Archive of IAS Monday High Energy Theory Seminars

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...

Jan
26
2015

High Energy Theory Seminar

The Time Reversal Invariant Fractional Josephson Effect
Charles Kane
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Topological Superconductivity is a topic of current interest because of its potential for providing a new method for storing and manipulating quantum information. One of the most basic consequences of topological superconductivity is the fractional...

Nov
24
2014

High Energy Theory Seminar

Quantum Supergravity and Exact Holography
Joao Gomes
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

I will present recent results on the computation of finite N corrections in supergravity in the context of AdS2/CFT1 and AdS4/ABJM holography. I will show how to use localisation in supergravity to compute all perturbative and nonperturbative charge...

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