Strings, Pheno and the Swampland Journal Club (SPS) Speaker: Michelangelo Tartaglia (IFT) Title: 'Anomaly-induced vanishing of brane partition functions' Abstract: In the presence of 't Hooft anomalies, backgrounds for the symmetries of a quantum field theory can lead to non-conservation of Noether currents, or more generally, to the presence of charged insertions in the path […]

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.

Miquel Aparici Domingo (IFT) will present Generalized Global Symmetries by Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Brian Willett,  JHEP 02 (2015) 172 Abstract: A q-form global symmetry is a global symmetry for which the charged operators are of space-time dimension q, e.g. Wilson lines, surface defects, etc., and the charged excitations have q spatial dimensions, e.g. […]

Speaker: Suman Das (IFT) Title: 'Brick wall Normal Modes and Emerging Thermality' Venue & Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:00 Abstract: arXiv:2401.01417 The ’t Hooft brick wall model provides one of the earliest microscopic derivations of the black-hole area law within the probe approximation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. In this talk, I […]