Theory Group - Seminars & Special Talks

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Fall 2016

Tue 08/30
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

TBA

To be announced!

Wed 08/31
4:00 pm
RLM 4.102

Physics Colloquium

Adding a Little Flavor to Dark Matter

Can Kilic

Tue 09/06
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Strong Forms of the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Tom Rudelius, Harvard University (Abstract)

Tue 09/13
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

How rare are the vacua in large-dimensional landscapes?

Ali Masoumi, Tufts University (Abstract)

Tue 09/20
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

A (The?) Higgs Vacuum Instability During Inflation

Jack Kearney, Fermilab (Abstract)

Thu 09/22
12:30 pm
RLM 9.222

Brown Bag Meeting

Relaxed Inflation

Walter Tangarife, Tel Aviv University (Abstract)

Tue 09/27
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Causality constraints in quantum field theory

Sandipan Kundu, Cornell University (Abstract)

Tue 10/04
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Cosmology and the Provenance of Inflation

Matt Kleban, NYU (Abstract)

Thu 10/06
12:30 pm
RLM 9.222

Brown Bag Meeting

Scattering with partial information

Dan Carney, UBC-Vancouver (Abstract)

Tue 10/11
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Splitting and showering in the electroweak sector

Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh (Abstract)

Wed 10/12
4:00 pm
RLM 4.102

Physics Colloquium

Physics Motivations for Future Colliders

Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh (Abstract)

Tue 10/18
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Scalar Gravitational Waves in the Effective Theory of Gravity

Emil Mottola, LANL (Abstract)

Tue 10/25
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Holography and Scattering Amplitudes

Clifford Cheung, Caltech (Abstract)

Wed 10/26
4:00 pm
RLM 4.102

Physics Colloquium

Holography and Entanglement

Elena Caceres, Universidad de Colima and UT (Abstract)

Thu 10/27
12:30 pm
RLM 9.222

Brown Bag Meeting

Boundary Causality vs Hyperbolicity for Spherical Black Holes in Gauss-Bonnet

Elena Caceres, Universidad de Colima and UT

Tue 11/01
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Nnaturalness

Tim Cohen, University of Oregon (Abstract)

Tue 11/08
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Twin phenomenology

Csaba Csaki, Cornell University (Abstract)

Tue 11/15
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Weinberg Soft Theorems from Weinberg Adiabatic Modes

Mehrdad Mirbabayi, Stanford (Abstract)

Tue 11/22
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

TBA

To be announced!

Tue 11/29
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

AdS/CFT & Computational Complexity

Scott Aaronson, UTexas Computer Science (Abstract)

Tue 12/06
2:00 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

Canonical realization of BMS symmetry

Joaquim Gomis, Universitat de Barcelona (Abstract)

Thu 12/08
12:30 pm
RLM 7.104

Theory Group Seminar

A Broadband/Resonant Approach to Axion Dark Matter Detection

Yonatan Kahn, Princeton University (Abstract)

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Theory Group Seminars and Special Talks All talks are Tuesdays at 2:00 PM in RLM 9.222 unless otherwise noted.

Relativity Seminars All talks are Thursdays at 3:30 PM in RLM 9.222 unless otherwise noted.

Geometry and String Theory Seminars All meetings are Wednesdays at 12:00 PM in RLM 8.136 unless otherwise noted.

Physics Colloquia All talks are Wednesdays at 4:00 PM in RLM 4.102 unless otherwise noted.

Brown Bag Meetings All meetings are Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:30 PM in RLM 9.222 unless otherwise noted. These meetings will typically consist of a short talk on current research or other matters of interest to the group, followed by an open discussion. The emphasis is on the open discussion, so meeting agendas might not be regularly announced.

Texas Cosmology Center Seminars All meetings will be announced