2016 Southern California Strings Seminar

Friday, October 21, 2016, 9:30AM – 5:30PM
Hosted by the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB) 4th Floor, Room 4-330
For more information please contact Per Kraus or Michael Gutperle.

Program Schedule

  • 9:30-11:00: Christoph Uhlemann (UCLA): A precision test of AdS/CFT with flavor
  • 11:15-12:45: Edgar Shaghoulian (UCSB): Emergent gravity from Eguchi-Kawai reduction
  • 12:45-2:15: Lunch
  • 2:15 - 3:45: Shamit Kachru (Stanford University): Dualities and bosonization in 2+1 dimensional field theory
  • 4:00-5:30: Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis): A new perspective on the Schwinger-Keldysh formalismh
  • 5:30: Dinner