Past Events

Monday Seminar: Flat holography and BMSFT

2021-07-05
L4F01 and Zoom

Seminar by Prof. Wei Song, Tsinghua University (Beijing) 

Failed moonshots of the Axial Age

2021-07-01
Lab 3, C700

How various civilizations tried and failed to achieve the Scientific Revolution in the 6th century BC.
Speaker: Yasha Neiman.

QG group meeting: Long and null strings

2021-06-28
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting.
Speaker: Aritra Banerjee.
Title: "A short and dull tale of long and null strings"

Tell Me Something I Don't Know

2021-06-24
B250 auditorium

Tell Me Something I Don't Know lunchtime event.
All are welcome, but must be prepared to tell a cool science story.

Fluxes and Charges in an Expanding Universe

2021-06-14
Lab4 F01

Seminar hosted by QG Unit.
Speaker: Prof. Marika Taylor, University of Southampton
Title: Fluxes and Charges in an Expanding Universe

 

Towards a Ghost-free Theory of Quantum Gravity

2021-05-18
Lab4 F01

Seminar hosted by QG unit.
Speaker: Luca Buoninfante, JSPS postdoctoral fellow
Title: "Towards a Ghost-free Theory of Quantum Gravity"

The Abrahamic fanfictions: 3 great writers vs. fear the mind-killer

2021-05-06
Lab 4, E48

Stories of the great fanfictions on the 3 Abrahamic religions, their writers, their collisions with the anti-intellectual atmospheres of the day, the role of fear, and the uncanny inflammability of manuscripts.

Speaker: Yasha Neiman.
 

Theoretical Physics Seminar: Yasha Neiman

2021-04-30
Lab 4, E01

Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity).
Title: "Spinor-helicity variables in Yang-Mills theory".

Cluster Integrable Systems and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

2021-04-26
Lab4 F01

Zoom seminar hosted by QG unit.
Speaker: Andrei Marshakov, Professor of Mathematical Physics
Title: "Cluster integrable systems and supersymmetric gauge theories"

QG group meeting: Cubic Vertices for N=1 Supersymmetric Massless Higher Spin Fields in Various Dimensions

2021-04-19
Lab 4, E01

QG group meeting.
Speaker: Dorin Weissman.
Title: "Cubic Vertices for N=1 Supersymmetric Massless Higher Spin Fields in Various Dimensions".

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