Archive of IAS Physics Group Meetings

I will discuss kinematic space--the space of pairs of points in a CFT. Basic objects living in kinematic space are OPE blocks--contributions to the OPE from a single conformal family. In holographic theories, OPE blocks are dual at leading order in...

I will review the phenomenological successes of MOND on the scale of galaxies. I will discuss its failure on cosmological scales. These large scale problems have been understood for decades, are very robust and their origin can be easily understood...

I will review the lightcone bootstrap and explain how it canbe used to describe analytically some new numerical results for the 3dIsing CFT.

I will fill in a few details concerning part three of my talk at Natifest.

Motivated by black hole physics, we study the relationship between quantum chaos, holographic complexity, and fined grained notions of randomness. First, we develop a diagnostic of quantum chaos by directly considering the time evolution of a simple...

I will describe a proposal for computing the Schur limit of the superconformal index of four-dimensional N = 2 field theories, which counts local operators in the UV, from the spectrum of BPS particles on the Coulomb branch. This proposal can be...

The goal of this discussion will be to first provide a broader picture and then to discuss the most recent work. I will review the general features of Low energy expansion of stringy amplitudes (tree level and one-loop) and it's relation to number...

I will discuss the discrete Liouville theory and its connection with cluster algebras, Teichmuller theory and supersymmetric gauge theories.References:The version of discrete Liouville I discuss has been formulated by many papers by Faddeev, Volkov...