[Seminar] "Surface operators in N=2 SQCD and Seiberg Duality" by Sourav Ballav

Speaker: Sourav Ballav from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

[Seminar] "Classical soft theorem in four dimension" by Dr. Arnab Priya Saha

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

Journal club seminar: Unitarity Methods in AdS/CFT

Title: Unitarity methods in AdS/CFT

Abstract: We are going to discuss the recent paper by David Meltzer , Eric Perlmutter and Allic Sivaramakrishnan  "Unitarity methods in AdS/CFT". Sudip Ghosh will be leading the discussion. 

QG group meeting: Symplectic reduction, asymptotic symmetries and edge modes

This is the weekly QG group meeting.
Speaker: Slava Lysov
Title: "Symplectic reduction, asymptotic symmetries and edge modes"

QG group meeting - the hidden heavy particles in higher-spin gravity

This is the weekly QG group meeting.
Speaker: Yasha Neiman
Title: "The hidden heavy particles in higher-spin gravity"

Journal club seminar: Batalin-Vilkoviski formalism and applications

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".

Seminar "Tensionless Strings from worldsheet perspective" by Dr. Aritra Banerjee

Speaker: Dr. Aritra Banerjee, APCTP, South Korea

Journal club seminar: Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation

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" 

[Seminar] "Out of time ordered effective dynamics of a quartic oscillator" by Dr. Bidisha Chakrabarty

Speaker: Dr. Bidisha Chakrabarty, ICTS-TIFR

Group Meeting: Review of Higher Spin Theories - Part 3

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.