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BSM Seminar List

for period 3 Jan to 29 Jun

Wednesday 11 January
10:00-11:00 de la Ossa, X (University of Oxford)
  Geometry and Connectedness of Heterotic String Compactifications with Fluxes Sem 1
11:30-12:30 Larfors, M (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  A ten-dimensional action for non-geometric fluxes Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Waldram, D (Imperial College London)
  Supergravity as generalised geometry Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Minasian, R (CEA/Saclay)
  Stringy corrections with B-field Sem 1
16:30-17:30 Graña, M (CEA/Saclay)
  Reductions with reduced supersymmetry using generalized geometry Sem 1
Thursday 12 January
10:00-11:00 Becker, K (Texas A&M University)
  D-brane/O-plane effective actions, disc amplitudes and T-duality Sem 1
11:30-12:30 Sati, H (University of Pittsburgh)
  M-branes and String structures Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Hartman, T (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Higher Spin Gravity and 2d CFTs Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Diaconescu, E (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
  Lagrangian cycles and knots at large N Sem 1
16:30-17:30 Anderson, L (Harvard University)
  Line bundle Standard Models Sem 1
Friday 13 January
10:00-11:00 Pestun, V (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Instanton calculus in quiver gauge theories Sem 1
11:30-12:30 Cheng, M (Harvard University)
  String Theory and the Moonshine Programme Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Persson, D (Chalmers University of Technology)
  Wall-crossing, dilogarithm identities and the QK/HK correspondence Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Hollands, L (Caltech)
  A 4d-2d correspondence for Sicilian quivers Sem 1
16:30-17:30 Dabholkar, A (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies)
  Localization and Exact Quantum Entropy of Black Holes Sem 1
Wednesday 18 January
16:00-17:00 Vandoren, S (University of Utrecht)
  M5 branes, 4d/2d correspondence, and 5D SYM on a torus Sem 1
Thursday 19 January
12:00-13:00 Drukker, N (Kings, University of London)
  Generalized quark-antiquark potential of N=4 SYM at weak and strong coupling Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Hoppe, J (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
  Fundamental Structures of M(brane) Theory Sem 1
Friday 20 January
12:00-13:00 Manschot, J (Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn)
  BPS Invariants of Rational Surfaces Sem 1
Wednesday 25 January
16:00-17:00 Chowdhury, B (University of Amsterdam)
  New instability of non-extremal black holes: spitting out supertubes Sem 1
Thursday 26 January
12:00-13:00 Seo, J (McGill University)
  Singularity structure and massless dyons of pure N = 2, d = 4 theories with SU(r+1) and Sp(2r) gauge groups Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Harvey, JA (University of Chicago)
  Permutation groups, Mock modular forms, K3 surfaces and Moonshine (I) Sem 1
Friday 27 January
12:00-13:00 Harvey, JA (University of Chicago)
  Permutation groups, Mock modular forms, K3 surfaces and Moonshine (II) Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Harvey, JA (University of Chicago)
  Permutation groups, Mock modular forms, K3 surfaces and Moonshine (III) Sem 2
Tuesday 31 January
14:00-15:00 Yokoyama, S (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
  Chern-Simons Theories with Vector Matter Sem 2
Wednesday 01 February
16:00-17:00 Smith, D (University of Durham)
  Chern-Simons and ABJM with Boundary Sem 2
Thursday 02 February
11:30-12:30 Kim, S (Seoul National University)
  Instantons and M5-branes Sem 2
14:00-15:00 Lee, S (Seoul National University)
  Yangian invariant scattering amplitudes in ABJM theory Sem 2
Tuesday 07 February
12:00-13:00 Miller, S (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
  Automorphic forms on SL(3) and higher rank groups Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Julia, B (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
  From magics towards a "science" of exceptions Sem 1
Wednesday 08 February
16:00-17:00 Gutowski, J (King's College, London)
  Novel geometries from supersymmetric near-horizon solutions Sem 1
Thursday 09 February
11:30-12:30 Cook, P P (King's College, London)
  One-dimensional solutions of M-theory Sem 1
Wednesday 15 February
16:00-17:00 O Colgain, E (Universidad de Oviedo)
  Fermionic T-duality Sem 1
Thursday 16 February
11:30-12:15 Park, J-H (Sogang University)
  Supersymmetric Double Field Theory: Stringy Reformulation of Supergravity Sem 1
14:00-14:45 Godazgar, H (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
  M-theory dualities and generalised geometry Sem 1
15:00-15:45 Strickland-Constable, C (Imperial)
  E_d(d)xR^+ Generalised Geometry and 11D Supergravity Sem 1
Friday 17 February
14:00-15:00 Bao, L (Chalmers University of Technology)
  Gauge theory duality from M-theory and topological vertex Sem 1
Tuesday 21 February
11:30-12:30 Yamazaki, M (Princeton University)
  Z[3d gauge theory]=Z[3-manifold] Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Pasquetti, S (Queen Mary College, London)
  Factorization of N=2 theories partition functions on the squashed 3-sphere Sem 1
Wednesday 22 February
16:00-17:00 Vanhove, P (IHES)
  Automorphic properties of string theory amplitudes in various dimensions Sem 1
Thursday 23 February
11:30-12:30 Gustafsson, A (Seoul National University)
  Enhanced ${\cal N}=8$ Supersymmetry of three-algebra ABJM Theory Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Saemann, C (Heriot-Watt University)
  M-branes and loop spaces Sem 1
Wednesday 29 February
16:00-17:00 Copland , N (Sogang University)
  Double sigma models and double field theory Sem 1
Thursday 01 March
11:30-12:30 Papageorgakis, C (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
  M2/M5 systems and 5d SYM Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Keeler, C (Harvard University)
  Fluid-Gravity Duality at a Cutoff Surface Sem 1
Friday 02 March
11:30-12:30 Szabo, R (Heriot-Watt University)
  Instantons and Curve Counting Sem 1
15:00-16:00 Tomasiello, A (University of Milan - Bicocca)
  Generalized structures of ten-dimensional supersymmetric solutions Sem 1
Tuesday 06 March
11:30-12:30 Matsuo, Y (University of Tokyo)
  A Non-Abelian Self-Dual Gauge Theory in 5+1 Dimensions Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Balasubramanian, V (University of Pennsylvania)
  Momentum space entanglement and renormalization in quantum field theory Sem 1
Wednesday 07 March
16:00-17:00 Hohm, O (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  A geometry of non-geometric fluxes Sem 1
Thursday 08 March
11:30-12:30 Bachas, C (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique ENS)
  AdS4/CFT3 and Quasi-localization of Gravity Sem 1
14:30-15:30 Cederwall, M (Chalmers University of Technology)
  Searching for U-duality supermultiplets Sem 1
Tuesday 13 March
11:30-12:30 Rozali, M (University of British Columbia)
  Amplitudes for Fivebranes Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Kleinschmidt , A (Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Potsdam)
  Infinite discrete symmetries near singularities and modular forms Sem 1
Wednesday 14 March
14:00-15:00 de Wit, B (Universiteit Utrecht)
  The 4D/5D connection, black holes and higher-derivative couplings Sem 1
18:30-19:30 Davey, G; Berman, D
  String Theory, Duality and Art Sem 1
Thursday 15 March
11:30-12:30 Passerini, F (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  A review of localisation, moving to localisation in 5d theories (Journal Club) Sem 1
Tuesday 20 March
11:30-12:30 Jafferis, D (Harvard University)
  Supersymmetric sphere partition functions in three dimensions Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Prakash, S (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
  Chern-Simons Vector Models Sem 1
Wednesday 21 March
16:00-17:00 Gutperle, M (University of California, Los Angeles)
  Holographic description of boundary and interface CFTs Sem 1
Thursday 22 March
11:30-12:30 Sparks, J (University of Oxford)
  Gravity duals of supersymmetric gauge theories on curved manifolds Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Bergshoeff, E (University of Groningen)
  New Results on Massive Gravity Sem 1
Tuesday 27 March
11:30-12:30 Riccioni, F (INFN, Roma La Sapienza)
  Branes and wrapping rules Sem 2
14:00-15:00 Basu, A (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)
  Supersymmetry constraints on the R^4 multiplet in type IIB on T^2 Sem 2
Wednesday 28 March
16:00-17:00 Benini, F (Stony Brook University)
  M2-branes at toric Calabi-Yau 4-fold singularities Sem 1
Thursday 29 March
11:30-12:30 Moss, I (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
  Uplifting the vacuum in Heterotic M theory Sem 2
14:00-15:00 Lundholm, D (University of Copenhagen)
  Zero-energy states in supermembrane matrix models Sem 2
Friday 30 March
16:00-17:00 Chu, C-S (University of Durham)
  Nonabelian action of M5-branes Sem 1
Monday 02 April
14:00-15:30 Spradlin, M (Brown)
  A Practical Guide to Scattering Amplitudes: Previously Impossible Calculations Made Trivial Sem 1
16:00-17:30 Sever, A (Perimeter Institute)
  The quark anti-quark potential and the generalized cusp anomalous dimension at any coupling Sem 1
Tuesday 03 April
09:00-10:30 Lipstein, A (Oxford)
  Scattering Amplitudes in Three Dimensions Sem 1
11:00-12:30 Korchemsky, G (Saclay)
  Taming amplitudes and correlation functions in N=4 SYM Sem 1
14:00-15:30 Mason, L (Oxford)
  Amplitudes and Wilson loops in twistor space Sem 1
16:00-17:30 Johansson, H (Saclay)
  Harmony of color and kinematics - from trees to loops Sem 1
Wednesday 04 April
09:00-10:30 Huang, Y-T (UCLA)
  From Orthogonal Grassmanian to Three-algebra Sem 1
11:00-12:30 Heslop, P (Durham)
  Amplitudes and Wilson loops in N=4 SYM in special kinematics Sem 1
14:00-15:30 Volovich, A (Brown)
  Mathematical structures of scattering amplitudes Sem 1
16:00-17:30 Drummond, J (Annecy & CERN)
  Symbols and Bootstraps for scattering amplitudes Sem 1
Thursday 05 April
11:30-12:30 Takimi, T (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
  Studies of the Nambu-brancket M5-brane theory Sem 2
16:00-17:00 Witten , E (IAS Princeton)
  Superstring perturbation theory revisited - a special Teleconference seminar Sem 1
Tuesday 10 April
14:00-15:00 Henningson, M (Chalmers University of Technology)
  (2,0) theory on (singular) circle fibrations Sem 2
16:00-17:00 Bolognesi, S (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  N^3 and Junctions in 6D (2,0) Theories Sem 2
Wednesday 11 April
11:30-12:30 Sambtleben, H (ENS - Lyon)
  Superconformal models in six dimensions Sem 2
Thursday 12 April
14:00-15:00 Singh, H (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
  Uplifting 5D SYM to 6D and M5-branes Sem 2
16:00-17:00 Wolf, M (University of Surrey)
  Contact instantons and twistor geometry Sem 2
Friday 13 April
09:30-10:15 Heslop, P (University of Durham)
  The correlator of four stress-tensor multiplets in N=4 SYM: Part 1. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS) Satellite
10:15-11:00 Vartanov, G (DESY)
  Vanishing superconformal indices and chiral symmetry breaking. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS) Satellite
11:30-12:15 Sokatchev, E (CERN)
  The correlator of four stress-tensor multiplets in N=4 SYM: Part 2. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS) Satellite
12:15-13:00 Penedones, J (Perimeter)
  Conformal Regge theory. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS) Satellite
14:00-14:45 Rastelli, L (Stony Brook University)
  Bootstrapping the N=2 superconformal index. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS) Satellite
14:45-15:30 Bianchi, M (INFN)
  Higher spins, strings and holography. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS) Satellite
16:00-16:45 Spiridonov, V (JINR)
  Elliptic hypergeometric integrals and superconformal indices. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS) Satellite
16:45-17:30 Osborn , H (University of Cambridge)
  Conformal partial waves. (Talk to be held in Potter Room, Pavilion B, CMS) Satellite
Monday 16 April
11:00-12:30 McGreevy, J (MIT)
  Towards Physical Applications of Holographic Duality I Sem 1
14:00-15:30 Sachdev, S (Harvard)
  Quantum Matter I Sem 1
16:00-17:30 McGreevy, J (MIT)
  Towards Physical Applications of Holographic Duality II Sem 1
Tuesday 17 April
09:00-10:30 McGreevy, J (MIT)
  Towards Physical Applications of Holographic Duality III Sem 1
11:00-12:30 Sachdev, S (Harvard)
  Quantum Matter II Sem 1
14:00-15:30 Minwalla, S (TIFR)
  Fluid Dynamics and Gravity I Sem 1
Wednesday 18 April
09:00-10:30 Minwalla, S (TIFR)
  Fluid Dynamics and Gravity II Sem 1
11:00-12:30 Sachdev, S (Harvard)
  Quantum Matter III Sem 1
14:00-15:30 Sebastian, S
  The View from Experiment Sem 1
16:00-17:30 Sachdev, S (Harvard)
  Quantum Matter IV Sem 1
Thursday 19 April
09:00-10:30 Minwalla, S (TIFR)
  Fluid Dynamics and Gravity III Sem 1
11:00-12:30 Moore, J (UC, Berkeley)
  Topological phases: basic notions and field-theoretic approaches I Sem 1
14:00-15:30 Hartnoll, S (Stanford)
  Phases of holographic matter I Sem 1
16:00-17:30 Moore, J (UC, Berkeley)
  Topological phases: basic notions and field-theoretic approaches II Sem 1
Friday 20 April
09:00-10:30 Hartnoll, S (Stanford)
  Phases of holographic matter II Sem 1
11:00-12:30 Moore, J (UC, Berkeley)
  Topological phases: basic notions and field-theoretic approaches III Sem 1
14:00-15:30 Minwalla, S (TIFR)
  Fluid Dynamics and Gravity IV Sem 1
16:00-17:30 Hartnoll, S (Stanford)
  Phases of holographic matter III Sem 1
Tuesday 24 April
11:30-12:30 Larsen, F (University of Michigan)
  A CFT dual of General Black Holes Sem 1
Wednesday 25 April
11:30-12:30 Hashimoto, K (RIKEN)
  The Holographic Nucleus Sem 1
16:00-17:00 Sethi, S (University of Chicago)
  The conformal anomaly of M5 branes Sem 1
Thursday 26 April
11:30-12:30 Sorokin, D (INFN, Padova Section)
  BLG model and M5-branes Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Hull, C (Imperial College, London)
  Double Field Theory and Duality Sem 1
Monday 30 April
11:30-12:30 Lee, K (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS))
  5d Superconformal Index with Enhanced E-type Global Symmetry Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Bhattacharya, J (IPMU, Japan)
  Soliton stars as holographic confined Fermi liquids Sem 1
Tuesday 01 May
11:30-12:30 Hofman, D (Harvard University)
  Solipsism in the dS static patch Sem 1
Wednesday 02 May
11:30-12:30 Figueroa-O'Farrill, J (University of Edinburgh)
  Homogeneous M2 duals Sem 1
Thursday 03 May
13:00-14:00 Strominger, A (Harvard University)
  Progress in dS/CFT Sem 1
Tuesday 08 May
11:30-12:30 Gopakumar, R (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
  Triality in Minimal Model Holography Sem 1
Wednesday 09 May
11:30-12:30 Semenoff, G (University of British Columbia)
  Engineering Holographic Graphene Sem 1
16:00-17:00 Rangamani , M (University of Durham)
  The Dirichlet problem in AdS and beyond Sem 1
Thursday 10 May
14:00-15:00 Rodriguez-Gomez, D (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
  5d gauge theories and AdS/CFT Sem 1
Monday 14 May
14:00-15:00 Wadia, S (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
  Solving Chern-Simons theory with vector matter in the large N limit Sem 1
Tuesday 15 May
11:30-12:30 Gauntlett, J (Imperial College London)
  Spatially modulated phases in AdS/CFT Sem 1
Wednesday 16 May
11:30-12:30 Ramgoolam, S (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Counting and construction of D-brane quantum states in AdS/CFT Sem 1
Thursday 17 May
14:00-15:00 Correa, D (La Planta)
  Cusp anomalous dimension in N=4 super Yang-Mills from integrability Sem 1
Tuesday 22 May
11:30-12:30 Sezgin, E (Texas A&M University)
  Superconformal field theories in 6D with non-abelian tensor-Yang-Mills couplings Sem 1
Wednesday 23 May
11:30-12:30 Tong, D (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
  Optical Conductivity from a Holographic Lattice Sem 1
16:00-17:00 Petrini, M (LPTHE Paris)
  Generalised Geometry for non-relativistic backgrounds Sem 1
Thursday 24 May
11:30-12:30 Hubeny, V (Durham University)
  CFT probes of bulk geometry Sem 1
Friday 25 May
11:30-12:30 Pope, C (Texas A&M University)
  TBA Sem 1
Monday 28 May
10:15-11:00 Denef, F (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
  String glasses and beyond Satellite
11:30-12:15 Bena, I (Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay)
  Microstate Geometries - what do they tell us about Black Holes? Satellite
12:15-13:00 Skenderis, K (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  Lifshitz as a deformation of AdS Satellite
14:00-14:45 Murthy, S (Universiteit Utrecht)
  Some progress in computing exact black hole entropy using localization Satellite
14:45-15:30 Manschot, J (Universität Bonn)
  D-branes on elliptic Calabi-Yau manifolds Satellite
16:00-16:45 Ross, S (University of Durham)
  Holography for asymptotically locally Lifshitz spacetimes Satellite
16:45-17:30 Guica, M (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
  Holography for three-dimensional Schroedinger spacetimes Satellite
Tuesday 29 May
09:30-10:15 Trivedi, S (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
  Bianchi Attractors: A Classification of Extremal Black Brane Geometries Satellite
10:15-11:00 Castro, A (McGill University)
  Black hole monodromy Satellite
11:30-12:15 Martelli, D (King's College London)
  Supersymmetric field theories on curved manifolds and holography Satellite
12:15-13:00 Hartong, J (University of Copenhagen)
  Lifshitz Holographic Renormalization from AdS Satellite
14:00-14:45 Takayanagi, T (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics)
  Holographic Dual of BCFT Satellite
14:45-15:30 El-Showk, S (CEA/Saclay)
  The Resurgent Bootstrap and the 3D Ising Model Satellite
16:00-16:45 Bossard, G (Centre de Physique Théorique de l'Ecoe Polytechnique (CPHT))
  Octonionic black holes Satellite
16:45-17:30 Bianchi, M (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
  Massive and higher spin string scattering off D-brane bound-states Satellite
Wednesday 30 May
09:30-10:15 Strominger, A (Harvard University)
  Progress in dS/CFT Satellite
10:15-11:00 Dall'agata, G (Università degli Studi di Padova)
  Flow equations for Black Holes in (gauged) supergravity Satellite
11:30-12:15 Chowdhury, B (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  Black holes spitting out supertubes Satellite
12:15-13:00 Cassani, D (King's College, London)
  TBA Satellite
13:00-13:45 de Boer, J (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  Some thoughts on black hole microstates Satellite
Thursday 31 May
09:30-10:15 de Wit, B (Universiteit Utrecht)
  Deformations of special geometry; in search of the topological string Satellite
10:15-11:00 Papadopoulos, G (King's College London)
  Brane and black hole supergravity horizons Satellite
11:30-12:15 Larsen, F (University of Michigan)
  Conformal Symmetry for General Black Holes Satellite
12:15-13:00 Virmani, A (Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationphysik)
  Subtracted Geometry From Harrison Transformations Satellite
14:00-14:45 Bagchi, A (University of Edinburgh)
  Flat Space Holography as a limit of AdS/CFT Satellite
14:45-15:30 Ortin, T (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
  Constructing generic non-extremal black-hole solutions of N=2, d=4,5 supergravities Satellite
16:00-16:45 Rodriguez, M (Harvard University)
  TBA Satellite
16:45-17:30 Ramgoolam, S (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Branes, permutations and oscillators Satellite
Friday 01 June
09:30-10:15 Emparan, R (Universitat de Barcelona)
  Black brane fluid flows Satellite
10:15-11:00 Song, W (Harvard University)
  Comments on dipole theories Satellite
11:30-12:15 Giddings, S (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Black holes, Hilbert-space networks, and quantum information transfer Satellite
12:15-13:00 Reall, H (University of Cambridge)
  Black hole instabilities and local Penrose inequalities Satellite
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