2015 SOCAL GRADS STRINGS AND FIELDS

Friday, May 15, 2015
UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB), 4th Floor, Room 4-330

Program

  • 9:30-9:40: Opening remarks (Allic)
  • 9:40-10:40: Chia-Hsien Shen (Caltech): Positivity of RG flow from Unitarity
  • 10:40-10:55: Break
  • 10:55-11:55: Prarit Agarwal (UCSD): Infinite Number of N=1 Dualities from m+1-m=0
  • 12:00-1:30 Lunch
  • 1:30-2:20: Allic Sivaramakrishnan (UCLA): Entanglement Entropy with a Time-dependent Hamiltonian
  • 2:20-3:10: Bogdan Stoica (Caltech): Tomography from Entanglement
  • 3:10-3:25: Break
  • 3:25-4:15: Sean Litsey (UCLA): New Structures in Scattering Amplitudes
  • 4:15-5:05: Vasilis Stylianou (USC): AdS3 solutions from M5-branes