Speakers and Lectures

The set of speakers and lecture titles for each week is listed below.  We also maintain a Google Drive page for lecturers, where you can find lecture notes and whatever other materials the lecturer chooses to upload.

Week 1:

• Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study) — The Power of Symmetry

• Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford University) — Generalized Symmetry and String/M-Theory Realizations

• Hong Liu (MIT) — Entanglement, Many-Body Systems, and Operator Algebras of Quantum Gravity

• Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study) — Quantum Aspects of Black Holes

• Yifan Wang (NYU) — 2D CFTs and Generalized Symmetries

Week 2:

• Kenneth Intriligator (UC San Diego) — SUSY and Symmetry Constraints on RG Flows and IR Phases

• Masha Baryakhtar (University of Washington) — Dark Matter Theory and Possible Detection Opportunities

• Gregory Moore (Rutgers University) — Differential Cohomology and Physics

• Thomas Dumitrescu (UCLA) — Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory

Week 3:

• Meng Cheng (Yale University) — Gapped Phases and TQFT

• Andrea Puhm (École Polytechnique, CPHT) – Asymptotic Symmetries

• Clifford Cheung (Caltech) — Scattering Amplitudes and Symmetry

• Isabel Garcia Garcia (Institute for Advanced Study + NYU/University of Washington) — Particle Physics, Gravity and Symmetries

• Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins University) — Generalized Symmetries and Holography

Week 4:

• Shu-Heng Shao (Stony Brook University) — Noninvertible Symmetry

• John McGreevy (UC San Diego) — Generalized Symmetries in CMT

• Alejandra Castro (University of Cambridge) — Topics in AdS/CFT

• David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech) — CFT and Observables on a Null Plane