Our seminars are held in person on Tuesdays at 4pm in the Schwinger Lounge (PAB 4-740). They will be made available on zoom upon specific request. The seminar organizers are Thomas Dumitrescu, Ruben Monten and Pierluigi Niro.

Winter 2026

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Fall 2025

• Friday, October 3rd, 2025 2025 Southern California Strings

Winter 2023

• Tuesday, January 24: Andreas Helset (Caltech):
  "Black hole scattering to all orders in spin"
• Friday, January 27: Nikolay Bobev (KU Leuven):
  "Large N Partition Functions, Holography, and Black Holes"
• Tuesday, January 31: Daniel Green (UCSD):
  "EFT for de Sitter Space"
• Tuesday, February 7: Grégoire Mathys (Cornell):
  "Gravity as a phase of matter"
• Friday, February 10: Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN):
  "Nonperturbative scattering amplitudes from dispersive iterations of unitarity"
• Friday, February 17: Leonardo Rastelli (YITP):
  "Carving out the space of large N gauge theories and cornering large N QCD"
• Tuesday, February 21: Tarek Anous (QMUL):
  "An EFT principle for low dimensional gravity"
• Friday, February 24: Bhaumik Lecture - Andrew Strominger (Harvard)
  Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory - 2pm
  "Memory, Soft Theorems and the Symmetries of Nature"
• Tuesday, February 28: Andreas Karch (UT Austin):
  "A top-down dictionary for double holography"
• Tuesday, March 7: Yikun Jiang (Cornell):
  "Focusing bounds for CFT correlators and the S-matrix"
• Tuesday, March 14: Temple He (Caltech):
  "Marginal independence and an approximation to strong subadditivity"
• Tuesday, March 21: Bhaumik Lecture - Lance Dixon (SLAC)
  "Scattering Amplitudes: Jewels at the Heart of Matter"
• Friday, March 24: Southern California String Seminar

Spring 2023

• Tuesday, April 4: Aleksey Cherman (U. Minnesota):
  "Emergent 1-form symmetries"
• Tuesday, April 11: Henry Maxfield (Stanford):
  "Counting states of black holes with replica wormholes"
• Tuesday, April 18: Simon Caron-Huot (McGill):
  "Holographic cameras: an eye for the bulk"
• Tuesday, April 25: Jacob McNamara (Caltech):
  "Reflections on Parity Breaking"
• Tuesday, May 2: Ying Zhao (UCSB):
  "Operator growth and black hole formation"
• Tuesday, May 9: Andrea Cristofoli (Maxwell Inst. Math. Sci., Edinburgh):
  "An On-Shell Approach to Self-Force on Gravitational Plane Waves"
• Tuesday, May 16: Suzanne Bintanja (Amsterdam U.)
  "A toolbox for holographic CFTs"
• Tuesday, May 23: Emily Nardoni (Tokyo U., IPMU):
  "Probing Anomalies of Non-Invertible Symmetries"
• Tuesday, May 30: Sahand Seifnashri (IAS):
  "Lieb-Schultz-Mattis anomaly as obstruction to gauging"
• Tuesday, June 6: TBA

For previous TEP Seminars, please consult Archived Seminars.

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