Physics

High Energy Theory Seminar

November 09, 2012 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm
In the past three years some aspects of the duality in between representation theory of associative algebras and N=2 supersymmetric theories in four dimensions have proven to be crucial for understanding the so-called BPS-quiver theories. Very...

High Energy Theory Seminar

November 05, 2012 | 2:45pm - 4:00pm
The application of the holographic AdS/CFT correspondence to condensed matter systems has shown us remarkable new insights into strongly coupled quantum matter. It provides a novel quantum critical origin of superconductivity that lies outside BCS...

High Energy Theory Seminar

November 02, 2012 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm
We introduce a method for computing conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in any spacetime dimension, making it possible to apply bootstrap techniques to operators with spin. The key idea is to implement the "shadow...

High Energy Theory Seminar

October 22, 2012 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm
One way in which supersymmetric gauge theories can arise in string theory is as worldvolume theories of probe branes at toric Calabi-Yau singularities. For N=1 4d worldvolume theories of D3 branes at Calabi-Yau 3-fold singularities, the field theory...