Past Events
Monday Seminar: Flat holography and BMSFT
2021-07-05Seminar by Prof. Wei Song, Tsinghua University (Beijing)
Failed moonshots of the Axial Age
2021-07-01How 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
2021-06-28QG group meeting.
Speaker: Aritra Banerjee.
Title: "A short and dull tale of long and null strings"
Tell Me Something I Don't Know
2021-06-24Tell 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
2021-06-14Seminar 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
2021-05-18Seminar 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
2021-05-06Stories 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
2021-04-30Theoretical Physics Seminar.
Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity).
Title: "Spinor-helicity variables in Yang-Mills theory".
Cluster Integrable Systems and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
2021-04-26Zoom 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
2021-04-19QG group meeting.
Speaker: Dorin Weissman.
Title: "Cubic Vertices for N=1 Supersymmetric Massless Higher Spin Fields in Various Dimensions".