Jan 17
Show & Tell
Jan 24
TBA: TBA
Jan 31
TBA: TBA
Feb 07
TBA: TBA
Feb 14
TBA: TBA
Feb 21
TBA: TBA
Feb 28
TBA: TBA
Mar 07
No seminar (Spring Break)
Mar 14
TBA: TBA
Mar 21
TBA: TBA
Mar 28
TBA: TBA
Apr 04
TBA: TBA
Apr 11
TBA: TBA
Apr 18
TBA: TBA
MP Lunch
The seminars are on Fridays, noon to 1PM, in Nightingale 544.
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, 12:30PM to 1:30PM, in Dana 114.
Jan 14
Show & Tell
Jan 21
TBA: TBA
Jan 28
TBA: TBA
Feb 04
TBA: TBA
Feb 11
TBA: TBA
Feb 18
TBA: TBA
Feb 25
TBA: TBA
Mar 04
No seminar (Spring Break)
Mar 11
TBA: TBA
Mar 18
TBA: TBA
Mar 25
TBA: TBA
Apr 01
TBA: TBA
Apr 08
TBA: TBA
Apr 15
TBA: TBA
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