Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminar History
Date Room Speaker Title File
May 08 2024
16:00
SISSA (room 005) Rob Myers
(Perimeter Institute)
Holographic scattering and non-minimal RT surfaces

May 08 2024
14:30
SISSA (room 005) Jan de Boer
(U. Amsterdam )
The Statistical Interpretation of Semi-Classical Gravity

Apr 03 2024
14:30
ICTP Neal Weiner
(New York University)
Theme: Pheno

Apr 03 2024
16:00
ICTP Masha Baryakhtar (tbc)
(U. of Washington)
Theme: Pheno

Feb 28 2024
14:30
U. Trieste Slava Rychkov
(IHES)
O(N) x O(2) model from 3D to 4D - the tale of disappearing fixed points

Feb 28 2024
16:00
U. Trieste Balt van Rees
(Ecole Polytechnique)
QFT in AdS instead of LSZ

Feb 07 2024
14:30
SISSA (room 005) Alexander Zhiboedov
(CERN)
High-energy gravitational scattering and energy correlators

Feb 07 2024
16:00
SISSA (room 005) Matthew Schwartz
(Harvard U.)
Landau, Cutkosky, and Pham: Geometry and Analyticity of Scattering Amplitudes

Nov 29 2023
16:00
ICTP (Luigi Stasi Seminar Room) Micha Berkooz
(Weizmann Inst)
Double scaled SYK: from chord diagrams to the dual bulk

Nov 29 2023
14:30
ICTP (Luigi Stasi Seminar Room) Ahmed Almheiri
(NYU Abu Dhabi)
Holography on the quantum disk

May 02 2023
14:30
ICTP, Luigi Stasi Seminar Room David Tong
(DAMTP)
A Chern-Simons Theory for the North Atlantic Ocean
May 02 2023
16:00
ICTP, Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Nabil Iqbal
(Durham University)
Higher form symmetries and chiral magnetohydrodynamics
Apr 05 2023
16:00
SISSA room 005 Alberto Lerda
(U. of Torino)
Strong coupling results in N=2 gauge theories

Apr 05 2023
14:30
SISSA room 005 Alejandra Castro
(Cambridge)
Keeping matter in the loop in dS_3 quantum gravity

Mar 01 2023
16:00
ICTP (Luigi Stasi Seminar Room) Konstantin Zarembo
(U. of Stockholm)
t'Hooft loops and integrability
Mar 01 2023
14:30
ICTP (Luigi Stasi Seminar Room) Shota Komatsu
(CERN)
String duals of 2d Yang-Mills and symmetric product orbifolds
Feb 01 2023
14:30
SISSA (room 005) Julian Sonner
(Geneva University)
A new dawn for matrix models: JT gravity, ETH and random CFT

Feb 01 2023
16:00
SISSA (room 005) Liam Fitzpatrick
(Boston University)
Thermalization and Chaos from Energy Eigenstates in QFT

Dec 07 2022
14:30
ICTP (Euler Lecture Hall) Ofer Aharony
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
Towards an explicit theory of quantum gravity
Dec 07 2022
16:00
ICTP (Euler Lecture Hall) Rajesh Gopakumar
(ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru)
Deriving the Simplest Gauge String Duality
May 13 2020
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Liam McAllister
(Cornell Univ.)
TBA
May 13 2020
16:00
ICTP - Euler Room Chris Herzog
(King's College - London)
TBA
Jan 22 2020
14:30
SISSA - Room 128 Sabrina Pasterski
(PCTS - Princeton)
Constraints on Scattering from the Infrared
Jan 22 2020
16:00
SISSA - Room 128 Alexander Zhiboedov
(CERN)
Non-perturbative Mellin Amplitudes: Existence, Properties, Applications
Dec 18 2019
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Alessandro Vichi
(EPFL - Lausanne)
Constraints from the Averaged Null Energy Condition in CFT
Dec 18 2019
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Shota Komatsu
(IAS - Princeton)
Towards Analytic S-matrix from AdS/CFT
Nov 27 2019
16:00
ICTP - Euler Room Ander Retolaza
(IPT - Saclay)
Kähler moduli stabilization from ten dimensions
Nov 27 2019
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Jay Armas
(Univ. Amsterdam)
Metastable antibranes and higher-form hydrodynamics
Sep 18 2019
14:30
SISSA - Room 5 Eric Perlmutter
(Caltech)
Scattering amplitudes and extra dimensions in AdS/CFT
Sep 18 2019
16:00
SISSA - Room 5 Matthijs Hogervorst
(EPFL - Lausanne)
Bounds for the epsilon expansion
May 22 2019
14:30
SISSA - Room 5 Shiraz Minwalla
(TIFR - Mumbai)
Classifying 4 Graviton S matrices
May 22 2019
16:30
SISSA - Room 5 Alberto Zaffaroni
(Milano Bicocca Univ.)
Twisted compactifications, holography and localization
Apr 03 2019
14:30
ICTP - Budinich Lecture Hall Leonardo Rastelli
(YITP - Stony Brook)
Pulling Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps in Quantum Field Theory
Apr 03 2019
16:00
ICTP - Budinich Lecture Hall Shu-Heng Shao
(IAS Princeton)
Modular bootstrap and 't Hooft anomaly
Feb 13 2019
14:30
ICTP - Euler room Shamit Kachru
(Stanford Univ.)
Comments on flux vacua
Feb 13 2019
16:00
ICTP - Euler room Andrea Puhm
(Ecole Polytechnique)
Conformally soft photons and gravitons
Dec 12 2018
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room David Andriot
(CERN)
Classical de Sitter solutions and the swampland
Dec 12 2018
16:00
ICTP - Euler Room Jan Pieter van der Schaar
(Univ. Amsterdam)
On effective descriptions and the stability of de Sitter states
Nov 07 2018
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Roberto Tateo
(Turin Univ.)
TTbar-deformed classical and quantum field theories
Nov 07 2018
15:30
SISSA - Room 005 Kyriakos Papadodimas
(ICTP)
On the interior geometry of a typical black hole microstate
Oct 17 2018
14:30
SISSA - Room 5 Pedro Liendo
(DESY - Hamburg)
The Bootstrap Program for defect CFT
Oct 17 2018
16:00
SISSA - Room 5 Silviu Pufu
(Princeton Univ.)
M-theory S-matrix from CFT
May 23 2018
16:00
SISSA - Room 5 Amihay Hanany
(Imperial College - London)
Discrete gauging in six dimensions
May 23 2018
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Davide Cassani
(INFN - Padua)
Holographic RG flows for four-dimensional N=2 SCFTs
Apr 18 2018
14:00
ICTP - Euler room David Tong
(DAMTP - Cambridge)
Bosonization in 3d and 2d
Apr 18 2018
15:30
ICTP - Euler room Monica Guica
(IPhT - Saclay)
JT-bar deformed CFTs and their holographic interpretation
Feb 21 2018
14:30
SISSA - Room 5 Antonio Amariti
(INFN - Milan)
Aspects of 4d/2d reductions
Feb 21 2018
16:00
SISSA - Room 5 Amos Yarom
(Technion - Haifa)
Entropy and superspace
Jan 24 2018
14:30
ICTP - Euler room Irene Valenzuela
(MPI - Munich)
Constraining Particle Physics from Quantum Gravity Conjectures
Jan 24 2018
16:00
ICTP - Euler Room Arthur Hebecker
(Heidelberg Univ.)
Large Field inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Dec 13 2017
14:30
SISSA - Room 5 Agnese Bissi
(Uppsala Univ.)
Loops in AdS revisited
Dec 13 2017
16:00
SISSA - Room 5 Alessandro Vichi
(CERN)
TBA
Nov 15 2017
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Jan de Boer
(Amsterdam Univ.)
New results in hydrodynamics and fluid/gravity
Nov 15 2017
16:00
ICTP - Euler room David Vegh
(QMW - London)
Wave-turbulence and pair-production of cusps on a string
Jun 20 2017
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Cyril Closset
(CERN)
Supersymmetric indices, partition functions, and the topological A-twist
Jun 20 2017
16:00
ICTP - Euler Room Stefano Cremonesi
(Durham Univ.)
The infrared physics of bad theories
May 17 2017
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Christoph Keller
(ETH - Zurich)
Genus Two Partition Functions and Renyi Entropies of Large c CFTs
May 17 2017
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Sandipan Kundu
(Cornell Univ.)
Causality constraints in quantum field theory
Apr 26 2017
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Matthew Buican
(QMW - London)
New TFT/CFT relations
Apr 26 2017
16:00
ICTP - Euler Room Thomas Van Riet
(Univ. Leuven)
The physics of supersymmetry-breaking branes
Jan 25 2017
14:00
SISSA - Room 005 Eran Palti
(Heidelberg Univ. - ITP)
Super-Planckian Field Variations and Quantum Gravity
Jan 25 2017
15:15
SISSA - Room 005 Ben Freivogel
(Amsterdam Univ.)
All Vacua Must Decay
Dec 14 2016
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Diego Hofman
(University of Amsterdam)
Proof of a/c bounds and the averaged null energy condition
Dec 14 2016
16:00
ICTP - Euler Room Robert Leigh
(Illinois University - Urbana)
Entanglement and the dynamics of shape
Nov 16 2016
14:30
SISSA - Room 5 Erik Tonni
(SISSA)
Entanglement hamiltonians in 2D CFT and shape dependence of holographic entanglement entropy in AdS(4)/CFT(3)
Nov 16 2016
16:00
SISSA - Room 5 Simone Giombi
(Princeton Univ.)
On the spectrum of CFTs with weakly broken higher-spin symmetry
Oct 26 2016
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Leonardo Rastelli
(YITP - Stony Brook)
How to succeed at holographic correlators without really trying
Oct 26 2016
16:00
ICTP - Euler Room Sameer Murthy
(King's College - London)
How macroscopic black holes teach us about microscopic quantum gravity: Modular symmetry, assembled and broken
May 25 2016
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Fabio Zwirner
(Univ. Padova)
Classical Minkowski vacua in broken supergravity
May 25 2016
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Massimo Porrati
(NYU)
Single-field Inflationary Models in Supergravity
Apr 20 2016
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Alejandra Castro
(Univ. Amsterdam)
Higher Spin Black Holes
Apr 20 2016
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Troels Harmark
(NBI - Copenhagen)
Anomalous dimension of giant gravitons from non-abelian DBI and Spin Matrix theory
Feb 17 2016
16:00
ICTP - Euler Emanuel Katz
(Boston Univ)
Conformal Truncation in Three Dimensions: A new method for quantizing a 3D QFT
Feb 17 2016
16:00
ICTP - Euler Nikolay Bobev
(Leuven Univ.)
Holography for N=1* on S^4
Dec 16 2015
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Marco Billo`
(Univ. Turin)
S-duality constraints and the prepotential of N=2 conformal SYM theories
Dec 16 2015
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Diego Rodriguez-Gomez
(Univ. Oviedo)
Five-dim theories on curved backgrounds, Yang-Mills deformations and instantons
Nov 11 2015
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Balt van Rees
(CERN)
Boostrapping the (2,0) theories in six dimensions
Nov 11 2015
16:00
ICTP - Euler Room Alexander Zhiboedov
(Harvard Univ.)
Topics in the Analytic Bootstrap
Oct 14 2015
14:30
SISSA - Room 5 Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria
(MPI, Munich)
Charting the wilderness of N=1 S-duality
Oct 14 2015
16:00
SISSA - Room 5 Luca Martucci
(Univ. Padova)
Hidden selection rules in F-theory
May 13 2015
16:00
ICTP - Euler room Mithat Unsal
(North Carolina State Univ.)
What is QFT? Resurgence, transseries, and Lefschetz thimbles
May 13 2015
14:30
ICTP - Euler room Francisco Morales Morera
(INFN - Rome TV)
G-theory: flux vacua from CY geometries
Apr 15 2015
17:00
ICTP - Euler Room Alexander Westphal
(DESY)
Large Field Inflation - String Theory & Phenomenology
Apr 15 2015
15:30
ICTP - Euler Room Daniel Baumann
(DAMTP - Cambridge)
Probing Inflation from the Bottom Up
Feb 11 2015
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Joao Penedones
(Univ. of Porto)
Mellin amplitudes: the scattering amplitudes of Conformal Field Theory
Feb 11 2015
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Alessandro Tomasiello
(Univ. MIlano Bicocca)
New 6d superconformal theories from string theory, and their compactifications
Dec 17 2014
14:30
ICTP - Euler room Dam T. Son
(Chicago University)
Space-Time Symmetries of the Quantum Hall Effect
Dec 17 2014
14:30
ICTP - Euler Room Steven Gubser
(Princeton University)
Holographic Fermi surfaces from String Theory
Nov 12 2014
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Kyriakos Papadodimas
(CERN - Geneve)
Reconstructing the black hole interior in AdS/CFT
Nov 12 2014
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Massimo Bianchi
(Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
Neutron Majorana mass from exotic instantons
Oct 28 2014
14:30
ICTP - Stasi Room Hugh Osborn
(DAMTP, Cambridge)
Conformal partial waves, building blocks of the conformal bootstrap
Oct 28 2014
16:00
ICTP - Stasi Room Mario Trigiante
(Turin Politecnico)
N=3 and N=4 anti-de Sitter vacua of maximal supergravity
May 14 2014
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Veronika Hubeny
(Durham University)
Holographic Probes of Black Holes & Causality of Entanglement
May 14 2014
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Mukund Rangamani
(Durham University)
Effective actions for anomalous hydrodynamics
Apr 09 2014
14:30
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Matthias Gaberdiel
(ETHZ - Zurich)
Mathieu Moonshine
Apr 09 2014
16:00
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Rajesh Gopakumar
(Harish-Chandra RI - India)
Open-Closed-Open String Duality
Mar 26 2014
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Carlos Nunez
(Swansea University)
Aspects of String - Gauge duality
Mar 26 2014
16:00
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Feb 12 2014
14:30
ICTP Bernard de Wit
(NIKHEF and ITP Utrecht)
Deformations of special geometry: in search of the topological string
Feb 12 2014
16:00
ICTP Gianguido Dall'Agata
(Padova University)
New maximal Supergravities
Dec 11 2013
14:30
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Ruben Minasian
(CEA - Saclay)
Higher derivative stringy corrections, B-field and N=2 theories
Dec 11 2013
16:00
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Sakura Schafer-Nameki
(King's College - London)
F-theory, elliptic fibrations and local limits
Nov 13 2013
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Guido Festuccia
(NBI - Copenhagen)
The geometry of supersymmetric partition functions
Nov 13 2013
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Shlomo S. Razamat
(IAS - Princeton)
3d dualities from 4d dualities
Oct 18 2013
15:00
SISSA - Room 005 Sergei Dubovsky
(New York University)
Asymptotic Fragility and the Hierarchy Problem
Oct 18 2013
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Alberto Nicolis
(Columbia University - NY)
Effective field theories for hydrodynamical systems
May 14 2013
15:00
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Alberto Lerda
(UPO - Alessandria)
Non-perturbative aspects of the gauge/gravity correspondence
May 14 2013
16:30
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Stefan Vandoren
(ITF - Utrecht)
Phase transitions of magnetic AdS4 black holes with scalar hair
Apr 17 2013
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Niklas Beisert
(ETHZ - Zurich)
Metastable Spinning Strings
Apr 17 2013
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Jonathan Heckman
(IAS - Princeton)
Covariant Non-Commutative De Sitter Space
Feb 13 2013
15:00
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Ralph Blumenhagen
(MPI- Munchen)
Non-geometric Strings - Differential Geometry of Lie-algebroids
Feb 13 2013
16:30
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Timo Weigand
(ITP - Heidelberg)
U(1) groups and G-flux in F-theory compactifications with multiple sections
Dec 12 2012
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Riccardo Rattazzi
(EPFL - Lausanne)
The a-theorem and the Asymptotics of 4D Quantum Field Theory
Dec 12 2012
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Rob Myers
(Perimeter Institute - Waterloo)
On the Architecture of Spacetime Geometry
Nov 07 2012
15:00
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Iosif Bena
(Saclay - Paris)
SCAPEZILLA : the backreaction of antibranes in flux compactifications
Nov 07 2012
16:30
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Anatoly Dymarsky
(IAS - Princeton)
Resilience of meta-stable states in string theory and supergravity
Oct 24 2012
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Angel Uranga
(UAM - Madrid)
Discrete gauge symmetries in string theory
Oct 24 2012
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Fernando Marchesano
(UAM - Madrid)
Yukawas in F-theory GUTs
May 16 2012
16:00
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Larus Thorlacius
(NORDITA - Univ. Iceland)
Holographic metals
May 16 2012
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Rodolfo Russo
(QMW - London)
Emergent geometry from string amplitudes
Apr 11 2012
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Brian Wecht
(QMW - London & Harvard University)
New SCFTs From M5-Branes
Apr 11 2012
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Roberto Emparan
(ICREA - Barcelona)
Viscous fluid, elastic solid: The effective dynamics of black branes
Mar 15 2012
16:00
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Marcos Marino
(Geneve University)
Three-dimensional superconformal field theories and Fermi gases
Mar 15 2012
14:30
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Luis Ibanez
(UAM - Madrid)
The Higgs mass, SUSY and Strings
Feb 15 2012
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Andre Lukas
(Oxford University)
1000 Heterotic Standard Models from Smooth Calabi-Yau Three-folds
Feb 15 2012
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Thomas Grimm
(MPI - Munich)
From M-theory to F-theory at one loop
Dec 14 2011
16:00
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Niels Obers
(NBI - Copenhagen)
Blackfolds, (an)istropic charged fluids and thermal probe branes
Dec 14 2011
14:30
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Jan de Boer
(Univ. of Amsterdam)
Black holes in string theory
Nov 16 2011
16:00
SISSA - Room 005 Alberto Zaffaroni
(Univ. Milano Bicocca)
Aspects and interpretation of AdS4 vacua in string theory
Nov 16 2011
14:30
SISSA - Room 005 Ofer Aharony
(Weizmann Institute)
Holographic duals for N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on AdS4 and for branes ending on branes
Oct 14 2011
14:30
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Zohar Komargodski
(Weizmann & IAS)
On renormalization group flows in four dimensions
Oct 14 2011
16:00
ICTP - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room Claudio Scrucca
(EPFL-Lausanne)
Sequestering in brane world supersymmetry breaking and its realization in string models