String Theory Seminar

The string theory group holds seminars on a near weekly basis during the semester. Speakers are invited to the ITP to give a talk based on their current research.

The talks are held in a 30+45 minute format. The first 30 minutes are an informal introduction to the topic, aimed at masters and PhD students, to provide context to those who are not active researchers in the field. The seminar talk itself comprises the remaining 45 minutes. 

Time

15.30 - 17.00 hours

Location

Buys Ballot Building, room 7.12

Organizers

For information about this page please contact Casey Cartwright

 

Semester II

Irregular KZ-equations from Liouville conformal blocks

Babak Haghighat, Tsinghua University
January 16 

    Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

    Fabian Ruehle, Northeastern University
    January 23 (Online seminar)

      Detector operators in quantum gravity

      Murat Kologlu, Yale University
      February 5

        Supersymmetric Holomorphic Masses from Holography

        Ronnie Rodgers, Nordita
        February 13

          Off-shell N=8 Supergravity as the Double Copy of N=4 super-Yang-Mills

          Olaf Hohm, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
          February 20

            Gravitational Collapse at the Boundary

            David Mateos, Universitat de Barcelona
            February 27

              Symmetric flux vacua and arithmetic geometry

              Pyry Kuusela, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
              March 6

                An S-Folded Route to Type IIB Superstring Theory

                Mario Trigante, Politecnico di Torino
                March 13

                  Non-modal effects in black hole perturbation theory

                  Benjamin Withers, University of Southampton 
                  March 20

                    Calabi-Yau geometries in quantum field theory and general relativity 

                    Christoph Nega, Technische Universität München
                    April 3

                      Quantum Theory, Gravity and Second Order Geometry

                      Folkert Kuipers, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
                      April 17

                        An intrinsic cosmological observer

                        Antony Speranza, Universiteit van Amsterdam
                        April 24

                          Stringy Gregory-Laflamme

                          Marija Tomašević, Universiteit van Amsterdam
                          May 15

                            TBA

                            Amihay Hanany, Imperial College London
                            May 22

                              TBA

                              Roberta Angius, Instituto de Física Teórica / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
                              June 12

                                Semester I

                                Finding Integrable Models

                                Marius De Leeuw, Trinity College Dublin
                                September 12

                                  The view of a point: Wigner-Inonu contractions and the flat space limit of AdS scattering

                                  David Berenstein, UC Santa Barbara
                                  September 19

                                    Weak G2-manifolds and scale separation in M-theory from type IIA backgrounds

                                    Vincent Van Hemelryck, Uppsala Universitet
                                    September 26

                                      Classical Double Copy: Solutions, Horizons, and Penrose Limits

                                      Cynthia Keeler, Arizona State University 
                                      October 3

                                        Exploring modulated instabilities of holographic quark matter

                                        Tuna Demircik, Universiteit Utrecht
                                        October 10

                                          Spinning the Primordial Liquid

                                          Enrico Speranza, CERN
                                          October 17

                                            An index for flux vacua

                                            Severin Lüst, Université de Montpellier
                                            October 31

                                              An Inflationary Cosmology from Wormholes

                                              Panos Betzios, Universiteit Gent
                                              November 7

                                                The Complex Liouville String

                                                Lorenz Eberhardt, Universiteit van Amsterdam
                                                November 14

                                                  Universal thermalization dynamics in (1+1)d QFTs

                                                  Richard Davison, Heriot-Watt University
                                                  November 21

                                                    D-ITP Meeting - Utrecht

                                                    November 29

                                                    Non-perturbative resolution of strong coupling singularities in 4d N=1 heterotic/M-theory 

                                                    Max Wiesner, Universität Hamburg
                                                    December 5

                                                      Navigating Scalar Field Space with Geometric Flows

                                                      Thomas Raml, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
                                                      December 12

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