String Theory Seminar

We have weekly reunions on Tuesday starting at 1pm in the Seminar Room (117), 1st Floor, Mathematical Sciences building.

The meetings include discussions of recent papers, discussions with visitors, seminars etc.

The seminar schedule for the current term is:


Second term.

  • 29th January - Inaki Garcia-Extebarria (Durham), "Dai-Freed anomalies in particle physics"
  • 5th February - Alon Faraggi, " Toward machine learning in the classification of Z2xZ2 orbifolds"
  • 12th February - Timm Wrase (Vienna) , ""
  • 19th February - , ""
  • 26th February - Richard Szabo (Edinburgh) , ""
  • 3rd March - Chris Hull (Imperial) , ""
  • 12th March - Karim Benakli (LPTHE-Paris) , ""
  • 19th March - Mariana Grana (Saclay) , ""
  • 26th March - Claudia de Rham (Imperial) , ""
  • 2nd April - Eleonora Di Valentino (Manchester) , ""
  • First term.

  • 2nd October - Viktor Matyas (Liverpool), "Holographic Entanglement Entropy"
  • 9th October - Andrei Constantin (Oxford), "Counting String Theory Standard Models"
  • 16th October - Radu Tatar (Liverpool), "Quantum Corrections and the de Sitter Swampland Conjecture"
  • 23rd October - Jakub Scholtz (Durham), -- cancelled
  • 30th October - Mark Goodsell (Paris), "Extracting and constraining scalar-only couplings in generic BSM theories"
  • 6th November - Fridrik Gautason (Leuven), "Holography for Super Yang-Mills Theories on Spheres"
  • 13th November - Seung-Joo Lee (CERN), "Tensionless Strings and Quantum Gravity Conjectures"
  • 20th November - David Andriot (CERN), "Classical de Sitter solutions and the swampland"
  • 27th November - Tommi Markkanen (Imperial), "Gravitational Generation of Dark Matter"
  • 4th December - Dan Israel (Paris), "Non-geometric Calabi-Yau backgrounds"

  • Archives of previous years can be found here.

     

    Theoretical Physics Student Seminar

    This is the seminar series run by the Theoretical Physics PhD students.

    Usual schedule: Meetings take place at 12pm on Fridays in Room 106, 1st Floor, Mathematical Sciences building.

    The seminar schedule for the curent term is:


  • 19th October - Jack Pope, "An introduction to Black Hole Thermodynamics"
  • 26th October - Louis Gall, "Defining Spinors in Superalgebras"
  • 2nd November - Jamie Rogers, "Quiver Gauge Theories, their Vacua, and HyperKahler Cones"
  • 9th November - Horia Nicolaescu, "Charged Branes in Supergravity"
  • 16th November - Flavio Tonioni, ""
  • 23rd November - tba ""
  • 30th November - tba ""
  • 7th December - tba ""

  • Archives of previous years can be found here.

     

    Workshops @ Liverpool

    "String Inflation After Planck" workshop, Liverpool, September 7-9 2016


    "Meet Your Neighbour" Half Day Meeting, Liverpool, October 23 2013
    "String Phenomenology and Dynamical Vacuum Selection" workshop, Liverpool, March 27-29 2008
    "UKBSM 2007 - Annual Meeting of the UK BSM Community" workshop, Liverpool, March 29-30 2007