Seminar Archives
On this page you can find information about seminars in this and previous academic years, where available on the database.
Informal HEP Journal club
Seminars are usually held on Monday at 13:00 in CM219, but you should check the seminar details for exceptions. Contact balt.van-rees@durham.ac.uk for more information about this seminar series.
- 12 December 2016 13:00: - Aristos Donos
- 5 December 2016 13:00: Holographic Ward identities of symmetry breaking - Andrea Marzolla, Brussels University
- 28 November 2016 13:00: - Stefano Cremonesi
- 21 November 2016 13:00: Supersymmetric AdS_5 solutions of massive IIA - Marco Fazzi, Technion University (Haifa)
- 14 November 2016 13:00: TBA - Olga Papadoulaki, Utrecht University
- 7 November 2016 13:00: - Vasilis Niarchos
- 31 October 2016 13:00: - TBA
- 24 October 2016 13:00: - Simon Ross
- 14 December 2015: - Aristos Donos
- 7 December 2015 13:00: - Balt van Rees
- 30 November 2015: - TBA
- 23 November 2015 13:00: - Yang Lei
- 16 November 2015: - TBA
- 9 November 2015: - Simon Ross
- 2 November 2015: - Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya
- 26 October 2015: Supersymmetry on a lattice - Simon Catterall
- 19 October 2015 13:00: - Arthur Lipstein
- 12 October 2015 13:00: - Balt van Rees
- 9 December 2013 13:00: Non-dissipative hydrodynamics from linearized gravity in AdS - Michal Heller, U Amsterdam
- 2 December 2013 13:00: An action for reaction: effective field theory study of post-Newtonian radiative effects - Shahar Hadar, Hebrew U, Jerusalem
- 25 November 2013 13:00: Wilson Lines in Higher Spin Gravity - Alejandra Castro , U Amsterdam
- 18 November 2013 21:35: Mathieu Moonshine and String Theory - Sameer Murthy, King's College London
- 18 November 2013 13:00: Entanglement in Extremal Reissner-Nordstrom AdS - Sebastian Fischetti , UCSB
- 7 October 2013 13:00: Entanglement Renormalization at Finite Temperature and AdS Black Holes - Tadashi Takayanagi , YITP, Kyoto
- 15 August 2013 16:00: U-geometry : SL(5) - Yoonji Suh, Centre for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University, Seoul
- 15 August 2013 15:00: Unification of Type IIA and IIB Supergravities - Jeong-Hyuck Park , DAMTP, Cambridge/Sogang University, Seoul
- 15 August 2013 14:00: Various types of Fubini instanton in curved space - Daeho Ro, Sogang University, Seoul
- 15 August 2013 13:30: Superconformal Yang-Mills quantum mechanics and Calogero model with OSp(N|2,R) symmetry - Sungmoon Ko, Centre for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University, Seoul
- 16 July 2012 15:30: Nonconformal Hydrodynamics in Einstein-dilaton Theory - Chanyong Park, CQUEST, Korea
- 16 July 2012 14:15: BPS conditions of Wrapped Branes - Nakwoo Kim, Kyung Hee University, Korea
- 7 July 2011 15:30: Double Field Theory - Kanghoon Lee, Sogang University
- 26 May 2011 13:00: Phases of a holographic QCD with gluon condensation at finite Temperature and Density - Suphakorn CHunlen, Durham University
- 19 May 2011 13:00: Holographic description of large N gauge theory - Simon Gentle, Durham University
- 5 May 2011 13:00: Addendum to fast scramblers - Veronika Hubeny, Durham University
- 28 April 2011 13:00: Zero sound from holography - Dan Brattan, Durham University
- 17 March 2011 13:00: Holographic Optics and Negative Refractive Index - Ben Withers, Durham University
- 10 March 2011 13:00: Evaporation of 2D black holes - Simon Ross, Durham University
- 3 March 2011 13:00: Symmetries and Strings in Field Theory and Gravity - Mukund Rangamani, Durham University
- 24 February 2011 13:00: Transport in Holographic Superfluids - Joan Camps, Durham University
- 10 February 2011 13:00: A holographic quantum Hall model at integer filling - Alfonso Ballon-Bayona, Durham University
- 3 February 2011 13:00: Monopoles and holography - Deerk Harland, Durham University
- 9 December 2010 13:00: - Debashis Ghoshal, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
- 2 December 2010 13:00: Vacuum decay into Anti de Sitter space - Ruth Gregory, Durham University
- 26 November 2010 13:00: Holographically smeared Fermi surface: Quantum oscillations and Luttinger count in electron stars - Simon Gentle, Durham University
- 18 November 2010 13:00: Pathologies in Asymptotically Lifshitz Spacetimes - Harry Braviner, Durham University
- 11 November 2010 13:00: On the critical condition in gravitational shock wave collision and heavy ion collisions - Veronika Hubeny, Durham University
- 4 November 2010 13:00: Holographic Roberge-Weiss Transitions - Kasper Peeters, Durham University
- 28 October 2010 13:00: Microscopic realization of the Kerr-CFT correspondence - Simon Ross, Durham University
- 21 October 2010 13:00: Higher dimensional gravity, bubbles, and new puzzles for AdS/CFT - Keith Copsey, University of Waterloo
- 14 October 2010 13:00: Additional Light Waves in Hydrodynamics and Holography - Dan Brattan, Durham University
- 7 October 2010 13:00: Quantum W-symmetry in AdS_3 - Mukund Rangamani, Durham University
- 4 March 2010 13:00: Emergent Gravity at a Lifshitz Point from a Bose Liquid on the Lattice - Veronika Hubeny, Durham University
- 25 February 2010 13:00: Semi-holographic Fermi liquids - Simon Ross, Durham University
- 18 February 2010 13:00: Y-system for Scattering Amplitudes - Pau Figueras, Durham University
- 11 February 2010 13:00: Non-Fermi liquids from holography - Edward Threlfall, Durham University
- 4 February 2010 13:00: Nonaxisymmetric instability of rapidly rotating black hole in five dimensions - Pau Figueras, Durham University
- 28 January 2010 13:00: Holographic Lattice, Dimers, and Glasses - Paolo Benincasa, Durham University
- 21 January 2010 13:00: The Kerr-Fermi sea - Mukund Rangamani, Durham University
- 14 December 2009 13:00: E10 - searching for a fundamental symmetry of physics - Hermann Nicolai, Albert-Einstein-Institute
- 10 December 2009 13:00: Thermodynamic Bubble Ansatz - Patrick Dorey, Durham University
- 3 December 2009 13:00: Near horizon analysis of eta/s - Daniel Brattan, Durham University
- 26 November 2009 13:00: Scalar Hairs and Exact Vortex Solutions in 3D AdS Gravity - Luke Barclay, Durham University
- 19 November 2009 13:00: The gravity duals of N=2 superconformal field theories - Bin Chen, Beijing
- 12 November 2009 13:00: Corrections to the black body radiation due to minimum length modified quantum mechanics and some of its cosmological implications - Andrew Ciavarella, Durham University
- 5 November 2009 13:00: Ground states of holographic superconductors - Simon Ross, Durham University
- 29 October 2009 13:00: Towards a holographic model of CFL phase - Marija Zamaklar, Durham University
- 27 April 2009 13:00: arXiv:0904.0464 - Pau Figueras, Durham University
- 2 March 2009 13:00: arxiv:0901.2003 and arXiv:0902.4674 - Chong Sun Chu, Durham University
- 23 February 2009 13:00: arXiv:0901.3775 - James Lucietti, Durham University
- 9 February 2009 13:00: arXiv:0805.1339 - Kasper Peeters, Durham University
- 2 February 2009 13:00: arXiv:0812.4278 - Paolo Benincasa, Durham University
- 26 January 2009 13:00: arXiv:0812.2053 - Pau Figueras, Durham University
- 10 March 2008 12:00: Effective field theory of gravity for extended objects - Pau Figueras
- 3 March 2008 12:00: - Tommy Levi
- 25 February 2008 12:00: - Ruth Gregory
- 18 February 2008 12:00: - Damien Easson
- 11 February 2008 12:00: - Steve Abel
- 4 February 2008 12:00: - Paul Sutcliffe
- 28 January 2008 12:00: - Douglas Smith
- 21 January 2008 12:00: - Charles Young
- 14 January 2008 12:00: - Marija Zamaklar
- 10 December 2007 13:00: Spherical crystallography - Anne Taormina
- 3 December 2007 13:00: - Simon Ross
- 26 November 2007 13:00: - Mukund Rangamani
- 19 November 2007 13:00: - Paul Mansfield
- 12 November 2007 13:00: - Peter Bowcock
- 5 November 2007 13:00: - Wojtek Zakrzewski
- 29 October 2007 13:00: - Robin Zegers
- 22 October 2007 13:00: - James Lucietti
- 5 March 2007 13:00: tba - Robin Zegers
- 26 February 2007 13:00: DNA, and some comments on its modelling - Wojtek Zakrzewski
- 19 February 2007 13:00: Phonons, magnons and q-deformed kinematics - Charles Young
- 12 February 2007 13:00: Taming Tree Amplitudes in General Relativity - Paul Mansfield
- 5 February 2007 13:00: Quantum Criticality & AdS/CFT - Mukund Rangamani
- 29 January 2007 13:00: Microstates of KK black holes - Simon Ross
- 22 January 2007 13:00: Viruses & tiling theory - Anne Taormina
- 15 January 2007 13:00: Anyonic strings and membranes in AdS - Vishnu Jejjala
- 11 December 2006 13:00: The black hole final state - Veronika Hubeny
- 4 December 2006 13:00: Some information on instanton metrics - Paul Sutcliffe
- 27 November 2006 13:00: A conjecture on the shear viscosity-entropy ratio - Chong-Sun Chu
- 20 November 2006 13:00: Progress in SUSY breaking - Steve Abel
- 13 November 2006 13:00: The Index of N=4 SYM - James Lucietti
- 6 November 2006 13:00: Branes, Black Holes and ADS/CFT - Ruth Gregory
- 30 October 2006 13:00: Flux compactifications and brane inflation - Damien Easson
- 23 October 2006 13:00: The Anthropic Principle and the Cosmological Constant - Yiota Kanti
- 16 October 2006 13:00: Rotating fluid drops and black holes - Peter Bowcock
- 9 October 2006 13:00: About Paul Erdos and Ramsey Theory - Patrick Jacob
- 2 October 2006 13:00: Geometrization & Ricci flow - Douglas Smith
- 25 September 2006 13:00: Aztec diamonds & arctic circles - Patrick Dorey
- 5 December 2005: Tachyon condensation - gravitational perspective - Ruth Gregory
- 28 November 2005: Tachyon condensation - Simon Ross
- 21 November 2005: A new mechanism of Kahler moduli stabilisation in Type IIB theory - Mary Garcia del Moral (DAMTP)
- 14 November 2005: Tachyon condensation - Simon Ross
- 7 November 2005: Tachyon condensation - Mukund Rangamani
- 31 October 2005: Tachyon condensation - Mukund Rangamani
- 24 October 2005 00:00: Tachyon condensation - Mukund Rangamani
- 10 October 2005 00:00: Holographic Renormalization of Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes - Don Marolf (UCSB)
- 14 March 2005: Supersymmetric solutions and G-structures II - Douglas Smith
- 7 March 2005: Supersymmetric solutions and G-structures - Douglas Smith
- 28 February 2005: New Supergravity solutions III - Simon Ross
- 21 February 2005: New supergravity solutions - Simon Ross
- 14 February 2005: New supergravity solutions - Simon Ross
- 7 February 2005: Topological D-branes II - Daniel Roggenkamp
- 31 January 2005: All-genus calculation of Wilson loops using D-branes - Nadav Drukker (Copenhagen)
- 24 January 2005: Topological D-branes - Daniel Roggenkamp
- 15 November 2004: Gauge theory amplitudes - Nigel Glover (in OC 218)
- 8 November 2004: Twistors & gauge theory - Valya Khoze (in OC218)
- 2 November 2004: Introduction to Twistors II - Richard Ward
- 10 May 2004 00:00: Time and M-theory - Djordje Minic (Virginia Tech)
- 2 February 2004: From branes to branes - Valya Khoze
- 15 December 2003: More on moduli in heterotic models - James Gray
- 8 December 2003: Moduli Stabilisation in Heterotic Models - James Gray
- 24 November 2003: tba - Ruth Gregory
- 3 November 2003: "Journal club on "de Sitter Vacua in String Theory", part III" - Simon Ross
- 27 October 2003: "Journal club on "de Sitter Vacua in String Theory", part II" - Simon Ross
- 20 October 2003 00:00: Journal club on `De Sitter Vacua in String Theory' - Simon Ross
- 9 December 2002: The structure of open string field theory in the continuous basis - "Alon Marcus (Tel Aviv University, Israel)"
- 4 November 2002: New old new old matrix models - gauge theory - Clifford Johnson
- 28 October 2002: Old new old matrix models - strings and random surfaces - Clifford Johnson
- 4 April 2002 00:00: Quantum algebraic description of D-branes on group manifolds - Harold Steinacker (Munich)
- 11 March 2002: The ekpyrotic scenario - Ruth Gregory
- 4 March 2002: Brane worlds - Ruth Gregory
- 25 February 2002: - No seminar due to AEA meeting
- 18 February 2002: "Oblate, Toroidal, and Other Shapes for the Enhancon" - Laur Järv
- 11 February 2002: Introduction to Integrable Systems III - Patrick Dorey
- 4 February 2002: Introduction to Integrable Systems II - Patrick Dorey
- 28 January 2002: Introduction to Integrable Systems I - Peter Bowcock
- 21 January 2002: - No seminar this week
- 14 January 2002: CFTs on Non-Critical Braneworlds - Tony Padilla
- 3 December 2001: Giant gravitons - Dave Page
- 26 November 2001: Tall Tales from De Sitter Space - "Rob Myers
(McGill, Perimeter Institute)" - 19 November 2001: The equivalence of classical and thermodynamical stability of branes - James Gregory
- 12 November 2001: Confinement a la Polchinski & Strassler II - Clifford Johnson
- 5 November 2001: Confinement a la Polchinski & Strassler - Clifford Johnson
- 29 October 2001: Flux- and Dielectric Branes in Supergravity - Paul Saffin
- 22 October 2001 00:00: Dielectric Branes on the Worldvolume - Bert Janssen
- 15 October 2001 00:00: PT-symmetric Quantum Mechanics and Integrable Models - Roberto Tateo
- 8 October 2001 00:00: The Howe-Lambert-West theory and de Sitter space - Dominic Brecher
