IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

When absorbing boundary conditions are used to evaporate a black hole in AdS/CFT, we show that there is a phase transition in the location of the quantum Ryu-Takayanagi surface, at precisely the Page time. The new RT surface lies slightly inside the...

We construct a general form for an F-theory Weierstrass model over any base giving a 6D or 4D supergravity theory with gauge group SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) / Z_6 and associated generic matter. The concept of 'generic matter' can be rigorously defined in...

We present a first-principles derivation of a weak-strong duality between the four-dimensional fishnet theory in the planar limit and a discretized string-like model living in AdS5. At strong coupling, the dual description becomes classical and we...

We present recent advances in constructions of globally consistent
F-theory compactifications with the exact chiral spectrum of the minimal
supersymmetric Standard Model. We highlight the first such example and
then turn to a subsequent systematic...

Anomalies are invariants under renormalization group flow which lead to powerful constraints on the phases of quantum field theories. I will explain how these ideas can be generalized to families of theories labelled by coupling constants like the...

My talk will aim to be a friendly introduction for condensed matter friends, mathematicians, and QFT theorists alike --- I shall quickly review and warm up the use of higher symmetries and anomalies of gauge theories and condensed matter systems...

In many-body chaotic systems, the size of an operator generically grows in Heisenberg evolution, and is measured by out-of-time-ordered four-point functions. However, these only provide a coarse probe of the full underlying operator growth structure...

I will describe a large ensemble of compactifications of type IIB string theory on Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces, obtained by triangulating polytopes from the Kreuzer-Skarke list. We have developed methods to compute effective theories in the...