Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
The University of Southampton
STAG Research Centre Seminars

String Theory seminars 2023-2024

Seminars take place on Wednesdays 13:00, unless otherwise noted.


26 September 2023: Ioannis Papadimitriou (Athens) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]

Algebraically special solutions and accelerating black hole thermodynamics


04 October 2023: Prateksh Dhivakar (IIT Kanpur)

AdS Witten diagrams to Carrollian correlators


10 October 2023: David Vegh (Queen Mary) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]

The 't Hooft equation as a quantum spectral curve


11 October 2023: Sravan Kumar (Portsmouth)

Non-localities in quantum gravity and their implications for early Universe cosmology and black hole physics


18 October 2023: No seminar - STAG Public Lecture


25 October 2023: Dong-Gang Wang (Cambridge)

On the IR divergences in de Sitter: from trees to loops and back


01 November 2023: Ioannis Matthaiakakis (Southampton)

Quantum Complexity as Hydrodynamics


08 November 2023: No seminar (Physics Department job talks)


15 November 2023: Masanori Hanada (QMUL)

Color Confinement and Random Matrices


22 November 2023: Antony Speranza (U. Illinois)

Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity


29 November 2023: Karapet Mkrtchyan (Imperial)

Democratic Lagrangians and where they come from


05 December 2023: Junggi Yoon (APCTP, Pohang) [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY: TUESDAY]

Gravitational edge mode for 2D gravity


06 December 2023: Monica Kang (Caltech)

Emergent N=4 supersymmetry from N=1


13 December 2023: Pratik Roy (U. Witwatersrand)

Quantum thermodynamics from holographic quenches



Winter Break



31 January 2024: Nicolas Kovensky (Saclay)

Ascending the attractor flow in the D1-D5 system


07 February 2024: Oscar Dias (Southampton)

New SYM phases at finite chemical potential


14 February 2024: No string seminar [SHEP seminar - Jonathan Oppenheim]


21 February 2024: Kajal Singh (Liverpool) [UNUSUAL LOCATION: 05/2011]

Finding G_2 Higgs Branch of 4D rank 1 SCFTs


28 February 2024: Vaios Ziogas (Bristol)

U(1) quasi-hydrodynamics: Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory and holography


06 March 2024: Yoav Zigdon (Cambridge)

Rotating Horowitz-Polchinski Solutions


13 March 2024: Seyed Morteza Hosseini (Imperial)

Gravitational Blocks and Matrix Models


20 March 2024: Micha Berkooz (Weizmann Institute)

The double scaled SYK model: quantum chaos and non-commutative spacetime



Easter Break



24 April 2024: Shota Komatsu (CERN)

Non-Invertible Symmetries, Anomalies and Scattering Amplitudes


01 May 2024: Fridrik Freyr Gautason (Southampton)

S-folds and their conformal manifolds


08 May 2024: Julius Julius (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst.)

CFT-data of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills


15 May 2024: Balt van Rees (École polytechnique)

QFT in AdS instead of LSZ



Organisers

David Turton [email protected]

Ben Withers [email protected]

String Theory seminar homepage

Find out more
Privacy Settings
Powered by Fruition