Archive of IAS Monday High Energy Theory Seminars

Oct
05
2015

High Energy Theory Seminar

Soft Dilaton Theorems
Rutger Boels
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Spontaneously broken conformal invariance appears in many contexts such as a class of Higgs portal models, N>=2 SYM on its Coulomb branch, inflation and target space string theory. In observables this broken symmetry is shown to lead to soft...

May
11
2015

High Energy Theory Seminar

Aspects of 6D SCFTs and their Toroidal Compactifications
Michele Del Zotto
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Six dimensional superconformal quantum field theories are in between the most interesting quantum systems whose existence is guaranteed by stringy arguments. In this seminar I am going to discuss some aspects of their geometric engineering using F...

Apr
27
2015

High Energy Theory Seminar

Goldstone Gauginos
Neal Weiner
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall
Experimental constraints on models such as supersymmetry have challenged our assumptions about naturalness, while simultaneously pushing exploration into alternatives that might be more natural. One such scenario is supersymmetry with Dirac...
Mar
30
2015

High Energy Theory Seminar

Non-thermal Dark Matter -- a Generic Prediction of String/M theory
Bobby Acharya
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall
Solutions of string/M theory with low energy supersymmetry breaking generically have light moduli fields whose masses are of order the supersymmetry breaking scale. These fields -- whose expectation values parametrise the size and shape of the...
Feb
23
2015

High Energy Theory Seminar

Exact Holographic Mapping, Tensor Networks and Space-time Geometry
Xiaoliang Qi
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Holographic duality is a duality between gravitational systems and non-gravitational systems. In this talk, I will propose a different approach for understanding holographic duality named as the exact holographic mapping. The key idea of this...

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