Past Events

QG group meeting: Deformations and cocycles

2019-10-21
A719, Lab 3

This is the weekly Quantum Gravity group meeting.
Speaker: Slava Lysov.
Title: Deformations and cocycles.

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Andreas Thomasen

2019-10-11
Lab 1, C016

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Andreas Thomasen (Quantum Matter).
Title: "Intuitions about topology in condensed matter physics".

Journal club seminar: Simplest black hole in 4d higher-spin gravity

2019-10-09
B711, Lab 3
We will discuss the classical paper by V.E. Didenko and M.A. Vasiliev Static BPS black hole in 4d higher-spin gauge theory
Yasha Neiman  will be  leading the discussion.

Faculty Lunch Seminar: Yasha Neiman

2019-10-09
Blackboard area, Lab 2, Level B

Faculty Lunch Seminar.
Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity).
Title: "Let us breed a Schrodinger's Cat"

QG group meeting: Recent developments in higher-spin gravity

2019-10-07
A719, Lab 3

This is the weekly Quantum Gravity group meeting.
Speaker: Yasha Neiman.
Title: Recent developments in higher-spin gravity.

Journal club seminar: The Page curve of Hawking radiation from semiclassical geometry

2019-09-27
B 712, Lab 3
We will discuss the recent paper by Ahmed Almheiri, Raghu Mahajan, Juan Maldacena and Ying Zhao The Page curve of Hawking radiation from semiclassical geometry
 
 
Sudip Ghosh  will be  leading the discussion.

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Han Yan

2019-09-13
Lab 1, D014

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Han Yan (Quantum Matter).
Title: "Three types of phases".

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Slava Lysov

2019-08-30
Lab 1, B503

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Slava Lysov (Quantum Gravity).
Title: "Topological Quantum Field Theories".

Mathematical Physics seminar: Chern-Simons theory 9

2019-08-23
B 712, Lab 3

Joint Math and Theoretical physics seminar on Chern-Simons theory, Knot invariants and Volume conjecture. Vyacheslav Lysov will be leading the discussion.

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Sudip Ghosh

2019-08-16
Lab 1, B503

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Sudip Ghosh (Quantum Gravity).
Title: "Web of Dualities in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory".

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