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