Oh! I almost forgot to remind local readers that the next Southern California Strings Seminar is happening this week. Friday and Saturday.
It will be held at UCLA, and there’s a great line up of speakers. As I’ve said here before, graduate students are especially encouraged to come…
…since special effort is made to make sure that each talk begins with a pedagogical portion to help non-experts in that subfield navigate and see the motivation.
The speakers and talks are:
- “Warped AdS/(C)FT correspondences”, Stephane Detournay (KITP)
- “The AdS3/CFT2 correspondence, modularity and extremal CFTs”, Christoph Keller (Caltech)
- “Infrared Divergences in dS/CFT”, Arvind Rajaraman (UC Irvine)
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“Supergravity instabilities of non-supersymmetric quantum critical points”, Krzysztof Pilch (USC)
- “AdS/CFT applied to condensed matter physics: A top-down approach”, Martin Ammon (UCLA)
- “Scale vs conformal invariance from holography”, Yu Nakayama (Caltech)
See here for schedule and travel information. (It will be updated a few more times before the event.).
See you there, perhaps!
-cvj
I usually announce it on the blog, so stay tuned. But as soon as I know for sure I will try to let you know, but emailing me might be a good idea, with the subject line containing the name of the series. Later, I can easily find it, you see.
I’ve no idea where travel grants, etc, would come from. We have almost zero budget for anything beyond coffee and cookies and maybe a speaker reimbursement or two.
You are most certainly welcome though!
Cheers!
-cvj
Clifford, would you let me know where the next Southern California Strings Seminar will be? I’ve looked on USC’s and UCLA’s sites and haven’t found a stand alone SCSS site for next year’s meeting. I would love to attend the next one and apply for a travel grant if they are available. But I also would like to know if students from northern California are welcome, perhaps this is a regional meeting. I was just elected student representative to the APS regional section, and would like to let the APS students know about this as well, when the time draws nearer.
The recent APS meeting at Caltech was wonderful, many students there, and next year it will be at Stanford, but these meetings are quite broad, and good places for student talks rather than in depth research meetings. I (along with other northern californian students) would be very happy to attend a focused meeting on quantum gravity research, if we are welcome and in particular if travel support is available. Any information greatly appreciated.
Cheers, hope all is well in the lovely city of angels….