Archive of IAS Physics Group Meetings

Apr
22
2015

Physics Group Meeting

Holographic rho meson condensation
Nele Callebaut
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library
In the presence of strong magnetic fields, the QCD vacuum may become unstable towards condensation of charged rho mesons, forming a superconducting state. I will talk about our investigation of this possible instability in a well-known holographic...
Apr
15
2015

Physics Group Meeting

Bulk Locality and Quantum Error Correction in AdS/CFT
Daniel Harlow
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library

I will describe recent work explaining how several paradoxical features of bulk locality in AdS/CFT can be explained by interpreting the CFT as a quantum error correcting code. Time permitting I will also present an explicit discrete model of this...

Apr
01
2015

Physics Group Meeting

Higgs Production at N3LO
Bernhard Mistlberger
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library
Mar
25
2015

Physics Group Meeting

Something Cloudy, Something Clear: Yet Another Look at Canonical Quantization of Pure Gravity on AdS3
Massimo Porrati
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library

I will review progress and questions originating from an attempt to quantize pure gravity on AdS3 by using canonical quantization in a "constrain first" approach. Questions will outnumber answers.

Feb
25
2015

Physics Group Meeting

BIG J
Simeon Hellerman
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library

The topic of this seminar is the simplification of strongly interacting quantum
field theory at large J, where J is the quantum number of a state
under some symmetry group such as angular momentum or a global charge. As an example, I will review...

Feb
04
2015

Physics Group Meeting

Spectral Problems from Topological Strings
Johan Källen
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library
Nov
26
2014

Physics Group Meeting

Boundary Conditions and Symplectic Duality in 3d N=4 Theories
Tudor Dimofte
1:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Physics Library
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