Group meeting

This is a wiki page for our group meeting which I have created to have an illusion of community during the covid pandemic 2020-2021. This page is no longer being updated as frequently as during those times. Please keep this webpage private.

Links for Students to online lectures

 * John Cleese lecture about creativity


 * Robert Bryant, The Concept of Holonomy


 * Shiraz Minwalla course on string theory 2018


 * LACES schools video repository

Giving Talks
Before preparing a talk please have a look at the following references:


 * How to Make Sure Your Talk Doesn’t Suck, David Tong


 * Suggestions For Giving Talks, Robert Geroch

ArXiv Digest
These days it is hard to keep up with the arXiv.

Please click there --> arXiv digest to get to our digest (updated more or less on a daily basis).

Links to Interesting Recent Talks (since October 2020)

 * September 15, 2021 Slava Rychov, The dream of non-perturbative precision RG flows


 * August 6, 2021, Sahand Seifnashri, Non-invertible symmetries, their gauging, and applications


 * August 3, 2021,Mario Martone, Moduli space geometry and classification of superconformal field theories


 * April 14, 2021, Lakshya Bhardwaj, Confinement and 1-form symmetry in 4d from 6d (2,0)


 * April 9, 2021, Sakura Schaefer-Nameki, Higher Form Symmetries in string/M-theory


 * March 8, 2021, Xiao-Gang Wen, Algebraic higher symmetries and their holographic duality, PIRSA, Perimeter Institute


 * December 9, 2020, Edward Witten, Some comments on energy inequalities, IAS, Princeton


 * December 9, 2020, Michele, 2-groups of little string theories and T-duality, Kadanoff Center, Chicago


 * November 10, 2020, Tom Rudelius, Jacob McNamara, The Completeness Hypothesis and Chern-Weil Global Symmetries, Harvard Swampland Seminar Series


 * October 15, 2020, Juan Maldacena, The Entropy of Hawking Radiation, Kadanoff Center, Chicago


 * Mid September, 2020, the KIAS autumn symposium is available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuRMKAkKTCDjc1YcphV9pXdB0pkMXiVEI

Links to Seminar Repositories

 * Imperial Quiver Meetings: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/theoretical-physics/seminars/quiver-meetings/


 * QFT and geometry seminar: https://sites.google.com/view/qftandgeometryseminars/home


 * Western hemisphere: http://web.math.ucsb.edu/~drm/WHCGP/


 * SCGP video repository: http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/


 * PIRSA: http://pirsa.org


 * ICTS strings seminar: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw9LdPQ5t7Q7muD0qzn70TA


 * CMSA quantum matter seminar: https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/quantum-matter-seminar/ (as well as the repository: https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/previous-quantum-matter-condensed-matter-seminars/)


 * Simons Foundation Colloquia: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/sf-events/?type-simons-foundation-lectures

Talks to learn about generalized global symmetries
Strongly recommended:

Nice introduction to many relevant topics and questions (Kontsevich conference, IHES 2014):

Short presentation about generalized global symmetries (Strings 2015):
 * Anton Kapustin  Higher Symmetry, TQFT, and Gapped Phases of Matter


 * Nathan Seiberg, Generalized Global Symmetries

Further talks:


 * Nathan Seiberg, PiTP 2015 lectures, lecture 1 ; lecture 2


 * Clay Córdova (Strings 2020), Higher form symmetries and applications


 * Thomas Dumitrescu (USC- HET 2020), Exploring 2-group global symmetries


 * Zohar Komargodski (KIAS 2020), Symmetries, Strings, and Naturalness in 1+1 dimensions

About gapped phases of matter:


 * Anton Kapustin (WGCGP 2020) From gapped phases of matter to TQFT and back again

 Selected lectures from ICTP 2020 Spring School


 * Komargodski: Fun in Two Space-Time Dimensions Lectures 1,2


 * Cordova: Introduction to generalized global symmetries and anomalies Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4

Further Useful Links
Always check for available scolarships!

There are the following opportunities for funding, please let me know if you are interested:


 * Wallenberg Stanford Postdoc