High Energy Theory Seminar – Spring 2021
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: 4:30 p.m. (16:30 Central Standard Time)
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 15 | No seminar. | – |
| Jan 22 | Everyone. | Organizational meeting. |
| Jan 29 | Markus Garbiso(UA) | When are volume and spinors possible? – Slides |
| Feb05 | Marco Knipfer (UA) |
Series Expansion around Instanton Saddle Points, Stokes Phenomenon and Resurgence – Slides |
| Feb 12 | No seminar. |
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| Feb 19 | No seminar. | – |
| Feb 26 | Prof. Dr. Matthias Kaminski (UA) | Chiral hydrodynamics of plasma in strong magnetic fields – Slides |
| Mar 05 | Victor Baules (UA) | A look at Planckian Interacting Massive Particles as Dark Matter – Abstract – Notes |
| Mar 12 | Chuang Xu (UA) | T-duality and Double Field Theory – Abstract – Notes |
| Mar 19 | Dr. Enrico Speranza (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | New developments of spin hydrodynamics – Abstract – Slides – Video |
| Mar 26 | Prof. Dr. Sašo Grozdanov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology / University of Ljubljana) | Bounds on transport from univalence and pole-skipping – Abstract – Video |
| Apr 02 | Rachalis Maharucksit (UA) |
Introduction to Field Space – A Geometric Description of QFT – Abstract – Notes |
| Apr 16 | Taoli Liu (UA) | TBD |
| Apr 23 | Prof. Dr. Robert Myers (Director, Perimeter Institute, Canada) | Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy – Abstract – Video |
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Previous HEP Theory Seminars
| Semester | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |