NHETC at Rutgers Physics Department

Video and PDF files from NHETC Seminars

02/07/12, B.Wecht, New SCFTs from M5-branes

01/31/12, J.Henn, Analytic Results for scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang Mills

01/16/12, T.Hartman, Higher Spin Black Holes from 2d CFT

Fall 2011

12/08/11, E.Cobanera, Dualities and Dimensional Reduction

12/06/11, S.Oh, Atomic-Engineering and Topological Insulators

12/06/11, J.Kaplan, The Holographic S-Matrix

11/29/11, S.Monnier, The global gravitational anomaly of the self-dual field theory

11/22/11, D.Gaiotto, 3D SCFTs and the Geometry of 3 Manifolds

11/15/11, A.Zhiboedev, All possible symmetries of CFTs

11/08/11, N.Seiberg, Curved Superspace

11/03/11, C.Csaki, MFV SUSY: A Natural Alternative to R-parity

10/25/11, M.Buican, R Symmetry and Non-Perturbative QFT

10/18/11, T.Slatyer, Signatures of Dark Matter Annihilation in the CMB

10/11/11, J.Harvey, K3 Surfaces, Mock Modular Forms, and Moonshine

10/04/11, N.Arkani-Hamed, Grassmanian Polytopes and Scattering Amplitudes

09/27/11, I.Klebanov, Measuring the Number of Degrees of Freedom in Three-dimensional CFT

09/22/11, G.Torroba, FRW holography from uplifted AdS/CFT

09/13/11, M.Spradlin, Symblifying Amplitudes and Wilson Loops

Spring 2011

05/03/11, D.Simmons-Duffin, N=1 SQCD and the Transverse Field Ising Model

04/26/26, K.Zurek, On new physics models for top AFB

04/19/11, T.Dimofte, Liouville Theory and D-Modules

04/12/11, J.Gallicchio, Gluon Tagging at the LHC

04/05/11, J.Heckman, Quasi-Hidden Sectors from Strongly Coupled Strings

03/29/11, C.Bauer, New ideas for Monte Carlo Generators

03/22/11, J.Penedones, Writing CFT Correlation Functions as AdS Scattering Amplitudes

03/08/11, C.Keller, From Navier-Stokes to Einstein

03/03/11, E.Witten, Chern-Simons Theory From Four Dimensions

03/01/11, M.Douglas, Holographic dual of free field theory

02/24/11, K.Wang, Top quark forward-backward asymmetry and the BSM candidates

02/22/11, M.Reece, Low-Scale SUSY Breaking: Collider Physics and Cosmology

02/15/11, G.Salam, QCD and the LHC

Fall 2010

11/30/10, D.Poland, Bounds on 4D Conformal and Superconformal Field Theories

11/23/10, D.Morrisey, A Unified Origin for Baryonic Visible Matter and Antibaryonic Dark Matter

11/16/10, D.Jafferis, Massive type IIA string theory cannot be strongly coupled

11/09/10, L.Rastelli, S-Duality, the 4d Super Conformal Index and 2d Topological Field Theory

11/02/10, P.Fox, FNAL and Dark Matter with a Jet

10/26/10, L.Anderson, Supersymmetry and Moduli Stabilization in Heterotic M-theory

10/19/10, Z.Komargodski, Vector Mesons and an Interpretation of Seiberg Duality

10/12/10, M.Lisanti, The Velocity Distribution of Dark Matter

10/05/10, Y.Tachikawa, More s-dualities from Outer-automorphism twists-->

09/28/10, H.Elvang, Symmetry constraints on counterterms in N=8 supergravity

09/21/10,C.Papageorgakis, Nonabelian Tensor Multiplets and 3-algebras

09/14/10, J.Fan, Non-relativistic effective theory of dark matter direct detection

08/24/10, M.Morii, LUX: A Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detector

Spring 2010

05/11/10, N.Seiberg, Supercurrents

05/04/10, M.Schwartz, Precision Jet Physics at the LHC

04/27/10, C.Cordova, Decoupling Gravity in F-Theory

04/20/10, L.Fitzpatrick, Discovering Asymmetric Dark Matter with Anti-neutrinos

04/13/10, T.Roy, Boosting BSM Higgs Discovery Using Jet Substructure

04/06/10, M.Douglas, Compactification, Warp and Conformal Factors

03/23/10, L.Wang, Modern Jet Tools for Discovering New Physics at the LHC

03/09/10, N.Arkani-Hamed, A Duality for the S Matrix III

03/02/10, E. Witten, The Omega-Deformation, Integrability, and Liouville

02/23/10, F.Denef, Black Hole Quasinormal Modes and the de Haas-van Alphen Effect

02/16/10, J.Heckman, Signatures of Minimal F-theory GUTs

02/09/10, X.Yi, Higher Spin Gauge Theory and Holography

02/02/10, J.Ruderman, Hiding the Higgs with Lempton Jets

01/26/10, L.Alday, Thermodynamic Bubble Ansatz

01/25/10, W.Ko, Perturbing the Kagome Lattice Spin-Liquid State: Raman Scattering, Magnetic, Field, and Doping

01/19/10, M.Kharitinov, Radiation of spin excitations in the nonlinear transport regime and conductance peak in quantum wires

Fall 2009

12/08/09, C.Csaki, Buried Higgs

12/04/09, M.Devoret, Introduction to Quantum Superconducting Circuits: Part 1

12/01/09, H.Liu, From Black Holes to Strange Metals

11/24/09, W.Song, The Kerr/CFT Correspondence

11/10/09, C.Kane, Majorama Fermions and Toplological Insulators

11/03/09, F. Cachazo, A Duality for the S Matrix II

10/27/09, N.Arkani-Hamed, A Duality for the S Matrix I

10/13/09, R.McElrath, The Origin of Neutrino Mass and Mixing in the Standard Model

09/29/09, D.Gaiotto, Recent Progress in N=2 Field Theory

09/22/09, Z.Komargodski, Aspects of SUSY Breaking

Spring 2009

05/08/09, G.Falkovich, Symmetries of Turbulent State

05/05/09, A.Tomasiello, Perturbing gauge/gravity duals by a Romans mass

04/28/09, C.Cheung, Unitarity and S-Matrix

04/14/09, I.Klebanov, The Squashed, Stretched and Warped gets Perturbed

04/07/09, A.LeClair, Field Theory Model of a non-Fermi Liquid for High Tc Superconductivity

03/24/09, S.Raby, A Fertile Patch in the Heterotic Landscape

03/10/09, A.Delgado, Unparticle-Higgs phenomenology

03/03/09, Y.Tachikawa, Recent developments in 4d N=2 Superconformal field theories

02/19/09, K.Zurek, Hidden Sector Dark Matter

02/16/09, U.Bruzzo, Semistable Principal Higgs Bundles

02/10/09, P.Batra, The Supersymmetric Limit of Electrotweak Symmetry

02/03/09, Z.Komargodski, Aspects of Supersymmetry and R-Symmetry Breaking

01/27/09, F.Denef, Orientiholes

Fall 2008

12/16/08, D.Gaiotto, Holography and Massive IIA

12/10/08, I.Yavin, Bright Perspectives from a Dark Sector

12/02/08, D.Son, Nonrelativistic conformal invariance and its holographic realization

11/25/08, M.Reece, Phenomenology of Higgsino NLSPs

11/20/08, H.Liu, A Third Order Phase Transition for a Large N Gauge Theory with Flavors

11/11/08, D.Shih, Exploring General Gauge Mediation

11/04/08, P.Hayden, Black Holes as Mirrors

10/28/08, J.McOrist, Summing the Instantons in the Heterotic String

10/21/08, T.Volansky, Towards a complete theory of gauge mediation

10/14/08, C.Herzog, Non-Relativistic AdS/CFT

10/07/08, S.Kachru, Gravity Duals of Lifshitz-like Fixed Points

09/30/08, H.Elvang, Generating tree amplitudes in N=4 SYM and N=8 SG

09/23/08, N.Saulina, Gauge Mediation in F-theory GUT Models

Spring 2008

04/22/08, H.Liu, A Prediction From String Theory, with Strings Attached

04/15/08, S.Sethi, Non-Supersymmetric String Theory

04/08/08, A.Konechny, Radiation from unstable D1 branes in 2D string theory

03/11/08, A.Tomasiello, New string vacua from simple topologies

03/04/08, D.Shih, General Gauge Mediation

02/26/08, M.Schnabl, Light-like tachyon condensation in Open String Field Theory

02/19/08, M.Kleban, When Worlds Collide

02/12/08, D.Kutasov, Supersymmetry breaking in gauge theory and string theory

02/05/08, P.Graham, Searching for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry

01/29/08, C.Bauer, Factorization for Jet Production

01/22/08, V.Pestun, Localization of gauge theory: exact results for circular supersymmetric Wilson loop operators

Fall 2007

12/11/07, E.Witten, More On Three-Dimensional Gravity

12/05/07, J.Harvey, Jets, Pseudo-Chern-Simons term in the Standard Model, with applications

11/27/07, G.Salam, Jets, our window on partons at the LHC

11/13/07, J.Thaler, GenEvA: A New Framework for Event Generation

11/06/07, S.Gukov, Refined Topological Vertex, Instanton Counting, and Link Homologies

10/30/07, J.Maldacena, Scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang Mills from strings in Anti-de-Sitter space

10/23/07, F.Denef, D-brane deconstructions in IIB orientifolds

10/09/07, D.Kreimer, Renormalization revisited: from periods and motives to non-perturbative physics

Spring 2007

02/01/07, M.Rocek, Instantons and SL(2,Z) duality in Type IIB Compactifications

02/06/07, A.Kashani-Poor, The wave function behavior of the open topological string partition function on the conifold

02/13/07, M.Voloshin, Spontaneous and induced decay of false vacuum

02/27/07, A.Polyakov, Gauge/Strings at Large Curvatures and Related Problems

03/06/07, I.Klebanov, From Weak to Strong Coupling in N=4 SYM Theory

03/13/07, M.Dine, Metastability

03/20/07, I.Stewart, The Theory of Jets Initiated by Massive Unstable Particles: Top-Massive Determination

03/27/07, D.Kutasov, Supersymmetry and gauge symmetry breaking from intersecting branes

04/03/07, F.Petriello, Recent advances in perturbative QCD and LHC physics

04/10/07, S.Sachdev, Quantum Critical Transport, Duality, and M Theory

04/10/07, N.Nekrasov, N-2 Super-Yang-Mills and Statistical Models in 1,2,3 (and 4?) Dimensions

04/17/07, G.Shiu, Cosmology and Particle Physics with Warped Throats

04/24/07, J.Conlon, Hierarchy Problems in String Theory - The Power of Large Volume

05/01/07, E.Akhmedov, Exponent of Cubic Matrices and Non-Abelian Tensor Fields

05/08/07, J.Teschner, Warm-up for noncompact sigma models: The Sinh-Gordon model

05/09/07, C.Hull, Geometry, duality and non-geometric string backgrounds

Fall 2006

09/19/06, N.Arkani-Hamed, Locality, Cosmology and the Landscape

09/26/06, M.Huang, Seiberg-Witten theory, instanton counting, modular foms

10/03/06, H.Liu, The arrow of time, black holes and quantum mixing of large N Yang-Mills theories

10/31/06, J.Maldacena, Comments on the worldsheet S-matrix for string threory

11/07/06, D.Shih, Meta-stable Vacua in SQCD and MQCD

11/14/06, R.Velandro, Warped Models in String Theory

12/05/06, O.Aharony, A holographic model of deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration

12/12/06, L.Wang, Top Final States and New Physics

ARCHIVED RECORDED NHETC SEMINARS

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