Sep 03
Show and Tell
Sep 10
TBA
Sep 17
TBA
Sep 24
TBA
Oct 01
TBA
Oct 08
TBA
Oct 15
TBA
Oct 22
TBA
Oct 29
TBA
Nov 05
TBA
Nov 12
TBA
Nov 19
TBA
Nov 26
No talks (Thanksgiving)
Dec 03
TBA
MP Lunch
The seminars are on Wednesdays, noon to 1PM, in Lake Hall 509/511.
Spring 2025
The seminars are on Fridays, noon to 1PM, in Nightingale 544.
Jan 17
Show & Tell
Jan 24
Jim: String Junctions
Jan 31
Fabian: Categorification of low-dimensional topology invariants
Feb 07
Luigi: Generalized Complex Geometry
Feb 14
Aaron: CY Periods
Feb 21
Li: 2D non-critical string
Feb 28
Joydeep: Holographic entropy inequalities
Mar 07
No seminar (Spring Break)
Mar 14
Hamza: Biforms and higher-form symmetries in gravity
Mar 21
Chris: Heisenberg Superspace
Mar 28
Jonathan: Reflection Positivity and CS Theory
Apr 04
Keiichiro: Brief introduction to von Neumann algebras, subfactors, and index theory
Apr 11
Christian: From Stochastic Processes to Path Integrals
Fall 2024
The seminars are on Fridays, noon to 1PM, in Nightingale 544.
Sep 13
Show & Tell
Sep 20
Joydeep: NN - CFT correspondence
Sep 27
General Discussion
Oct 04
Chris: Heisenberg Supersymmetry
Oct 11
Fabian: Attractors, Laplacians, and Moduli Spaces
Oct 18
Ziming: The Invariant Theory of Matrices and Black Holes
Oct 25
Anadil: Monopoles in Contact Geometries
Nov 01
Yidi: Numerical Verification Methods for PDEs
Nov 08
Yikun: AdS3/CFT2
Nov 15
Keiichiro: Holographic Entropy Inequalities
Nov 22
Rafa: Topological Modular Forms and Anomalies
Nov 29
No talks (Thanksgiving)
Dec 06
Jim: NN-QFT
Spring 2024
The seminars are on Thursdays, noon to 1PM, in Dana 114.
Jan 11
Vishnu: Modular factorization of superconformal indices
Jan 18
Open discussion
Jan 25
Open discussion
Fab 01
Open discussion
Feb 08
Paul: Frozen Singularities in Heterotic String Theory
Feb 15
Open discussion
Feb 22
Open discussion
Feb 29
Open discussion
Mar 07
Open discussion
Mar 14
Fabian: Searching classical de Sitter solutions
Mar 21
Koji: TBA
Mar 28
Open discussion
Apr 04
Daniel: An introduction to associative submanifolds and new examples of them
Apr 11
Jesus: Dynamical cobordism in AdS/CFT
Fall 2023
The seminars are on Wednesdays, noon to 1PM, in Nightingale 544.
Sep 06
Organization
Sep 13
Paul: Elliptic K3s and LSTs
Sep 20
Fabian: Knot Theory and SPC4
Sep 27
Anadil: Supersymmetry and Legendrian Knots
Oct 04
Hamza: Little String Theory and T-Duality
Oct 11
Jim: Neural Networks and Field Theory
Oct 18
Ning: Contraction mappings in entropy inequalities
Oct 25
Mboyo: Birational Geometry of E6-models
Nov 01
Yidi: G2 holonomy manifolds and Machine Learning
Nov 08
Fabian: Journal Club on RL and resolution of singularities
Nov 15
Hamza: Journal Club on RL and resolution of singularities Part II
Nov 22
No talk (Thanksgiving break)
Nov 29
Anadil: Morse Theory, Handlebodies and 3-Manifolds
Spring 2023
The seminars are on Mondays, noon to 1PM, in Dana 114.
Jan 09
Organization
Jan 16
No talk (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Jan 23
Sarah: Moonshine
Jan 30
Anadil: Kac-Moody and loop algebras
Feb 06
Jim: Metric Flows
Feb 13
Paul: Mirror Symmetry
Feb 20
No talk (President's Day)
Feb 27
Fabian: Flops and Coxeter Groups
Mar 06
Mehmet: Computational tools for CY manifolds
Mar 13
Hamza: Laplacian eigenvalues and complex multiplication
Mar 20
Chris: Supersymmetry and Legendrian knots
Mar 27
Iva: Quiver Varieties
Apr 03
Piotr Kucharski (Warsaw): Knot-Quiver correspondence
Apr 10
Joydeep: Modular forms
Apr 17
No talk (Patriots' Day)
Theory Seminars
The seminars are on Tuesdays, 1PM to 2PM, in Dana 114.
Sep 09
TBA
Sep 16
TBA
Sep 23
TBA
Sep 30
TBA
Oct 07
TBA
Oct 14
TBA
Oct 21
TBA
Oct 28
TBA
Nov 04
TBA
Nov 11
No talks (Veterans Day)
Nov 18
TBA
Nov 25
TBA
Dec 02
TBA
Spring 2025
The seminars are on Tuesdays, 12:30PM to 1:30PM, in Dana 114.
Jan 14
Colin Nancarrow (Boston University): Coarse-grained Bootstrap of Quantum Many-Body Systems
Jan 21
Show & Tell
Jan 28
Vivek Saxena (Stony Brook): Topological Twisting and Generalized Spin Structures
Feb 04
Jonathan Weitsman (Northeastern): The Chern-Simons Functional Integral, Kauffman's Bracket Polynomial, and Deformation Quantization
Feb 11
Yoe-Zhou Li (Princeton): The no-boundary density matrix of the universe
Feb 18
Giulia Fardelli (Boston University): The conformal generators on the fuzzy sphere
Feb 25
Atul Sharma (Harvard): An integrable subsector of AdS/CFT
Mar 04
Diandian Wang (Harvard): Ensemble of 2d BCFTs and Open-closed 3d Gravity
Mar 11
Ying Zhao (MIT): Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a close universe
Mar 18
Scott Collier (MIT): A microscopic realization of dS3
Mar 25
Kai Xu (Harvard): Finite Landscape of 6d N=(1,0) Supergravity
Apr 01
Hector Parra De Freitas (Harvard): Symmetry freezing in string vacua with 16 supercharges
Apr 08
Zhengyuan Du (Tsinghua): Asymptotic symmetry in TsT T\bar{T} holography
Apr 15
Matthew Dodelson (Harvard): Ringdown at finite coupling
Fall 2024
The seminars are on Tuesdays, 12:30PM to 1:30PM, in Dana 114.
Sep 10
Show & Tell
Sep 17
Ziming Ji (Northeastern): Phase transitions in QFT and Black Holes
Sep 24
Christian Ferko (Northeastern): A Hodge Theory for Entanglement Cohomology
Oct 01
Nathan Benjamin (USC LA): Angular fractals in thermal CFT
Oct 07 1PM (note unusual date and time)
Charles Cao (Virginia Tech): Holographic Magic
Oct 08
Yiming Chen (Stanford): Fortuity and Chaos of BPS States
Oct 15
Kit Fraser-Taliente (Oxford): Computation of Quark Masses in string theory
Oct 22
Thomas Harvey (MIT): Enumerating Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Oct 29
Rafael Alvarez Garcia (Northeastern): The Distance Conjecture, Semi-stable Degenerations and F-theory
Nov 05
Aron Wall (Cambridge): Off Shell Strings and Black Hole Entropy
Nov 12
Grant Remmen (NYU): Uniquely Bootstrapping String Theory
Nov 14
Sam van Leuven (Wits): 4d modularity
Nov 19
David Kolchmeyer (MIT): Chaos and the Emergence of the Cosmological Horizon
Nov 26
Wei Bu (Northeastern): 2d theory for asymptotic dynamics of 4d (self-dual) Einstein gravity
Dec 03
Richard Nally (MIT): Candidate de Sitter Vacua
Spring 2024
The seminars are on Mondays, noon to 1PM, in Dana 114.
Jan 15
No Seminar (Martin Luther King Jr Day)
Jan 22
Ben Heidenreich: Proving the Weak Gravity Conjecture in Perturbative String Theory
Jan 29
Chiara Toldo: Thermodynamics of near-extreme Kerr
Feb 05
Giulia Fardelli: Holography and Regge Phases at Large U(1) Charge
Feb 12
Brian Williams: A complex geometric perspective on a,c anomalies
Feb 19
No Seminar (Presidents Day)
Feb 26
John Stout: Infinite Distances and Factorization
Mar 04
Martin Sasieta: Geometric Surprises in the Python's Lunch Conjecture
Mar 11
Jonathan Sorce: Analyticity and the Unruh effect
Mar 18
Brandon Rayhaun: Genera of Chiral Algebras
Mar 25
Hector Parra De Freitas: On the quantum gravity landscape with half-maximal supersymmetry and its non-supersymmetric version
Apr 01
Fien Apers: String theory and the first half of the universe
Apr 08
Wati Taylor: Beyond F-theory
Apr 15
No Seminar (Patriots Day)
Fall 2023
The seminars are on Tuesdays, 1PM to 2PM, in Dana 114.
Sep 05
Eduardo Garcia Valdecasas Tenreiro: Lower Form Symmetry and the Strong CP Problem
Sep 12
Show and Tell
Sep 19
Yikun Jiang: Hartle-Hawking state and its factorization in 3d gravity
Sep 26
Naomi Gendler: Glimmers from the Axiverse
Oct 03
Joe Minahan: The Hagedorn temperature in planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills, ABJM, and string theory
Oct 10
Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca: Near-Extremal Black Hole Entropies from Replica Matrices
Oct 17
Brianna Grado-White: Minimax Surfaces and Holographic Entropy Inequalities
Oct 24
Keiichiro Furuya: Information loss, mixing and emergent type-III_1 factors
Oct 31
Michele Galli: Consistent truncations and KK spectra via exceptional field theory
Nov 07
Hsin Yuan Huang: Local minima in quantum systems
Nov 14
Damian van de Heisteeg: Species Scale across String Moduli Spaces
Nov 21
Guglielmo Lockhart: BPS strings and the ALE partition functions of 6d SCFTs
Nov 28
Justin Kaidi: Non-Supersymmetric Heterotic Branes
Dec 05
Manki Kim: A Worldsheet Description of Flux Compactifications
Spring 2023
The seminars are on Thursdays, 1PM to 2PM, in Dana 114.
Jan 12
Jan 19
Thorsten Schimannek (Zoom): Topological Strings on Non-Commutative Resolutions
Jan 26
Liam Fitzpatrick (in person): Hamiltonian Truncation
Feb 02
Jakob Moritz (Zoom): Moduli Space Reconstruction and Weak Gravity
Feb 09
Keith Dienes (Zoom): UV/IR Mixing, EFTs, Hidden Cancellations, and Origami: Calculating the Higgs Mass in String Theory
Feb 16
Anindita Maiti (in person): p-Adic Statistical Field Theory and Convolutional Deep Boltzmann Machines
Feb 23
Ho Tat Lam (in person): Non-invertible symmetries
Mar 02
Tom Taylor (in person): Celestial Liouville Theory
Mar 09
Arxiv discussion
Mar 16
Eva Silverstein (Zoom): Energy-Conserving Hamiltonian Dynamics for Predictably Improved Optimization and Sampling
Mar 23
Florent Baume (in person): The Swampland, CFTs, and Distance Conjectures
Mar 30
Anastasia Volovich (in person): Recent Developments in N=4 Yang-Mills Amplitudes
Apr 06
Oliver Schlotterer (in person): Modular graph forms and iterated integrals in string amplitudes
Apr 13
Manki Kim (in person): Recent progress on non-perturbative superpotential in string theory
Apr 20
Chris Akers (in person): In pursuit of better holographic tensor networks