High Energy Theory Seminar – Fall 2019
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 a generous amount of discussion time.
Location: 338 Gallalee Hall
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Some references: TBA
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 30
Sep 6 |
Markus Garbiso (UA)
Casey Cartwright (UA) |
Introduction to Modern Entanglement Entropy
Entropy and Area |
| Sep 13 | Sugumi Kanno (Osaka University) | Detecting nonclassical primordial gravitational waves with Hanbury Brown – Twiss interferometry – Abstract |
| Sep 20 | Roshan Koirala (UA) |
Entanglement in 2d CFT and connection to holography |
| Sep 27 | Marco Knipfer (UA) |
The Unruh Effect and Hawking Radiation – Notes
|
| Oct 04 | Matthias Kaminski (UA) | Chiral transport in strong magnetic fields from hydrodynamics & holography – Slides |
| Oct 11 | Chuang Xu (UA) | Three dimensional Chern-Simons Theory – Notes |
| Oct 18 | Victor Baules (UA) |
An overview of the SLq(2) Extension of the Standard Model – Notes – References |
| Oct 25 | Rachalis Maharucksit (UA) | TBA |
| Nov 01 | — | Fall Break |
| Nov 08 | Dwaipayan Majumdar (UA) | TBA |
| Nov 15 | Taoli Liu (UA) | TBA |
| Nov 22 | TBA | TBA |
| Nov 29 | No Seminar | Thanksgiving |
| Dec 06 | Everyone | Discussion: Evaluation of this term / Plan for next term |
| Dec 13 | No Seminar | Finals Week |
Previous HEP Theory Seminars
| Semester | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2019 | Conformal Field Theory | |
| Fall 2018
Spring 2018 |
Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory | |
| Fall 2017
Spring 2017 |
Supersymmetry | |
| Fall 2016 | Limitations of quantum field theory | |