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Seminars

During the semester we have a high energy seminar and a lunch seminar. In addition to these two seminars we participate in a joint theoretical high energy theory seminar in Newe Shalom. The joint seminar takes place on Tuesdays from 10:30 until 13:30 and includes two talks and lunch. This seminar is attended by the high energy groups of all the Israeli institutions and usually attracts a crowd of roughly twenty participants.

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Daniel Harlow 4:00 pm
Daniel Harlow
Dec 1 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Title: Global symmetry, Euclidean gravity, and the black hole information problemAbstract: In this talk I will show how the essential ingredients of recent calculations of the Page curve of an evaporating black hole can be usedto …
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Paolo’s talk 2:30 pm
Paolo’s talk
Dec 6 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
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Matthew Heydeman 4:00 pm
Matthew Heydeman
Dec 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Title: The Statistical Mechanics of Near-BPS Black HolesAbstract: The status of near extremal black holes in gravity and string theory has long remained unclear due to the failure of black hole thermodynamics at low temperatures. …
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Hanukah – no seminar 4:00 pm
Hanukah – no seminar
Dec 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Shahar Hadar 4:00 pm
Shahar Hadar
Dec 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Title: Photon Ring AutocorrelationsAbstract: In the presence of a black hole, light sources connect to observers along multiple paths. As a result, observed brightness fluctuations must be correlated across different times and positions in black hole images. …
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Assaf’s journal club talk 2:30 pm
Assaf’s journal club talk
Dec 27 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
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Soumyadeep Chaudhuri 4:00 pm
Soumyadeep Chaudhuri
Dec 29 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Title: Thermal order in large N conformal gauge theoriesAbstract: Our experience with many physical systems tells us that usually when a symmetry is spontaneously broken at low temperatures, it is restored upon increasing the temperature …
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Jan
3
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Belal’s journal club talk
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Jan 3 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

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Jan
5
Tue
Anatoly Dymarsky
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Jan 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Title: Comments on holographic description of Narain theories.

Abstract: I will discuss to what extent holographic description of
Narain theories can mimic the conventional picture of large c
holography with weakly coupled gravity in the bulk. Namely is it
possible that the effective IR bulk theory consist of “$U(1)$
gravity” amended with some additional states. This picture leads to a
hypothesis that in the large central charge limit density of states of
any Narain theory would be bounded by below by that one of “$U(1)$
gravity.” This immediately implies maximal value of spectral gap of
primary fields is $Delta_1=c/(2pi e)$. In the rest of the talk I
will discuss self-consistency of this picture using quantum code and
chiral CFTs. First, I will show the proposed picture yields a new
bound on quantum stabilizer codes, which is compatible with previously
known bounds in the literature. Next, I will discuss variance of the
density of states, which for consistency, must be vanishingly small in
the large $c$ limit. I will consider ensembles of code and chiral
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Jan
10
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Dean’s journal club talk
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Jan 10 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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Jan
12
Tue
David Skinner
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Jan 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Title: Twistors, Integrability and 4d Chern-Simons Theory


Abstract: It has long been known that many classical integrable systems can be obtained as symmetry reductions of the anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations. Following a suggestion of Costello, I’ll show that actions for asd YM arise from holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on twistor space, defined with the help of a choice of meromorphic (3,0)-form. Applying the symmetry reduction in twistor space, one instead arrives at the description of the integrable system in terms of 4d Chern-Simons theory of Costello & Yamazaki.

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Jan
17
Sun
Orr’s journal club talk
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Jan 17 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

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Jan
19
Tue
Nima Arkani-Hamed
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Jan 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Title: Frontiers in Positive Geometry.

Abstract: In this talk I will describe work in progress connecting scattering amplitudes to amplituhedra and positive geometries in kinematic space. For N=4 SYM in the planar limit, I will show how the geometry of the amplituhedron naturally provides a new approach to non-perturbative physics. I will also describe conjectural all-loop order, non-planar, non-supersymmetric amplituhedra for the tr(phi^3) theory–which are new (generally infinite) polytopes attached to any Riemann surface–and show how the connection to positive geometry forces the existence of “gravity” in this setting.

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Jan
24
Sun
Evyatar’s journal club talk
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Jan 24 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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Jan
26
Tue
Sabrina Pasterski
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Jan 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Title: Using Soft Hair to Dissolve the Firewall

Abstract: We build on the observation by Hawking, Perry and Strominger that a global black hole space-time supports a large number of soft hair degrees of freedom to shed new light on the firewall argument by Almheiri, Marolf, Polchinski, and Sully. The soft hair carries a sizable amount of entropy and is encoded in a transition function that connects the asymptotic and near horizon regions. We argue that an infalling observer automatically measures the classical value of the soft mode before reachingthe horizon and that this measurement implements a code subspace projection that enables the reconstruction of interior operators. We use the soft hair dynamics to introduce an observer dependent notion of the firewall and show that an infalling observer neverencounters a firewall before reaching the singularity.

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Feb
2
Tue
No seminars in February – semester break
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Feb 2 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
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Mar
2
Tue
Koenraad Schalm
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Mar 2 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Title: Detecting chaos in hydrodynamics

Abstract: Hydrodynamics assumes local equilibration and equilibration assumes ergodic mixing driven by chaos — at least in semi-classical systems. For a generic such system the timescales of macroscopic thermalization and onset of microscopic chaos are very different. Nevertheless, it is a pillar of Boltzmann transport that long-time equilibration can be computed from microscopic dynamics. We show how in these systems the two timescales are in fact related. Moreover, we show that a similar connection between both scales surprisingly also exists in extremely strongly coupled systems through a phenomenon christened pole-skipping in hydrodynamic response.

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