Dr Henry Gee

Senior Editor

NATURE

This will be the concluding part of the series of lectures on Higher Spin theories by Mirian Tsulaia. 

Abstract:  In today's talk we will discuss Vasiliev's formulation of Higher Spin theories, focussing in particular on the topic of free and nonlinear unfolded equations. 

Speaker: Yasha Neiman

Title: Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation

Abstract :We are going to discuss the recent paper by Ahmed Almheiri, Thomas Hartman, Juan Maldacena, Edgar Shaghoulian and Amirhossein Tajdini  "Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation" 

"Uniaxial-strain Control of Nematic Superconductivity in SrxBi2Se3" by Dr. Ivan Kostylev, Kyoto University

Speaker: Slava Lysov

Title: Batalin-Vilkoviski formalism and applications.

Abstract : I am going to rewiev the Batalin-Vilkoviski (BV) formalinsm and discuaa some applications of it. The releveant papers are: classical paper on BV by A. Schwarz  "Geometry of Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization" and the paper by Gorodentsev, Krotov and Losev "Quantum Field Theory as Effective BV Theory from Chern-Simons".

Speaker: Dr. Arnab Priya Saha, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Seva Nikulin.
Title: "De Sitter space as a space of probability distributions".

Dr. Hiroaki Sako, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Tokyo. Language: English, no interpretation.

Dr. Sakie Katsumura, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas. Language: English, no interpretation.

Speaker: Dr. Lobb is a professor at Durham University and is currently visiting OIST (visit his page).