21  –  No seminar
Sep 28  –  No seminar
Oct 5 Victor Baules (UA)

Zahidul Jitu (UA)

Machine Learning

Nonlinear sigma model and thermal transport

Oct 12 Puja Das (UA)

Shakeel Ahmad (UA)

Feynman diagrams

Coulomb drag in double layer graphene

Oct 19 Jun Zhang (UA)

Modi Ke (UA)

Nonequilibrium Effective Field Theory

Transport in Floquet systems

Oct 26 Midterm Study Break No seminar
Nov 2 Durdana Ilyas (UA)

Mahmud Shamim (UA)

Primordial black holes / dark matter

Large N approach to quantum criticality

Nov 9 Taoli Liu (UA)

Nathaniel Lowe (UA)

Geometric quantum mechanics

Spectroscopy

Nov 16
Nov 23 Thanksgiving No seminar
Nov 30
Dec 7

Previous HEP Theory Seminars

Semester Topic
Fall 2022

Spring 2022

Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings (In Progress)

Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings

Fall 2022

Spring 2022

Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings
Fall 2021

Spring 2021

Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings

Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts

Fall 2020

Spring 2020

Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings

Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts

Fall 2019

Spring 2019

Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts

Conformal Field Theory

Fall 2018

Spring 2018

Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory

Quantum field theory in curved spacetime

Fall 2017

Spring 2017

Supersymmetry

Synergy – different views on the same topic

Fall 2016 Limitations of quantum field theory