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: GL328
Time: Thursdays at 17:45 (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
5:00pm! |
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 | Mahmud Shamim (UA) | Large N approach to quantum criticality |
| Nov 9 | Taoli Liu (UA) | An introduction to geometric algebra |
| Nov 16 | Colloquium (unusal time) | No seminar |
| Nov 23 | Thanksgiving | No seminar |
| Nov 30 | Durdana Ilyas (UA)
Nathaniel Lowe (UA) |
Horizons, holography & condensed matter
Spectroscopy |
| Dec 7
5:00pm! |
Weihnachtsfeier | Organization discussion with Christmas cookies |
Previous HEP Theory Seminars
| Semester | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023
Spring 2023 |
Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings (In Progress) | |
| Fall 2022
Spring 2022 |
Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings Seminar Schedule, Notes, Abstracts, Recordings | |
| 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 | |