Title: Holographic transport in anisotropic systems Speaker: Claire Moran (Utrecht University) Venue&Time: Blue Room & Zoom / 11:30 Abstract: Understanding transport in strongly coupled quantum systems remains a central challenge across high-energy physics, condensed matter, and quantum many-body theory. Of particular interest is systems exhibiting anisotropy, where the anisotropy leads to a much richer transport […]

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Speaker: Enrico Calogero Domanti Title: "Symmetry-protected topology and deconfined solitons in a multi-link Z2 gauge theory" Venue&Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: With the advent of quantum simulators, exploring exotic collective phenomena in lattice models with local symmetries and unconventional geometries is at reach of near-term experiments. Motivated by recent progress in this direction, […]

Speaker: Aram Harrow (MIT) Title: "Zeros of the partition function and their algorithmic application" Venue&Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:30 Abstract: "At high temperatures quantum systems generally lose long-range order.  We would expect that this makes them easier to simulate.  One way to understand this is through the analytic properties of the partition function.  Viewing […]

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland (SPS) Journal Club   Speaker: Vincent Menet (Università Milano Bicocca)   Title: 'Calibration, fuzziness: new results on AdS vacuum decay'   Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30   Abstract: Motivated by swampland conjectures, we study the stability of AdS type II supergravity vacua. In the literature, vacuum decay mediated by abelian D-branes […]

Jaime Fernandez Tejedor (IFT) will present "On the Inverse Problem in Effective Field Theory". Venue&Time: Gray Room 2 / 12:00 Abstract: We show that the tree-level spectrum of heavy particles can be directly extracted from the Wilson coefficients of the corresponding effective field theory at low energies. This procedure is exact when the number of […]

Speaker: Martin Sasieta (U. Berkeley) Title: 'Emergence of Closed Universes in Holography' Venue&Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: I will present recent constructions of closed universes in AdS/CFT and  AdS2 holography, and discuss some of the puzzles they pose.