Fall 2018
Dec 11, 2018, N. Bao, Aspects of Holographic Entanglement of Purification
Dec 04, 2018, G. Kribs, Dark Mesons at the LHC
Nov 27, 2018, M. Freytsis, Towards precision physics with jet substructure
Nov 20, 2018, D. Harlow, The factorization problem in Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity
Nov 13, 2018, Z. Komargodski, Baryons in one-flavor QCD
Nov 06, 2018, D. Robinson, Right-handed Neutrinos in Semileptonic B Decays
Oct 30, 2018, T. Slatyer, Dark Matter Annihilation, Decay and Scattering in the Cosmic Dawn
Oct 9, 2018, M. Dedushenko, 3D TQFTs from Argyres-Douglas Theories
Oct 2, 2018, S. Shao, The Power of Non-Symmetry
Sept 25, 2018, B. Swingle, Scrambling, Locality, and Quantum Fluctuations
Fall 2016
11/15/16, B. Safdi, Cosmic Axion Detection with an Amplifying B-field Ring Apparatus
10/04/16, N. Seiberg, A Duality Web in 2 + 1 Dimensions and the Unity of Physics
09/27/16, R. D'Agnolo, Exceptionally Light Thermal Relics
09/13/16, M. Dine, Monodromy in QCD: Insights From Supersymmetric Theories with Soft Breakings
Spring 2016
05/17/16, J. Rudermann, Dark Sectors with a Mass Gap
05/10/16, D. Xie, New N=2 dualities
05/03/16, S. Minwalla, A Membrane Paradigm at Large D
04/26/16, S. Knapen, Diphotons
04/19/16, T. Dimofte, Vortices, Monopoles, and Finite AGT
04/12/16, D. Marsh, Genericity and universality in the string theory landscape
04/05/16, C. Beem, Studying six-dimensional (2,0) theories with the superconformal bootstrap.
03/29/16, T. Hartman, Causality Sum Rules in Quantum Field Theory
03/22/16, J. Heckman, UV Completions for Super-Critical Strings
03/15/16, I. Rothstein, Calculating Precision Gravity Wave Templates from Effective Field Theory
03/01/16, G. Dunne, Resurgence and non-perturbative physics: decoding the path integral
02/23/16, S. Dubovsky, Towards a Theory of the QCD String
02/16/16, J. Evans, Displaced Leptons and Other Exotic Objects at the LHC
02/09/16, M. Spradlin, Cluster Algebras and Scattering Amplitudes
02/02/16, L. Carpenter, Indirect Detection Constraints on Dark Matter Model Space
Fall 2015
12/08/15, M. Reece, Exploring the Weak Gravity Conjecture
12/01/15, S. Pufu, Accidental Symmetries and the Conformal Bootstrap
11/17/15, J. Galloway, Goldstone Gauginos
11/10/15, Y. Grossman, New Standard Physics at the LHC
11/03/15, H. Liu, Effective Field Theory of Dissipative Fluids
10/27/15, D. Harlow, Wormholes, Emergent Gauge Fields, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
10/20/15, D. Curtin, Discovering Neutral Naturalness
10/06/15, W. Altmannshofer, Hints for Flavorful New Physics
09/29/15, D. Stanford, Chaos and black holes
09/24/15, A. Kitaev, Simple Model of Quantum Holography
09/22/15, C. Cordova, Anomalies, RG Flows, and the a-Theorem in 6d
09/15/15, R.Penco, Effective String Theory in a Tank
09/08/15, H. Kim, Duality Walls in 5d Gauge Theories
Spring 2015
05/12/15, M. del Zotto, 4D N=2 Galois symmetries
05/05/15, D. Pinner, Folded SUSY with a Twist
04/28/15, D. Harlow, Bulk Locality and Quantum Error Correction in AdS/CFT
04/21/15, T. Dumitrescu, Weyl Anomalies of Dix-Dimensional (2,0) Theories
04/07/15, A. Hook, The Strong CP Problem at the LHC
03/31/15, X. Yin, Little string theory (0,2) SCFT and constraints from maximal supersymmetry
03/24/15, M. Dine, Spontaneous CP Violation and the Strong CP Problem
03/10/15, D. Poland, Recent Results in the Conformal Bootstrap
03/03/15, J. Siegal Gaskins, Gamma Rays From Dark Matter in the Inner Galaxy
02/24/15, M.Schwartz, Do we know if our universe is stable?
02/17/15, H.Elvang, Holography for N=2 and N=1
Fall 2014
12/12/14, E.Witten, Some Details on the Gooakumar-Vafa and Ooguri-Vafa Formulas
11/18/14, J.Barnard, Composite Higgs Models with "the works"
11/11/14, S.Gori, Looking for Dark Forces with Multi-Leptons
11/04/14, D.Morrison, What is F-Theory?
10/28/14, F.Denef, Holographic Theory of Higher Spin de Sitter Space
10/21/14, E.Rabinocivi, Geometry and Noise
10/14/14, B.Shuve, Improving Identification of Dijet Resonances at the LHC
10/07/14, D.Park, Dualities of 2d(2,2) theories and cluster algebras
09/30/14, D.Spergel, Searching for Gravitational Waves in The Microwave Background
09/23/14, N.Seiberg, Generalized Global Symmetries
09/21/14, Y.Shirman, Dynamics of 3D gauge theories with antisymmetric matter
Spring 2014
05/13/14, J.Giedt, Lattice N=4 super-Yang-Mills
04/29/14, P.Agrawal, Dark Matter: The Lepton Connection
04/22/14, B.Tweedie, Pulling Out All the Stops
04/15/14, R.Essig, The Search for sub-GeV Dark Matter
04/01/14, N.Nekrasov, Nonperturbative Dyson-Schwinger, BPS/CFT correspondence and qq-characters
03/11/14, Y.Huang, New and Old Tales From Manifest Locality and Unitarity
03/04/14, T.Faulkner, Geometry and Dynamics From Entanglement Entropy
02/25/14, V.Kazakov, Status of Spectral Problem in Planar N=4 SYM Theory
02/20/14, A.Strominger, Infrared Structure of Gauge and Gravity Theories in Minkowski Space
02/11/14, A.Larkoski, IRC Safety vs Computability
02/04/14, N.Arkani-Hamed, The Amplituhedron
Fall 2013
11/20/13, K.Agashe, Using energy-peaks to measure particle (new and old) masses
11/12/13, A.Hook, Signatures of Naturalness
11/05/13, Y.Bai, Fermion Portal Dark Matter
10/22/13, R.Myers, On Spacetime Entanglement
10/22/13, J.Shelton, Looking for Dissipative Dark Matter
10/01/13, J.Maldacena, Entanglement and Geometry
09/24/13, C.Brust, New Light Species & the CMB
09/17/13, S.Caron-Huot, When Does the Gluon Reggeize?
09/17/13, D.Persson, BPS-states and automorphic representations
09/10/13, D.Curtin, Casting Light on BSM Physics with SM Standard Candles
Spring 2013
05/07/13, I.Yaakov, Supersymmetric vortex loops in 3d gauge theory
04/30/13, R.Sundrum, Metaphor for Dark Energy
04/23/13, J.Ruderman, Dark Matters in Supersymmetry
04/18/13, K.Intriligator, Aspects of 3d, N=2 Chern Simons Theories
04/09/13, A.Menon, Searching for Neutral Higgs Bosons in Non-Standard Channels
04/02/13, A.Castro, Black Hole Monodromy and Conformal Field Theory
03/26/13, M.Lisanti, A Flow of Dark Matter Debris
03/12/13, G.Kribs, Supersafe Supersymmetry with a Dirac Gluino
03/05/13, D.Spergel, Using CMB as a Tool to Study the Composition of the Universe
02/26/13, D.Simmons-Duffin, The Analytic Bootstrap and AdS Superhorizon Locality
02/19/13, D.Xie, Constructing BPS Quiver and Potential
02/12/13, R.Volpato, Generalised Mathieu Moonshine
02/05/13, D.Stolarksi, Gauging the Way to MFV
01/22/13, T.Son, The Geometry of the Quantum Hall Effect
Fall 2012
12/11/12, P.Argyres, Cosmic Clues for Dark Matter and Their Implications for a Dark Matter Asymmetry
12/04/12, T.Dimofte, Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions, Symmetry Enhancement, and E7 Surprises
11/27/12, J.Maldacena, Comments on Black Hole Interiors
11/20/12, B.Machta, 2D Ising Criticality in the Cellular Membrane
11/13/12, V.Pestun, The N=2 quiver gauge theories and ADE spinchains
11/06/12, J.Galloway, Nonstandard EWSB: Status and Prospects
10/23/12, R.Boels, Maximally R-symmetry Violating Amplitudes in Type IIB Superstring Theory
10/16/12, O.Aharony, Large N Chern-Simons-Matter Theories and Three Dimensional Bosonization
10/09/12, D.Harlow, The Wave Function of the University in Higher Spin Gravity
10/02/12, K.Zurek, Cosmic Clues for Dark Matter and Their Implications for a Dark Matter Asymmetry
09/25/12, F.Smirnov, One-point functions for sine-Gordon model at finite temperature
09/11/12, S.Hartnell, Ohm's Law and cold black holes
Spring 2012
05/16/12, E.Kuflik, A 125 GeV Higgs -- From Naturalness to Fourth Generation and Beyond
04/10/12, T.Ghergetta, Natural SUSY, Split Families and Unification
04/03/12, A.Vichi, Solving the 3D Ising Model with the Conformal Bootstrap
03/27/12, J.Thaler, The Two Faces of Anomaly Mediation
03/20/12, S.Pufu, Is there an F-theorem?
03/06/12, N.Craig, Flavor Mediation
02/23/12, M.Buckley, Constraining Asymmetric Dark Matter
02/21/12, A.Katz, SUSY, The Third Generation and the LHC
02/16/12, T.Cohen, Singlet-Doublet Dark Matter
02/14/12, S.Ramazat, N=2 Superconformal Index and Relativistic Calogero-Sutherland Models
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
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
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
10/20/09, F.Petriello, Precision Higgs physics at colliders
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
09/15/09, N.Seiberg, Comments on FI Terms
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
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
04/29/08, R.Leigh, Mottness and Strong Coupling
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
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
10/23/07, F.Denef, D-brane deconstructions in IIB orientifolds
10/09/07, D.Kreimer, Renormalization revisited: from periods and motives to non-perturbative physics
02/01/07, M.Rocek, Instantons and SL(2,Z) duality in Type IIB Compactifications
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
03/27/07, 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
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
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