| Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Tue., Oct. 21 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Stefan Hollands |
| Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Tue., Apr. 8 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | John Klauder | Affine Quantum Gravity: A Different View of a Difficult Problem | U. of Florida |
| Thu., Apr. 10 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Pedro Vieira | Quantum Wrapped Giant Magnon | ENS Paris |
| Thu., Apr. 17 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Jorge Casalderrey-Solana | Probing Strongly Coupled Plasmas with Heavy Quarks | UC Berkeley |
| Thu., Apr. 24 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Brandon Carter | Progress in the Mechanics of (Superconducting) Cosmic Strings and Their (Vorton) Equilibrium States | Meudon |
| Thu., May 1 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Gouranga C Nayak | Shift Theorem and Schwinger Mechanism in the Presence of Arbitrary Time Dependent Electric Field | Illinois |
| Thu., May 8 | 2 pm | KITP Auditorium | Sean Carroll | The Universe Is Not Ergodic | Caltech |
| Thu., May 15 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Susan Gardner | Shedding Light on Dark Matter: How Faraday Rotation Can Limit a `Dark' Magnetic Moment | KITP & Kentuky |
| Thu., May 22 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Borun Chowdhury | Radiation from the Non-extremal Fuzzball | Ohio State |
| Thu., May 29 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Mark Jackson | Detecting Cosmic Superstrings | Fermilab |
| Tue., June 3 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Nima Arkani-Hamed | What is the Simplest QFT? | IAS |
| Thu., June 5 | 2 pm | KITP Founder's Room | Geoffrey Compère | Setting the Boundary Free in AdS/CFT : a Gravity / CFT+Gravity Correspondence | UCSB |
| Thu., June 12 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Diana Vaman | The Space-Cone Gauge and Yang-Mills Tree and Loop-Level Recursion Relations | KITP & Virginia |
| Tue., June 17 | 12:30 pm | KITP Auditorium | David Mateos | A Universal String Prediction for Heavy Ion Collisions | UCSB |
| Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Thu., Jan. 10 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Mark Srednicki |
High-Energy
Gravitational Scattering and Black Hole Resonances |
UCSB |
| Tue., Jan. 22 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Joe Polchinski | A
Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization |
KITP |
| Thu., Jan 24 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Graham Kribs | The
Supersymmetric Flavor Problem, R-symmetry, and the LHC |
U. of Oregon |
| Thu., Jan. 31 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Don Page | Boundary Conditions for the Universe | U. of Alberta |
| Thu., Feb. 7 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Matthew Schwartz | Effective Field Theory and Collider Physics | Johns Hopkins U. |
| Tue., Feb. 12 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Yuji Tachikawa | New Developments in d=4, N=2 SCFTs | IAS |
| Tue., Feb. 19 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Eliezer Rabinovici | Aspects of Little String Holography | Hebrew U. |
| Thu., Feb 21 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Peter Graham | Searching
for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry |
Stanford U. |
| Thu., Mar. 6 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Anatoly Dymarsky | D-brane Inflation in String Theory | Stanford U. |
| Thu., Mar. 13 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Kostas Skenderis | The Fuzzball Proposal for Black Holes | U. of Amsterdam |
| Thu., Mar. 20 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | João Penedones | High Energy Scattering in AdS/CFT | KITP |
| Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Thu., Sep. 13 | 2 pm |
KITP Auditorium | Lara Anderson | M Theory on Singular G2 Spaces | U Oxford |
| Tue., Sep. 25 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Ali Nayeri | Generating Inflation-Free Scale-Invariant Power Spectrum in String Gas Cosmology | KITP |
| Thu.,
Sep. 27 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
John
Preskill |
Black
Holes as Mirrors |
Caltech |
| Tue.,
Oct. 2 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
David
Berenstein |
|
UCSB |
| Thu.,
Oct. 4 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Clifford
Johnson |
External
Fields and the Dynamics of Flavour in Strongly Coupled Gauge
Theory |
USC |
| Tue.,
Oct. 9 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Amitabh
Virmani |
A
Holographic
Renormalizaion of Asymptotically Flat and Linear Dilaton Spacetimes |
UCSB |
| Thu.,
Oct. 11 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Itzhak
Bars |
|
USC |
| Tue.,
Oct. 16 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Timo
Weigand |
|
U
Penn |
| Thu.,
Oct. 18 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Steve Giddings | |
UCSB |
| Tue.,
Oct. 23 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Takuya
Okuda |
|
KITP |
| Thu.,
Oct. 25 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Eric
D’Hoker |
|
UCLA |
| Tue.,
Oct. 30 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Sean
Hartnoll |
|
UCSB |
| Thu.,
Nov. 1 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Andy
O’Bannon |
|
U Washington |
| Tue.,
Nov. 6 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Rafael
Porto |
An
Effective Field Theory of Gravity for Spinning Extended Objects |
UCSB |
| Thu.,
Nov. 8 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Cindy
Keeler |
|
Berkeley |
| Tue.,
Nov. 13 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Jim
Hartle |
The
Classical
Universes of the No-Boundary Quantum State |
UCSB |
| Wed., Nov. 14 | 2 pm | KITP Auditorium | Niklas Beisert |
|
Max
Planck |
| Thu.,
Nov. 15 |
2 pm |
KITP SSR |
Petr
Horava |
|
Berkeley |
| Tue.,
Nov. 20 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Dam
Son |
Graphene
in Quantum Field Theory |
U
Washington |
| Thu.,
Nov. 22 |
THANKSGIVING |
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| Tue., Nov. 27 | 12:30 pm |
Broida
3302 |
Julian Sonner |
|
DAMTP |
| Thu., Nov. 29 | 2 pm |
KITP
SSR |
Roni Harnik |
|
SLAC |
| Tue.,
Dec. 4 |
12:30 pm |
Broida 3302 |
Maria
Jose
Rodriguez |
Barcelona & UCSB |
|
| Thu., Dec. 6 | 2 pm |
KITP
SSR |
Diego Trancanelli |
|
UCSB |
| Tue., Dec. 11 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Ari Pakman | Progress in AdS3/CFT2 | Stony Brook |
| Thu., Dec. 13 | 1:30 pm | KITP Auditorium | Gabriele Veneziano | Towards an S-matrix Description of Gravitational Collapse | College de France |
| Date | Time |
Location | Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Tue., April 3 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Jonathan Halliwell | Commuting Position and Momentum Operators, Exact Decoherence and Emergent Classicality | Imperial Coll., London |
| Thu., April 5 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Aaron Amsel | Stability and Instability in Designer Gravity | UCSB |
| Tue., April 10 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Nori Iizuka | Attractors and Spinning Strings | KITP |
| Thu., April 12 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | David Kutasov | Symmetry Breaking
from Intersecting
Branes |
U. of Chicago |
| Tue., April 17 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Sergei Gukov | Four-dimensional Kondo Problem | UCSB |
| Thu., April 19 | No talk. | ||||
| Tue., April 24 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Don Marolf | A
New Picture of de Sitter Space? |
UCSB |
| Thu., April 26 | 2 pm | KITP Auditorium | Lance Dixon | Is N=8
Supergravity Finite? |
SLAC |
| Tue., May 1 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Florian Dubath | Periodic
Gravitational Waves from Small Cosmic String Loops |
KITP |
| Thu., May 3 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Gary Horowitz | Toward
Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole |
UCSB |
| Tue., May 8 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Henriette Elvang | Fake Supergravity | MIT |
| Thu., May 10 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Sumit Das | Null
Singularities and Their Gauge Theory Duals |
U. of Kentucky |
| Tue., May 15 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Per Kraus | Stringy Black Holes in 4 and 5 Dimensions | UCLA |
| Thu., May 17 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Masaki Shigemori | Nonsupersymmetric Brane/Antibrane Configurations in Type IIA and M Theory | Caltech |
| Tue., May 22 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Raphael Bousso | Cosmological Vacuum Selection in the Landscape: Problems and Predictions | UC Berkeley & LBNL |
| Thu., May 24 | No talk due to a secret meeting. | ||||
| Tue., May 29 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Steve Carlip | Black
Hole Thermodynamics from Euclidean Horizon Constraints |
UC Davis |
| Thu., May 31 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Luis Fernando Alday | Gluon
Scattering Amplitudes at
Strong Coupling |
Utrecht U. & IAS |
| Tue., June 5 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Kentaroh Yoshida | Higher Loop Bethe Ansatz for Open Spin Chains in AdS/CFT | KITP |
| Thu., June 7 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Mark Scheel | Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Inspirals | Caltech |
| Tue., June 12 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Joe Polchinski | The Cosmic String Inverse Problem | UCSB & KITP |
| Thu., June 14 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Ted Erler | Analytic Progress in Open String Field Theories | HRI
& KITP |
| Date | Time |
Location | Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Tue., Jan. 30 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Sam Pinansky | The Phenomenology of the Minimal Quiver Standard Model | UCSB |
| Thu., Feb. 1 | No talk due to an external committee visit. | ||||
| Thu., Feb. 8 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Lee Lindblom | Generalized Harmonic Evolutions of
Binary Black Hole Spacetimes |
Caltech |
| Tue., Feb. 13 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Takuya Okuda | Wilson Loops, String/Brane/Geometry Transitions and Bubbling Calabi-Yau's | KITP |
| Thu., Feb. 15 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Yutaka Ookouchi | Meta-Stable SUSY Breaking Vacua in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories | Caltech |
| Tue., Feb. 20 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Pavel Kovtun | Quantum Critical Transport, Duality, and M-theory | KITP |
| Wed., Feb. 21 | 12:15 pm | Broida 3302 | Lian-Tao Wang | The
LHC Inverse Problem: Interpreting Data to Learn about Underlying Theory
|
Princeton U. |
| Wed., Feb. 28 | 12:15 pm | Broida 3302 | David Rainwater | Breakdown of the Narrow Width Approximation | U. of Rochester |
| Fri., Mar. 2 | 12:15 pm | KITP Auditorium | Zackaria Chacko | Twin Higgs Theories | U. of Arizona |
| Tue., Mar. 6 | 12:30 pm | Broida 3302 | Hideaki Kudoh | Doubly Spinning Black Rings and Beyond |
UCSB |
| Wed., Mar. 7 | 12:15 pm | Broida 3302 | Ian Low | Probing New Physics with the Higgs Boson at the LHC | UC Irvine |
| Wed., Mar. 14 | 12:30 pm | KITP SSR | José Edelstein | A String Dual Perspective on Quark-Gluon Plasmas of QCD-like Theories | Santiago de Compostela U. & CECS, Valdivia |
| Thu., Mar. 15 | 2 pm | KITP SSR | Joe Marsano | "Metastable" Brane-Antibrane Configurations in Type IIA and M Theory and the Large N Duality Conjecture in IIB | Caltech |
| Date | Time |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Sep. 28 | 2:00 pm | Matthew Headrick | Ricci Flow and Black Holes | Stanford University |
| Oct. . 19 | 2:00 pm | Sean Hartnoll | Phase Structure of N=4 SYM and Polyakov Loops | KITP |
| Nov. . 2 | 1:00 pm (Note time) | Sean Carroll | Beyond Dark Energy | Caltech |
| Nov. . 9 | 2:00 pm | Daniel Holz | Gravitational-Wave
Standard Sirens and Cosmology |
LANL/Univ. of Chicago |
| Nov. . 16 | 2:00 pm | Matthew Johnson | Bubble Nucleation and Eternal Inflation | UCSC |
| Nov. . 17 | 1:00 pm in Broida 3302 | Sam Vazquez | Spin
Chains and Geometry (Condensed Matter/String Theory Seminar) |
UCSB |
| Nov. . 30 | 2:00 pm | Amitabh Virmani | Dynamics and Stability of Black Rings | UCSB |