TEP Seminars      

particles

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

stringsThe Southern California Strings Seminar (SCSS) is where we gather and discuss new ideas and developments, both general and specialized, in the field. 

Bhaumik Luncheon

brainstormThe goal of this Seminar series is to learn about exciting new ideas from scientists in the department through short talks and discussions. 

BLYSS

bulbThe 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 2024

Tuesday, October 1st: Alessio Miscioscia (DESY)
"Exploring thermal CFTs from a bootstrap perspective"

Tuesday, October 8th: Suzanne Bintanja (UCLA)
"Black holes from weak Jacobi forms"

Tuesday, October 15th: Alexandre Homrich (KITP)
"Multi-Twist Trajectories, Light Ray Wave Functions and the Missing Zeroes"

Tuesday, October 22nd: Nicolas Pavao (UCLA)
"Transforming the S-Matrix"

Tuesday, October 29th: Miguel Correia (McGil)
"Electrical Circuits meet Feynman Diagrams"

Tuesday, November 5th: Shreya Vardhan (Stanford)
"Estimating time in quantum chaotic systems and black holes"

Tuesday, November 12th: Sean Colin-Ellerin (UC Berkeley)
"Generalized entropy of gravitational fluctuations"

Tuesday, November 19th: Thomas Dumitrescu (UCLA)
"Symmetry Breaking from Monopoles in 3d QED"

Tuesday, December 3rd: Conghuan Luo (USC)
"An update on the 4d Yang-Mills flux tube spectrum"

 

 

Winter Quarter 2025

Tuesday, January 21st: Anna Hasenfratz (University of Colorado Boulder)
*Rescheduled*

Tuesday, January 28th: Simon Catterall (Syracuse University)
"Sneaking up on lattice chiral fermions"

Thursday, January 30th: Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich)
"Precision QCD Predictions for High Energy Collider Observables"

Tuesday, February 4th: Daniel Green (UCSD)
"Cosmological Observables in Flat Spaces"

Thursday, February 6th: Riccardo Gonzo (University of Edinburgh)
"Insights into the scattering-to-bound map from the self-force approach"

Tuesday, February 11th: Daniel Brennan (UCSD)
"Generalized Families of QFTs"

Thursday, February 13th: Francesco Riva (University of Geneva)
"Microscopic Bounds on Macroscopic Theories"

Tuesday, February 18th: Kristan Jensen (University of Victoria)
"Hierarchy from duality"

Thursday, February 20th: Donal O'Connell (University of Edinburgh)
"Amplitudes for Hawking Radiation"

Tuesday, February 25th: Joan Elias Miro (ICTP)
"Thermodynamics from the S-matrix reloaded, with applications to QCD and the confining Flux Tube"

Thursday, February 27th: Chia-Hsien Shen (NTU)
"New Structures in Renormalization Group from Fundamental Principles"

Tuesday, March 4th: Guilherme Leite Pimentel (SNS Pisa)
"Kinematic flow and the emergence of time"

Thursday, March 6th: Samuel Abreu (CERN)
"Planar Six-Point Feynman Integrals for Four-Dimensional Gauge Theories"

Friday, March 7th: Luca Iliesiu (UC Berkeley)
"Supersymmetric indices from the gravitational path integral"

Tuesday, March 11th: David Kosower (IPhT)
"Serendipitous Syzygies of Scattering Amplitudes"

Thursday, March 13th: Laurent Lellouch (CNRS & Aix-Marseille)
"Probing the Standard Model to 0.37 ppm with the muon anomalous magnetic moment"

Tuesday, March 18th: Evgenii Ievlev (University of Minnesota)
"Domain walls and their junctions from N=1 quarks and gluons"

Friday, March 21st: Gavin Salam (Oxford)
"From perturbative QFT to physical collider predictions"

 

 

Spring Quarter 2025

Tuesday, April 1st: TBD
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Thursday, April 3rd: Lorenzo Tancredi (TU Munich)
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Tuesday, April 8th: Eric Perlmutter (IPhT, Saclay)
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Tuesday, April 15th: Brando Bellazzini (IPhT, Saclay)
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Tuesday, April 22nd: TBD
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Tuesday, April 29th: TBD
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Tuesday, May 6th: TBD
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Tuesday, May 13th: TBD
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Tuesday, May 20th: TBD
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Tuesday, May 27th: TBD
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Tuesday, June 3rd: TBD
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Tuesday, June 10th: TBD
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TEP Lunch Seminars 

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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:

 


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:

 


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. 

 

Juan Maldecena