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KITP Program: New Methods in Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory
(Jan 6 - Apr 11, 2014)
Coordinators: Ken Intriligator, Anton Kapustin, Zohar Komargodski, J oe Polchinski, Slava Rychkov
Scientific Advisors: Yuji Tachikawa

Time Speaker Title
1/06, 2:00 pm All Organizational Meeting
1/06, 2:05 pm Greg Huber
KITP Deputy Director
What's a Wiki Good For?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/07, 10:30am Guido Festuccia
Niels Bohr Institute & KITP
Overview: Supersymmetry in curved spacetime[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/07, 2:00pm Chris Herzog
SUNY, YITP & KITP
Losing Forward Momentum Holographically[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/08, 10:30am Mikhail Vasiliev
Lebedev Physical Institute & KITP
Overview: Recent developments in higher spin gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/09, 10:30am Maxim Zabzine
Uppsala University & KITP
Overview: Localization and 5d Yang-Mills[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/10, 10:30am David Poland
Yale
Overview: Conformal bootstrap[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/15, 10:30am Emanuel Katz
Boston Univ. & KITP
A new approach for solving a strongly coupled theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/16, 10:30am Alfred Shapere
Univ. Kentucky & KITP
Constraints on the Spectra of 2D CFTs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/17, 10:30am Evgeny Skvortsov
MPIG & KITP
Higher-spin symmetry in AdS and CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/17, 11:10am Viacheslav Didenko
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute & KITP
4d black holes and their generalization in higher-spin theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/21, 10:30am Ibou Bah
USC & KITP
N=1 Class S theories and their gravity duals[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/22, 10:30am Tom Hartman
KITP
Entanglement Entropy and Geometry[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/23, 10:30am Francesco Benini
Stony Brook University & KITP
Two-dimensional partition functions, elliptic genera and dualities[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/23, 2:00pm Dave Morrison
UCSB
Classification of 6D SCFTs[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/24, 10:30am Peng Zhao
Stony Brook University & KITP
Central charges and RG flow of strongly-coupled N=2 theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/24, 2:00pm Joe Polchinski
KITP
Cultural program: the firewall debate, update[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/27-31 Conference: Quantum Fields beyond Perturbation Theory
02/03, 12:15pm Slava Rychkov
CERN & KITP
Conformal symmetry and the 3d Ising model[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
2/04, 10:30am Balt van Rees
CERN & KITP
Infinite chiral symmetry in four-dimensional superconformal field theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/05, 10:30am Liam Fitzpatrick
Stanford & KITP
Wilsonian and Large N Approaches to Non-Fermi Liquids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/06, 10:30am Joao Penedones
Univ. Porto & KITP
Black Holes and Matrix Quantum Mechanics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/11, 2:00pm Victor Gorbenko
NYU & KITP
Fluxtube Spectra from Approximate Integrability[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/12, 10:30am David Simmons-Duffin
IAS & KITP
Covariant Approaches to Superconformal Blocks[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/18, 10:30am Tarun Grover
KITP
Consequences of F-theorem for quantum phase transitions and stability of 3D gauge theories[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/19, 10:30am Lorenzo Di Pietro
Weizmann Inst. & KITP
(Non)-decoupled supersymmetric field theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/20, 10:30am Kenneth Intriligator
UCSD & KITP
Matching monopole operators and vortices in 3d N=2 gauge theories.[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/24, 10:30am Jaemo Park
Pohang Univ. & KITP
Seiberg-like dualities in 2+1 dimensions[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/26, 10:00am Masahito Yamazaki
IAS & KITP
3d N=2 Revisited from 4d N=4[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/03, 10:30am Peter Koroteev
Perimeter Inst. & KITP
Revisiting Integrability in N=2 Gauge Theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/04, 11:00am Zohar Komargodski
Weizmann Inst. & KITP
Comments on scale invariance, anomalies, and the OPE.[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/06, 10:30am John Cardy
Oxford & KITP
Thermalization and Revivals after a Quantum Quench in 1+1 dimensional CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/11, 10:30am Greg Moore
Rutgers & KITP
Algebra of the Infrared: Mathematical Structures in the IR Limit of Massive d=2 N=(2,2) QFT[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/13, 10:30am Joe Polchinski
KITP
The field theory of intersecting D3-branes[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/17, 10:30am Arkady Vainshtein
Univ. of Minn. & KITP
Reducing Supersymmetry of Two-dimensional Sigma Models Down to N=(0,2)[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/18, 10:30am Anton Kapustin
Caltech & KITP
Anomalies of discrete global symmetries and group cohomology.[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/19, 10:30am Amihay Hanany
Imperial College & KITP
Coulomb Branch Hilbert Series and the moduli space of instantons[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/20, 10:30am Jared Kaplan
JHU & KITP
Universality of Long-Range AdS Physics from the CFT Bootstrap[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/25, 10:30am Andy Stergiou
Yale & KITP
Superconformal OPE methods for gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/26, 2:00pm Philip Argyres
Univ. of Cincinnati & KITP
New rank 1, N=2 SCFTs[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/27, 10:30am Eliezer Rabinovici
Racah Inst. & KITP
Noise and Geometry[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/31, 10:30am Susanne Reffert
CERN & KITP
Deformed supersymmetric gauge theories from string- and M-theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/01, 10:30am Noppadol Mekareeya
CERN & KITP
3d N=4 Gauge Theories, Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood Polynomials[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/02, 10:30am Dan Xie
IAS & KITP
M5 branes and N=1 dynamics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/03, 10:30am Jaroslav Trnka
Caltech
Introduction to the Amplituhedron[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/04, 10:30am Volker Schomerus
DESY & KITP
Non-abelian Bosonization and Supergeometry[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/07, 10:30am Kimyeong Lee
KIAS & KITP
On M5 Branes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/08, 10:30am Hugh Osborn
Cambridge & KITP
Conformal partial waves: some lowbrow maths[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/09, 10:30am Shlomo Razamat
IAS & KITP
Down the rabbit hole with theories of class S[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/10, 10:30am Abhijit Gadde
Caltech & KITP
Solving (0,2) SQCD[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

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