TEP Seminars       The goal of Theoretical Elementary Particle (TEP) physics seminars  is to attain a fundamental description of the laws of physics, the constituents of matter and their interactions.	SCSS The Southern California Strings Seminar (SCSS) is where we gather and discuss new ideas and developments, both general and specialized, in the field.
Bhaumik Luncheon The goal of this Seminar series is to learn about exciting new ideas from scientists in the department through short talks and discussions.	BLYSS The goal of this seminar is to learn about exciting new ideas from up-and-coming scientists in the department and from around the world.

TEP Seminars

Seminars are held in the UCLA Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB) 4-740 Schwinger Lounge, Tuesdays 2-3pm unless otherwise noted.

 

Fall Quarter 2025

Bhaumik Lecture: Thursday, October 2nd: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)
"String Theory and the Dark Sector"

Tuesday, October 7th: Diego Delmastro (UCLA)
"Noether theorem, non-local currents, non-invertible symmetries"

Thursday, October 15th: Sonja Klisch (Edinburgh)
"The soft physics of amplitudes in background fields"

Tuesday, October 21st: Adar Sharon (UCLA)
"Large charge and Moduli spaces"

Tuesday, October 28th: Jaewon Song (KAIST)
"Large N Universality of 4d N=1 SCFT and Holography"

Tuesday, November 4th: Fedor Popov
"Entropic Order"

Tuesday, November 18th: Matteo Sergola (UCLA)
"Scattering Amplitudes for Hawking Radiation with the Double Copy"

Tuesday, December 2nd: Sam Gralla (University of Arizona)
TBA

Tuesday, December 9th: TBD
TBA

 

Winter Quarter 2026

 

 

 

Spring Quarter 2026

 

 

California Amplitudes Meeting (Nov. 8th & 9th, 2025) 

Gong Show Talks, November 8th, 2025 

Samuel Degen (UCLA), "Effects of Black Hole Environments on Gravitational Wave Signals"

Artyom Lisitsyn (UC Davis), "Non-planar MHV on-shell Diagrams"

Melvyn Nabavi (UC Davis), "The deformed Amplituhedron"

Umut Oktem (UC Davis), "Resumption of Negative Geometries"

Marcelo dos Santos (UC Davis), "Generalizations of Kinematics for loop-integrals"

Kshitij Gupta (UC San Diego), "Soft Gravitons during inflation"

Joonhwi Kim (UCLA), "Double Copy from Ambitwistor Worldline"

Curtis Zhou (UCLA), "Tensor Networks for Energy Correlators"

Justin Lemmon (UC Davis), "Gravity Tree Amplitudes at Infinity"

Tara Leininger (Caltech), "Double Copy of DBI"

Anna Wolz (UCLA), "Analyticity of the Black Hole S-Matrix"

 

Scheduled Talks, November 8th, 2025

Matteo Sergola (UCLA), "Hawking Radiation Meets the Double Copy"

Giulia Isabella (UCLA), "The Born Regime: From Love Numbers to the Analyticity of Classical Scattering"

Jaroslav Trnka (UC Davis), "Negative geometry expansion of scattering amplitudes"

 

Scheduled Talk, November 9th, 2025

Lance Dixon (SLAC), "Another 8 Loop Form Factor in Planar N=4 SYM"

 

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TEP Lunch Seminars 

TBA 

 

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Bhaumik Luncheon Seminars

The Mani L. Bhaumik Institute of Theoretical Physics is pleased to present the Bhaumik Luncheon Seminar series. The goal of this Seminar series is to learn about exciting new ideas from scientists in the department through short talks and discussions. The Seminar is usually held once per academic quarter. Come, participate, and enjoy a light lunch.

Upcoming Bhaumik Luncheon Seminars:

 

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Bhaumik Luncheon Young Scientists Seminar (BLYSS)

Our new seminar series, the Bhaumik Luncheon Young Scientists Seminar (BLYSS) launched in Fall of 2017. The goal of this seminar is to learn about exciting new ideas from up-and-coming scientists in the department and from around the world.

Upcoming BLYSS:

 

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Southern California Strings Seminar 

The Southern California Strings Seminar returns to UCLA. We gather and discuss new ideas and developments, both general and specialized, in the field.