Archive of IAS Friday High Energy Theory Seminars

Apr
11
2014

High Energy Theory Seminar

Effective Actions for Anomalous Hydrodynamics
Mukund Rangamani
1:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

In recent years we have come to appreciate that the microscopic dynamics of quantum field theory leave behind indelible signatures in long range, near-equilibrium phenomena. We will describe an effective field theory which captures some of these...

Mar
28
2014

High Energy Theory Seminar

Regge Theory: Old and New
Simon Caron-Huot
1:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall
Regge theory is the idea that physical observable in quantum theory can be defined for complex angular momentum. Its main result is the possibility to analyze an amplitude in one channel, in terms of the states exchanged in another channel, in...
Feb
14
2014

High Energy Theory Seminar

Anomaly induced transport and Chiral part Cardy Formula
Loganayagam Ramalingam
1:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall
In this talk, I plan to review some of the recent advances in anomaly induced transport processes with a focus on the relation between Lorentz anomalies and thermal transport. The focus will be on an interesting observable called `thermal helicity'...
Dec
13
2013

High Energy Theory Seminar

New Predictions for Dark-Matter Direct-Detection Experiments
Ben Safdi
1:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall
Nov
08
2013

High Energy Theory Seminar

Comments on Holographic Finite Density Matter
Andrei Parnachev
1:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

I will review the low energy excitations and other observables in the strongly interacting finite density states described by holography.

Oct
04
2013

High Energy Theory Seminar

The 4d Superconformal Bootstrap: Chiral Algebras in 4d Superconformal Field Theory (Part II)
Christopher Beem
1:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall
Sep
20
2013

High Energy Theory Seminar

Superselection Sectors in AdS/CFT
Aron Wall
1:30pm|Jadwin Hall, Seminar Room A07
AdS/CFT is a duality relating the degrees of freedom in a D dimensional bulk gravity theory to a (D-1) dimensional theory living on the boundary.
I will argue that in fact the boundary theory contains only a subset of the bulk observables. For each...
Physics