Friday, October 3rd, 2025
Hosted by the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy

Schedule

8:30 am	-	9:00 am	Collaboratory: Coffee and refreshments
9:00 am	-	10:30 am	Collaboratory: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), " String theory and the Fading Dark Sector"
11:00 am	-	12:30 pm	Collaboratory: Amey Gaikwad (UCLA), "Aspects of Confining Strings"
12:30 pm	-	2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	-	3:30 pm	PAB 4-330: Ho Tat Lam (Stanford/USC): "Chiral Tube Algebra: Chiral Algebras Meet Topological Defects"
4:00 pm	-	5:30 pm	PAB 4-330: John McGreevy (UCSD): "Entanglement bootstrap and conformal field theory"

Location

Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory
607 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles

Map to the lecture hall:

Contact

For more information please contact Thomas Dumitrescu or Per Kraus