Fall 2019 seminars

Unless noted otherwise, all seminars are on Tuesdays in Room SPL 52 at 4pm.

Clicking on “more info” leads to the physics department calendar entry and includes an abstract when one has been provided.

Date Speaker
Sep 10 Andrea Manenti (EPFL): “Implications of the ANEC in 4d SCFTs”
Sep 17 No seminar
Sep 23-26 Sergei Gukov (Caltech) – 9/23 Physics Club, 9/24-9/26 Whittemore Lectures
Oct 1 Gabriel Cuomo (EPFL): “The epsilon expansion meets semiclassics”
Oct 8 No seminar
Oct 15 October Break
Oct 22 Luca Iliesiu (Princeton): “On 2D gauge theories with Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity”
Oct 29 Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez (UPenn): “Pushing the limits of the double copy”
Nov 5 No seminar
Nov 12 Denis Karateev (EPFL): “Unitarity constraints in massive QFTs”
Nov 19

Seth Koren (UCSB): “UV/IR Mixing and the Hierarchy Problem”

Nov 21 (10am Skype Seminar, SPL52)

Andreas Helset (NBI): “Heavy Particle Effective Theories”

Nov 26 November Break
Dec 3 Chia-Hsien Shen (UCLA): “Unraveling Classical Gravity from Quantum Field Theory”
Dec 10 Tyler Corbett (Niels Bohr Institute): “Precision in the SMEFT: the Higgs and Electroweak Sectors”
Dec 12 (Thursday) Ashley Perko (Dartmouth)