FALL 2021
Winter 2022
Tuesday, January 11, 2021: TEP Seminar"TBA" by Eliezer Rabinovici (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Thursday, March 24, 2021: Bhaumik Lecture"TBA" by Steven Chu (Stanford) 6:00PM |
Past events
Tuesday, June 15, 2021: TEP Seminar"How Different Is More? : Precision correlators at large R-charge" by Simeon Hellerman (IAS) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, June 8, 2021: TEP Seminar"Shortcuts to String Amplitudes" by Eric D'Hoker (UCLA) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, June 1st 2021: TEP Seminar"Sharp Boundaries for the Swampland" by Dalimil (IAS) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021: TEP Seminar"Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC" by Ian Moult (Stanford) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, May 4, 2021: TEP Seminar"RG Flows and Bounds from Chaos" by Sandipan Kundu (Johns Hopkins University) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021: TEP Seminar"Massless Particles" by Steven Weinberg (UT Austin) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, April 13th: TEP Seminar"The RG Improved Effective Potential from EFT" by Emily Nardoni (UCLA) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, April 20th: TEP Seminar"Effective field theories for quantum chaos" by Mark Mezei (Stony Brook) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, April 6th: TEP Seminar"Unitarization in Kaluza Klein theory and the Geometric Bootstrap" by Kurt Hinterbichler (Case Western Reserve University) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, March 30th: TEP Seminar"5d counter-terms rigid supergravities" by Martin Fluder (Princeton) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, March 9th: TEP Seminar"Quantizing 3d gravity in a finite box" by Per Kraus (UCLA) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday & Wednesday, March 24 & 25th: California Amplitudes 2021A preliminary schedule and further information can be found on the website (https://sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/camplitudes2021) via Zoom |
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Tuesday, March 2nd: TEP Seminar"Symmetries and Threshold States in 2d Models for QCD" by Igor Klebanov (Princeton) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, February 23rd: TEP Seminar“Towards all loop supergravity amplitudes” by Agnese Bissi (Uppsala University) *Special Time* 10:00AM via Zoom |
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Thursday, February 25th: Bhaumik Lunch SeminarSpeakers: Andres Luna Godoy (UCLA) & Ziqi Pi (UCLA) 12:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, February 9th: TEP Seminar“The statistical mechanics of near-extremal and near-BPS black holes” by Luca Iliesiu (Princeton) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, February 16th: TEP Seminar“The IR structure of QCD in the near forward limit. A fresh look at an old problem” by Ira Rothstein (Carnegie Mellon) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Thursday, February 4th: Joint Astro Colloquium and Bhaumik Lecture“Wormholes and entanglement” by Juan Maldacena (Princeton University) 4:00PM via Zoom
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Tuesday, February 2nd: TEP Seminar“A CFT distance conjecture” by Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook University) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, January 26th: TEP Seminar“Supersymmetric Flux Vacua and Calabi-Yau Modularity” by Richard Nally (Stanford) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, January 19th: TEP Seminar“Real-time gravitational replicas” by Mukund Rangamani (Institute for Advanced Study) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, January 12th: TEP Seminar“Derivation of AdS/CFT for Vector Models” by Shai Chester (Weizmann) *10:00AM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, January 5th: TEP Seminar"WZW model revisited" by Kantaro Ohmori (Stony Brook University) *10:00AM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, December 15th: TEP Seminar"Wormholes in AdS3 gravity, random matrix theory, and constrained instantons" by Kristan Jensen (San Francisco State University) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, December 8th: TEP Seminar"Is SMEFT Enough?" by Tim Cohen (University of Oregon) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, December 1st: TEP Seminar"(The two sides of) the S-matrix Bootstrap" by Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, November 24th: TEP Seminar"2-Group Global Symmetries in Six Dimensions" by Thomas Dumitrescu (UCLA) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, November 17th: TEP Seminar"Binary Black Holes and Scattering Amplitudes" by Mikhail Solon (UCLA) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, November 10th: TEP Seminar“6D SCFTs and Spin Chains” by Jonathan Heckman (Univ. of Pennsylvania) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, November 3rd: TEP Seminar“Extremal Black Holes and the Weak Gravity Conjecture” by C. Jones and "Amplitudes and X" by E. Herrmann 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, October 27th: TEP Seminar"Branes, Islands, and Massive Gravitons" by Andreas Karch (University of Texas, Austin) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, October 20th: TEP Seminar"Inside the Hologram: The bulk observer's experience" by Lampros Lamprou (MIT) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, October 13th: TEP Seminar"Partition functions of the tensionless string" by Lorenz Eberhardt (IAS) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, June 16th: TEP Seminar"Virasoro bootstrap, universality, and pure gravity" by Scott Collier (Harvard) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, June 9th: TEP Seminar"Infrared Dynamics of Quantum Fields in Cosmology" by Victor Gorbenko (IAS) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, June 2nd: TEP Seminar" Two-Dimensional adjoint QCD and Topological Lines" by Konstantinos Roumpedakis (Stony Brook) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, May 26th: TEP Seminar"Infrared Spacetime Fluctuations from Quantum Gravity" by Kathryn Zurek (Caltech) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, May 19th: TEP Seminar"An analytical toolkit for the S-matrix bootstrap." by Sasha Zhiboedov (CERN) 11:00AM via Zoom **Please note the change in time |
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Tuesday, May 12th: TEP Seminar"Diabolical points in QFT and quantum lattice models" by Anton Kapustin (Caltech) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, May 5th: TEP Seminar"Anomalous Dimensions from Thermal AdS Partition Functions" by Per Kraus (UCLA) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, April 28th: TEP Seminar"New view on graviton scattering amplitudes" by Jaroslav Trnka (UC Davis) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, April 21st: TEP Seminar"Playing with Topological Defects in 2d" by Ying Lin (Caltech) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Tuesday, April 14th: TEP Seminar"Loops, Trees, and Higgs EFTs" by Nathaniel Craig (UCSB) 4:00PM via Zoom |
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Friday, March 13th: BLYSS *POSTPONED*Speakers: Krishna Choudhary (UCLA) and Shu Zhang (UCLA) 12:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, March 17th: Bhaumik Lecture *POSTPONED*"Supergravity, what it is (and what it isn't)" by Daniel Z. Freedman (MIT) 4:00PM at CNSI |
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Tuesday, February 24th: TEP Seminar"Maximal supersymmetric Yang-Mills and their holographic duals" by Joseph Minahan (Uppsala) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Friday, February, 21st: SCSSSpeakers: Juan Maldacena (IAS), Shu-Heng Shao (IAS), Douglas Stanford (Stanford), Andrew Strominger (Harvard) 8:30AM-5:20PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, February 18th: TEP SeminarGroup Discussion 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, February 11th: TEP Seminar"Universality in the classical limit of gravitational scattering" by Julio Parra-Martinez (UCLA) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, February 4th: TEP Seminar" Loop Amplitudes and Extra Dimensions in AdS/CFT" by Eric Perlmutter (Caltech) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, January 28th: TEP Seminar"Koszul duality in field theory & holography" by Natalie Paquette (Caltech) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, January 21st: Bhaumik Lecture"Realism" and the physical world: implications of some recent experiments" by Anthony Leggett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 4:00PM at CNSI |
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Tuesday, January 14th: TEP Seminar"Spinning binary Hamiltonian from scattering amplitudes" by Andres Luna Godoy (UCLA) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, January 7th: TEP Seminar"Confinement in 2d adjoint QCD" by Aleksey Cherman (University of Minnesota) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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December 9-13th: QCD Meets Gravity 2019For more information click here. 12:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, December 10th: Bhaumik Lecture"The making of High-Precision Gravitational-Waves" by Alessandra Buonanno, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) 4:00PM at CNSI |
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Tuesday, December 3rd: TEP Seminar"Spinning black holes versus higher-spin quantum particles" by Justin Vines (Max Planck Institute) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, November 19th: TEP Seminar"Cardy formula for higher dimensional CFT from EFT"" by Yifan Wang (Harvard) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, November 12th: TEP Seminar"Lorentz symmetry fractionalizations and dualities in (2+1)d" by Po-Shen Hsin (Caltech) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Wednesday, November 13th: BLYSSSpeakers: Andrej Pustogow (UCLA) & Seth Pree (UCLA) 12:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, November 5th: TEP Seminar"Quantum extremal islands and the information paradox" by Ahmed Almheiri (IAS) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, October 29th: TEP Seminar" N=2 Superconformal field theories from mixed branches and VOAs" by Mario Martone (UT Austin) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, October 22ND: TEP Seminar"2+1 Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory" by Zohar Komargodski (SCGP) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, October 15th: TEP Seminar"A Kaluza-Klein spectrometer from exceptional field theory" by Emanuel Malek (Max Planck Institute) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, October 8th: TEP Seminar"Stress-testing the Standard Model" by Aneesh Manohar (UCSD) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, October 1st: TEP Seminar"A loopy excursion: from integrands to scattering amplitudes at higher loop order" by Enrico Herrmann (SLAC) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Thursday, July 25th: Special Seminar"Black Hole Shadows, Photon Rings, and the Event Horizon Telescope Obersvations" by Sam Gralla (University of Arizona) PAB 4-330 @ 1PM |
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Monday, June 10th: Bhaumik Luncheon SeminarSpeakers: Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA) and Nathan Whitehorn (UCLA) 12:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Wednesday, June 5th: TEP Seminar"Bootstrapping Inflationary Fluctuations" by Guilherrme Pimentel (University of Amsterdam) 12:00PM in PAB 4-740 |
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Friday, May 31st: Bhaumik Young Scientist Seminar (BLYSS)Speakers: Carl Goodrich (UCLA) and Janaki Sheth (UCLA) 12:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, May 28th: Bhaumik Lecture"Gravity and its Quantum Origins" by Leonard Susskind (Stanford) 6:00PM in Franz Hall 1178 |
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Tuesday, May 21st: TEP Seminar"Two Dimensional de Sitter Gravity" by Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci (UC Santa Barbara) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Wednesday, May 8th: TEP Seminar"Lowering the melting temperature of holographic mesons by means of a strong magnetic field" by Daniel Avila (UNAM) 12:00PM in PAB 4-740 |
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Tuesday, May 7th: TEP Seminar"From Scattering Amplitudes to Classical Observables" by David Kosower (Saclay) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Friday, May 3rd: TEP Seminar"Shocks, Superconvergence, and a Stringy Equivalence Principle" by David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech) 11:00AM in PAB 4-740 |
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Tuesday, April 30th: TEP Seminar"Black hole finite size effects, Hawking radiation, and binary inspirals" by Walter Goldberg (Yale) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, April 23rd: TEP Seminar"A second lecture on Conformal Supergravity" by Sergio Ferrara (UCLA) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Tuesday, April 16th: TEP Seminar"A lecture on Conformal Supergravity" by Sergio Ferrara (UCLA) 4:00PM in PAB 4-330 |
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Monday, April 8th: TEP Seminar"Searching for whispers from beyond the standard model" by Simon Knapen 10:30AM in PAB 4-330 |
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April 4-6, 2019: ConferenceA three day workshop in honor of Professor Sudip Chakravarty's 70th birthday.
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Tuesday, April 4th: Bhaumik Lecture"The Brayton Battery" by Robert Laughlin (Stanford) 5:00PM at the UCLA Luskin Center, Centennial Ballroom
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Thursday, April 4th: TEP Seminar"Precision Physics for Sky Surveys" by Mikhail Solon (Caltech) 10:30AM in PAB 4-330 |
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Monday, April 1: TEP Seminar"Fundamental Constraints for Fundamental Theories" by Rachel Rosen (Columbia) 10:30AM in PAB 4-330 |