IAS Program on Particle Theory

Activities


Updated as of March 14, 2024

Date/Time
Event
Details will be available in due course.
Date/Time
Event
Apr 23, 2024 (Tue)
14:00 - 15:00
Gravitational Wave Lensing [Details]
speaker: HU Bin (Beijing Normal University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 26, 2024 (Mon)
14:00 - 15:00
New Results on Axions and ALPs [Details]
speaker: Belén GAVELA (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 23, 2024 (Fri)
14:00 - 15:00
Superposition of Gravitational Fields. The Example of Gravitational Plane Waves [Details]
speaker: Enrique ALVAREZ (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 08 - 26, 2024
IAS Program on High Energy Physics [Details]
Venue: HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Dec 11, 2023 (Mon)
14:00 - 15:00
Modular Flow and Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction in JT Gravity [Details]
speaker: GAO Ping (Rutgers University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Dec 11, 2023 (Mon)
10:30 - 11:30
The Cosmological Bootstrap and the Analytic Wavefunction [Details]
speaker: Gordon Mang Hei LEE (University of Cambridge)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Dec 06, 2023 (Wed)
14:00 - 15:00
Digital Cosmology: Decoding the Universe [Details]
speaker: Jean-Paul KNEIB (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 15, 2023 (Wed)
16:00 - 17:00
Nonanalyticity and On-Shell Factorization of Inflation Correlators [Details]
speaker: QIN Zhehan (Tsinghua University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 07, 2023 (Tue)
16:00 - 17:00
Analytic Formulae for Inflationary Correlators with Dynamical Mass [Details]
speaker: Fumiya SANO (Institute for Basic Science)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 16, 2023 (Mon)
14:00 - 15:00
Exotic Energy Injection in the Early Universe [Details]
speaker: LIU Hongwan (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics of the University of Chicago)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 22, 2023 (Fri)
17:00 - 18:00
Wheeler DeWitt States of a Charged AdS4 Black Hole [Details]
speaker: Sirui NING (University of Oxford)
Venue: Online via Zoom
Sep 06, 2023 (Wed)
14:00 - 15:00
New Semiconductor Devices for Dark Matter Detection [Details]
speaker: DU Peizhi (Rutgers University)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 01, 2023 (Tue)
14:00 - 15:00
Modular Invariance Approach to the Flavour Problem [Details]
speaker: S. T. PETCOV (INFN/SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 14, 2023 (Fri)
14:00 - 15:00
QCD-Collapsed Domain Walls [Details]
speaker: BAI Yang (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 10, 2023 (Mon)
14:00 - 15:00
On-shell Factorization of Inflation Correlators at All Loop Orders [Details]
speaker: XIANYU Zhong-zhi (Tsinghua University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 29, 2023 (Thu)
14:00 - 15:00
Towards Provably Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Large-scale Machine-learning Models [Details]
speaker: LIU Junyu (The University of Chicago)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 19, 2023 (Mon)
14:00 - 15:00
Nonlocal Quantum Gravity in Particle Physics, Black Holes, and Cosmology [Details]
speaker: Leonardo MODESTO (Southern University of Science and Technology)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 05, 2023 (Mon)
14:00 - 15:00
Polychronic Tunneling: New Tunneling Processes Experiencing Euclidean and Lorentzian Evolution Simultaneously [Details]
speaker: Masahide YAMAGUCHI (Institute for Basic Science, Korea)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 29, 2023 (Mon)
14:00 - 15:00
Dark Sectors Away from Equilibrium [Details]
speaker: Joshua RUDERMAN (New York University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 25, 2023 (Thu)
14:00 - 15:00
What's Done Cannot be Undone: Non-invertible Symmetry [Details]
speaker: LAM Ho Tat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 11, 2023 (Thu)
14:00 - 15:00
Cosmic Birefringence vs the Need of a New Light Field Beyond the Standard Model Particle Content [Details]
speaker: Ryo NAMBA (RIKEN)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 20, 2023 (Mon)
14:00 - 15:00
Scrambling and Entangling Spinning Particles [Details]
speaker: WANG Tienhang (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 14, 2023 (Tue)
14:00 - 15:00
The Cosmological Bootstrap: Inflationary Correlators from Symmetries, Locality and Unitarity [Details]
speaker: David STEFANYSZYN (The University of Nottingham)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 07, 2023 (Tue)
14:00 - 15:00
High-quality Axions in a Class of Chiral U(1) Gauge Theories [Details]
speaker: QIU Yu-cheng (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiaotong University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 12 - 16, 2023
IAS Program on High Energy Physics [Details]
Venue: HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 09, 2023 (Thu)
14:00 - 15:00
Observational Tests of Wave and Particle Dark Matter Predictions [Details]
speaker: Alvaro Pozo LARROCHA (University of Basque Country and Donostia International Physics Center)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 17, 2023 (Tue)
14:00 - 15:00
Merger Impact on Thermodynamical State of Galaxy Clusters and Growth of their Central Galaxies [Details]
speaker: Jeremy LIM (The University of Hong Kong)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 10, 2023 (Tue)
14:00 - 15:00
Competing Dark Matter Predictions Tested with JWST and Hubble [Details]
speaker: Thomas BROADHURST (University of Basque Country, HKUST IAS Senior Visiting Member)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 05, 2023 (Thu)
15:00 - 16:00
Tidal Love Numbers of Black Holes and Implications from the Weak Gravity Conjecture [Details]
speaker: Sam WONG (The University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 04, 2023 (Wed)
14:00 - 15:00
Black Hole Perturbation Theory - From Love Numbers to Nonlinear Ringdown [Details]
speaker: Lam HUI (Columbia University, HKUST IAS Senior Visiting Member)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Dec 20, 2022 (Tue)
15:00 - 16:00
Gravitational Wave Implications to Fundamental Physics [Details]
Speaker: WANG Yifan (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Dec 08, 2022 (Thu)
15:00 - 16:00
Where New Physics will (Possibly) Emerge in Cosmology? [Details]
Speaker: MA Yin-zhe (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Dec 02, 2022 (Fri)
15:00 - 16:00
Topological Black Holes with Unusual Shapes from the Unified First Law [Details]
Speaker: YANG Jinbo (Kanazawa University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 17, 2022 (Thu)
15:00 - 16:00
Causality Constraints on Modifications of Einstein Gravity [Details]
Speaker: Yuezhou LI (McGill University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 21, 2022 (Fri)
15:00 - 16:00
Probing Dark Matter Self-interactions with the Collapsed Dark Matter Halo [Details]
Speaker: Yiming ZHONG (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 19, 2022 (Wed)
15:00 - 16:00
Axion Wind Detection with the Homogeneous Precession Domain of Superfluid Helium-3 [Details]
Speaker: Christina GAO (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 03, 2022 (Thu)
16:00 - 17:30
Beyond The Standard Model with Standard Model Effective Field Theory? [Details]
Speaker: John ELLIS (King's College London & European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); IAS Senior Visiting Fellow)
Venue: Online via Zoom
Feb 14, 2022 (Mon)
10:00 - 11:00
Finding New Compact Binaries Using High-precision Photometry [Details]
Speaker: Thomas TAM Pak Hin (Sun Yat-Sen University)
Venue: Online via Zoom
Jan 10, 2022 (Mon)
15:00
Ripple from The Early Universe and Black Holes [Details]
Speaker: Sam WONG (The University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Jan 08, 2020 (Wed)
14:00
Spatially Covariant Gravity Theories with Two Tensorial Degrees of Freedom [Details]
Speaker: YAO Zhi-Bang (Sun Yat-sen University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Sep 10, 2019 (Tue)
14:00
de Sitter Vacua in the Swampland Era [Details]
Speaker: Pablo SOLER GOMIS (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 15, 2019 (Thu)
14:00
Tail of Gravitational Waves, Quasi-normal Modes [Details]
Speaker: Sam WONG (Columbia University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 08, 2019 (Thu)
15:30
Testing Light-axion and LIGO-like Black Hole Predictions for Dark Matter [Details]
Speaker: Thomas BROADHURST (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)
University of the Basque Country; HKUST IAS Senior Visiting Member)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 08, 2019 (Thu)
14:00
Recent Developments in Ultra-light Axion Dark Matter [Details]
Speaker: HUI Lam (Columbia University; HKUST IAS Senior Visiting Member)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 07, 2019 (Wed)
14:00
New Indirect Search for Dark Matter and Baryogenesis [Details]
Speaker: HUANG Fapeng (Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science (IBS))
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 18, 2019 (Thu)
14:00
de Sitter Thermodynamics from Bulk and Edge Characters [Details]
Speaker: Albert LAW Yuk-ting (Columbia University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 15, 2019 (Mon)
14:00
Decaying Warm Dark Matter and Structure Formation [Details]
Speaker: CHEUNG Kingman (National Tsing Hua University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 09, 2019 (Tue)
14:00
Effective Field Theory Approach to Lepton Number Violation: Dimension Seven Operators [Details]
Speaker: LIAO Yi (Nankai University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 04, 2019 (Tue)
14:00
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Open Systems [Details]
Speaker: Suro KIM (Kobe University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 30, 2019 (Thu)
16:45
Probing GHz Gravitational Waves with Graviton-magnon Resonance [Details]
Speaker: Asuka ITO (Kobe University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 30, 2019 (Thu)
16:00
Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Wave Events [Details]
Speaker: WANG Yifan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 30, 2019 (Thu)
14:45
Heavy Spinning Particles from Signs of Primordial Non-Gaussianities [Details]
Speaker: Suro KIM (Kobe University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 30, 2019 (Thu)
14:00
Leptogenesis from Heavy Higgs Relaxation [Details]
Speaker: WU Yi-Peng (The University of Tokyo)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 30, 2019 (Thu)
11:30
Weak Gravity Conjecture from Unitarity and Causality [Details]
Speaker: Toshifumi NOUMI (Kobe University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 30, 2019 (Thu)
10:45
The Partition Function of 3D Gravity from Chern-Simons Theory [Details]
Speaker: Cedric YU (New York University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 30, 2019 (Thu)
10:00
Extension of Scalar-tensor Theories and Spatially Covariant Gravity [Details]
Speaker: GAO Xian (Sun Yat-sen University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 23, 2019 (Thu)
14:00
The Higgs Trilinear Coupling and the Scale of New Physics [Details]
Speaker: Spencer CHANG (University of Oregon)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 16, 2019 (Tue)
11:00
Machine Learning the Universe: Opening the Pandora Box [Details]
Speaker: Shirley HO (Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 11, 2019 (Thu)
14:00
Stochastic Quantization of Quantum Gravity, and Its Physical Predictions [Details]
Speaker: Laurent BAULIEU (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE), CNRS)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 11, 2019 (Thu)
12:30
General Introduction to Stochastic Quantization and Its Different Formulations [Details]
Speaker: Laurent BAULIEU (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE), CNRS)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 07, 2019 (Thu)
14:00
Entanglement Branes, Modular Flow and Extended Topological Quantum Field Theory [Details]
Speaker: Gabriel WONG (Fudan University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 28, 2019 (Thu)
14:00
A Novel Gravitational Coupling in Einstein Gravity [Details]
Speaker: LIN Chunshan (University of Warsaw)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 26, 2019 (Tue)
14:00
Universality in the Epsilon-expansion [Details]
Speaker: Alessandro CODELLO (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA))
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 25, 2019 (Fri)
14:00
Two-loop Five-point Nonplanar Amplitudes: How Do We Analytically Compute the Most Complicated Scattering Amplitude in the History? [Details]
Speaker: ZHANG Yang (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 14, 2019 (Mon)
14:00
IAS Program on High Energy Physics - Discussion on "Ultralight Axion-like Dark Matter"
Discussion Leader: Thomas BROADHURST (University of the Basque Country)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Nov 29, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
New Structures and Formulations for S-matrices [Details]
Speaker: HE Song (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 27, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
Does a Typical String Geometry Have Standard Model Solution? [Details]
Speaker: WANG Yinan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 20, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
Short-wavelength Fluctuations in the Early Universe and Related Topics [Details]
Speaker: Tomohiro NAKAMA (HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 23, 2018 (Thu)
14:30
Recent Developments in Consistency Relations and Fuzzy Dark Matter [Details]
Speaker: HUI Lam (Columbia University; HKUST IAS Senior Visiting Member)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 16, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
Symmetries, Physical Modes and Soft Theorems for Correlation Functions [Details]
Speaker: Sam WONG (Columbia University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 21, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
Reinforcement Learning in The String Landscape [Details]
Speaker: Fabian RUEHLE (University of Oxford)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 20, 2018 (Wed)
14:00
Supersymmetry and de Sitter Holography [Details]
Speaker: Gerben VENKEN (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven))
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 19, 2018 (Tue)
14:00
Two Applications of the Infrared Factorization of IR Dynamics [Details]
Speaker: Massimo PORRATI (New York University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 12, 2018 (Tue)
14:00
Exact Results in Boundary Conformal Field Theory [Details]
Speaker: CHU Chong-Sun (National Tsing Hua University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 31, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
(2+1)D Bulk Spacetime Construction from (1+1)D Transverse-Ising Model [Details]
Speaker: Miok PARK (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 17, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
Primordial Black Holes from Scalar Field in R^2 Gravity [Details]
Speaker: PI Shi (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 26, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
Spin Spectroscopy During Inflation [Details]
Speaker: Hayden LEE (HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 12, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
Superconducting Dark Matter [Details]
Speaker: Alexander VIKMAN (Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, The Czech Academy of Sciences)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 29, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
On the 1-loop Effective Action of String Compactifications [Details]
Speaker: Michael HAACK (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 27, 2018 (Tue)
14:00
A Positive Sum Rule for the c Anomaly in 4D CFT [Details]
Speaker: Markus LUTY (University of California at Davis)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 15, 2018 (Thu)
14:00
A Tale of Higher-derivatives and the Kähler Potential [Details]
Speaker: Matthias WEISSENBACHER (The University of Tokyo)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 06, 2018 (Tue)
14:00
Scale Hierarchies and String Cosmology [Details]
Speaker: Ignatios ANTONIADIS (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 05, 2018 (Mon)
14:00
An Infrared Realization of dS in AdS [Details]
Speaker: Diego MANUEL HOFMAN (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 02, 2018 (Fri)
14:00
Higher Spin de Sitter Hilbert Space [Details]
Speaker: Dionysios ANNINOS (Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 09, 2018 (Tue)
14:00
Integrated View of Cosmology: Do the Pieces Fit Together? [Details]
Speaker: Adam AMARA (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich))
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 05, 2018 (Fri)
14:00
Flat Space Scattering Amplitudes in Conformal Basis [Details]
Speaker: LAM Ho Tat (Princeton University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Dec 21, 2017 (Thu)
14:00
Optimizing Kilopixel MKID Arrays for Exoplanet Direct Imaging [Details]
Speaker: Rupert DODKINS (Oxford University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 13, 2017 (Fri)
14:00
Finite Conformal Quantum Gravity and Space-time Singularities [Details]
Speaker: Leonardo MODESTO (Southern University of Science and Technology)
Venue: IAS1038, 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 26, 2017 (Wed)
14:00
Statistical Challenges in Primordial Gravitational Wave Detection [Details]
Speaker: ZHANG Le (Shanghai Jian Tong University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 13, 2017 (Thu)
14:00
Symmetries and Dark Matter in Cosmology [Details]
Speaker: HUI Lam (Columbia University; Visiting Fellow of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 06, 2017 (Thu)
14:00
Heavier and Darker: Spin-2 Dark Matter [Details]
Speaker: Federico URBAN (Estonian National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 25, 2017 (Sun)
16:00
Flavour Expedition to the Zeptouniverse [Details]
Speaker: Andrzej J BURAS (Technische Universität München)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 20, 2017 (Tue)
14:00
Large Gauge Transformation and Little Group for Soft Photons [Details]
Speaker: Min-Seok SEO (Institute for Basic Science)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 15, 2017 (Thu)
14:00
New Views on Dark Matter from Modified Gravity [Details]
Speaker: SUN Sichun (National Taiwan University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 14, 2017 (Wed)
14:00
Cosmic Discordance and Interacting Dark Matter and Radiation [Details]
Speaker: Martin SCHMALTZ (Boston University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 13, 2017 (Tue)
15:00
Primordial Gravitational Waves from an Inflaton-Gauge Interaction [Details]
Speaker: Asuka ITO (Kobe University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 13, 2017 (Tue)
14:00
Coset for BMS: Graviton as a Nambu-Goldstone Boson [Details]
Speaker: Toshifumi NOUMI (Kobe University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 09, 2017 (Fri)
14:00
Global T-branes [Details]
Speaker: Fernando MARCHESANO (Instituto de Física Teórica)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 08, 2017 (Thu)
15:30
Loop Contributions to Primordial Fluctuations: Can These Corrections Become Large? [Details]
Speaker: WU Yi-peng (The University of Tokyo)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 06, 2017 (Tue)
14:00
Exploring the Quantum Gravity Swampland [Details]
Speaker: Pablo SOLER Gomis (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 11, 2017 (Thu)
14:00
Lepton Universality Violation in B-meson Decays [Details]
Speaker: Alejandro CELIS (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 25, 2017 (Tue)
14:00
What is Left to Learn from the Cosmic Microwave Background? [Details]
Speaker: Subodh PATIL (Niels Bohr Institut)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 11, 2017 (Tue)
14:00
Gravitational-wave Signals from Low-energy Inflation [Details]
Speaker: Ryo NAMBA (McGill University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 14, 2017 (Tue)
14:00
Searching for Dark Photon [Details]
Speaker: AN Haipeng (California Institute of Technology)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 09, 2017 (Thu)
14:00
On the Ostrogradsky Ghost and the UV Finite Gravitation [Details]
Speaker: LIN Chunshan (Kyoto University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 23, 2017 (Thu)
14:00
Gravitational Waves, Merging Black Holes and the aLIGO Detections [Details]
Speaker: George SMOOT (HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 17, 2017 (Fri)
14:00
't Hooft Monopole Operators and 3d N=4 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories [Details]
Speaker: Amihay HANANY (Imperial College London)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 27, 2017 (Fri)
12:00
Asymptotic Safety of Higgs-Yukawa Model with Higher Derivative Gravity [Details]
Speaker: Yuta HAMADA (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 27, 2017 (Fri)
10:00
Inflation in Heterotic Supergravity Models with Torsion [Details]
Speaker: Stephan ANGUS (Institute for Basic Science (IBS))
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 20, 2017 (Fri)
14:00
New Relations Between Gauge and Gravity Amplitudes in Field and String Theory [Details]
Speaker: Stephan STIEBERGER (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 17, 2017 (Tue)
14:00
Generalized Global Symmetries and Quantum Gravity [Details]
Speaker: Miguel MONTERO (Utrecht University)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 09, 2017 (Mon)
14:50
New Gravitational Properties of Massive Clusters [Details]
Speaker: Thomas BROADHURST (University of the Basque Country)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 05, 2017 (Thu)
14:00
Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background from Binary Primordial Black Hole Mergers [Details]
Speaker: Sai WANG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 03, 2017 (Tue)
14:00
A Holographic Description of Cosmic Preheating [Details]
Speaker: CAI Yifu (University of Science and Technology of China)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Dec 13, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Open String Moduli and Multi-branched Potentials [Details]
Speaker: Gianluca ZOCCARATO (HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 29, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Bounds on Large Extra Dimensions from the Simulation of Black Hole Events at the LHC [Details]
Speaker: HOU Shaoqi (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 24, 2016 (Thu)
14:00
The Initial State of the Universe [Details]
Speaker: YU Hoi-Lai (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 15, 2016 (Tue)
15:30
Higgs Sector Characterization and Aspects of the Flavor Puzzle [Details]
Speaker: Jérémy BERNON (HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 11, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
On Branes and Instantons [Details]
Speaker: Ruben MINASIAN (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA))
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 04, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Power-law Modulation of Curvature Perturbation and Primordial Standard Clock [Details]
Speaker: HUANG Qingguo (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 26, 2016 (Mon)
14:00
Cosmological Constraint from the Redshift Evolution of Alcock-Paczynski Effect [Details]
Speaker: LI Xiao-Dong (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 14, 2016 (Wed)
14:00
Probing New Physics of Higgs Self-interactions [Details]
Speaker: REN Jing (University of Toronto)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 13, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Quadratic Gravity: From Weak to Strong [Details]
Speaker: REN Jing (University of Toronto)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 30, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Tachyons in Classical dS Solutions of String Theory [Details]
Speaker: Daniel JUNGHANS (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 29, 2016 (Mon)
14:00
Chaos of Chiral Condensate [Details]
Speaker: Koji HASHIMOTO (Osaka University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 26, 2016 (Fri)
15:30
Tunneling in Axion Monodromy [Details]
Speaker: Jonathan BROWN (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 26, 2016 (Fri)
14:30
Exact Path Integral for 3D Quantum Gravity [Details]
Speaker: Norihiro IIZUKA (Osaka University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 25, 2016 (Thu)
14:00
Meson Melting in 1+1 d [Details]
Speaker: William COTTRELL (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 18, 2016 (Thu)
14:00
Complete Action for Open Superstring Field Theory [Details]
Speaker: Yuji OKAWA (University of Tokyo)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 09, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
A Type of BSM Models with Hidden Strong Dynamics [Details]
Speaker: YE Fang (National Central University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 19, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Can Dark Matter be a Bose-Einstein Condensate? [Details]
Speaker: Tiberiu HARKO (University College London and Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 14, 2016 (Thu)
14:00
Search for Sphalerons: LHC vs. Ice Cube [Details]
Speaker: Kazuki SAKURAI (University of Durham)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 11, 2016 (Mon)
14:00
Cosmic Microwave Background B-modes from BICEP/Keck Array and the South Pole Telescope [Details]
Speaker: Kimmy WU (University of California at Berkele)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 05, 2016 (Tue)
16:30
Remarks on Singularities, Geometry and Complexity from a Holographic Perspective [Details]
Speaker: Eliezer RABINOVICI (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 05, 2016 (Tue)
15:00
The Weak Gravity Conjecture in Three Dimensions [Details]
Speaker: Pablo SOLER GOMIS (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 10, 2016 (Fri)
14:00
Monodromy Dark Matter [Details]
Speaker: Viraf MEHTA (University of Heidelberg)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 07, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
'Web Technology' for 5d and 6d Susy Field Theories [Details]
Speaker: Masato TAKI (RIKEN Nishina Center)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 31, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Gluon Scattering: Feynman, Helicity, and CHY Tree Amplitudes [Details]
Speaker: Harry LAM (McGill University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 12, 2016 (Thu)
14:30
Higgs Boson Physics in Standard Model and Beyond [Details]
Speaker: KEUNG Wai-Yee (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 26, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Towards Holographic Properties of Black Hole in a Finite Box [Details]
Speaker: ZHANG Yun-Long (National Taiwan University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 22, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Towards the 1-loop Effective Action of String Compactifications [Details]
Speaker: Michael HAACK (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 03, 2016 (Thu)
14:30
Loop Integrand by Tree [Details]
Speaker: FENG Bo (Zhejiang University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 01, 2016 (Tue)
14:30
Inflationary Magnetogenesis with Broken Local U(1) Symmetry [Details]
Speaker: LIN Chunshan (Kyoto University)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 16, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Dark Matter Velocity Spectroscopy: A Speed Test for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter [Details]
Speaker: NG Chun Yu (The Ohio State University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 11, 2016 (Thu)
14:00
On the Formulation of Dark Energy as a Second Order Phase Transition Effect [Details]
Speaker: Ivan ARRAUT (Tokyo University of Science)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 03, 2016 (Wed)
11:00
Higgs Inflation from Standard Model Criticality [Details]
Speaker: Yuta HAMADA (Tokyo University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 02, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Mimetic Gravity [Details]
Speaker: Alexander VIKMAN (Kyoto University & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 26, 2016 (Tue)
14:00
Black Holes and the Weak Gravity Conjecture [Details]
Speaker: William Cottrell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Dec 29, 2015 (Tue)
14:30
Neutrino Theory II: Linkage and Symmetry [Details]
Speaker: Ernest MA (University of California at Riverside
(HKUST IAS Visiting Fellow))
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Dec 23, 2015 (Wed)
14:30
Intrinsic Time Quantum Gravity [Details]
Speaker: YU Hoi-lai (Academia Sinica)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Dec 21, 2015 (Mon)
14:30
Neutrino Theory I: Mass and Interactions [Details]
Speaker: Ernest MA (University of California at Riverside
(HKUST IAS Visiting Fellow))
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Dec 10, 2015 (Thu)
08:45 - 17:30
South China Astronomy/Astrophysics Forum [Details]
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 09, 2015 (Mon)
14:00
Scattering Amplitude Constraints on Effective Field Theories [Details]
Speaker: WEN Congkao (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 05, 2015 (Mon)
14:00
Bound to Bounce - Testing Bounce Universe at CEPC [Details]
Speaker: Edna CHEUNG (Nanjing University)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 16, 2015 (Wed)
14:00
Baryogenesis with Electroweak Symmetry Realised Non-linearly [Details]
Speaker: Jason YUE (The University of Sydney)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 20, 2015 (Thu)
14:00
Quantum Black Hole Wave Packet: Average Area Entropy and Temperature Dependent Width [Details]
Speaker: Aharon DAVIDSON (Ben Gurion University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 19, 2015 (Wed)
14:00
IR Effects in De Sitter Space, Screening of Cosmological Constant and Inflation [Details]
Speaker: CHU Chong-Sun (National Tsinghua University)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 30, 2015 (Thu)
15:00
D-branes and Large Field Inflation [Details]
Speaker: Fernando MARCHESANO (Instituto de Física Teórica)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 23, 2015 (Thu)
14:00
Axions Reloaded: From Particle Physics to Inflation [Details]
Speaker: Wieland STAESSENS (Instituto de Física Teórica)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 21, 2015 (Tue)
14:00
Gravity Duals of Hanany-Witten Models [Details]
Speaker: William COTTRELL (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 17, 2015 (Fri)
14:00
Natural Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture: Part 2 [Details]
Speaker: Pablo SOLER GOMIS (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 16, 2015 (Thu)
11:30
Natural Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture: Part 1 [Details]
Speaker: Jonathan BROWN (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 14, 2015 (Tue)
14:00
Partially Massless Charges and Monopoles [Details]
Speaker: Rachel ROSEN (Columbia University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 13, 2015 (Mon)
14:15
Neutrino-antineutrino Mass Splitting in the Standard Model and Baryogenesis [Details]
Speaker: Kazuo FUJIKAWA (RIKEN Nishina Center)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 07, 2015 (Tue)
14:00
Effective String Theory in a Tank [Details]
Speaker: Riccardo PENCO (Columbia University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 03, 2015 (Fri)
14:00
Primordial Standard Clocks [Details]
Speaker: CHEN Xingang (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 29, 2015 (Fri)
14:00
Testing Higgs Inflation and Its Extensions [Details]
Speaker: Jinsu KIM (Sungkyunkwan University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 28, 2015 (Thu)
14:00
DCI DIY -or- How to Build Dynamical Models of Chaotic Inflation [Details]
Speaker: Kai SCHMITZ (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 14, 2015 (Thu)
14:00
Abelian Gauge Theories in F-theory [Details]
Speaker: Jan KEITEL (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 02, 2015 (Thu)
14:30
Flavor Probes of New Physics during LHC Run 2 Period [Details]
Speaker: George W.S. HOU (National Taiwan University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 24, 2015 (Tue)
14:30
Non-Uniqueness of Classical Inflationary Trajectories on a High-Dimensional Landscape [Details]
Speaker: ZHOU Siyi (University of Science and Technology of China)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 05, 2015 (Thu)
14:00
Recent Developments on the Application of Discrete Symmetries [Details]
Speaker: Jihn-eui KIM (Seoul National University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 05, 2015 (Thu)
14:00
Probing Reheating with Primordial Spectrum [Details]
Speaker: PI Shi (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 23, 2015 (Fri)
15:00
Cosmological Moduli and Precision CMB Data [Details]
Speaker: Anshuman MAHARANA (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 13, 2015 (Tue)
14:00
Axion Dark Matter in High Scale Inflation Scenario [Details]
Speaker: CHOI Kiwoon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Nov 14, 2014 (Fri)
15:30
Gravitational Higgs Mechanism [Details]
Speaker: Zura KAKUSHADZE (Free University of Tibilisi)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 06, 2014 (Thu)
14:15
N=8 Supergravity and Beyond: What Symmetry Can Teach Us about Quantum Gravity and the Unification of Physics [Details]
Speaker: Hermann NICOLAI (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 31, 2014 (Fri)
14:00
Collider Signature and Astrophysics Constraint of Goldstone Bosons [Details]
Speaker: KEUNG Wai-Yee (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 17, 2014 (Fri)
14:00
The Higgs Nexus is Adams' 42 [Details]
Speaker: Ernest MA (University of California at Riverside; Visiting Fellow of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 09, 2014 (Thu)
14:00
The Vainshtein Mechanism as a Duality of the Particle Creation Process of Black-holes [Details]
Speaker: Ivan ARRAUT (Fudan University)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 18, 2014 (Thu)
14:00
Two-Higgs-doublet Model and its Scalar Dark Matter Extension [Details]
Speaker: JIANG Yun (University of California at Davis)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 12, 2014 (Fri)
14:30
A Magnetic Monopole in U(1) Gauge Theory from D-brane Intersection [Details]
Speaker: SUN Sichun (HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 04, 2014 (Thu)
14:00
Construction and Quantisation of Skyrmions [Details]
Speaker: Chris LAU (University of Cambridge)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 02, 2014 (Tue)
16:30
Using Gamma-ray Bursts to Study the Properties of Early Universe [Details]
Speaker: WANG Fayin (Nanjing University)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 02, 2014 (Tue)
15:00
Observational Constraints on Superconducting Cosmic Strings [Details]
Speaker: YU Yunwei (Central China Normal University)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Aug 01, 2014 (Fri)
14:00
Leptonic CP Violation and Leptogenesis [Details]
Speaker: Serguey PETCOV (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA))
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 31, 2014 (Thu)
13:30
Theory Prospective on Neutrino Masses, Mixing and Leptonic CP Violation [Details]
Speaker: Serguey PETCOV (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA))
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 18, 2014 (Fri)
14:00
General Relativity without Paradigm of Space-time Covariance: Sensible Quantum Gravity and Resolution of the “Problem of Time” [Details]
Speaker: YU Hoi-lai (Academia Sinica)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 03, 2014 (Thu)
14:00
The "Heart of Darkness": Predictions from the First Simulations of Cold, Bosonic Dark Matter Compared with Hubble Data [Details]
Speaker: Thomas BROADHURST (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea /Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU))
Venue: IAS1038 1/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 13, 2014 (Fri)
15:00
Localizing Braneworlds in Infinite Transverse Spaces [Details]
Speaker: Kellogg STELLE (Imperial College London)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 06, 2014 (Fri)
14:00
From Standard Model to New Physics [Details]
Speaker: Jun GUO (Columbia University)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 29, 2014 (Thu)
14:00
On the Predictivity of Single Field Inflationary Models [Details]
Speaker: Subodh PATIL (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 27, 2014 (Tue)
14:00
Generalization of the Nambu-Goldstone Theorem [Details]
Speaker: Yoshimasa HIDAKA (RIKEN Nishina Center)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 13, 2014 (Tue)
14:00
Coset Techniques and Hunt for Wess-Zumino Terms [Details]
Speaker: Luca DELACRETAZ (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 09, 2014 (Fri)
14:00
Heterotic NS5-branes from Closed String Tachyon Condensation [Details]
Speaker: Inaki GARCIA-ETXEBARRIA (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
May 02, 2014 (Fri)
14:00
Inflation in Light of BICEP2 [Details]
Speaker: John ELLIS (King's College London and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); HKUST IAS Visiting Professor)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 25, 2014 (Fri)
14:00
Can Gravity be Localized? [Details]
Speaker: Constantin BACHAS (École Normale Supérieure)
Venue: IAS2042 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 22, 2014 (Tue)
14:00
Conformal Interfaces and Junctions [Details]
Speaker: Constantin BACHAS (École Normale Supérieure)
Venue: IAS2042 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 17, 2014 (Thu)
14:00
Introduction to Conformal Theories and AdS/CFT [Details]
Speaker: Constantin BACHAS (École Normale Supérieure)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 15, 2014 (Tue)
14:00
A Built-in Horizontal Symmetry of SO(10) [Details]
Speaker: Harry LAM (McGill University)
Venue: IAS4042 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 08, 2014 (Tue)
13:00
Particle Accelerator - Present and Future [Details]
Speaker: TU Yanjun (University of California at San Diego)
Venue: IAS5007 5/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Apr 03, 2014 (Thu)
14:00
Stueckelberg Portal into Dark Sectors [Details]
Speaker: YE Fang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 26, 2014 (Wed)
16:15
Gravity Duals of 3d Gauge Theories [Details]
Speaker: William COTTRELL (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 18, 2014 (Tue)
14:00
From M-theory Higher Curvature Terms to Alpha' Corrections in F-theory [Details]
Speaker: Matthias WEISSENBACHER (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Mar 06, 2014 (Thu)
15:30
Wave Tails in Minkowski, de Sitter, FLRW and QED_2 [Details]
Speaker: CHU Yi-zen (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 27, 2014 (Thu)
15:00
Preparing for Discovery: Supersymmetry Searches at the LHC [Details]
Speaker: Sanjay PADHI (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 22, 2014 (Sat)
13:00
Anisotropic Weyl Anomalies, Lifshitz Holography and Multicritical Symmetry Breaking [Details]
Speaker: Peter HORAVA (University of California at Berkeley)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 20, 2014 (Thu)
14:00
Analytic Solutions in Open String Field Theory [Details]
Speaker: Toshifumi NOUMI (RIKEN Nishina Center)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Feb 14, 2014 (Fri)
14:00
Beta-supergravity: A Ten dimensional Theory with Non-geometric Fluxes [Details]
Speaker: David ANDRIOT (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jan 15, 2014 (Wed)
16:00
Holographic Renyi Entropy and Relative Entropy [Details]
Speaker: HUNG Ling-Yan (Harvard University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Date/Time
Event
Dec 16, 2013 (Mon)
16:00
Closed Strings and Non-commutative/ Non-associative Geometry [Details]
Speaker: Dieter LÜST (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Dec 04, 2013 (Wed)
10:00
Primordial Tensor Correlations from Effective Field Theory Approach [Details]
Speaker: Toshifumi NOUMI (RIKEN Nishina Center)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 28, 2013 (Thu)
17:15
Supersymmetry, the Higgs Mass and String Theory [Details]
Speaker: Luis IBANEZ (Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 28, 2013 (Thu)
16:40
Algebras, Groups and Strings [Details]
Speaker: Peter GODDARD (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Nov 28, 2013 (Thu)
16:05
Inflationary Cosmology in Light of Planck [Details]
Speaker: John ELLIS (King's College London and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); HKUST IAS Visiting Professor)
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 11, 2013 (Fri)
18:00
What is the Higgs Boson? [Details]
Speaker: Gary SHIU (HKUST IAS Senior Fellow)
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Oct 10, 2013 (Thu)
14:00
Long-lived Neutralinos as Probes of Gravitino Dark Matter [Details]
Speaker: Jan HAJER (HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 24, 2013 (Tue)
11:00
The Heterotic String on Magnetized Orbifolds [Details]
Speaker: Stefan GROOT NIBBELINK (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Sep 11, 2013 (Wed)
14:00
Primordial Spectra from Sudden Turning Trajectory [Details]
Speaker: Masahide YAMAGUCHI (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 25, 2013 (Thu)
14:00
On Measurements of Spatial Curvature [Details]
Speaker: Neal K. DALAL (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jul 05, 2013 (Fri)
14:00
Testing Gravity with Pulsars, Black Holes and the Microwave Background [Details]
Speaker: HUI Lam (Columbia University)
Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Jun 17, 2013 (Mon)
15:00
Miscellaneous Aspects of Supersymmetry in Statistical Physics (II) [Details]
Speaker: Edouard BRÉZIN (Ecole Normale Superieure; Visiting Professor of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: Room 2404 (2/F via Lifts 17-18), HKUST
Jun 13, 2013 (Thu)
15:00
Miscellaneous Aspects of Supersymmetry in Statistical Physics (I) [Details]
Speaker: Edouard BRÉZIN (Ecole Normale Superieure; Visiting Professor of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Venue: Room 2404 (2/F via Lifts 17-18), HKUST
Jun 12, 2013 (Wed)
14:00
"Top" Probe for New Physics at Large Hadron Collider [Details]
Speaker: TU Yanjun (The University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Jun 12, 2013 (Wed)
11:00
Helicity-Based Parton Shower for Matching with QCD Matrix Elements [Details]
Speaker: Kassahun BETRE (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Jun 11, 2013 (Tue)
15:30
Science in the World around US: Electricity Was Not Invented by Trying to Make Better Candles [Details]
Speaker: Edouard BRÉZIN (Ecole Normale Superieure)
Venue: Cheung On Tak Lecture Theater (LT-E), HKUST
Jun 11, 2013 (Tue)
14:00
Towards Holographic Heavy Ion Collisions [Details]
Speaker: Michal P. HELLER (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Jun 10, 2013 (Mon)
16:30
Yukawa Hierarchies in F-theory SU(5) Unification (II) [Details]
Speaker: Gianluca ZOCCARATO (Instituto de F´ısica Te´orica UAM/CSIC)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Jun 10, 2013 (Mon)
16:00
Yukawa Hierarchies in F-theory SU(5) Unification (I) [Details]
Speaker: Diego REGALADO (Instituto de F´ısica Te´orica UAM/CSIC)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Jun 10, 2013 (Mon)
15:30
Discrete Gauge Symmetries in Flux Compactifications [Details]
Speaker: Mikel BERASALUC (Instituto de F´ısica Te´orica UAM/CSIC)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Jun 07, 2013 (Fri)
11:00
Discrete Flavor Symmetries in D-brane Models [Details]
Speaker: Fernando MARCHESANO (Instituto de F´isica Te´orica UAM, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Jun 06, 2013 (Thu)
14:00
Recent Lessons about Hydrodynamics from Holography [Details]
Speaker: Michael P, HELLER (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Jun 04, 2013 (Tue)
14:00
Everything You Wanted to Know About k-Strings But You Were Afraid to Ask [Details]
Speaker: Adi ARMONI (Swansea University)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
May 29, 2013 (Wed)
15:00
Extracting Physics from Direct Detections of Gravitational Waves [Details]
Speaker: Tjonnie G.F. LI (National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef))
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
May 28, 2013 (Tue)
14:00
Maximal Unitarity at Two Loops [Details]
Speaker: David KOSOWER (CEA-Saclay)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
May 27, 2013 (Mon)
16:30
Preparing for Discovery at the Energy Frontier [Details]
Speaker: Luis Roberto FLORES CASTILLO (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: Room 4620 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
May 14, 2013 (Tue)
14:00
Solution-generating Techniques in Supergravity and Their Applications to AdS/CFT [Details]
Speaker: Jerome GAILLARD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Apr 24, 2013 (Wed)
16:30
Construction of Explicit de Sitter Vacua in Type IIB Flux Compactifications [Details]
Speaker: Markus RUMMEL (University of Hamburg)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Apr 08, 2013 (Mon)
15:30
String Theory, Particle Physics and Black Holes [Details]
Speaker: Mirjam CVETIC (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H), HKUST
Apr 03, 2013 (Wed)
13:30
Probing Fundamental Physics with Cosmological Observations [Details]
Speaker: Uros SELJAK (Universität Zürich and University of California at Berkeley)
Venue: Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H), HKUST
Mar 14, 2013 (Thu)
15:00
Covariant Non-Commutative Spacetime [Details]
Speaker: Jonathan HECKMAN (Harvard University)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Mar 04, 2013 (Mon)
14:00
The Sen Limit [Details]
Speaker: Martin WIJNHOLT (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Feb 25, 2013 (Mon)
14:00
The Spinor Integration Technique for Amplitude Calculation [Details]
Speaker: HUANG Rijun (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Feb 19, 2013 (Tue)
16:30
Integrand-Level Reduction of High-Loop Scattering Amplitudes via Computational Algebraic Geometry [Details]
Speaker: ZHANG Yang (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Feb 18, 2013 (Mon)
16:30
Inflationary Effects from High Energy Physics [Details]
Speaker: Mark JACKSON (University of Paris-7 Diderot)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Feb 08, 2013 (Fri)
16:00
Cosmological Constant, Near Brane Behavior and Singularities [Details]
Speaker: Daniel JUNGHANS (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
Feb 04, 2013 (Mon)
17:00
A Proposal for a Non-Abelian Theory of Multiple M5-branes [Details]
Speaker: CHU Chong-Sun (Naitional Tsinghua University)
Venue: Room 4612 (4/F via Lifts 31-32), HKUST
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