Upcoming Seminars
Winter 2025-2026
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Analyticity of the black hole S-matrix
Anna Wolz,
UCLA,
Friday, January 9th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Constraints on Long-Range Forces in De Sitter Space
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Case Western Reserve University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar,
University of Maryland,
Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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CMB constraints on non-minimally coupled ultralight dark matter
Subhajit Ghosh,
University of Texas, Austin,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Sensing of Gravitational Frame-Dragging and Time Dilation with a Superfluid 4He Gyrometer
Kai Ellers,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Hollow-grams: Generalized Entanglement Wedges from the Gravitational Path Integral
Sami Kaya,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From Kramers' legacies in Bloch electrons to a new class of strongly correlated Fe-based transition metal dichalcogenides
Friday, January 16th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Hamiltonian approach to near extremal black hole physics
Per Kraus,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Computation-Protected Phases of Matter
Soonwon Choi,
MIT,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk lengths in JT gravity
Shreya Vardhan,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
4:00pm
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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A Berry phase for algebras in holography
Jeremy van der Heijden,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Artificial oxide quantum heterostructures and twisted membranes
Honyung Lee, PhD,
Corporate Fellow and Senior Advisor,
Materials Science and Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
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Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Large extra dimensions from higher-dimensional inflation
Ignatios Antoniadis,
LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
Tatsuya Daniel,
McGill University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Waveform Systematics Across the Gravitational-Wave Spectrum: From LIGO to LISA
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Particle-Soliton Degeneracy in 2D QCD from Spontaneously Broken Non-invertible Symmetry
Diego Garcia Sepulveda,
Harvard University,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Exploring Entropy-Positivity Bounds
Rachel Rosen,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement oscillations and many-body quantum scars
Nicholas O'Dea,
Princeton,
1:15pm
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2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - POSTPONED
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Quantum Null Ray: Localized gauge invariant observables and covariant quantization
Laurent Freidel,
Perimeter Institute,
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Strong & Radiative Decays: two different stories in B-physics
Federico Cima,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Kinematic algebras and off-shell double copies
Maor Ben Shahar,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Friday, February 6th, 2026
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Unitary Architecture of Renormalization
Sebastian Mizera,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Infinite temperature at zero energy
David Long,
Stanford,
2:00pm
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Monday, February 9th, 2026
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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The renormalization group for large-scale structure
Henrique Rubira,
LMU München, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Soft theorems from higher symmetries
Jonah Berean-Dutcher,
University of British Columbia,
Friday, February 13th, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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The Measure Problem and the Beginning of the Universe
Björn Hassfeld,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
11:00am
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Terahertz-frequency magnons and chiral phonons in a kagome ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
From higher-dimensional Fermiology to higher Hall crystals in moiré materials
Nisarga Paul,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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No Shift Symmetries and Tensionless String Limits in AdS/CFT
Jose Calderon Infante,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Friday, February 20th, 2026
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Exact Path Integral Methods in AdS$_2\times \mathbf{S}^2$ and Non-Perturbative Black Holes
Alberto Castellano,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Testing the quantumness of gravity "ab absurdo"
Emanuele Panella,
University of Rome Tor Vergata,
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Dynamical Love Numbers for Black Holes and Beyond from Shell Effective Field Theory
Dimitrios Kosmopoulos,
CERN,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Excitability in quantum field theory
Jackie Caminiti,
Perimeter Institute,
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Friday, February 27th, 2026
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Senrui Chen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill group,
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
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