Fall 2020
Tue 09/01
2:00 pm
TBA
2:00 pm
TBA
Theory Group Seminar
TBA
To be announced!
Tue 09/08
2:00 pm
TBA
2:00 pm
TBA
Theory Group Seminar
TBA
To be announced!
Tue 09/15
2:00 pm
Online
2:00 pm
Online
Theory Group Seminar
Black Holes in the Early Universe
Dan Hooper, University of Chicago
Tue 09/22
2:00 pm
Online
2:00 pm
Online
Theory Group Seminar
Decoding and bootstrapping cosmological fluctuations
Gui Pimentel, Leiden University and U. of Amsterdam (Abstract)
Tue 09/29
2:00 pm
Online
2:00 pm
Online
Theory Group Seminar
Seifert Manifolds and Quantum Field Theory
Yale Fan, UT-Austin (Abstract)
Tue 10/06
2:00 pm
Online
2:00 pm
Online
Theory Group Seminar
The (A)dS swampland conjectures
Timm Wrase, Lehigh University (Abstract)
Tue 10/13
2:00 pm
Online
2:00 pm
Online
Theory Group Seminar
Leading order corrections to the quantum extremal surface prescription
Chris Akers, MIT (Abstract)
Tue 10/20
2:00 pm
Online
2:00 pm
Online
Theory Group Seminar
Magnetic scattering: pairwise little group and pairwise helicity
Csaba Csaki, Cornell (Abstract)
Tue 10/27
2:00 pm
Online
2:00 pm
Online
Theory Group Seminar
Searching for Primordial Black Holes
Nicola Bellomo, UT-Austin (Abstract)
Tue 11/03
2:00 pm
Online
2:00 pm
Online
Theory Group Seminar
Ising/gravity duality: nonhandlebodies & branes
Haoyu Sun, UT-Austin (Abstract)
Tue 11/10
2:00 pm
Online
2:00 pm
Online
Theory Group Seminar
Learning Cosmology from the First Stars and Reionization
Julian Muñoz, Harvard (Abstract)
Tue 11/17
2:00 pm
TBA
2:00 pm
TBA
Theory Group Seminar
Aharonov-Bohm in the Sky : A CMB Millikan Experiment with Cosmic Axiverse Strings
Anson Hook, UMD (Abstract)
Tue 11/24
2:00 pm
TBA
2:00 pm
TBA
Theory Group Seminar
Thanksgiving Break
n/a
Tue 12/01
2:00 pm
TBA
2:00 pm
TBA
Theory Group Seminar
TBA
Indranil Halder, Harvard
Tue 12/08
2:00 pm
TBA
2:00 pm
TBA
Theory Group Seminar
Tracing Dark Matter with Stars
Lina Necib, Caltech (Abstract)
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