Applying Quantum Computing to HEP

Steve Abel (IPPP).

MR2.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Emergent gauge fields, fractionalised quasiparticles and dynamical fractals

Claudio Castelnovo (Cavendish).

MR2.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

On-shell techniques for the standard-model EFTs

Gauthier Durieux (Universite Catholique de Louvain).

MR2.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

No-Horizon Physics on the Horizon? Phenomenology of Black Hole Microstates

Paolo Pani - Sapienza University of Rome.

MR2.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

The IKKT matrix model as a possible basis for 3+1-dimensional (quantum) gravity & cosmology

Harold Steinacker, University of Vienna.

MR2.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

The Problem with Deep Learning in Science (and how to fix it).

Miles Cranmer, DAMTP.

MR2.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Non-Locality in Networks

Nicolas Gisin, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

MR2.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

Fluid dynamics for neutron star mergers: variations, simulations and fluctuations

Professor Nils Andersson, University of Southampton.

Both in-person (MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Is spacetime a material?

Tarek Anous (Queen Mary University of London).

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

A symmetry-based top-down approach to the Standard Model flavor puzzle

Andreas Trautner (Heidelberg).

Both in-person (MR9, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Gravitational Waves and Proton Decay as Complementary Windows into Grand Unification

Jessica Turner, IPPP Durham.

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Comparing gravitational-wave data and stellar-physics predictions with deep learning

Prof. Davide Gerosa, University of Milano-Bicocca.

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Black Holes, Holography and Microstates

Alberto Zaffaroni (Milan).

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal aspects of quantum information in quantum gravity

Alex May, Stanford University.

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantum information and many-body physics

Frank Verstraete (DAMTP).

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Symmetric product orbifolds: how to engineer quantum gravity in AdS/CFT

Alejandra Castro (DAMTP).

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Holography and the Celestial Sphere

Andrea Puhm, CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique.

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Superradiance in stars

Fran Chadha-Day (IPPP Durham).

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

The piezoaxionic effect

Prof. Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute.

Online (link to be shared in email).

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Superpositions of Massive Bodies and Gravitationally Mediated Entanglement

Prof. Robert Wald, the University of Chicago.

Online (zoom details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 14:15-15:15

Bose Fermi Dualities in 3 spacetime dimensions

Prof. Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Online (link to be shared in email).

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 14:15-15:15

Fluxes and charges in de Sitter

Prof. Marika Taylor, University of Southampton .

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:15-15:15

Effective-one-body waveform modeling of coalescing compact binaries: status and perspectives

Prof. Alessandro Nagar, INFN Torino.

Online (link to be shared in email).

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 14:15-15:15

Flavour Anomalies-Collider Interplay

Prof. Ben Allanach, University of Cambridge.

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:15-15:15

Tightening the screws on the Standard Model: theory predictions for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Prof. Christine Davies, University of Glasgow.

Both in-person (at Potter room, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 14:15-15:15

Integrability and action-angle variables for eccentric, spinning black-hole binaries in post-Newtonian theory

Note unusual time

Dr. Leo Stein, The University of Mississippi.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Conformal correlators and AdS_2/CFT_1

Dr Valentina Forini, City, University of London.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 14:15-15:15

Asymptotics for the wave equation on black hole spacetimes

Stefanos Aretakis (University of Toronto).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

Shadows and Soft Exchange in Celestial CFT

Daniel Kapec, Harvard University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

Cancelling the vacuum energy and Weyl anomaly in the standard model with dimension zero scalars

Neil Turok (University of Edinburgh and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics).

HYBRID - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

An Invitation to Celestial Amplitudes

Sabrina Pasterski, Princeton University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 15:30-16:30

Proton and Nuclear Structure from the Standard Model

Phiala Shanahan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 14:15-15:15

Lattice field theory in the era of quantum simulation

Zohreh Davoudi (University of Maryland).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:15-15:15

Rollercoaster Cosmology

Prof Nemanja Kaloper (University of California Davis).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Neutron stars as gravitational-wave sources: dense matter and stellar mass

Jocelyn Read (California State University, Fullerton).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Celestial Holography and w(1+infinity)

Andrew Strominger (Harvard University).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Field Theory and Beyond

Nathan Seiberg (IAS, Princeton).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 14:15-15:15

Soliton resolution on wormholes

Piotr Bizon (Jagiellonian University).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 14:15-15:15

Conformal correlators as simplex integrals in momentum space

Paul McFadden (Newcastle University).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Gravitational-wave generation beyond General Relativity

Enrico Barausse (SISSA).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 14:15-15:15

Quantum codes, conformal field theory, and holography

Anatoly Dymarsky (University of Kentucky).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 14:15-15:15

From Quantum Scattering Amplitudes to Gravitational Waves

Zvi Bern (UCLA).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 14:15-15:15

Testing the Cosmological Principle

Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 14:15-15:15

Extracting the Universe from the Wave Function

Sean Carroll (Caltech).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon?

Netta Engelhardt (MIT).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 14:15-15:15

Spinning S-matrix bootstrap in 4d

Denis Karateev (Ecole Normale Supérieure).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 14:15-15:15

Scattering in the static patch of de Sitter space.

Yasha Neiman (OIST).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

The classical interior of black holes in holography

Sean Hartnoll (Stanford University).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Wormholes and quantum noise

Douglas Stanford (Stanford University).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

Frontiers of quantum gravity

Astrid Eichhorn, CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark .

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:15-15:15

[CANCELLED] Screening of fifth forces in scalar tensor theories

Clare Burrage, University of Nottingham.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 14:15-15:15

Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky

Tracy Slatyer, MIT.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:15-15:15

Deriving the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Rajesh Gopakumar, ICTS-TIFR.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:15-15:15

Causality Constraints and the Curious Case of de Sitter

Rachel Rosen, Columbia University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 14:15-15:15

Testing the gravitational sector with black hole perturbations

Riccardo Penco, Carnegie Mellon University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 14:15-15:15

Quantum black holes on the lattice

Toby Wiseman, Imperial College London.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 14:15-15:15

A Cosmic Microscope for the Preheating Era

Please note this is an internal colloquium for members of the University of Cambridge and others with strong connections to the HEP and GR groups

Jiji Fan, Brown University .

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

A Swampland Tour, From Global Symmetries to Axion Physics

Please note this is an internal colloquium for members of the University of Cambridge and others with strong connections to the HEP and GR groups

Matt Reece, Harvard.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 14:15-15:15

Tension in the Hubble Constant

Wendy Freedman, University of Chicago.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 15:30-16:30

Multipoint Correlators in Multifield Cosmology: formal structure and applications

Eva Silverstein, Stanford.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 17:15-18:15

Dark matter through the looking glass: the MADMAX experiement

Javier Redondo, University of Zaragoza.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

String theory and the 3d Ising model

John McGreevy, UCSD.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 17:15-18:15

Title to be confirmed

Jiji Fan, Brown University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Friday 10 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

CANCELLED

Astrid Eichhorn, CP3-Origins.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Testing the Kerr hypothesis: the examples of synchronisation and scalarisation

Carlos Herdeiro, Aveiro University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Hiranya Peiris, UCL.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Determining the origin of LIGO's merging black holes

Christian Byrnes, University of Sussex.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Quantum simulators for fundamental physics

Silke Weinfurtner.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Probing Nuclear Superfluidity With Neutron Stars

Nicolas Chamel, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Asymptotic safety in the spotlight

Daniel Litim, University of Sussex.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

A proposal for the CFT dual for superstrings on ADS3 at the string radius.

Massimo Porrati, NYU.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

CP violation and rare Kaon decays in the Standard Model and beyond

Martin Gorbahn, Liverpool.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

Neutron-star mergers and numerical relativity

Masaru Shibata, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Challenging the Inflationary Paradigm

Eugene Lim (KCL).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Stochastic and non-unitary Quantum Chemistry

Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Holographic Thermodynamics of Accelerating Black Holes

Ruth Gregory, Durham.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Amplitudes and Classical Gravity

Donal O'Connell, Edinburgh.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Neutrinos: a portal to new physics beyond the Standard Model

Silvia Pascoli, Durham.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Cluster Geometry and Dynamics in Nuclei

Nick Manton, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Pseudorandomness and random quantum circuits in different geometries

Aram Harrow, MIT.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

The structure of the proton and the exploration of the high-energy frontier

Maria Ubiali, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Common origin(s) for the Dark Matter density and baryon asymmetry

Laura Covi, Goettingen.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

The Surprising Simplicity of Scattering Amplitudes

Jacob Bourjaily, Niels Bohr Institute.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Testing Gravity with Gravitational Waves

Tessa Baker, QMUL.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

A Weak Gravity Theorem

Mehrdad Mirbabayi, ICTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Life, the universe and everything . . . with Anne

Ana Achúcarro, Leiden.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Analytic results for two-loop five-particle amplitudes

Johannes Henn, Max Planck Institute for Physics.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

A Classical-Quantum Correspondence

Tanmay Vachaspati, Arizona State University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

Z' Explanations of Neutral Current B Anomalies

Ben Allanach, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Perturbation Theory and Beyond in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory

Marco Serone, SISSA.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Wilson Surface Central Charge from Holography

Andy O'Bannon, Southampton.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Holography, Black Holes and Siegel paramodular forms

Alejandra Castro, Amsterdam.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

The story of a simple universe

Enrico Pajer, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Relating black holes and quantum information via quantum field theory: Computational Complexity and AdS/CFT

Johanna Erdmenger, Wuerzburg.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Testing General Relativity with Cosmological Observations

Ruth Durrer, Geneva.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Detecting light dark matter with atomic clocks and magnetometers

Diego Blas, KCL.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Generating new physics models from machine learning

Sven Krippendorf, LMU.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Conformal Higher-Spin Gravity

Xavier Bekaert, Federation Denis Poisson.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Decoding the "DNA" of prediction, from the smallest to largest scales in nature

John Joseph Carrasco, Northwestern University & IPhT.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Local measurement schemes for quantum field theory in curved spacetimes

Chris Fewster, York.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

Ivan Todorov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Black Hole Entropy form Soft Hair

Malcolm Perry, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

The String Theory Swampland

Joe Conlon, Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

The cosmological constant problem and its sequester

Antonio Padilla, University of Nottingham.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

CFT from EFT at large charge

Riccardo Rattazzi.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Microscopic Origins of the Weak Scale and the Power Spectrum of the LHC

Matthew McCullough (CERN).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

The Conformal Standard Model

Hermann Nicolai, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Inflation and Post-Inflation in String Cosmology

Fernando Quevedo, DAMTP and ICTP, Trieste.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Quantum black holes: a macroscopic window into quantum gravity

Sameer Murthy, King's College London.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

**Cancelled due to strike action

Antonio Padilla, University of Nottingham .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

From AdS to BEC (dynamics in spatially confined Hamiltonian systems)

Piotr Bizon, Jagiellonian University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

**Cancelled due to strike action

Sameer Murthy, King's College, London.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

The Flattened Road to Acceleration in String Theory

Alexander Westphal, DESY, Hamburg.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Superluminality and predictability

Harvey Reall, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

CMB Lensing: Fundamental Physics from Maps of the Invisible

Blake Sherwin, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Constructing Quantum Field Theories Non-perturbatively with Hamiltonian Methods

Slava Rychkov (CERN, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Paris).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Knots and Vortices

Paul Sutcliffe, University of Durham.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Is the Standard Model breaking down in flavour physics?

Ulrik Egede, Imperial College, London.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Holography and the self-tuning of the cosmological constant

Elias Kiritsis, APC Paris and University of Crete.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Connecting the weak gravity conjecture to the weak cosmic censorship

Jorge Santos, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Loop Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli, Marseille, CPT.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

The Quest for the Axion

Andreas Ringwald, DESY.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

On a recent proof of the instability of AdS for the Einstein-null dust system

Mihalis Dafermos (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Holography and quantum info: from novel probes of bulk matter to complexity of quantum fields

Michal P. Heller (Albert Einstein Institute / National Centre for Nuclear Research).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Tests of strong gravity and new physics with gravitational waves

Emanuele Berti (Mississippi & IST Lisbon).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Generalized global symmetries and dissipative magnetohydrodynamics

Nabil Iqbal (Durham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

The multiple facets of symmetry in Einstein gravity

Geoffrey Compere (ULB).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology from lattice QCD

Sinead Ryan (TCD).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Universe

Neil Turok (Perimeter).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 14:15-15:15

EFT-land for cosmology

Claudia de Rham (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

Black Holes and Thermoelectric Transport

Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

Discrete conformal mappings and Riemann surfaces

Alexander Bobenko (Technische Universität Berlin).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

Screened Modified Gravity - Laboratory Tests and Black Holes

Anne Davis (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

Looking for New Physics with the Higgs boson

Veronica Sanz (University of Sussex).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

The causal set approach to the problem of quantum gravity: Kinematics, Dynamics and Phenomenology

Fay Dowker (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

Large Spin Pertubation Theory

Fernando Alday (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

Self-force approach to the two-body problem in GR

Leor Barack (University of Southampton).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Are there additional laws of black hole thermodynamics?

Jonathan Oppenheim (University College London).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Recent Progress in 3d Gauge Theories

David Tong (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Bottom-up: from neutrino mixing to physics at the Planck scale

Alexei Smirnov (MPI Heidelberg & ICTP Trieste).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Classical Spacetime and Quantum Cosmology

James Hartle (University of California, Santa Barbara).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Probing the astrophysics and particle physics of WIMPs with direct detection experiments

Anne Green (University of Nottingham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Recovering the spacetime metric from a holographic theory of gravity

Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Adventures in Little Data

Paul Ginsparg (Cornell).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Gas in a Box

Zoran Hadzibabic (Cavendish Laboratory).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Extra Seminar: Naked Black Hole Firewalls

Don N. Page (Alberta).

CMS, Potter Room (B1.19).

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Black hole collapse in large-c CFT

Julian Sonner (Geneva).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

A Review of the 750 GeV Di-Photon Excess

Ben Allanach (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Hydrodynamic simulations of rotating and non-rotating black holes

Silke Weinfurtner (Nottingham) .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

TBC

Silke Weinfurtner (Nottingham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

Entanglement entropy and the F theorem

Marika Taylor - Southampton.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

Testing string theory with cosmological observations

Robert Brandenberger - McGill.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Direct observation of gravitational waves from the merger and inspiral of two black holes

Bruce Allen (MPI).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Global stability of Minkowski space for Einstein equations with massive scalar fields

Qian Wang - Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Twistors and Amplitudes

Andrew Hodges - Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Emergent Coulombic criticality and Kibble-Zurek scaling in a topological magnet

Claudio Castelnovo - Cavendish Laboratory.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

Cancelled

Vitor Cardoso - IST, Lisbon.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

No-Scale Supergravity Inflation

John Ellis (CERN/ KCL).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Localization, supersymmetry, and integrability

Vasily Pestun (IHES).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Topological Matter and Why You Should Be Interested

Steve Simon (Oxford) .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Cosmology: a theorist's perspective on the observational landscape

Enrico Pajer (Utrecht).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Supersymmetry on a lattice

Simon Catterall (Syracuse).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Hunting for the Elusive Waves Created by Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Alessandra Buonanno (AEI Potsdam).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Random matrices, free fermions and extreme value statistics

David Dean.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Detecting Dark Energy with Atom Interferometry

Claire Burrage.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Undecidability of the spectral gap

Toby Cubitt.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

Far-from-equilibrium transport in many-body quantum systems

Benjamin Doyon.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

Entanglement Enhanced Intensity Interferometry

Frank Wilczek.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Aspects of high energy gravitational scattering

Gabriele Veneziano.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Einstein’s 1913 Vienna Lecture: Modeling Gravitational Theory on Electrodynamics

Jurgen Renn.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

The first massive black holes

Marta Volonteri.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Inflation after Planck 2015

George Efstathiou.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Light, gravity and fencing off the swampland

Tim Hollowood.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

A twistorial approach to string theory

Malcolm Perry.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Anomalies in leptons plus jets in the last run of the lhc and new physics

Ben Allanach.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Some observations about the degrees of freedom of quantum gravity

Jan de Boer.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Conformal bootstrap—a new way to compute in quantum field theory

Slava Rychkov (CERN).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 14:15-15:15

Scattering and unstable hadrons in lattice QCD

Christopher Thomas (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Divergent series: from Thomas Bayes’s bewilderment to today’s resurgence via the rainbow

Michael Berry (Bristol).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Null singularities and the strong cosmic censorship conjecture in general relativity

Jonathan Luk (DPMMS).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Emergent geometry from strongly coupled quantum dynamics

David Berenstein (UCSB).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Hovering black holes

Jorge Santos (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Non-stringy approaches to quantum gravity: a brief survey

Hermann Nicolai (AEI - Potsdam).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Yangian Symmetry in the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Niklas Beisert (ETH Zurich).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

The cosmological constant problem (and its sequester)

Tony Padilla (Nottingham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Black Hole Hair

Ruth Gregory (Durham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

The Entropic Origin of Gravity, Dark Energy and Dark Matter

Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Anomalies and transport: from the quark gluon plasma to Weyl semi-metals on a superstring

Karl Landsteiner (Madrid).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

The generalized bootstrap program for N=4 SCFT

Fernando Alday (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

What can entanglement tell us about black holes and spacetime?

Joan Simón (Edinburgh).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

LUX on dark matter

Henrique Araujo (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

Higher Spin Holography: a new perspective on black holes and locality

Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

What happens at the horizon of an extreme black hole?

Harvey Reall (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Effective Field Theory in Cosmology

Leonardo Senatore (Stanford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

[CANCELLED] Some recent progresses on massive gravity

Cédric Deffayet (IHES & Polytechnique, Paris).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Hidden Spacetime and M-branes

Neil Lambert (King's College London).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Quantum simulations of high energy physics models

Ignacio Cirac (MPI - Garching).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory

John Cardy (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Holographic Baryons

Paul Sutcliffe (Durham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Gravity & Hydrodynamics

Mukund Rangamani (Durham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Exploring Moonshine in String Theory

Miranda Cheng (Paris 7).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Holographic Conductivity

David Tong (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Precision physics: the new LHC frontier

Alexander Mitov (Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Hidden Structures in the Gravitational S-Matrix

David Skinner (DAMTP).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Entanglement entropy and negativity in quantum field theories.

Pasquale Calabrese (Pisa University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

M5-branes

Seok Kim.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Quantum black holes from gauge/string duality

Toby Wiseman (Imperial College London).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

(In) Stabilities and complementarity in AdS/CFT

Eliezer Rabinovici, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Heavy Flavour Physics

Alexander Lenz, Universität Regensburg.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

The large D limit of General Relativity

Roberto Emparan, University of Barcelona.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

The Planck satellite, inflation and non-Gaussianity

Paul Shellard, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

From Quantum Black Holes to Number Theory

Don Zagier (College de France).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 14:15-15:15

CANCELLED - Entanglement entropy and negativity in quantum field theories

CANCELLED

Pasquale Calabrese (Pisa University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 14:15-15:15

Exploring the infrared properties of gluons and ghosts

John Gracey (Liverpool University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

The LHC update

Ben Gripaios, University of Cambridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

A holographic view of the very early universe

Kostas Skenderis.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Old and New in Constructive Field Theory

Prof. Arthur Jaffe (Harvard).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: The Final Results

Eiichiro Komatsu ( Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik ).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Unoriented D-brane instantons

Massimo Bianchi (Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" ).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Amplitudes and number theory

Francis Brown (IHES).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Quark flavour and lattice QCD: investigations into electroweak symmetry breaking

Matthew Wingate, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

New Superconformal Field Theories From Wrapped Branes

Brian Wecht, Queen Mary, University of London.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Some Properties of String Theory Scattering Amplitudes

Prof. Michael Green, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Simulating black-hole spacetimes on supercomputers

Ulrich Sperhake, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

New Horizons in Black Hole Physics and Holography

Shamit Kachru, Stanford University and SLAC.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Complementarity vs. Firewalls: Are there large quantum effects near black hole horizons?

Donald Marolf, UCSB Physics Department.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Hide and Seek With Natural Supersymmetry

Ben Allanach (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

Testing General Relativity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?

Pedro Ferreira (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

Bumpy Black Holes and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Nicolas Yunes (University of Montana).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

SU(N) gauge theories in the large N limit

Biagio Lucini, Swansea University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Turbulent instability of anti-de Sitter spacetime

Piotr Bizon (Jagiellonian University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Gravitational wave astronomy - status and next steps

Sheila Rowan (Glasgow University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probing dark matter and the expansion history of the Universe with Lyman-alpha in absorption

Martin Haehnelt (IOA, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Signature of supersymmetry in primordial density perturbations

Xingang Chen (University of Cambridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 14:15-15:15

The fine-scale structure of dark matter halos

Simon White (Max Planck).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Probing the dark universe with CMB lensing

Anthony Challinor (IOA, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Status of the search for the Higgs boson

Andy Parker (Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

The search for Gravity Waves in the CMB

Carlo Contaldi, Imperial U..

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Spatial pattern formation in polariton condensates

Natasha Berloff (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

The rise, fall and rebirth of string models of the strong interactions.

Jeff Harvey (U. Chicago).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Locally covariant QFT and the problem of formulating the same physics in all spacetimes

Chris Fewster (University of York).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

The search for dark matter

Anne Green (University of Nottingham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

None

Mihalis Dafermos (DPMMS, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Manifestations of monopole physics in spin ice materials

Claudio Castelnovo, Royal Holloway University of London.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Some generalised geometries from M theory

Malcolm Perry (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Gauge-gravity duality beyond thermal equilibrium

Andrei Starinets (University of Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Ricci flow and its applications to Numerical General Relativity

Pau Figueras (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Confining flux tubes and their effective string theory description

Mike Teper (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 15 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Neutrinos and the Flavour Problem

Steve King (Southhampton).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Quarks, Gluons and Black Holes

David Mateos (Barcelona).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Primordial Non-Gaussianity and New Physics on the Horizon

Daniel Baumann (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Semions and other anyons from strings

Paul Townsend (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

The Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production

Bryan Webber (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Semions and other anyons from strings

Paul Townsend (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inflation and the multiverse

Jaume Garriga (Barcelona).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

Graphene - relativity at a pencil stroke

Simon Hands (Swansea).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

New Horizons in Quantum Criticality

Andrew Green (St Andrews).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Baryons as Solitons in Holographic QCD

Shigeki Sugimoto.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Smashing Black Holes

Vitor Cardoso.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

The Structure and Dynamics of Halo Nuclei

Jim Al Khalili.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Perspectives for Discovering New Physics at the LHC

John Ellis (CERN & Kings College London).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

Title to be confirmed

Malcolm Fairbairn.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

The Shape of Inner Space

Shing-Tun Yau (Harvard).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 December 2010, 11:30-12:30

Extracting Real-Time Quantities from Euclidean Field Theory

Harvey Meyer (Johannes Gutenberg University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 14:15-15:15

Physics of Multicellularity

Ray Goldstein (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Skyrmions & Nuclei

Paul Sutcliffe (Durham University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Skyrmions in Condensed Matter Systems

Nigel Cooper (Dept of Physics, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Observations of the innermost regions around accreting black holes

Andy Fabian (IoA, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Black Hole Collisions

Frans Pretorius (Princeton).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Nuclear Structure and Skyrme's Interaction

Martin Freer (Birmingham University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

What's happening at the LHC (and what it will tell us about TeV-scale theory

Alan Barr (Dept of Physics, Oxford University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

50 years of Skyrmions, an overview

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Some early ATLAS results, and a look at subjet structure as a search tool at the LHC

Jonathan Butterworth, UCL.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 June 2010, 14:15-15:30

The No-Boundary Measure in the Regime of Eternal Inflation

Thomas Hertog, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Universite Paris 7.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 02 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

Counting Abelian Orbifolds

Amihay Hanany [Imperial].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Holography for Cosmology

Paul McFadden, Amsterdam.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Modelling mini black holes

Elizabeth Winstanley, Sheffield.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 14:15-15:30

The PAMELA positron anomaly: dark matter or a cosmic pevatron?

Subir Sarkar, Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Elementary Higgs, pseudo-Goldstone or dilaton?

Riccardo Rattazzi [EPFL, Switzerland].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics in Finsler space-times

Claus Laemmerzahl (University of Bremen).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 14:15-15:30

The strength of gravity and models of particle physics

Xavier Calmet [Sussex].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 14:15-15:30

Luigi Del Debbio [University of Edinburgh].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Strongly interacting theories beyond the Standard Model

Luigi Del Debbio [University of Edinburgh].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

The BMS/CFT correspondence

Glenn Barnich, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Gravity waves from braney strings

Ruth Gregory [Durham].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

What new with M2

Neil Lambert [King's College London].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 14:15-15:30

Projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity in a nutshell

Silke Weinfurtner, UBC Vancouver.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Astrophysical Implications of Strong CP Violation

Pietro Faccioli, Trento.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:15-17:15

Black funnels and droplets

Veronika Hubeny [Durham].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 14:15-15:30

Black holes as particles accelerators

Max Bañados (Universidad Catolica de Chile/Oxford Astrophysics).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 December 2009, 14:15-15:15

Primordial non-Gaussianities and Quasi-Single Field Inflation

Xingang Chen (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 14:15-15:15

Composite degrees of freedom and elevation of supersymmetry in 2+1 dimensions

Jean Alexandre [King's College London].

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Nuclear force from string theory

Koji Hashimoto.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Testing Gaugino Mass Unification Directly at the LHC

Brent Nelson [Northeastern].

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 14:15-15:30

Gravitational waves from density perturbations

Kazuya Koyama (ICG, Portsmouth).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Exploring String Axions with Astrophysics & Cosmology

John March-Russell [University of Oxford].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

An alternative interpretation of gravity anomaly from Hawking radiation

Subir Ghosh [Indian Statistical Institute].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 14:15-15:30

Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

Maulik Parikh [IUCAA, India].

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Expect the unexpected from Higgs boson physics

James Wells [CERN].

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Skyrmions and Nuclei - V

Lecture Series

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR 11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 September 2009, 14:15-15:15

Skyrmions and Nuclei - IV

Lecture Series

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR 11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 September 2009, 14:15-15:15

Skyrmions and Nuclei - III

Lecture Series

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR 11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 September 2009, 14:15-15:15

Skyrmions and Nuclei - II

Lecture Series

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR 11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 September 2009, 14:15-15:15

Skyrmions and Nuclei - I

Lecture Series

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR 11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 02 September 2009, 14:15-15:15

On the topology of black holes

Fernando Schwartz [Warwick].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 10 June 2009, 14:15-15:30

Extremal (super-)conformal field theories

Matthias Gaberdiel [ITP, Zurich].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 03 June 2009, 14:15-15:30

Efimov Physics in Cold Atoms and Beyond

Hans-Werner Hammer [Universitaet Bonn].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 May 2009, 14:15-15:30

Regularity of the Einstein equations at future null infinity

please note that the location is different from the usual

Oliver Rinne [DAMTP].

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 14:15-15:30

Cosmological Moduli and Non-Thermal Dark Matter

Note unusual time / room

Bobby Acharya [ICTP Trieste].

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

QCD at finite chemical potential: stochastic quantization and complex Langevin dynamics

Gert Aarts [Swansea ].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 14:15-15:30

Black holes as lumps of fluid

Oscar Dias [DAMTP].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 14:15-15:30

Semi-Direct Gauge Mediation

Brian Wecht [IAS, Princeton].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 14:15-15:30

Minimal surfaces in AdS and Polygonal Wilson loops

Room changed

Juan Maldacena (IAS, Princeton).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 14:15-15:30

Cosmological observables after recombination

Antony Lewis [IOA].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 14:15-15:30

Kaluza-Klein Reductions and AdS/CFT

Jerome Gauntlett [Imperial].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 14:15-15:30

QCD Scattering Amplitudes

Ruth Britto [Saclay].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 14:15-15:30

The DNA of spacetime

Joan Simon [Edinburgh].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 14:15-15:30

Gluons, Spin Chains and Spiky Strings

Nick Dorey [DAMTP].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 14:15-15:30

Boundedness and decay of scalar waves on Kerr black hole spacetimes

Mihalis Dafermos [DPMMS].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 14:15-15:30

Holography for non-relativistic CFTs

Simon Ross [Durham].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 14:15-15:30

Towards the solution of the AdS/CFT spectral problem

G. Arutyunov [Utrecht].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 14:15-15:30

Cosmology from Galaxy Redshift Surveys

Will Percival [Portsmouth].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:15-15:30

Black holes in higher dimensions

Stefan Hollands [Cardiff University].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 14:15-15:30

Interacting membranes in M-theory

David Berman [Queen Mary].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 14:15-15:30

The Deep Structure of the Proton and Why It Matters.

James Stirling [Cavendish].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 14:15-15:30

Linearised gravity in de Sitter spacetime

Atsushi Higuchi [York].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 14:15-15:30

Connections between Noncommutative Geometry, Standard Model and Quantum Gravity

Ali Chamseddine [American University of Beirut].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:15-15:30

Detecting Dark Matter with Neutrino Detectors

Silvia Pascoli [Durham].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 14:15-15:30

Hydrodynamics and Gravity

Mukund Rangamani [Durham].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 October 2008, 14:15-15:30

Kac-Moody algebras and the structure of cosmological singularities: BKL revisited

Marc Henneaux (ULB).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 June 2008, 14:15-15:30

The structure of supergravity

Antoine Van Proeyen (Institute for theoretical physics, K.U. Leuven).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 June 2008, 14:15-15:30

Ricci flow as an algorithm to numerically construct black hole metrics

Toby Wiseman (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:15-15:30

Higher dimensional black holes

Harvey Reall (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 14:15-15:30

The Thermal Casimir Effect, Soap Films and the Schrodinger Functional

Ron Horgan (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 14:15-15:30

de Sitter Vacua in N=1 Supergravity and String Theory

Jan Louis (DESY, Hamburg).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 14:15-15:30

Black holes as lumps of fluid

Oscar Dias [DAMTP].

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 14:15-15:30

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Freedman (MIT, LNS).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 14:15-15:30

Black Hole Bound States in AdS3

Jan de Boer (Amsterdam).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 14:15-15:30

A Des Res in the Landscape

Philip Candelas (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 14:15-15:30

Seeing the high energy universe

Subir Sarkar (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 14:15-15:30

Searching for extra dimensions at the LHC

Andy Parker (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:15-15:30

Dark Energy -- where are the natural explanations?

Ed Copeland (Nottingham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 14:15-15:30

Sigma models as logarithmic CFT

Nikita Nekrasov (IHES).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 14:15-15:30

Quantum resolution of cosmological singularities using AdS/CFT

Ben Craps (VUB, Brussels).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 14:15-15:30

A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization

Joseph Polchinski (KITP, Santa Barbara).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 14:15-15:30

Aspects of Gauge-Strings Duality

Carlos Nuñez (Swansea University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 14:15-15:30

Infinite-Dimensional Symmetries of Two-Dimensional Coset Models Coupled to Gravity

Christopher Pope (Texas A&M).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 December 2007, 14:15-15:30

Causality and Microcausaliy in Curved Spacetime

Graham Shore (Swansea).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 14:15-15:30

Pre-holography

Bernard Kay (University of York).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 14:15-15:30

Dynamics in IIB Flux Compactifications

Anshuman Maharana (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 14:15-15:30

On the shoulders of giants: the cosmology of giant gravitons

Jeff Murugan (U. Cape Town).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 14:15-15:30

Graphene and evidence for duality in quantum Hall systems

Cliff Burgess (Perimeter).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 14:15-15:30

The standard model from D-branes in string theory

Angel Uranga (CERN).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 14:15-15:30

Berry's phase, supersymmetry and D-branes

David Tong (DAMTP).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 October 2007, 14:15-15:30

The many phases of higher dimensional black holes

Vasilis Niarchos (CPhT École Polytechnique).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 14:15-15:30

Black Hole Entropy Function

Ashoke Sen (HRI, Allahabad).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 14:00-15:00

Angular momentum inequalities

Piotr Chrusciel (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

Hugh Osborn (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Cosmological Model Selection

David Parkinson (Sussex).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Supersymmetric AdS Solutions

Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Modulus stabilization and hierarchy problem in warped braneworld models

Soumitra Sengupta (IACS, Calcutta).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Supersymmetric lattice models

Kareljan Schoutens (Amsterdam).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Cosmic Strings and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 14:00-15:00

Constraints on Gauss-Bonnet Cosmologies

Ishwaree Neupane (Canterbury, NZ).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

On D-terms, inflation and strings

Ana Achucarro (Leiden).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Spin Foam Models of Quantum Gravity

John W. Barrett (Nottingham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Non- Perturbative Corrections to the Hypermultiplet Moduli Space in Type II String Theories: A Review of the Status of a Problem

Xenia de la Ossa (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Phase structure of N=4 SYM and Gravity in AdS

Asad Naqvi (Swansea).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Twisted tori and (new) string vacua

Ruben Minasian (Saclay).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Metastable Supersymmetry Breaking

Valentin Khoze (Durham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Black holes, instantons on toric singularities, and q-deformed Yang-Mills

Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

General coordinate invariance and conformal invariance in nonrelativistic physics: Unitary Fermi gas

Matt Wingate (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Moduli Stabilisation SUSY Breaking in IIB String Theory

Fernando Quevedo (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

The spectral model of gravity coupled with matter and its predictions

Alain Connes (Paris).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 15 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Non-Gaussianity from multi-field inflation

David Wands (University of Portsmouth).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

The Poincare conjecture

Gabriel Paternain (DPMMS Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

Roger Penrose (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Einstein geometry and conformal field theory

James Sparks (Harvard).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 18 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Exploring bubbling AdS: going beyond the 1/2 BPS sector

Sera Cremonini (University of Michigan).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 October 2006, 14:00-15:00